Lu Yuan closed the door.
Klaus skipped the pleasantries. He set down his pen and looked up at him.
"How?"
Lu Yuan stood before the desk for two seconds, choosing his words.
"There is a Symbiote in my path. It can eat the two kinds of damage in your body."
Klaus said nothing. His gaze rested on Lu Yuan's face as he waited for him to continue.
"During the process, you'll feel something moving inside your body. Don't resist it."
"If the Eerie power in your body reacts, just suppress it."
Klaus's gaze shifted slightly when he heard the word "Symbiote."
He did not ask any further questions.
He pulled his right hand out from beneath the desk and placed it on the tabletop, then began unwrapping the bandages. They had been wrapped several times and tied tightly. As he unwound them, the faint friction of cloth separating from skin could be heard.
As the final layer came off, the blue patterns on his wrist became clearly visible beneath the lamplight. They extended from his wrist along his forearm, flowing slowly beneath his skin, with a tendency to spread even deeper.
Then Klaus's brows furrowed slightly.
The Withered Bone Ring on the ring finger of his left hand flashed with a dim green light.
The dark green glow receded along his forearm, and the protective layer that had covered the wound was actively withdrawn.
Only then did Lu Yuan see that the layer of light had been wrapped around the wound all along. The blue patterns he had previously seen in this office had clearly been Klaus's own protective measure.
Now that the protection had faded, the patterns on his wrist changed. Within seconds, the blue turned black-red and seeped into the texture of his skin.
The edges of the