Catastrophe Card King

Chapter 987: Chapter 304: Devil Leech and Corrupt Human Mushroom_2

Unless crushed to ash, they can hardly be killed.

Even with elemental attacks, only the burning effect of fire elementals is somewhat effective; other elemental damages are very limited in killing these worms.

Moreover, there were too many of the worms, and most were attached to human bodies—to kill the worms with fire would mean burning the people as well.

Not far away,

Leonard Churchill had already quietly retreated next to the iron cage imprisoning the toad.

But even he was feeling very heavy-hearted.

He knew trouble would come, but he never imagined there would be so many worms.

They seemed endless!

And these Abyss Devil Leeches were different from those he encountered outside.

The ones here seemed to have a more advanced lineage, with eerier abilities.

Unkillable, regenerating when cut, naturally high magic resistance…

Leonard’s pupils dilated as he took in the whole research institute at a glance.

He also discovered that these worms were not attacking indiscriminately but were stealthily attaching themselves to lower-tier card masters on the outskirts first.

By the time they were discovered, the encirclement was already complete.

Leonard sensed something and thought, “Do these worms have intelligence?”

It was as though they were like ants; individually, they might not have complex consciousness, but collectively they exhibited a hive mind.

Or was there some kind of worm king?

The Voodoo Master “Black Widow” Hester, who was obviously more familiar with the origins of these worms, was already sweating coldly as she watched the scene unfold before her.

Just moments ago, Hester thought she might try to clean up these worms, but upon realizing the swarm’s “intelligence,” she immediately sensed something was very wrong.

Her tone once again turned sharp and she shouted, “Retreat quickly! There’s a Leech King!”

If it were just Devil Leeches acting on instinct, the problem wouldn’t be too severe.

But once there’s a Leech King, it means… they are not just a swarm, but individuals too!

Hearing this, Legion Commander Heman, who had already transformed into a Fire Dragon spewing fire everywhere, also hesitated no longer. With a shudder of his form, a breath of Dragon Flame dried up a large area of water nearby, and the bursting force of Dragon’s Might swept through the entire space in an instant.

However, seeing this, Leonard’s pupils slightly contracted, feeling more and more that great trouble was imminent: “Are these leeches’ life tiers not lesser than a Great Dragon’s?”

At this moment, the several-meter-long Red Dragon, into which Heman had transformed, was also covered with glowing worms. Although they hadn’t penetrated his protective Domain, countless worms were frantically devouring the energy leaking from his body.

The most important thing was that Dragon’s Might did not shake off the worms?

This meant that these Devil Leeches were either not less than tier seven, or their life-form tier and the Great Dragon were similar.

Regardless of which case it was, neither was good news for Leonard.

…

Leonard had quietly left the crowd earlier, thus avoiding the area most fiercely attacked by the leeches.

At the same time, because his blood was contaminated, the worms felt unwell after absorbing it, which made it easy for him to detect the worms clinging to his body.

The scalpel swished as he cut wildly; for the moment, he was unharmed.

Leonard followed the others and ran towards the second floor’s doorway, but before he could reach the entrance, he saw countless people from the first floor rushing towards the second floor in terror.

Looking at the people from the second floor trying to run out, and those coming from the first floor shouting loudly to stop them, “Don’t go up to the first floor, the air outside is filled with poisonous spores!”

Upon closer inspection, those flooding into the second floor of the institute were experiencing a horrifying scene.

As they ran, visibly growing on their skin were some buds that rapidly turned, absorbing nutrients from their bodies, into colorful mushrooms in the blink of an eye.

One by one, they looked like “mushroom people” from a fairy tale, covered with numerous colorful mushrooms.

But as the mushrooms flourished, the bodies of these people became more and more withered.

Running, they soon became mere husks to nourish the mushrooms.

Even more terrifying, they spread powdery spores throughout the air as they ran.

“Damn it! That’s the parasitic monster ‘Hell Corrupt Human Mushroom’…”

“Be careful not to expose your mouth and nose to breathing! That monster is a parasitic creature; its spreading mycelium will parasitize inside living beings through respiration and skin…”

“…”

Some people were still shouting warnings.

But it was too late.

Like a plague, the mushrooms’ mycelium had almost covered every corner of the institute.

Card masters without countermeasures barely had the chance to cry for help before they were infected and died.

Leonard was an Air Skill Master, his Gang Air covering his body and his breath circling inside him, which allowed him to block the spores’ parasitism for a short period.

But others were not so lucky.

Like cutting through wheat, people throughout the Relics fell in large groups.

Leonard, looking at the thousands of mushroom people swarming towards him, couldn’t help but shudder and whisper to himself, “The White Family’s methods are indeed sinister…”

These mushroom spores on the first floor, the Devil Leeches on the second… they were all plague-type monsters.

Not particularly strong, but they gave people the feeling of helplessness, no way to start handling them.

The current situation was that going to the first floor of the institute meant certain death, and so did staying on the second.

Even the ground level camp was probably in trouble now.

The situation had become irreversible.

The hundreds of thousands of Adventurers who had come to the DP-955 Research Institute were likely to have a survival rate of less than one percent.

….

Leonard had long guessed that this was a sacrifice by the White Family.

Apart from the method being somewhat unexpected, nothing about the present situation surprised him.

Looking at the current state of affairs, neither the mushroom spores nor the leeches were fatal to tier six or seven card masters in the short term.

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