'Scholar' wielded knowledge as a weapon!
Only Beyonders who cultivated the 'Tower' aspect exclusively could accurately judge the contamination, madness, and obsessive tendencies contained within a volume of Secret Lore or a mystical artifact, as well as their severity.
Only by understanding these things could they administer treatment suited to a Beyonder's symptoms.
Yet even so, there was still the risk of overdosing.
If Rose's contamination had been mild, but she had looked at Fetid Fly for too long, her sense of beauty might not merely have been neutralized—it could have been twisted... and then she would have been crippled...
However, after Rose had been forcibly 'treated' by the Professor, Aaron clearly sensed that the several twisted contaminated entities, as though they had stepped out of a funhouse mirror, had weakened considerably.
This was because Rose's fixation on beauty had been neutralized and weakened...
And the contaminated entities born from it would weaken accordingly!
"Roar, roar!"
Alexander the chimpanzee pounded his chest, abruptly seized a monster, and tore it apart with a powerful heave of his furry arms.
A rapier appeared in Langley's hand. He elegantly thrust it forward, striking another contaminated entity squarely in the chest.
Bang!
At the same time, Aaron fired several shots in quick succession, accurately hitting the last contaminated entity in the head.
"Alright, take it away already."
Seeing the contaminated entities destroyed, Rose immediately turned her head away and glared viciously at the Professor. "If you dare make me look at that disgusting thing again, I'll kill you. I swear!!!"
"Of course. I only wanted to treat you."
The Professor answered mildly, putting away the oil painting. Looking at the dark buildings around them, he sighed. "As expected of the City of Fallen. Beyonders can fall easily here... and this is only the perception