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A week has passed since Weston and Mavis returned to Magnolia with Joey, Reiya, and a group of homeless people.
During this time, Weston kept his previous promise and contacted the town to arrange housing for these people.
Fortunately, since Fairy Tail was established in Magnolia, the town had been following Weston's construction plans, engaging in large-scale building projects and house construction.
Therefore, even though nearly a thousand people followed Weston this time, the town could fully accommodate them.
Regarding Joey, Weston truly built a small temporary cabin for him in the forest on the west side of town.
Although the location seemed a bit remote, with Joey's pace, it didn't even take half an hour to walk from the forest to the guild.
To enable Joey to enter the guild tavern and communicate normally with his companions, Weston used the Super Archive to search for many spells within the magical big data.
The most suitable one for Joey's situation was naturally 'Command T', which is the magic used by Brandish of the Spriggan 12 in the original series.
However, using this kind of magic requires a certain amount of magical talent and magic power.
And Joey was far from meeting that requirement.
So Weston had to settle for the next best thing and found 'Shrink Magic' for him, which is used to reduce the target's body size.
This is the counter-magic to 'Giant Magic' and a lower-tier magic of 'Size Magic', with much fewer restrictions on learning.
After Joey obtained this magic, he began to study it seriously. After these days of hard work, it has already shown initial results.
As for Reiya, there weren't many problems.
He was a Wizard himself, so after joining Fairy Tail, he quickly got the hang of the work. He was even more outstanding than most of his companions in the quantity and quality of work completed.
The rest of the guild, as usual, worked every day, or ate, drank, played, and fooled around in the guild.
Unfortunately, such a pleasant life did not last very long.
Half a month after Weston, Mavis, and the others returned to Magnolia, something no one expected happened—
A disaster struck.
A severe plague appeared in Magnolia!
The speed at which the plague broke out, the breadth of its sweep, and the severity of the illness far exceeded everyone's imagination.
The first to fall were the elderly and children in town, as this group's resistance was inherently weak and naturally, they were the first victims.
Before everyone could react, the adults in town with relatively poor physical fitness also fell one after another.
In the end, even the strong adults, and even the Wizards of Fairy Tail, were not spared.
Only half a month after the outbreak, the number of deaths in Magnolia due to the malignant disease exceeded 300, and the number of people seriously ill in bed exceeded three thousand and this number was still rising over time!
Even more terrifying was that the same symptoms appeared in several surrounding towns!
Inside the guild tavern.
The Wizards wore masks and gloves, sprayed themselves with thick disinfecting alcohol, and sat at least one meter apart from each other, protecting themselves thoroughly.
The laughter and play of former days had vanished without a trace.
In the oppressive air, everyone had tense faces and remained silent.
The number of people gathered here was visibly much smaller than usual, with less than one-tenth remaining.
Those not here were either infected with the plague themselves, lying at home waiting to recover, or had relatives and friends who had contracted the plague and had gone to care for them.
Based on his experience from his past life, Weston instructed his guild companions not to go out during this time and to stay away from crowded places to avoid catching the plague.
However, out of a desire to help, some still chose to come to the guild, ready to follow Weston's orders at any time.
Seeing that they wouldn't listen despite repeated advice, and thinking that he might indeed need manpower later, Weston could only agree.
Suddenly, Yuri entered slowly with his head hanging low, pushing the door open.
This young man, who was usually full of energy, now had a pale face and dark circles under his eyes. He wobbled as he walked, as if all the spirit had been drained from his body.
Seeing this, Precht and Warrod immediately stepped forward out of concern.
"Yuri, are you okay?"
"How is Rita's condition?"
Shortly after the plague broke out, Yuri's young girlfriend, Rita, also contracted the symptoms.
To take care of her, Yuri had been staying by her bedside day and night during these days.
Supported by his two good friends, Yuri came to the table. As soon as he sat down, he slumped onto the tabletop.
"The situation is not optimistic."
"According to Doctor Grisha, because Rita is a Wizard and her physical fitness is stronger than an ordinary person's, she isn't in life-threatening danger for now. But whether she can recover later depends on her will."
Everyone knew that Yuri and Rita had been dating for two or three years and had a very good relationship. Now that one had fallen ill, it was easy to imagine how the other felt.
"Don't lose heart, cheer up, Yuri!"
"I believe that with your company, Rita will definitely get better!"
"Didn't Weston say it? Love can conquer all, even disease!"
"That sentence wasn't a joke!"
Warrod kept cheering Yuri up, while Precht, who was not a man of many words, just patted Yuri's shoulder to indicate 'I am with you'.
Feeling the comfort of his best friends, Yuri felt a little better, and a rare smile appeared on his face.
"Thank you guys... By the way, where are Weston and Mavis? I have something to tell them."
"Weston said he was going outside town to investigate the illness. I think he should be back soon."
"As for Mavis, Weston said earlier that he used the Super Archive to find an ancient prescription specifically for treating the plague. Now she and Zera are in the kitchen brewing herbs, preparing to send them to the Emergency Camp later to test the effects."
Just then, Weston happened to walk in from outside and heard their conversation.
"I'm back. What did you want to tell me?"
Yuri hurriedly sat up straight: "It's Doctor Grisha. He said the herbs in the clinic are running low, but he can't leave himself, so he wants to commission us to help pick some."
"That's no problem, but specifically what herbs need to be picked, and where do we pick them?"
"He gave me a piece of paper, saying that everything needed is written on it."
Yuri said as he took out a note from his pocket.
Weston took it and looked, finding more than a dozen types of herb names and their basic appearances written elaborately on it.
Although there were many types, the collection point wasn't far, and they could be found on the mountain north of Magnolia.
"Precht, take the available companions from the guild and go help."
"To avoid picking the wrong herbs, I'll package and compress the specific information and appearance of the herbs and transmit it to you in a moment."
"I understand."
Weston then looked at Warrod again.
"Warrod, you'll come out with me in a bit."
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