It had been exactly two years since William Berens seized the "qualification" through a special performance and became the first Plague Lord in history.
The "World Infection" that the Sick Ones had been waiting for had finally been completed as well.
All kinds of plague buildings, organizations, and armies rose from the ground across the New World in the Gray Domain, rapidly dividing up its territory.
As a special organization on the human side, G&D did not fall into danger because of the Sick Ones' complete arrival. Instead, it gained the protection of multiple factions in a short period of time. Using Zion as its foundation, it established an entirely new, diversified city-state ten times its former size.
First, at the moment the World Infection was completed,
a group of stargazers with huge heads and crystal-like eyes, their bodies silver-white, arrived in Zion through a Space Passage. They formally met Principal Deslin, the human stargazer, and thanked her for sharing the star charts of this world over the years, allowing the stargazers to maintain the vitality of the Platinum Blood within their bodies.
To express their gratitude, the stargazers all settled in Zion and were even willing to help cultivate talented people in the field of stargazing.
Furthermore,
the Ascender—Regan Ludwig—also moved in with The Neisseria Ones at the first opportunity. Using Spatial Transfer, he directly relocated the Neisseria Laboratory, originally hidden deep within the mines of the Old World, to the foot of the mountain range where Zion was located. He even shared some of the ancient technology, connecting it to Zion's Power Station.
The skin factory and the Blood People, whom the organization had always feared, did not come looking for trouble either.
Gluttony, the Seven Marquis member who had once invaded Zion, Graton, even personally visited with