"Master, I'm sorry to trouble you."
The young woman who had turned her back to Shade spoke weakly, and Wei Ge immediately comforted her:
"Don't talk for now. Why does your complexion still look so bad after this treatment? Is it becoming harder and harder to suppress?"
It seems Active Mud is definitely useless.
After receiving permission, Shade approached Miss Lorraine's back and pressed a finger against the edge of the White Area.
The face within the White Area had its eyes closed, but it was too blurry to tell its gender or age. In response to Shade's touch, the White Area merely squirmed. Once it confirmed that it was not under attack, it settled down again.
Wei Ge watched Shade expectantly. While he frowned and examined the area, she even forcibly suppressed her coughs.
And the examination did indeed yield a result.
[Her body and soul have been parasitized by a portion of some powerful life form.]
This matched the outward symptoms of her injury.
"Is there any way to eradicate it with external force?"
[With the methods you currently possess, it cannot be completely eradicated externally. Even if Moon Fire is used, it will drain all of her Life Force before the abnormal area is burned away.]
After a brief pause, "she" gently offered Shade a method of "internal eradication" beside his ear:
[You may attempt Thaumaturgy—Blood Seed Parasitism.]
Shade had obtained this thaumaturgy during the House of False Men incident. Its effect was to plant his own flesh and blood within another flesh-and-blood creature, allowing him to sense the other party's surface thoughts and exert a certain degree of control over them.
Shade disliked this sort of power, so despite obtaining the thaumaturgy, he had never used it. Now that "she"