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174. The Plague

As they ate breakfast together in the dining room Lily remembered the Hidden scrolls they had gotten in Poseidon's city and took them out of the ring and put them in the system because it could sort them.

"Can you sort them into the corresponding classes." she said.

"Understood. It's done.” replied the system.

Wow, that was fast, and Lily didn't know if it automatically did it right away when she put things into the system. She looked around at the others and wanted to give them some scrolls but didn't know how many or which ones suited them best.

She looked at Ace who was sitting to her right and asked, “How many Hidden class scrolls are you going to have? You are all in a guild.”

Ace thought twice and looked at Ezekiel who was also starting to think.

"We can give it as a reward, but it must not be made public, so everyone knows." he said.

Lily wanted the strongest Hidden class scrolls for Ace, Ezekiel and Aaron and gave them one each the system had chosen for her and took out a strong one for Alicia and Lillian.

She wondered how many Hidden classes a person could have and asked, "Can you have more than 1 Hidden class?"

"You can have as many as possible, but they don't hang on the trees." Ace replied chuckling.

Lily gave 100 scrolls to Ezekiel and told him to contact her if more were missing. She wanted to personally give them to her family and was looking forward to seeing Isabella's face when she got one in her hand. She also gave some summoning scrolls to Lillian and Aaron in case they got into danger, and she would be separated from them.

When they had finished eating, Aaron looked at her and asked, “How do we get to Amenale? You promised Jade yesterday.”

Ugh, she had completely forgotten about it and could only think of Shun and if that didn't work, she had to contact Merlin.

"I've got it under control." she lied.

They said goodbye nicely to the people in the castle and when they were back in the human world, they all looked at Lily and waited anxiously.

Lily took out the whistle and summoned Shun immediately. A huge dragon with a body of living red flames appeared before them. Ace and the others who hadn't seen Shun before were speechless and surprised.

"I had forgotten you had it." said Aaron, who had not forgotten the dragon he had seen the first time he had seen Lily.

“Wow. So beautiful." Alicia exclaimed walking over to Shun and checking him out all over.

Ace looked at Lily and said, "Be careful not to use it too much."

"I know." Lily said because William had said the exact same thing.

They sat on Shun who flapped his large wings and took off.

To make sure he was quick, Lily asked, "Can you get to Amenale in no time?"

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“Of course, my lady. I am a dragon after all.” Shun replied proudly.

A little later, somewhere in Amenale, Jade stood outside a house that was far from a town that could be seen on the left. Suddenly a middle-aged man with dark hair and pale skin came walking towards her. He looked tired and exhausted, and it looked like he had been crying.

"Are you sure she can help us?" he asked, looking at Jade.

Jade nodded and replied, “Yes father. If she can't, no one else in the world can."

She still didn't know Lily's real name because she changed her name all the time and felt embarrassed when she had to explain it to her father who thought she was crazy. Her parents had deliberately chosen to live out in the country because people were snobbish in the big city, but the view out here to the city was beautiful on a cloudless day. They were the only ones living out here, which she was fine with because she didn't care for stuffy places.

Suddenly they felt that the air became heavy, and she had difficulty breathing. Her father passed out and fell to the ground and she panicked but could not do anything as she felt oppressed by something invisible. Suddenly she saw something flying towards them at full speed and when it got closer, she got a huge shock. It was a huge dragon whose body was in red flames, and it had sharp teeth and looked dangerous.

She hadn't offended any dragon lords so why was it coming at her now?

As it landed in front of her the ground shook, and she saw people get off its back and was surprised to see Lily who she recognized instantly.

Lily saw that Jade was suppressed exactly like William when she had met Gui and looked at Shun and knew it was because of him. She quickly dismissed him and walked over to Jade who could breathe normally again.

She looked at the man lying passed out next to her and asked, "Is that your father?" for she was not entirely stupid.

Jade nodded and replied, “Yes. He fell over in shock, I think.” and they carried him inside.

They were shown to a small living room where a young guy with dark hair was sitting who stood up immediately when he saw them. His eyes first fell on Ace and Ezekiel who he recognized and then on Lily who was standing in front. They put the father on the sofa and put a soft red blanket over him.

“This is my cousin Flint.” Jade introduced, pointing at him.

Introducing herself and all of them, Lily took out a note and wrote her name and showed it to Jade.

"Now I know your real name." Jade said, getting very happy and her cheeks blushed.

Lily smiled not wanting to waste time and asked her to show her the way to her mother who was dying. They went into a small bedroom where a woman was lying in bed, but her face was pitch black and Lily was shocked. It looked like she was dead but Jade had said she was dying so she was still alive. She couldn't smell a dead or rotten wound, so she got confused and looked around to see if things had been placed to remove the bad smell but saw nothing present. They walked over to the bed and Lily sat down on a chair to the right of the edge of the bed and looked at the face. The mother had her eyes closed and she could hear her breathing, so she was just sleeping.

Jade put on a pair of black gloves and lifted some of the blanket around her neck and they were all shocked and Lily was startled and fell over on the chair. The arms were black and her skin all over was black. She didn't know of diseases that looked so bad and was reminded of the Black Death, but it was just a name for a plague in the Middle Ages and it wasn't because the disease was black.

"What is it?" she asked, standing up and pulling the chair far away and sitting on it again.

Jade sighed and replied, "We don't know, and all the doctors say it's something she inherited that showed up later but they're lying because my mother was healthy and well before the portal came."

Lily could see that Jade had used gloves so that meant it was only contagious via skin contact, so it was possibly some kind of plague or a virus which was very dangerous if you didn't have a cure. She was not a doctor and had no understanding of anything medical beyond the normal stuff as her mother was a former surgeon before she met that man. The others had gone to the door, afraid that it would infect them.

Jun De who was in his human form suddenly said, “It looks like something from our world.”

They all looked at him and were now not surprised. It was definitely not from their world, and it had come with the portal Jade had said.

"What is it?" Lily asked.

“It comes from a plague beast but which one I don't know.” Jun De replied.

Lily was reminded of the Book of Pain she had been given by Nicolas Flamel because it could summon a Plague King.

"Can we save her?" she asked.

Jun De shook his head and replied, “Unfortunately, unless you can summon a plague king as they always have a cure.”