Chapter 774: Chapter 249: Obtained a Very Powerful Disaster Object
Leonard Churchill looked up at the serpent coiled around the temple ceiling opening its eyes, and before he could register much surprise, a strong sense of corrosive burning already swept through his entire body.
It was not just a physical pain that seemed to want to burn the body to ash,
but also a microcosmic pain that felt as if it would shred every human cell.
This made him acutely aware that he was about to mutate from a human into a monster.
Leonard knew he had been contaminated.
This blood pool was a sacrifice with strong contamination—[Corrupt Blood Mediator].
He had never dared to touch this blood pool before.
He had only absorbed the Transcendent Traits that diffused into the air from a distance.
Now that his entire body was immersed in the blood pool, the corruption was inescapable.
Like a sudden burst of flash flooding, it violently penetrated through thousands of pores, washing over his body.
Although Leonard could be exempt from Faith Pollution,
the corruption had to be resisted with the flesh alone.
The body’s instinct was still fiercely resisting the torrent rushing into the meridians.
“Werewolf,” “Dragon Descendant,” “Air Skill,” “Undying Curse”… and a tenacious will.
The elevations in bloodline brought about by the three profession changes using Profession Cards.
These were the Extraordinary Powers used by card masters, like tamed hounds.
But the corruption was not like that.
It was violent like a carnivorous tiger, completely wild.
At this moment, it was frantically tearing at the several hounds.
Fighting against many, it was still gaining the upper hand.
The two sides were battling fiercely inside the body.
Meanwhile, Enlightenment kept refreshing.
‘You are exempt from the Faith Pollution directed at the Old Day Deity ‘Crimson Corruption·Seadinth”
‘You have suffered intense corruption, contamination level +5%’
‘You have suffered intense corruption, contamination level +9%’
‘You are suffering from…’
Leonard had been trying very hard to not be contaminated.
However, the contamination in the blood media had already exceeded his tolerable limit.
Eventually, he didn’t withstand it.
A few moments later, a sense of defeat like a dam break surged over him.
Enlightenment hinted: ‘You have been infected with “Blood Plague”‘
In the end, he still got infected.
Leonard also deeply sighed in his heart.
At the same time, he felt a sense of relief.
Since he didn’t think he was going to die, being contaminated felt like getting injured, not that big of a deal.
It’s just that he didn’t expect to become contaminated.
“However, what exactly is this Blood Plague? And… what exactly is my current state?”
Once contaminated, Leonard’s mind wasn’t on resistance anymore, but on reflection.
“Blood Plague” turned humans into Vampires and also transformed them into Ancient God Devotees.
But Leonard hadn’t suffered contamination of his belief.
Moreover, the physical contamination wasn’t complete.
Contaminated, it seemed, but not completely so.
At the moment, he was still in Transformation, maintaining some Werewolf Beast Transformation characteristics, some Dragon Descendant features, and also some partial Vampire states.
Of course, the Vampire traits took up most of it.
And the coverage area was still expanding.
“It seems like there are no negative effects despite being contaminated?”
Leonard suddenly had an odd feeling.
Calling it a plague, but as long as one doesn’t die, it seemed…
Moreover, this plague had a positive side effect, namely enhancing the physique.
Although Vampires looked ugly, Werewolves weren’t aesthetically pleasing in human standards either.
But a real increase in attributes is solid.
Vampires are tough, have high Agility, and their strength isn’t bad either.
Correspondingly, the attributes such as strength, physique, Agility, Tenacity… all sprang up from just over 90 to over 100+.
Keep in mind that he had used Feast Devour for a while with hardly any increase in attributes.
But just in these moments of contamination, he had gained ten points!
“No wonder Vampires are so physically strong, it turns out this is how they get it…”
Leonard scrutinized his attribute panel, carefully analyzing the changes in his state.
He was experiencing the path of power advancement of a Divine Believer for the first time.
This kind of elevation felt as if he had undergone another profession change.
It gave him the sensation of suddenly getting rich.
It came so easily that it aroused a greed for more.
Yet Leonard’s reason quickly suppressed the desire to completely give up resistance.
He wasn’t sure if his current physical state was good or bad.
His intuition told him it wasn’t promising.
An increase in attributes was a good thing.
But he always had the feeling that the “Blood Plague” was uncontrollably expanding within his body and would become a major hidden danger in the future.
Leonard’s current state wasn’t too bad yet.
The several strains of bloodline power within seemed to be holding a precarious balance.
But what could be foreseen was that the Blood Plague was like spreading cancer cells. Once it completely devoured the human, even the Werewolf and Dragon Descendant, and other normal bloodline genes from the Profession Cards, he would become a fully-fledged Vampire in the end.
However, the card master was a progression system unique to humans. Once he became a Vampire, the powers brought by Profession Cards and the Demon Mark might become unusable.
And he definitely wouldn’t believe in any Ancient God.
After pondering for a moment, Leonard came to a conclusion: “So… will I become useless by then?”
Thinking about it, he felt a sense of helpless frustration.
It always seemed that the hard-earned strength he had built up was about to be washed away by this Blood Plague, which was really crappy.
With that thought, Leonard remembered Elder Clinton.
He wondered if the esteemed elder had any way to solve this.
Although mysterious, the elder always appeared to have a “bystander’s” attitude, not intervening unless the fire burned his own skin.
With that in mind, Leonard had another thought: “The Blood Plague is a change on the genetic level; Master Merlin should be very interested in it, right?”