The afterglow of the setting sun spilled across the windowsill, casting a faint golden hue over the handwriting on the letter. Lu Chen's gaze swept across the elegant script, and his heart sank. Between the lines, Lily's letter revealed a profound sense of despair and helplessness.
The letter described how a terrible plague was sweeping through her kingdom, striking down the people one by one as they groaned in agony. Healers were entirely helpless, and fear spread rapidly through the populace like the plague itself. As Queen, Lily could only watch in despair as her subjects suffered immensely, unable to do a thing. She had no choice but to place her hopes in Lu Chen and Huo Yao, two friends from another world who had helped her in the past.
"A plague..." Lu Chen repeated the words under his breath, conjuring images from history books he had once read: corpses strewn across the fields and cries of anguish filling the air—one of the darkest chapters in human history.
Chapter 40