Although William and Lorien had slightly altered their appearances, with the moonlight adding to their disguise, they now had faces more handsome than usual.
The two of them could also tell that Viscount Dimitri, who had suddenly appeared and even crushed an out-of-control blood person, had not taken an interest in their determination to become blood people. Rather, he had some personal motive of his own.
When Lorien caught sight of the Viscount's strange gaze, he even felt a sudden murderous impulse. However, the moonlight concealed it, preventing the other party from noticing.
They followed the Viscount quickly up the mountain and arrived before the former Zion City.
A brand-new wall, standing three or four times as high as the original city wall, nearly filled their field of vision while radiating an unending sense of oppression.
This city wall was not only cast from blood. Its exterior was also stitched with indestructible skin structures. It was a special wall formed by combining the characteristics of two Source Plague Zones, and was extremely rare even throughout the Old World.
The high wall was not merely a project built by piling up materials,
but had been designed jointly by the high-ranking engineers of the Skin Factory and the Blood Craftsmen among the Crimson Nobles who were proficient in ancient architecture,
The outer skin had perfectly fused with the inner blood clots through the subcutaneous tissue, creating an effect greater than one plus one.
Various thick blood vessels were connected inside the wall in an "architectural" structure. Any damaged area of the wall would be rapidly supplied with blood by other sections and repaired.
At ten-meter intervals, the outer skin also bulged into blood-sac blisters. Every so often, they discharged the waste fluid produced by blood circulation, the support of the wall, and