[From: Taraphin Village Chief, Orund Senal]
[To: Lord of Deshan, Ruler of the Radeshta region, Viscount Thespan Desion Redeshes]
[Eternal peace and glory to House Redeshes!
My lord, it is my utmost regret of having to inform you that a peculiar disease has been spreading in Taraphin.
The infected would experience seizure for an entire day and then lose consciousness for another day.
On the third day, they would wake up and started acting rabid. Harming both themselves and others around them.
If not restrained, the patient would end up killing themselves, if not the others as well.
More and more people are being infected with this disease as time passes.
I already have 30 of my villagers inflicted with the illness, and I am certain more would had already been infected by the time this letter reaches my lord's hands.
I am begging once more for the generosity House Redeshes had been showing Taraphin all these years
I implore my lord to help us.
Please, save Taraphin.]
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[From: Viscount Thespan Desion Redeshes of the Radeshta region]
[To: Duchess Mirian Ralena Anashta, Head of the Anashta Household, Watcher of the Realm]
[Eternal peace and glory to House Anashta! Redeshes for Anashta!
Your Excellency, it is my shame to remind the Anashta Household of the continuing support House Redeshes had shown over the years. Unfortunately, I have to plea for Your Excellency's generous favor.
A terrible crisis has fallen upon the Radeshta region.
A peculiar disease of madness has been running rampage in the eastern march of my land.
By the time I sent this letter, I have already lost four villages and one town to the disease. Including Taraphin, the origin of the outbreak.
I believe more would had fallen by the time this letter reaches Your Excellency's hands.
Enclosed is the details of the disease's symptoms my healers managed to learn while investigating and containing the outbreak.
I implore for Your Excellency's generosity and mercy for the Radeshta region.]
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[From: Duchess Mirian Ralena Anashta, Councilor of the Tower]
[To: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[A disease of mind corruption is spreading in the Radeshta region.
I believe Compulsion magic is involved. See the enclosed report to determine if I'm right.
Ask your sister to read the report as well. She is more well-versed in this subject than you.
I did not send her a letter since I'm not certain she is in the Tower at the moment.
Declare an Emergency Summon. Have the High Mages confer and formulate a plan to solve the mental epidemic.
In the meantime, Anashta will make sure the disease won't spread beyond Radeshta.]
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[From: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[To: Carandine Ralena Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[There is a mental disease involving third degree mind corruption spreading in the Radeshta region.
Emergency Summon was declared and two thirds of the High Mages have conferred.
The Tower has appointed you to spearhead the epidemic's solvation effort.
Put your current work on hold for now and head to Deshan immediately.
Mother is currently containing the outbreak with Anashta's resources.
But under the First Mage's counsel, His Majesty the Emperor has made the epidemic the Tower of Circle's responsibility.
You are to relieve the Anashta's forces in the Radeshta region and install the Tower's own reinforcement. They should arrive when you get there.
Be cautioned. There is a high probability that Compulsion magic is involved.
You don't need me to warn you what this implies.
Proceed with care, sister.]
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[From: Carandine Ralena Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[To: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[I've arrived at Deshan.
As ordered, I've relieved the Anashta's forces from Radeshta. They are retreating to the neighboring regions, as per mother's instruction.
Using the Tower's mages, I have erected a Fifth Circle barrier along Radeshta's border. The entire region is in complete lockdown.
The situations are worse than what was told in the reports you gave me
Refugees are pouring into Deshan from all over the region. The disease is spreading rapidly and claiming villages, towns, and cities by the day.
From what I have investigated of the disease so far, death seems to be the only cure.
The Purging Protocol may be necessary. Bring the notion up to the High Mages Summons.
I'm currently cooperating with Captain Amadon, leader of House Redeshes's knight order.
We are setting up safe zones in the region to house the refugees.
I believe it is our first priority to save those we can save for now, which are those who are not yet infected. That way we could prevent the disease from spreading further.
Captain Amadon and I are forming search parties.
We plan to rescue more survivors in the infected zones for the moment.
I will regularly update you about the progress of our endeavor through the communication equipment. But I will keep sending my detailed reports via mail.]
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[From: Captain Amadon, Commander of the Iron Tree Order]
[To: Carandine Ralena Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[My lady, I hope this letter reaches you just in time.
My soldiers and I have located two thousand refugees trapped in Bandesha, a town northeast of Deshan.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough manpower to escort the refugees safely to the nearest safe zone.
The evacuation effort could be done if my lady and a good number of the Tower's mages were to come and help us.
My scout reported a huge horde of infected is approaching from the east.
They would overrun the town two days after this letter supposedly reaches you. Sooner if the messenger experienced any delay.
Please send help, my lady.]
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[From: Carandine Ralena Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[To: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[The disease is much worse than we anticipated.
I received a letter from Captain Amadon, requesting my aid to escort refugees from Bandesha.
When I arrived at the town along with a hundred mages and five hundred soldiers, we were ambushed by Captain Amadon and ten thousand infected.
I lost 87 Senior Apprentices and 439 Tower Guards. At least half of them had fallen to the madness disease.
Captain Amadon never found refugees in Bandesha. He and his men were infected with the madness disease.
The captain then wrote a letter to lure me and my forces into a trap. I knew this for certain since I recognized the captain's handwriting.
Cardewin, the infected are no longer running amok like wild beasts.
They are now organized like an army.
Skirmishing against the Tower's forces, retreating when the battle was no longer in their favor, and attempting a more effective assault the next time.
There were also sabotage attempts by infected spies delivering false reports and orders. People who many others trusted all their lives and would rather die before committing such traitorous acts.
Their moves were calculated. Intelligent.
I have now become certain the Circle of Kali has a hand in this epidemic.
I failed to discover the knowledge to cure the disease. So I'm recommending the Purging Protocol.
Despite my recommendation, unfortunately, I no longer have enough manpower to eradicate the disease from the region.
I also don't think I'll be able to outmaneuver the witch behind this chaos.
Please send aid. Especially a mage with expertise in Compulsion magic.
If you're worried I have fallen to the madness disease, then it's more reason for the Tower to approve my recommendation and send that aid urgently.]
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[From: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[To: Taga region, Orlion City, Fadrin Academy of Magic, Headmaster's Office]
[The High Mages of the Tower of Circle have declared to execute the Purging Protocol in the Radeshta region.
The Tower has appointed Baron Elgar, a Councilor of the Tower, to spearhead the Purging Protocol.
Councilor Elgar is to eradicate the madness disease in the Radeshta region according to the Purging Protocol, and eliminate the perpetrator of this mental epidemic, believed to be an agent to the Circle of Kali.
Enclosed is the detailed report of the madness disease outbreak, compiled by High Mage Carandine Anashta.
Councilor Elgar is to depart to Radeshta without delay, on board the airship by which this letter was carried.
Upon arrival, Councilor Elgar is to assume command of the Tower's forces and execute the necessary operations for the Purging Protocol.]
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[From: Carandine Ralena Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[To: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[Councilor Elgar has arrived at Deshan along with his disciple from the Fadrin academy.
The Councilor claimed to have prepared a plan to fight off the hordes of infected across the region.
Needless to say since he is spearheading the Purging Protocol, the Councilor agreed that only death is the cure for the madness disease.
I'll keep you informed through letters.
I don't dare use the communication equipment anymore since the magic waves could be intercepted by the perpetrator.]
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[From: Carandine Ralena Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[To: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[Councilor Elgar came up with a brilliant plan to fight off the disease.
Since we now knew the disease was caused by Compulsion magic, or rather founded by such sorcery, then the way to counter the disease was through a stronger Compulsion spell.
Councilor Elgar had come up with a harmless Compulsion spell to be casted on the Tower's forces. This way, we would not need to worry of anyone falling into the madness disease anymore.
I've included in the letter the magic formula for Councilor Elgar's counter spell.
Now immune to the disease, our mages and soldiers are currently fighting off the hordes of infected, eliminating their number rapidly.
In the meantime, Councilor Elgar is monitoring the mana radiation in the atmosphere. Hopefully we could locate the perpetrator who had been controlling the infected all this time.]
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[From: Carandine Ralena Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[To: Cardewin Ralion Anashta, High Mage of the Tower of Circle]
[We managed to kill the last of the infected in the Radeshta region.
We also tracked down the perpetrator through Councilor Elgar's atmosphere-surveying method.
As suspected, the perpetrator was a witch to the Circle of Kali.
Surprisingly, she was hiding among us in Deshan, the very base of our operation.
Her discovery led to a huge confrontation with Councilor Elgar's disciple.
The perpetrator was killed in the clash.
I'll give you my full report in person.]
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[From: Cardewin Ralion Anashta]
[To: First Mage of the Tower of Circle, Samesta Tsang Manusha]
[My sister revealed quite a number of surprising things in her direct report to me. She did not dare include some facts in her letters due to their sensitive nature.
The most important one would be the fact that it was Councilor Elgar's disciple who came up with the idea of the counter Compulsion spell.
The same disciple was also the one who suggested Councilor Elgar to monitor the mana radiation in the atmosphere to locate the epidemic's perpetrator.
And it was the very same disciple who confronted and killed the perpetrator, a high ranking witch within the Circle of Kali.
My sister told me the name of this disciple.
A daughter of a neutral noble family in the small region of Damai in northwestern Tsatu.
Serafina Magda Zeref.
Your Highness, I believe this one deserves your attention.]
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[From: Samesta Tsang Manusha, Descendant of the Great Pioneer, Binder of the Seven Watchers of the Realm, Heiress to the Eternal Throne]
[To: Tower of Circle]
[All mages of the Tower are forbidden from approaching Lady Zeref and recruiting her into the Tower.
Just like Baron Elgar, the madness disease epidemic would be the last time Lady Zeref will be cooperating directly with the Tower of Circle.
This command shall be treated with the utmost secrecy.
Any degree of transgression will be punished severely.]