Chi Ao, who had been pursuing the four-handed disease Consumption, also sensed that something was wrong.
More precisely, a suffocating oppression filled her mind.
"There are... two more progenitor-level diseases?"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! No disease could evade the Fu Family's detection!!"
By now, Chi Ao had stopped pursuing Consumption, whose path bloomed with flowers, and instead headed toward the city amid the ice and snow.
The faint puppet master had already taken control of Chi Nuo.
The flash-freezing had caused every living creature's muscles to completely lose control.
Like puppets controlled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—Extreme Cold.
During the Great Calamity, Extreme Cold had once controlled the citizens of an entire giant nation as its puppets. Back then, Senile Dementia—Vermilion Bird, one of the Four Sacred Beast Diseases—had served under Extreme Cold.
The terror wrought by diseases affected far more than billions.
But now...
Chi Ao did not move forward.
Off to one side.
Just as a Plague Exterminator from the Crimson Family was about to step forward, sticky black tentacles suddenly grew from his heart. The tentacles were covered in black necrotic patches, and the blood within was incredibly viscous. Any Plague Exterminator with even a little experience could tell at a glance that blood clots were forming.
Splat!!!
Right before Chi Ao's eyes, the Crimson Family Plague Exterminator exploded into chunks of flesh.
He could not even regenerate. He had clearly died completely.
"Myocardial infarction..."
Chi Ao gripped the enormous battle axe in her hand, her gaze blazing. "Life Tribulation Wave!!!"
Life Tribulation Wave.
Disease Level: Progenitor-class.
Disease Origin: Myocardial infarction.
A severe disease in which the sudden interruption of blood flow through the coronary arteries causes ischemic necrosis of myocardial cells. It has high mortality and disability rates. A solitary beast that kept out of worldly disputes