"Strange."
Jiang Qiao furrowed his brow.
He paid no attention to the changes in his body.
Instead, he noticed something bizarre: many terrifying curses were quite similar to certain rare diseases in reality.
Although they were not exactly the same.
They still created an illusion that was almost, but not quite, the truth.
Take FOP, for example.
In reality, it was an extremely rare disease. Once it flared up, bones would grow inside the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other connective tissues, transforming normal bodily tissue into bone and completely encasing the joints.
In the end.
The patient's body would seem to be locked inside a suit of bony armor, making movement nearly impossible.
That was why patients were also called "Stone Men."
It was a congenital genetic defect—rare and incurable.
At first, doctors had tried surgically removing the extra bone, but they soon discovered that the excised areas would rapidly grow bones back even more aggressively.
And now.
Jiang Qiao's condition was exactly the same.
Besides that, the eerie blue light was equally terrifying.
It was unlike any disease. Rather, it resembled a condition caused by nuclear radiation.
Only.
It was far more frightening than nuclear radiation.
Because it could actually corrode the mind.
At that moment.
Jiang Qiao felt languid all over, yet his mind was extremely agitated, as if he had been staying up all night without being able to stop.
If this continued, the result would be a mental breakdown and the dissipation of his consciousness.
"What a silent, insidious curse."
"Under normal circumstances, there's almost no way to drive it out of the body."
Jiang Qiao tried a few times.
But he achieved nothing.
Instead, the speed at which his body was being corrupted increased somewhat.
"Is this for the Fate Weaver?"
"That Ninth Rank is