Zhou Zhi and Twenty-Three rarely encountered someone like the girl before them.
She wept as she attacked with extreme ferocity, every strike of the Power of Pestilence aimed to kill.
"Hypocrisy... interesting."
Twenty-Three commented.
Just by gathering the surrounding pheromones and listening to the conversation between the two, Zhou Zhi had already learned their identities.
[Wanderers].
They existed outside both the Holy Kingdom and the Disease Kingdom.
For now, they seemed to be the most normal faction.
Gong Heng was clearly following the most orthodox path of a Plague Exterminator. He wielded his Plague-Slaying Blade with fierce momentum, but unfortunately, the technique he used to conceal and enhance his disease transformation had already been dispelled. A place like the royal capital was now no different from the diseased ruins in The Depths, leaving him miserably suppressed here.
"Huh?"
Still crying, Nan Que drew a small knife from her waist and stabbed it toward Zhou Zhi's liver.
"[Power of Pestilence—Liver Destruction]."
Zhou Zhi sighed.
This woman... could have achieved something.
If she had not encountered him.
"Assimilation."
Branches surged from the pads of Zhou Zhi's right fingers.
Nan Que immediately sensed that something was wrong. She had just wanted to cry and beg for mercy, only to find that she could no longer speak.
Her brain was being invaded.
About two seconds later, Zhou Zhi opened his eyes.
Nan Que had vanished. Screams and explosions continued all around them. Ordinary citizens were either dead or fleeing, and the royal capital's pestilence enforcement squad was on its way.
Zhou Zhi walked over to the barely breathing Gong Heng and lightly tapped him.
The [Hepatitis A] surrounding Gong Heng began to recede.
As though it had been driven away by some terrifying existence.
"Use the Immortality Tree's abilities less often. It's a hassle