The Chairman had actually chosen to make his move at a time like this!
Zhou Tongyuan had never expected this.
Ahead of him, the man's spell domain unfolded as he charged in to kill.
But...
Clang!!!
Zhou Tongyuan raised his butcher knife and completely blocked the Chairman's attack.
Hm?
This level was powerful, but it was still only at the Dragon Among Men level.
Completely different from the previous Chairman!
As though he had figured something out, Zhou Tongyuan revealed a savage grin.
"Second-generation Chairman, we were both misled by Twenty-Three's strength."
"You... don't possess Twenty-Three's strength at all!"
"You're merely a Human Dragon!"
Inside Zhou Zhi's body, Twenty-Three nodded her tiny head with great seriousness.
"You nearly fooled me. I never expected... you'd actually dare to intercept and kill me."
Zhou Tongyuan seemed to realize something. "Did you think I was already injured and had lost my ability to fight?"
Zhou Zhi spread his hands. "Wasn't that the case?"
His voice gradually returned to its original tone, magnetic and steady.
Zhou Zhi had already noticed that beneath Zhou Tongyuan's skin was not human flesh and blood tissue at all.
Instead, it was a mass of... pitch-black substance.
It was like rotting black water fused together, giving off a strange stench. The areas recovering on its surface were [human skin tissue], like scattered islands upon a vast dead sea.
Could such a thing truly still be considered human?
And...
Zhou Zhi's expression remained calm.
This aura...
[Virus].
That was right.
This aura was unmistakably that of the form Zhou Zhi had once used only once: [Virus Plague Exterminator].
Using that power, Zhou Zhi had effortlessly corrupted the Dragon Among Men [Zhong Panxi].
"So I was right!"
"The power within me back then was the source of disease that came from