The mutation occurred without any warning, in the blink of an eye.
The blood-soaked girl had seemed perfectly normal one moment, but the next, she launched a lethal sneak attack on the teammates beside her.
Fortunately, her two teammates were highly capable and reacted with exceptional speed, barely evading the sudden attack at the critical moment.
Seeing that the girl's symptoms were identical to those of the infected in Fide City, Chen Xi's heart sank.
"Scarlet Blood Aura?!"
Like Chen Xi, Lin Yue quickly recognized its origin.
With the two of them pointing it out, Gu Yu immediately connected the situation before her with Mortis.
"But wasn't Mortis dead?" Gu Yu looked baffled, though her voice carried a trace of gravity.
If even a Tier 6 Legend had not been the true mastermind, then the severity of this matter had clearly far exceeded her previous expectations.
"Don't panic yet. It might just be residue left behind by Mortis," Chen Xi reassured her. At the same time, her hands did not stop moving as she unleashed Andres's domain.
"Domain Expansion—Illusion of Self."
Surging magic power roiled around Chen Xi.
Under her control, Andres unleashed her full power, and the domain's boundaries expanded outward at an astonishing pace. In the blink of an eye, it covered the entire Andalusia Mountains.
As the mountains were completely enveloped by the domain, pitch-black barriers rose from thin air in every direction, with faint wails echoing endlessly from within.
The candidates in the mountains were like birds trapped in a cage, with nowhere to flee.
"What is this?!" Sensing the incoming aura, everyone's expressions in the mountains changed drastically.
Tier 6!
The upheaval had come too suddenly, and the enormous disparity in strength between the two sides caused some candidates to succumb to despair.
After all,