"City of Cancer [Gaya]."
"The atmosphere here makes me even more uncomfortable than the royal city did."
Wen Liuchun lowered her eyes and looked at the ground.
The aura of excessive growth had filled even the earth with mushroom-like tumors.
Parting it with her fingers, Wen Liuchun could clearly see the connective tissue within.
Blood vessels pulsed; everything seemed to be alive.
"The Immortality Tree is the oldest progenitor. It is almost entirely non-aggressive. Even during the Great Calamity, its main body did not cause humanity any substantial harm. Many people saw it as a possibility for eternal life, and some even called it the Great Eternal Heaven."
As an academically trained Plague Exterminator, Wen Liuchun naturally knew the Immortality Tree's Pestilence inside and out.
Throughout human history, cancer had undoubtedly been the most infamous and terrifying type of Pestilence.
Koala stood on Wen Liuchun's shoulder, looking at the humans outside the city.
Unlike the Plague Exterminators within the city, the tumors they bore were unquestionably malignant.
Every human afflicted by tumors was emaciated to the extreme.
Deeply sunken cheeks were the norm.
They looked like skeletons.
Wen Liuchun made no effort to hide herself. As she walked along the road, she drew the attention of many patients.
"A... healthy human?"
"If we kill her, we can survive—live even longer!"
"We definitely can..."
The eyes of these patients tormented by cancer brimmed with hope for life.
One of the greatest characteristics of diseases along the Cancer path was that they could transform others' lives into nourishment for their own tumors, allowing them to grow without end.
The power of Cancer bestowed upon them by the Great Eternal Heaven constantly absorbed the nutrients from their bodies, bringing abnormal conditions such as lumps, pain, ulcers, bleeding, and obstruction.
Their growth had become