The 50-kilometer taboo poison sandstorm covered all of Holy City. From a distance, the city which had long borne witness to the history of the Twofold Alliance now looked as blurry as if the end of days had come. The invasion of mutagen caused countless residences to dry up and crumble. Innumerable living beings withered up, or even worse, mutated. Many members of those two species reached and passed critical points in terms of mutagen levels. As a result, either their blood collapsed, or they mutated into howling beasts. People dropped dead everywhere.10

In comparison, the taboo poison was even more dramatic. Whether it was mutant beasts or members of the Twofold Alliance, and whether they were dead or alive, they showed how powerful the poison was. It was the same with the buildings. The Mirrorlings’ mirrors turned black, and lost their reflective qualities. The Skyfaces’ hulking frames melted into bloody sludges, and their life force faded. Howls of grief and bitter shrieks merged together to make something that sounded like a funeral dirge. The sound drifted past Xu Qing as he slipped like a spectral assassin...0