This swift, vicious, and utterly unexpected slash cleaved Yate in two along the crown structure atop his head.
The streets a hundred meters behind Yate split open as well, black liquid continuously seeping from the cracks and annihilating even the rain that drew near.
Not only that,
The surface of Yate's severed wounds still retained a large amount of Death Substance, spreading across them like a layer of Black Seawater.
Yate also sensed Death Corrosion that reached straight for his soul. Every Cancer Cell composing his body screamed in agony, trembling before the arrival of death.
However, as divinity spread and the Origin Gene activated,
A precise Human Body Structure resembling a drainage system formed inside Yate, draining away all the seawater filling his body at the cost of consuming countless people,
Crack, crack~ The cells on both sides of his body rapidly multiplied and stuck back together,
At the moment he healed,
Yate, now a Quasi-Plague Lord, unexpectedly chose to retreat. With a single backward leap, his several-ton, obese body landed hundreds of meters away.
The Twelve Palms on the wings suspended behind him all opened eyes in their centers, trying to see William's condition, the strange sight surrounding him, and the Dark Shadow that had delivered the slash.
Only Yi Chen could cleave him, a Quasi-Plague Lord, in two with a single strike and imbue an attack with such an intense Concept of Death.
Yet Yi Chen's current state was somewhat strange. He seemed to have "grown" from William's body—or rather, to have drilled out from within William's Abyssal Body.
Moreover, the entire process took almost no time. The transfer "from inside to outside" was completed in an instant, silently and without warning.
The area he had emerged from was William's right chest.
A hole roughly fifteen inches