Almost simultaneously, the monitoring panels of the three great Hives displayed the enormous blood-red monstrosity that had appeared in the sky.
They revealed the bone-white Plague Doctor Mask standing within Leviathan's chamber.
"Plague Doctor!"
At that moment, a surging unease spread throughout Curse City with Leviathan's arrival.
An enormous shadow fell over them, and a sky-shrouding howl from the depths made every mechanical sensor buzz and tremble.
As though acting on an unspoken understanding.
Almost the instant the God of Ten Thousand Machines' attention was drawn away, the Flesh Dominator and the Mother Tree of Desire struck, launching a ferocious assault on him.
It was as if they had been gathering their strength all along, waiting, waiting for an opportunity, and that opportunity...
Was now!
"Do it!"
The Mother Tree of Desire's savage voice rang across the sky.
At that very same moment, just as countless mechanical units locked onto the enormous monstrosity, innumerable holes suddenly erupted across its sky-obscuring body in a grotesque mutation. It was like every pore on your body opening at once. Within those pitch-black cavities of flesh, blood-red fluid rushed wildly over membranous tissue, soaking every spore.
Those were viruses!
That was the Plague!
Like a reaper bringing destruction and disaster, the Plague Doctor slowly extended his withered hand, the eyeholes of the Pale Crow Mask reflecting the entire land.
At that moment.
He gave the order.
Thump-
Thump-
Countless muffled sounds of flesh compressing and launching failed to draw any attention on the chaotic battlefield.
They were countless spores formed entirely of swollen flesh, like freshly plucked, bloody hearts that were still beating.
Then, beneath the stunned gazes of every living creature...
They shot across the sky!
An immense unease swept thunderously through the God of Ten Thousand Machines' consciousness at almost the same