For a whole half of a month, the Imperial Capital and the areas around it continued to have highly rotten corpses appearing everywhere. The rumor of pestilence spread out on its own, causing extreme panic amongst the citizens which ultimately put the imperial court under a huge amount of pressure.
Within this panic, even the earthquake reported in the monthly update had not attracted any attention since for most of the people living in the Imperial Capital, this potential pestilence outbreak was a true threat to their lives, As the new news of the remote province, no one had the time to care for it anymore.