Under conditions like those on Earth, Gene Collapse meant certain death.
Everyone at the scene suffered widespread burns and swelling across their bodies in an extremely short time.
Some clutched their faces and wailed, while others collapsed unconscious. Feis and Aomazo, who were closest to Kabuli, suffered more severe radiation exposure, but their physical constitutions were also stronger, and they barely managed to remain conscious.
The radiation entered their bodies and destroyed the chromosomes inside their cells like bombs. Some chromosomes broke into several pieces, while others stuck together in chaotic disorder, all the while releasing radiation themselves.
With their chromosomes damaged, the cells lost their ability to regenerate. This meant that as old cells metabolized and died, no new cells would replace them.
At that moment, they could already be considered dead.
They were only still alive because their old cells had not all died yet. Feis's prized cellular regeneration ability had been cut off at the root and was now completely useless.
If that were all, Feis could at least survive for several dozen more days. But Kabuli's radiation was far too intense, taking root in countless cells throughout Feis's body like an attached contaminant and passing between them through his physiological activity.
Individual cells began heating up abnormally, burning, even dissolving. As they dissolved, they passed their intense radiation to cells that had received lighter exposure, repeating the process.
One became ten, ten became a hundred. Feis's body was continuously rotting, melting, sloughing off, and leaking tissue fluid like pus and blood.
The more intense his physiological activity, the faster he would die! As an S9 powerhouse, the life processes within Feis were vigorous and violent, constantly radiating heat.
This was practically sprinting full speed down the road to death by Gene Collapse! "I'm going to die..."