Just as Great Demon Li and the Outer Heavenly Evil God faced off, one of the Sacred Talismans among the thirteen saints maintaining the "Sacred Domain" suddenly underwent a mutation. An eerie blue light replaced the golden radiance filled with holy light, transforming it into blue runes and a pentagram. Among the thirteen beams of sacred light, one blue beam stood out starkly, completely out of place.
"What's going on? Vera, you..."
The "Witchcraft" saint Konaukuwi, who had suddenly sensed something wrong with the Sacred Artifact, had not yet finished speaking.
The blue light that had appeared without warning among the thirteen saints instantly triggered a chain reaction.
In the span of just one or two breaths, all thirteen golden Sacred Talismans embedded in the pentagram turned into blue Sacred Talismans. Their forms had not changed at all, but their radiance gave off an inexplicable sense of dread.
One of the thirteen saints to first notice the abnormality, the Latin Girl Vera, had a deathly pale face. From her forehead to the tip of her nose, then down to her chin, a thin red line had appeared at some unknown point. The line continued extending straight downward, from her neck into her chest and abdomen.
With a tearing sound, the red line became a shocking crack. It deepened at a speed visible to the naked eye, while transparent mucus kept oozing out.
As the crack gradually widened, the mucus stretched into strands.
Her entire body, clothes and all, split into two.
More precisely, it was as though she had shed a bloated, heavy skin, revealing a body that had shrunk dramatically inside. She was completely naked, with a bare head and brow, not a single hair in sight. She looked like a little girl of only seven or eight.
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