The Origin and Secrets of the Gastrea Virus!

The Gastrea of the Zodiac were not only powerful, but also extremely mysterious. Tracking them down was no simple task.

That was true for Wood and Echidna. For anyone else, defeating the ten remaining members of the Zodiac within a few years would have been out of the question. Even finding them would have been no easy feat.

The places where Wood eventually found these Zodiac members ranged from vast, scorching deserts to depths of ten thousand meters beneath the sea, and even the peaks of snow-covered mountains at the ends of the world.

Ordinary people would have had no hope of going to these places to defeat the Zodiac. Even setting foot in them was out of the question, given the brutal environments.

After defeating one Zodiac member after another, Wood and Echidna also found themselves surrounded by more and more little girls, just like Mei.

By the time Wood defeated the last Zodiac member, Aquarius, deep beneath the sea, Echidna said they had almost completed the so-called "puzzle."

Wood and Echidna had also visited the countries where Taurus and Virgo, the two Zodiac members defeated earlier, had fallen, and collected data there.

The gene sequences they gathered weren't as complete as those from the Zodiac members they had defeated themselves, but thanks to Echidna's efforts, they had managed to piece the puzzle together.

"Wood, there's still one problem. Stage Five is called the Zodiac, so there should be twelve of them.

"But we're still one Zodiac member short of the final answer.

"And yet this world has only eleven Zodiac members. There's no Cancer."

Just when they seemed to be getting closer and closer to the answer, Echidna suddenly gave Wood this news.

The origin of the Zodiac had always been a mystery. From the Zodiac girls, who