It grabbed Kirsty's head. From the claws at the tips of its tentacles, a metal straw pierced into her skull.
A gurgling sound followed, as though liquid were being drawn upward.
One by one, the nails in Kirsty's head slowly vanished as the Cursed Disciple's regenerative ability took effect.
The crisscrossing grooves across her scalp healed into smooth skin, and black hair grew back.
The black leather outfit on her body lost its empowering force and became soft and loose.
"Dean!"
Kirsty's humanity instantly overwhelmed her reason and took the upper hand. Staring at the giant before her, she instinctively called out Dean Miranda's name.
If she had been in her High Priest state, with reason prevailing, she would never have called him that.
Seeing this, Wu Heng acted without another word.
One of the gray snowflakes circling him vanished where it was, while another simultaneously appeared on Kirsty's body.
Through the connection of Name Inquiry, Wu Heng's "Assimilation" ability could still affect Kirsty.
This assimilation belonged to the Creator. Even Wu Heng himself had been unable to forcibly interfere with it back then, let alone Leviathan, whose hellish power came from another world.
It was wholly different from traits.
Without Kirsty noticing in the slightest, a layer of gray frost suddenly spread across her body.
Her face changed, taking on Wu Heng's features.
A terrifying aura erupted from Kirsty. The Leviathan tentacle above her head was instantly frozen, then shattered by wind and snow.
The wound in her head healed instantly.
Two nearby tentacles, each as large as a room, reached for Kirsty in response to the sudden change.
She was its bargaining chip.
Even Leviathan had never expected that Kirsty, whom it believed it had completely subdued beneath its tentacles and who should have been immune to any