Once infected with the Blood Plague, the body exhibits clear signs of infection.
The infected individual will begin to show red eyes, and within three days, fangs will grow in their mouth, accompanied by a foul breath. They will develop an overwhelming urge to attack anything living nearby—human or animal—and within seven to ten days, their bodies will rot and they will die.
This is the infection process as summarized by the Goblins.
Below the Legendary level, all infected will die. However, those with extraordinary strength stand a better chance of survival.
For three months, the Blood Plague spread through the North, and within six months, it had reached the entire continent. Its ferocity left all races terrified.
The Goblin Grand Sage could no longer sit idle when the plague began spreading through the North.
He realized that the plague was particularly devastating to the Goblins. Other races that were infected still had a chance of survival, but Goblins died immediately without any hope of recovery. Of course, extraordinary Goblins were an exception—they were somewhat more resistant.
As the plague spread, the Grand Sage ordered the lords and city governors to seal their gates and quarantine their cities, but the plague was relentless. Every time they sealed one area, it appeared in another, as though someone was intentionally spreading it in all directions.
The Grand Sage was left exhausted, desperate to find a solution. Every day, large numbers of Goblins were dying, and even Emperor Frey Almigel, the fourth Emperor of the Goblin Empire, appeared gaunt and worn out. In just half a year, the Goblin population, which had once reached two hundred million, had been halved, and the number continued to dwindle.
Even though the Emperor and the Grand Sage had their own internal conflicts, they set everything aside and pooled their resources to allow Goblin alchemists to work around the clock. The Grand Sage himself even participated in the research.
But it wasn't just the Goblins who were struggling—every race on the continent was deeply concerned.
On the East Coast
When the plague reached Losondras, Jano was meditating atop Mount Celestia. Usually, his meditation hours were unpredictable, but urgent matters could always pull him out of it.
However, the plague spread so quickly that by the time a messenger brought him the news in the morning, by the afternoon, the disease had already begun to take hold. It spread uncontrollably.
The officials of the winged race, led by Limiere, had never encountered such a plague before, so they had no immediate solution. They quickly notified Jano.
Upon hearing the news, Jano felt a sinking sensation in his heart. How careless of me!
He immediately issued an order to close all nine passes and seal off Losondras and Lomanda, quarantining the infected.
However, the plague had already taken root within the winged race. Despite his efforts, half of the winged people had already been infected.
Unlike the Goblins, the infection rate among the winged race wasn't as fatal, though it was still highly dangerous. About ten percent of the infected survived after a period of weakness and recovered to normal health.
No one noticed that the survivors seemed to have become significantly younger.
About fifty percent of the infected died in agony, while the remaining winged people became what could only be described as undead. Their eyes and wings turned red, their feathers and hair fell off, and they grew fangs. They looked grotesque.
To control the plague and save his people, Jano called upon scholars and returning winged alchemists to begin researching a cure for the infected.
Meanwhile, in Bolek Territory, the humans infected with the Blood Plague underwent strange changes.
These changes were not even anticipated by the Red Robed Woman, who had originally released the plague.
In Bolek, half of the half a million human population became infected, but most of them, after enduring a period of suffering, eventually recovered.