Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 109 Plague Doctor Ridok

Holstein, a city on the western border of the Tauren Empire
Recently a strange disease has begun to appear in both cities and villages here.

Most diseases in this world can be cured directly through magic or potions. A very small number of diseases may actually be special innate abilities, or may not be diseases at all.

In short, things that cannot be directly cured by magic are basically not contagious.

But the disease that has appeared at the border this time has defied this common sense.

People who suffer from this disease will first develop some red rashes, and then become extremely energetic. The original pains and discomforts in their bodies will disappear, and they will be happy every day.

These sick people would then be ordered by their slave owners to work until they died in this state of abnormal energy.

Currently, the Tauren slave owners like this new strange plague very much. After being infected with this plague, the slaves' work efficiency has been greatly improved, and they almost no longer resist. In short, they are happy no matter what.

In response to this, many slave owners would call uninfected slaves to stay with the infected slaves in order to infect as many of them as possible.

As for the slave owners, they were certainly not afraid of infection. After contracting the plague, they would become energetic and in a good mood. In their view, it was simply a free magic potion.

Even the emperor in the capital heard about the situation here and wanted to observe it first. If the effect was good, he would spread the infected people to all parts of the Minotaur Empire.

Make sure every slave is infected and becomes a qualified consumable.

Ordinary citizens were also very satisfied, and the slaves' hard work allowed them to live a better life.

The citizens of the Minotaur Empire (most of whom are Minotaur) enjoy various welfare benefits. They can receive food for free and watch various performances for free. The only requirement for them is that they must go to the battlefield to kill the enemy when the Minotaur Empire needs them.

Therefore, as long as they do not commit suicide, citizens who do not need to work in their entire lives are happy to see slaves work hard.

Besides, these citizens, who spend their days eating and playing, also find this plague quite interesting, and being infected with the plague has even become a new fashion.

Now the border areas, led by Holstein, are almost in a frenzy, with only very few people remaining rational.

For example, Lidok Hong.

In terms of race, Ridok is a hybrid of a minotaur and a human. It is said that his ancestor was the offspring of a minotaur sage and a human mistress.

Although under normal circumstances there is reproductive isolation between Tauren and humans, perhaps the Tauren sage used some magic or the props in the game broke through this restriction.

In the Minotaur Empire, this kind of mixed-blood minotaur is obviously not welcome. When the Minotaur sage is alive, he can still protect his children. After the sage died, this mixed-blood minotaur family was gradually ostracized and finally had to live in the border areas.

But no matter what, this is also the sage's child, the descendant of the greatest hero of the Minotaur Empire.

So even though they were excluded, at least they still had food and clothing, and they didn't have to worry about starving to death. Thrown to the border, the Tauren nobles above would just ignore it.

After being exiled to the border city, the descendants of this child also made their own choices. Most of them chose to continue to intermarry with the minotaurs. Now, except for being a little short, their children are completely indistinguishable from ordinary minotaurs. However, Lidok's line intermarried more with humans, so his status was the lowest in the family, and his appearance was very close to that of humans.

Compared to a human, Lidok is very tall. He is over 1.9 meters tall, with a strong build and a beautiful bronze skin.

He has a straight nose and his blue eyes gleam with wisdom.

The grey animal ears, left over from the union of an unknown ancestor in the family with some canine subhuman, stood tall on his head, and there were two plum-sized horns in his thick black hair.

But now he was wearing a black leather coat that reached all the way to his shoes, a top hat, and a bird-beak mask made of the same leather on his face.

It is said that this kind of dress is a concept of a doctor's attire described by a Minotaur sage, but because it is not easy to use, not comfortable, and has no religious support, it naturally did not become popular in the end.

As a descendant of the Minotaur Sage and a doctor, Ridok specially restored this set of clothes to use as his daily work clothes.

Ridok didn't have much money. Although his fighting ability was already considered abnormal in the human kingdom, he was still only interested in medical treatment, and those treatments that did not require magic. He practiced fighting more to make the opponent accept his treatment obediently.

But in this world, being a doctor who simply practices herbal medicine and bone setting is obviously not a lucrative profession.

Because of magic, many injuries and diseases can be cured directly with magic, so most of the people who come to herbal doctors are poor people who cannot afford even the cheapest magic treatment fees, and these people's illnesses are often very serious.

Lidok hopes to help these poor people as much as possible and study more skills that can be used without magic.

For example, broken bones can be aligned surgically and then fixed with steel nails and splints. Although this effect takes a lot of time compared to the healing of serious injuries by third-level magic, usually three or four months, the advantage is that the cost can be reduced to a level that ordinary people can accept.
It was because of this experience of practicing medicine at the lowest level for many years that Lidok noticed the situation of this plague.

Through autopsy, Riddoch was convinced that the patients' illnesses and injuries did not improve, they just no longer felt the original condition was painful.

And the most critical problem is that this thing is not affected by all the current mainstream healing magic.

Obviously this disease is not a good thing, so Lidok went to the supervisor many times to make suggestions, hoping that the situation could be reported as a plague to minimize the infection of people.

However, obviously no one listened to him, which made him very worried.

According to the characteristics of this disease, something serious will definitely happen in the future.

It was in this state of worry that Ridok met an old man named Festus.

This is a well-traveled elderly human traveler who has extremely rich experience, including dealing with various epidemics.

Festus and Ridok hit it off and soon became good friends.

Under Festus's suggestion, Ridok decided to take the initiative to launch a controllable plague to make those guys who are no longer in their right minds understand what to do now.

(End of this chapter)