After a while, Jonathan decided to ask: “How often is this spell being used to cleanse water? And in which situations?”

The teacher thought for a moment and then answered: “It generally is used in areas where necromancers and other plague spreaders are active. It sometimes is used when there is suspicion that a water source might be contaminated. All in all, it is one of the most used spells you will learn in this course.”

Jonathan was horrified. If he had just understood what he said was that most persons alive could learn this spell and cast it quite often during a day, and that it was known that it stopped the spread of diseases in some circumstances, but it was only used when the situation is dire?

Jonathan did not know what to think about that.

But he most certainly knew what he would talk about the next time he saw either Tablos or the king. Survival of the serfs was considered to be less important than to keep all magical knowledge central, even if this knowledge was just in the application, in a common, easy application of a simple, well known spell, which could just Safe their lives if they knew about that.

Horrifying.

Especially because he already knew that magic did not work well against plagues.

Yes, it could heal them, but doing that did not immunize the human body, he was pretty certain, considering that healed ones got the same illness, sometimes just days later, again.

Why would they open themselves to such risk? Pure stupidity or did something more sinister stood behind that?