Level 1 Strongest Sage ~

Book 10: Chapter 21: One Person, or the World?

Mother, were home!

Please excuse us for disturbing you.

We followed Miu into her home.

Itll be too much if all the members of the Ernol family went in, so Tina, Seira, Sitri, Kikyou, Sylph and I entered first.

Welcome back, Miu. Where did you go off to? AndWho are they?

Mius mother was about to prepare their lunch in the kitchen. There were several black lines running across her nape.

Mother, your body isnt okay, so you have to lie down!!

Miu ran towards her mom and tried to pull her and sit her on the chair nearby.

Im fine. Im feeling good today, somehow.

Thats what Mius mother said, but her complexion said otherwise.

Sorry for imposing on you so suddenly. I am Halt, an adventurer. These girls are my companions.

...What is an adventurer doing here?

We accepted a commission to examine the cause of your poor health from Miu.

T-This child submiited a request to the Adventurers Guild? B-But, what about the money?

I used my own pocket money. Mother, I want you to get better as soon as possible!

N-No way

Mius mom looked troubled, but she also looked somewhat happy.

Ahm, is the commission fee enough? This childs allowance wont be enough to hire all of you.

She probably thought we were high ranking adventurers based on the pretty, high quality clothes that Sylph and Seira wore.

Were just rookie adventurers, so our commission fee is cheap. But please rest assured, we will definitely treat the root cause of your illness.

I already had an idea what the cause was.

Mr. Halt, please heal my Mother.

...Im sorry. I dont want to worry this child more than this, so please take care of me.

Mius mom also acknowledged that we could heal her.

Yes. Please leave it to us.

The commission from the Guild said that we had to investigate the cause of Mius moms health problems, and healing her was also included, if possible.

I wanted to heal her to the best of my ability.

Well then, please allow us to examine your bodys condition. Sitri, Sylph, please.

I understand.

Ye~s!

Her poor health was probably caused by the Evil Gods curse.

We needed to check her thoroughly to know what kind of curse it was, but she had to take her clothes off so I stepped out of Mius house for a moment.

Sitri came out after a while.

Danna-sama. It is indeed the curse of Evil God-sama.

I see. So, what kind of curse is it? Can Seira and I remove it with our magic?

Im afraid it is impossible.

Sitri knew the full extent of our abilities, so it must be true if she said so.

The curse she encountered is a calamity-ranked curse, dangerous enough to wipe out the entire population of people in this world.

Eh

The curse gradually and steadily sucked away Mius moms strength. Not only that, this curse infects the people around the cursed person once she dies.

It would take around one month for a cursed person to die.

Afterward, the curse would spread throughout the surroundings of the death place, and the scope would be around one city.

Just like how Mius mom stood up to make lunch, the person could still move around even after being cursed.

Moreover, their Status Board would already show [Status: Cursed] by the time they were aware that they were feeling unwell, but they wont have any idea what specific curse hit them.

In the first place, only a handful of the general population could see status boards.

It was easy to spread this curse throughout the world for that reason.

There had been two instances in the past when this curse spread throughout the world, and the menace brought about by this curse didnt disappear until after the worlds population was reduced by half.

Judging from the strength of the curse, she must be the first one, no doubt about it.

I see, thats a relief.

Mius mom was the first one to be cursed, so we could save the entire world as long as we break her curse. We just need to save her.

But, it was easier said than done.

Danna-sama. This is extremely hard for me to say, but

What is it?

I propose that we take her into the Interstice, or perhaps into the Demon Realm and kill her there.

Huh?

I didnt get what Sitri was saying.

Halt. About that curse It can never be broken.

Sylph came out.

Even in the past, not once was it broken; it only disappeared on its own.

Sylph and Sitri were telling me that Mius moms curse was something unbreakable even if we used elixirs, or the fruit of Yggdrasil and other supreme class items that could heal anomalous conditions.

Its a troublesome curse that has taken root in the persons soul itself.

The method I used to save Leo, the Beastkin King who had been cursed with the Black Death Curse by a majin, wouldnt work either. What I did back then was to force the curse to break by obliterating the entire cursed body, then bringing him back to life with a revival spell, but it wasnt applicable to this case.

I also dont want to say this, but For us to save this world

Sylph looked like she was about to cry.

She had to be sacrificed, only her.

If Mius mom died inside the Interstice the space between the realms or in the demon world, the curse would break without spreading to anyone else.

However, I didnt want to resort to doing this method.

I didnt want to choose between a single person and the world.

I didnt think it was okay to have somebody sacrifice for the good of the entire world. Moreover, this one person had already become one of our acquaintances.

Miu the girl who told me my teleportation magic was amazing, the girl who told Tina she was beautiful.

This girl had traveled all alone from this city, all the way to the faraway guild in the Royal Capital. She used every single penny that she saved from her allowance in order to save her mom to plead with me so that we would save her mom.

I accepted that.

I promised that I would save her mom.

And so, I wanted to break the Evil Gods curse no matter what.

Hey, Shiro. Any other methods?

My intuition was telling me that the Evil God himself created this curse that plagued Mius mom, so Shiro, being the divine messenger of the deities that he was, might have an idea about this.

HmmmIm not that well versed when it comes to curses, though. How about Luna?

Luna?

M-me?

Theres this book that Luna showed me before. Its the creation account written by the Martial God and the others when this world was made.

The Dungeon Ruins located in Vestier, the Kingdom of the Beastkin, had a special room that only Isekaid people could enter.

The book that Shiro mentioned was placed inside that room, apparently. Luna was keeping that book as of now.

It might be possible that theres something written in there about this curse.

B-But theres only very few things about curses written in that book. I-It was mostly about medicines

Thats because it has the ability to show the readers the information they wanted to see.

Eh, really?

Yes. That book contains a colossal amount of information. Usually, it just shows the things the owner is interested at.

Luna suddenly blushed for some reason when she heard what Shiro said.

Luna, I want to check that book. I want to see if theres a way to break this curse.

Y-Yes! I understand. The book is inside my room, so Halt, can you get it via teleportation spell?

Okay!

I connected Lunas room to this space using teleportation magic, and I reached with my hand until I touched the book. And in that instant

My intuition worked.

I was uneasy earlier, but Im fine now.

The answer was written in this book.