When the top of his skull was sliced off by the scythe, Zhou Zhi was deep in thought.
"Honestly, it hurt a little."
Zhou Zhi stood calmly on the ground.
Fragments of his shattered brain were clearly visible through the wound at the top of his head, creating a bizarre and terrifying sight.
"A member of the Gu Family?"
With a flick of his right hand, Zhou Zhi hurled Chi Liang thousands of meters away in an instant, sending him crashing into an even deeper pit. Yet protected by his fat, he did not seem to have died outright.
Zhou Zhi looked around.
The scythe that had struck just now seemed never to have existed, vanishing into the void.
Only the sound of teeth grinding together echoed from somewhere in the darkness.
[Gu Clan].
Zhou Zhi remembered this one of the Medical Department's Ten Families.
A Plague Exterminator family proficient in the plague extermination disciplines of [Oral Cavity] and [Teeth].
In the earliest days of Florence, the previous president, Twenty-Three, had killed the Medical Department title-holder [Imperial Fang], who had been a member of the Gu Family.
However, Twenty-Three apparently had not possessed the ability to strip away titles at the time. The Gu Family's title had returned to the Medical Department, and a new owner had been selected.
But now, Zhou Zhi had gained a faint understanding.
"The power of the title has been drawing upon my [Remains] since just now."
"In that case, the ability known as [Title Bestowal] is likely part of [Kindly Father's Remains] itself."
Zhou Zhi spoke calmly to himself. Branches of vegetation sprouted from the wound on his head.
Like sutures, they connected with newly grown flesh and pieced everything back together.
In just a few seconds, Zhou Zhi's head was completely restored, as