"It's over..."
Advent opened his eyes. After Yong Xinglai, that Saint, had been slain, the former subordinate of the Yong family felt a wave of helplessness rise in his heart.
A Saint had fallen—and not just any Saint, but one who had controlled a city's Flame of Civilization!
This was a catastrophe of the highest order.
Perhaps he had worried about being tracked and hadn't taken the Flame of Civilization with him. But he had controlled it for so long—who knew what he might have done with it?
An incident like this would inevitably be investigated afterward.
And he was bound to be among those investigated!
His Catastrophe-level strength and genuine ignorance might spare him from execution.
But he would probably be assigned some dangerous mission as penance...
Shaking those thoughts from his mind, Jiang Ziqing bowed respectfully and said,
"I, the sinner Jiang Ziqing, greet the Saint. Thank you for stepping in to slay the fallen evil Saint. Otherwise, we might already have become the rations he needed to recover his strength."
They hadn't been able to react to the Saint's actions, but afterward they could understand just how perilous the situation had been.
If this Saint hadn't pursued him here, they would probably all have been turned into flesh and blood inside his body, becoming part of him.
Looking behind them, they saw that, apart from a few Boundary Breakers, nearly everyone nearby had been reduced to mutated flesh. Even the Boundary Breakers had suffered bodily changes to varying degrees from the pollution and radiation, despite not being directly targeted.
Their faces were all ashen.
This passive contamination might not be fatal or warrant immediate execution, but their fate would still be bleak!
And now, throughout the entire New Frontier, traces of pollution remained everywhere after his desperate,