"Calm down, Clare!"
Seeing her stubborn teammate, who normally wore an expressionless face, suddenly go berserk, Milia rushed over and grabbed her.
Galadria, who was especially sensitive to yoki, shouted, "Have you lost your mind? Or are you already prepared to awaken?"
"S-sorry! No matter what it costs, I have to kill Priscilla."
Clare's eyes had turned completely into golden, slit-pupiled eyes, and her limbs had begun to deform as her yoki surged. Her expression was as hideous as a yoma's.
Even her teeth had changed from ordinary human teeth into sharp, beastlike fangs.
The cells of the Dragon's Descendants could radically restructure a human body in an incredibly short time, far beyond the usual biological limits.
That was also why Allen had always believed this world had once possessed a highly prosperous and advanced magical civilization.
After all, according to the original story, Priscilla's nearly limitless yoki and regeneration ability were rooted in an overwhelmingly powerful emotion: "hatred."
Because she drew her power from "hatred," she would remain extremely difficult to kill as long as that emotion existed.
By the same principle, the parasite Dae had personally created—the "World-Destroying Demon"—also essentially used power on the mental plane to interfere with the physical plane.
If there had never been an advanced magical civilization, or a civilization of superpowers, how had such cells and living specimens been created?
Moreover, once the Dragon's Descendants awakened, they could never return to their original forms, which suggested that whoever designed them had never considered recovering them afterward.
In other words, just like the Claymores the Organization had first created, they were disposable consumables and cannon fodder.
After investigating the surviving communities of the Dragon's Descendants, the Guardians of Sky City concluded that their heritage had almost certainly been lost long ago, leaving behind no