Genetic Tower
Two women clad in golden armor arrived together at the base of the double-helix tower,
but their armor styles were completely different, creating vastly different impressions.
The golden armor of the leader resembled a "skirt," with structures somewhere between slabs of flesh and trailing skirts spreading backward layer by layer for a hundred meters.
Every skirt-like section trailing along the ground seemed to possess a life of its own, sensing everything within a hundred miles.
Her golden helmet completely concealed her face, while long, wavy red hair spilled outward from behind it.
Both hands were fitted with golden vambraces, engraved using ancient flesh-tendril carving techniques with patterns related to the Protozoon of Hallownest. Faint, ancient-looking flesh-colored roots even floated out from the inner layers of the vambraces.
Following behind her was a Tumor Knight symbolizing war. She wore a winged half-helmet, while metal scales stitched onto her skin made the armor more fitted and lightweight.
There was no exaggerated skirt, but her entire body still radiated residual heat.
The visitors were the Supreme Lord and the subordinate she was currently most satisfied with, High Table Knight War—Jin. Almeida.
It was Jin's first time here, and she could not help being stunned by the magnificent structure before her. At least among all the lesion architecture she had seen, none could compare to it in either value or refinement.
The gold-and-silver double-helix structure rotated like genuine DNA.
"Was this Duke's handiwork? I'm afraid eighty percent of the ancient metals in the Old World were used here, weren't they?"
The Supreme Lord also admired the structure before her—or rather, she admired Duke's character. "Yes. At this moment, Duke brought out his entire fortune to build a public facility like this, not only to establish the 'Supreme Plague Council' and unify the