Although Balte was looking at the Woman in Red who had suddenly appeared before him, his thoughts remained fixed on Doctor Scott's betrayal.
Although Doctor Scott had not yet transformed into a 'true dead man,'
he had already seen the symbol of the dead and completed the suicide ritual. At his core, he should have worshiped death infinitely, and even eternal life would become death's servant.
What method could possibly transcend death's enslavement without Balte noticing?
His thoughts searched through the various life forms of the Old World, but the current world had yet to assimilate. Old World life forms at the Source Opening level or above could not freely come here.
Balte had only barely managed to complete his consciousness descent by borrowing Sun Dis, the Human Gentleman whose plague value equaled his own.
That was why he could not understand how his dead subordinate had been completely enslaved, no matter how hard he tried.
In the end, he could only shift his attention to the Woman in Red before him.
As he watched the infant transform into a longsword, the red threads surging beneath the woman's skin twitched, sniffing at the unique scent of flesh drifting through the air.
"Such a bloody fragrance, concealed with all your might, yet still unable to hide the distinctive fleshly smell of a tumor... I never thought I'd encounter a Sick One from the Cancer Palace here.
"However, you're not an enslaver. If this were the Cancer Palace's method of enslavement, it would inevitably leave obvious tumor-like growths in the brain. It would be impossible not to notice.
"There are others here, aren't there?"
The moment his voice fell,
the "Death Plague Ring" contained within Balte's body immediately unfolded, covering a hundred-meter radius and filling the sealed space.
Black death mist seeped