Ye Buyu frowned. "I'm afraid it might be more than just followers of the [Seedling Eater]."
She had investigated in the Scholars' Association's library. The disasters brought by the [Seedling Eater]'s followers were related to food: grain seeds rotting and mutating, food being transformed, and hunger inflicted on the mind...
All of it would ultimately cause famine.
According to the cases investigated by the Present World, the [Seedling Eater] had a Crowned One under its command, the [Hunger King], who was its most loyal and most powerful subordinate.
Wherever he went, he would stir up living creatures' instinctive hunger, making them feel as though they could never eat enough.
He would have his subordinates cause food to mutate, then, when everyone found it impossible to stomach, trigger living creatures' instinct to devour things for energy-in other words, to eat.
He liked watching his opponents finish that mutated food, then continually inflicting hunger on them while having people destroy the grain seeds and the food.
When there was nothing left to eat, that maddening hunger would still torment them, until they were finally consumed by it, reduced to beasts with nothing but biological instincts, devouring everything around them.
Until their stomachs filled, ruptured, and burst through their bellies, and they died in agony.
This case came from an internal conflict among Calamities that the Present World had observed in the Level Six Zone. The [Hunger King] had won an absolute victory for the [Seedling Eater], ending with an entire mass of Calamities devouring themselves into extinction, and it remained in the Present World's records.
The [Hunger King]'s methods were incomparably cruel, and every move he made was on a grand scale. The calm this time made Ye Buyu suspect that other Calamities were involved.
With the Vermilion Bird Division's capabilities, there