A strange rumor started circulating, beginning with the villages and territories along the coast of the mainland. No, rather, it could not be called rumors. You could not write off actual events as rumors.

One day, people suddenly started to get sick. It was not limited to just one or two people. Entire villages would get struck with a mysterious sickness at the same time.

The disease did not discriminate between children and adults. Some seniors and children, who were relatively weaker, started dying as well.

At first, it was thought to be an epidemic, but that was not it. After some time, the affected people would be completely cured and returned to normal as if they had never been sick. It usually lasted two or three days. In other words, an entire village would be struck with the sickness for a few days before everything returned to normal as if nothing had happened.

It was truly a mysterious event.

But there was something even more bizarre. After the incident occurred in a village, the same thing would happen to a nearby village after a few days.

The phenomenon gradually spread inland.

It was as if the sickness was...