After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1834

Chapter 1834: The Current Fire Plague

The plague this time started Northeast and East, near the Orc territory, but there were also cases mid-north, directly opposite to where it originated the previous time.

This meant that no one who had seen it before was there, and no one could detect the signs of a growing threat in time, which were not obvious in the first place.

Worse, this time, it spread even more quickly from the start. It started even while the Great Cold was happening.

The air right after the Cold Wave was still cold, and this meant it was still heavy.

Heavier air would contain more smoke. Then, natural wind would come in and spread it out, affecting even more people than usual. Add this to people’s naturally weakened immune system due to the disaster, and the effect was even worse.

Even isolated villages, if they were near enough and if they were downwind, would’ve faced this right after the cold. They might even face the disease’s maturity during or after the large beast mobs that came after the cold.

The previous Fire Plague did not happen right after a disaster, and it started in the less dense desert areas, so the current spread was estimated to be far worse than the one before.

People also had less immunity after going through the extreme weather. Although people past level 10 had higher tolerance to changes in their bodies, they still had limits.

Their bodies would’ve been stretched thin during the disaster, allowing less energy to fight the new disease from spreading. They would not even realize it was there until the incubation period ended.

Further, if it hadn’t afflicted the orc and halforc territories first, it was estimated that there would even be more victims and more deaths.

In this case, since everyone was still recovering from the cold and the beast mobs, they didn’t really travel much. What made sure things spread fast was the wind itself.

Then, after a week or two, during incubation, people would’ve already been travelling around again, from village to towns, towns to cities, and vice versa.

By the time the symptoms started showing, dozens of human territories were affected. As soon as one person got affected, it would multiply exponentially every day, and soon everyone would feel the symptoms.

Even if one was very strong, they’d still feel weakened, and if they were unlucky, they could die from handling beasts and things that shouldn’t have been a threat at all.

The fortunate part was that because most of the adults had experienced it before, they also knew how it spread out. They might not be able to stop it, but the determination of what was happening was the first step of the way.

As soon as the disease was determined, they knew to isolate the illness.

They also knew to cover their mouths and noses. This was something the previous generation learned the hard way, after hundreds of thousands of people had already lost their lives.

However, despite these, the spread could not be stopped. Not to mention the fact that information travelled so slowly that not everyone could react fast enough or prepare for it, even if one had masks.

Further, if one were low in level, even contact with skin could get dangerous as well.

Still, the reaction was supposed to be much faster this time because most people had an idea how to avoid getting infected.

It was just that many territories, driven by fear and trauma, opted for something very harsh as soon as they found out what it was.

Rhea cried. Would they all really die like this?

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