With that scream, lumps of flesh suddenly sprouted across Midia's face. Her hands and shoulders, along with the feet exposed beneath her skirt, became covered in patches of snake scales.
She stood up, and this movement allowed Sifa and the others to see that numerous blood-red tubes were connected to her back. Several had been forcibly torn off, spraying thick red liquid that looked like blood.
In an instant, Midia's aura became strange and evil. Her pupils shrank to the size of grains of rice, while blood vessels resembling wriggling little worms spread throughout the whites of her eyes.
"Captain?" Chik couldn't help looking toward Sifa.
Sifa exhaled and decisively ordered, "There's no saving her. Begin the elimination."
He reached for the hilt of Ghost Scream, but before he could draw it, Midia looked toward him. Something resembling an intestine whipped out from her back, sweeping a spray of blood toward Sifa.
Sifa ducked to avoid it while drawing his sword, slashing out a curved flash of light that cleaved it in two.
On the other side, under Caven's control, Liana thrust a hand toward Midia. Illusory light erupted before her, and a mysterious blue-bronze gate emerged from within it.
The gate opened, revealing nothing but darkness inside. One by one, strange pupils of different shapes emerged, followed by countless terrifying things surging out of the gate and reaching for Midia. At the same time, a terrible suction force appeared inside the gate, ripping Midia down from the high platform and pulling her into the gate—to pull her into the Judgment Realm!
At that moment, Midia let out a sharp, terrifying scream. White feathers began growing one after another from the lumps of flesh on her face.
Suddenly, the suction force inside the Bronze Gate stopped. The creatures reaching for