Several Night Watcher Doctors were gathered around Leike, continuously mixing medicinal liquids in their hands.
Large quantities of herbs blended with already-prepared potion bases.
They poured the prepared medicine bit by bit through the gaps in the carapace of Leike's completely misshapen shell.
Leike could no longer be found a mouth, so they could only administer the medicine this way.
Yet as the medicinal liquid flowed in, Leike's insect body showed no reaction.
They anxiously and helplessly recorded the results, then began mixing the next medicinal liquid.
Leike was, after all, a Fifth Order existence. Such small amounts of medicine would not have much effect on him. Thus, they intended to use an exhaustive approach and forcibly keep him alive.
"Lu Yuan."
Seeing Lu Yuan arrive, Klaus hurried over to meet him.
Clearly, the Deputy Chief who had failed to be of help did not look particularly well.
"How is the inner city?" Klaus's tone carried a trace of urgency. Then his gaze shifted to Leike, his eyes filled with self-reproach. "Why was Leike hurt this badly?"
Lu Yuan fell silent for a moment before answering, "Leike blocked that Taboo for me."
As he spoke, he jumped down from the swarm of Worms of Knowledge, his legs going a little weak when he landed.
"He borrowed a measure of power from certain existences. At the same time, he paid his own price."
Klaus fell silent. He did not continue asking what that power was.
Anything connected to a Taboo never ended well. There was a reason the Empire expressly forbade any involvement with Taboos.
Several horrific incidents of Taboo power losing control had previously occurred within the Empire.
Several Knowledge Transcendents and Eerie Transcendents had worked together, somehow borrowing power unique to a Taboo. They had wanted that decrepit Fifth