Unfortunately.
The aura of coolness hadn't been established.
Ji Jue had only counted to four when screams came from the end of the corridor.
An Jiexiu, who had been running wildly, suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground. Weak and dizzy, he tried to prop himself up, only to discover that his left foot had fallen off his leg like an overripe fruit.
Then came layers of shattered skin, peeling away from his hands and limbs.
It was as though powerful acid were raging through his body, surging and corroding his organs, tissues, and flesh from the inside out. By the time his delayed nerves registered the pain, it was already far too late.
"Wh... what is this...?"
He stared blankly, eyes wide. Then his vision blackened, and his ruptured eyeballs fell from their sockets.
He could no longer see his limbs rapidly mutating.
Once the ashes of The Horde mixed among the shrapnel and Mercury had been activated, the aberrant mutation began to spread.
Outside the Time Ruins, he might still have lingered on for two or three days before dying amid torment and despair. But here in the Time Ruins, where the air was saturated with the aura of Abominations, it spread at an unbelievable speed.
His blood warped beneath the corrosive aura of the Abomination, rapidly dissolving flesh like strong acid. As it collided with the matrix and Blessing, vast amounts of blood fused with metal, turning into sharp prisms that pierced out through his body.
Before long, beneath the stench and thick smoke rising with hissing sounds, all that remained was a twisted metal empty shell like some postmodern artwork, along with bizarre crystalline prisms protruding through it.
Like a silhouette from hell.
A condemned sinner, suffering eternal torment in agony.
In the end, one bump