Gray-White Text appeared at that moment.
[Target detected: Grey Covenant member "9" (Alienated Transcendent) (out of control)] [Will humans who borrow His power meet a good end?... Transcendence Path severely deviated... Target's body is being rewritten by external power...] [Environmental Perception: ■■■ Source of Pollution detected... Extremely dangerous... Please move away immediately!]
Lu Yuan's pupils suddenly contracted at the sight.
"Leike, watch out."
Lu Yuan shouted a warning as loudly as he could, but he did not need to warn Leike. Leike could clearly sense the changes in the man before him as well. An extremely dangerous aura was awakening within him.
"9" forcibly stood up from the Insect Tide.
Through his blurred vision, Lu Yuan saw a blackish-yellow mass slowly rise from the gray Sea of Worms, taking on the outline of a human figure again.
That outline was riddled with holes.
"9" was covered in tiny holes gnawed out by the Swarm Insects, like a piece of rotten wood eaten through by bugs. Blackish-yellow bodily fluid seeped from every hole, mixing with the black power surging in through the veins beneath the ground.
It formed a flowing black membrane over his body.
His form began to twist. Bones shifted beneath his skin, joints bent at angles they should not have bent, and muscles contracted where they should not have contracted.
His entire body flickered back and forth between two forms, the frequency growing faster and faster.
Two powers were fighting for control within him.
A pitch-black aura poured from his entire body. Black mist spilled out from every wormhole, so thick that it nearly solidified in the dim light of the hall.
Across the surface of his body, riddled with countless holes, Flesh kept swelling. Clearly, the Swarm Insects controlled by Leike had not been fully