"Buzz!"
The instant Luo Zhen reached toward Chris, a rune began to glow on her chest beneath her cry.
"What is this...?"
Emily froze when she saw it.
"This is the one from before..."
Chris saw the rune as well and remembered what had happened.
Back when they were in Mistgun, because the plan targeting Luo Zhen had failed, he had unilaterally carved two runes onto Chris and Alice. No matter how the two of them examined themselves, they could not detect them.
Now, under Luo Zhen's control, the rune had appeared once again.
"Snap!"
Luo Zhen snapped his fingers.
"Bang!"
The rune carved into Chris immediately shattered like glass and vanished without a trace.
"This is a poison rune that can cause power to run wild. It can lie dormant inside the human body, and once activated, the power of the person marked by it will go out of control."
Luo Zhen spoke as he withdrew his hand.
"Originally, I was planning to activate it in front of the humans at the appropriate moment, making the spell power inside you run wild and exposing it to everyone. That way, I could reveal your identities as Humanoid Demon Scarabs."
When that time came, it would also be when Luo Zhen intended to uproot the Humanoid Demon Scarabs led by Jess and expose his conspiracy.
However, plans could not keep up with changes. He had never expected so many secrets to be hidden in this matter. Not only was Chris not an enemy, but even the Humanoid Demon Scarabs were innocent, having merely been caught up in the conflicts of humanity's past.
Moreover, Jess had already decided to use the Aerial Combat Martial Arts Festival as the stage for a proxy war, displaying the power of the Humanoid Demon Scarabs to