Chapter 43

• King Xarius and the court officials were saddened and flummoxed by General Ril’m’s discovery on the plague in Ocievil City. It was merely a few days’ ride from the capital, thus its threat to spread to Karavil. He ordered the closing of the city gates, so that no one could get in or out. He also ordered the same for Murifie City to contain the plague. Then, he decreed the pest control experts, some soldiers, physicians, and others to go and aid the Flower General in Ocievil City to address the plague as soon as possible before it’d get out of control.
• He thought about sending Sui, but maybe the people needed the king to give them hope and assurance that he wasn’t going to abandon them at these times.
• “But, Your Majesty, it is a great risk to go there yourself,” one of the officials, Guxir, protested.