"I see. If you don't know the cause, replace the altar."

"It's done already, but ... it didn't work."

When the altar was attacked and the Bloodstone Ritual began to fail, the only thing that came up was, "Is there some sort of trick on the altar?"

Possible possibilities are, for example, blessing magic.

The evil spirits that are called in the ceremony and the sacred blessing magic are incompatible.

Therefore, if a blessing magic is cast on the altar, the evil spirits will be unable to approach.

Since the principle of blessing magic is not elucidated, it is difficult to detect by magic.

So the agents sought to cope by exchanging the whole possibly-crafted altar.

It took a lot of time to procure the altar, but with the help of Despair's Miniature Garden, I managed to finish it.

But ... the result is a miserable failure.

Nothing changed, and the ceremony failed in exactly the same way as before the altar exchange.

"So what do we do!"

Cardinal Georgis tried to draw his sword in anger-on the verge of discouragement.

It doesn't matter how many soldiers you hire from your territory, but no matter how much you try to kill them ... the ceremony is different.

The person in charge of The Bloodstone Ritual is an expert in ritual magic, dispatched from the Desert Sandplay.

If you kill it on your own, the Cardinal will also get the wrath of the desperate miniature garden.

Cardinals can't help him.

That's why the rep is able to tell Cardinal.

… But there have been a few angry killings of him.

Instead of killing him, Cardinal Georgis thought his hand on his forehead.

And after 5 minutes of thought-ask the person in charge.

"Did you say there is no other place in the territory where you can do the ritual?"

"Yes. Given the possibility of the ritual site itself, I looked for other sites ... but unfortunately, there was no suitable place for the altar."

"So what about other territories?"

There is no place in the territory to make altars.

Then, why not look outside the territory?

Why haven't you noticed such a simple thing until now?

"Are you in another territory? But there should be few places where the environment is as good as Cardinal Georgis's.

"No, there is ... Countess of Megis."

"In that terrible county territory there is a place to make an altar ...?"

"Think, if not, how does the Earl make medicine?"

Only Cardinal Georgis was the only mass-producer of healing drugs in this world.

However, the recent mass production of Count Meigis has destroyed its monopoly.

So how did Count Meigis make the medicine?

There is only one possible possibility.

-He and the Cardinal performed the "Rite of Blood Stone".

Thinking that way, you will probably be right.

If he can mass-produce healing drugs in a decent way, then someone should be doing it.

Until now, no one has done it because it is impossible.

There is no other way than mass production of healing drugs other than the "Rite of Blood Stone". There cannot be.

"The Earl is performing the 'Bloodstone Ritual' ... certainly, but it's possible--but I don't hear of the increased imports of slaves in that territory?"

I had long thought that Count Meigis might be performing a ritual.

So, since the mass production of healing drugs began, Cardinal Georgis had been constantly monitoring the number of slaves being brought into the county's county.

However, slave imports had not increased at all.

On the contrary, Earl of Meigis has seldom raised slaves from the outset.

Most of the slaves who were brought in only passed through the Earl territory on the way to other territories.

Some territories have many slaves.

Still, cities without slaves are rare.

It was a survey result that seems to be so.

"That's the case ... it may not be a slave that Earl Meigis sacrificed."

"Isn't it a slave ... you mean you were collecting civilians and sacrificing them?"

"It's more a refugee than a civilian. It's a famous story that the territory is collecting Kas?"

It is a famous story that the Countess of Megis accepts many refugees.

Farmers who have lost their land, the sons of a fallen aristocrat, and subordinate jobs.

It is a famous story that he has subordinate occupations in his territory, but in fact, the county of the Megis, including others, accepted many refugees.

Of course, this isn't imperceptible, and acceptance is limited to those who are willing to work in the territory-but it's a hard-to-understand oddity.

Even if refugees don't help, it's not a sentence.

Until now, Cardinal Georgis was so foolish about the Earl.

But now the Cardinal has even respected the Earl's knowledge.

That was "collecting materials".

No refugees will be aware of their sudden disappearance.

And unlike slaves, procurement does not cost much money and it does not pass through the market, so it is difficult to get up.

"I see. If so, how would you take measures?"

The person in charge of The Bloodstone Ritual asked Cardinal so.

In fact, he doesn't believe in Cardinal Georgis's statement that "the altar has an altar."

The possibility of an altar in the Earl Count was first considered in The Despair's Miniature Garden.

That forest was tightly guarded and couldn't be investigated directly-but from a map, etc., it was possible to narrow down the rough conditions.

As a result, it was found that altars were unlikely to have been built in the Earl Province.

So the Miniature Garden of Despair thought that Count Meigis might have made healing medicines in other ways, or would otherwise be performing rituals in other territories.

However, I don't think Cardinal will understand it after explaining it.

I just hope that Cardinal's countermeasures are effective.