But after those massive tree people were torn apart.
The blood spraying from their bodies splattered onto other things as well.
And as long as something was tainted by even a little of that blood.
Whether it was plants, animals, stones, soil, or dust, all of it began to mutate.
Stones twisted as red flesh grew from them, sprouting limbs and eyes.
They all advanced toward the inhabited areas at the foot of the mountain.
Rumble—
Another round of shells and missiles was launched. They even tried to burn these things to ashes with thermobaric bombs and incendiary bombs.
Those mutated monsters were indeed fragile. Bombs, missiles, incendiary bombs, thermobaric bombs, concentrated beams, and the like easily blasted them to pieces or burned them to ashes.
But the blood in their bodies was exceptionally stubborn, and it seemed to reproduce by contaminating and mutating other things?
In short, it kept multiplying.
And the multiplying blood rapidly mutated everything around it.
It swiftly grew stronger, soon forming a horrifying tide of blood.
"Damn it! Our weapons are completely useless against it."
"What do we do? It's about to reach the nearby towns."
"We can't let it get any closer, but what can we do?"
"We can't stop it. We simply can't stop it."
"My God, are we about to be destroyed?"
"The crimson tide of blood—this must be the gods' punishment for what we have done!"
"We should never have coveted the power of the gods."
"Ask the other countries for help! Don't they want this blood for research too? Let them all in and have them fight the blood."
Everyone panicked.
They were afraid. In particular, the rate at which the blood tide grew and advanced made them realize that they would be finished before long.
And this was merely