The following day, thanks to a full night of sleep, Lith had regained his cool, and started to plan his next moves. First, he needed to find a cure for all the four different kinds of parasites.

It wasn’t only a matter of using that knowledge to guide from the shadows the healers and alchemist.

Helping the Crown into developing a fake magic spell or drug was of secondary importance. The priority was to find a cure for himself, so that even if everything went south and the plagues spreaded to the rest of the Kingdom, he would still be the master of his own destiny.

The mana blocking parasite was the one that worried him the most. Unlike the others, it didn’t deal any direct damage to the host, but without mana, a magician was like a wingless eagle.

Lith had no idea if it would have the same effect on Awakened ones, but he wasn’t willing to take unnecessary risks. The first parasite he would study was the one turning healing magic into wounds.

It was the only one he was already familiar with, having treated its effects in the past. He could use that advantage to quickly understand how the parasites worked and then apply that knowledge to eradicate them for good.

Outside his tent, Lith found a soldier waiting for him.