Cleaver Of Sin

Chapter 1002: Genetic Mutation

As she stared at her own cells and DNA, she realized that all the biological cells within her body were being invaded and changed in real time. Some were morphing into something unknown, while others collapsed entirely as they were destroyed without undergoing any changes at all. The transformation was spreading through her body with terrifying speed, bypassing the natural defenses of her physiology.

She was undergoing both mutation and existential collapse at the same time.

Fear gripped Threshold I’s body. She would die within a couple of hours if she didn’t handle this immediately. A couple of hours because she was a Crownstar Life Ranker; if she were weaker, she would die within a couple of seconds. Her extraordinary vitality was the only reason she had enough time to even understand what was happening.

Her senses snapped towards the source of the issue, and there she saw some unknown green mist seeping into and merging with her cells, DNA, RNA, and more with immense speed. It wasn’t merely attacking her body; it was fundamentally interacting with the very biological structure that constituted her existence.

She didn’t need to guess to know what it was. It was Azaron’s Radiation affinity.

She didn’t know what it was personally, after all, she had never heard about Azaron using such an ability, but she knew it was extremely dangerous. After all, Azaron had unfrozen himself by unstablizing Time particles through this ability, and if this green energy could render Time particles unstable, then she too would most certainly be destroyed.

The thought alone sent a chill through her entire body.

She immediately shot to her feet, the weakness she was feeling vanishing beneath the overwhelming fear of death. Another Teleportation Scroll appeared in her hand as she immediately tore it, her body disappearing and reappearing in what seemed to be an underground cave.

A pool of whitish, milky liquid could be seen before her, the strange liquid being formed from drops that fell endlessly from the jagged stone on the roof directly above the pool. Each drop landed upon the surface with a soft ripple, slowly contributing to the mysterious pool’s reserves.

Threshold I didn’t hesitate; she immediately dove into the pool. The moment she did, she felt Astra energy flood her body, seeping into her Astra veins with immense speed.

She didn’t know what this pool was, but she had found it more than half a century ago, and its only function was basically to restore Astra energy at the greatest possible speed, which took only minutes for someone with a huge volume of Astra energy like her.

But each time she used the pool, the liquid reduced, and she would have to wait for the drops from the roof to fill the pool back up, which took years, but it was still better than nothing. Because of this, she had always regarded the pool as one of her most precious hidden resources and had never revealed its existence to anyone.

Minutes later, she got out of the pool and settled into a seated position as her Freedom ability activated and her Astra energy surged in full force. With a single command, she purged Azaron’s Radiation energy as she immediately began to repair the collapsed DNA and cells. She rewrote her own cells and biology on a fundamental level as her amphibian webbed limbs returned to a Human’s, the abnormal mutations being forcibly overwritten by her Freedom ability.

Within minutes, she was done. She heaved a sigh of relief as she had also healed all her injuries. She raised a hand, and Azaron’s Radiation energy could be seen floating in her palm. It was small, minute, almost insignificant to the naked eye, yet it had done an immense amount of damage to her body.

She knew the Radiation energy had only entered her body through the green Radiation Field Azaron had created to make Time particles unstable. If Azaron had actually coated Ender in Radiation and thrust it at her heart with that attack, even if her heart had been saved, she would have died barely minutes after escaping. There would have been no opportunity to recover or purge it in time.

This was the reason Azaron had never bothered showing this sub-affinity until now. It was simply too potent. One could think of it like Thalric’s decay affinity, but simply more potent and destructive. It didn’t merely destroy things on the surface; it could infiltrate the fundamental structures of whatever it touched and force them towards destruction.

Nazak had told Azaron never to use it, or he might just kill himself. But Threshold I had forced Azaron to use it, pushing him into a situation where even he had no choice but to reveal this terrifying ability.

Threshold I stared at the green mist floating above her hand for a moment. She was going to study it for now. There was no reason to waste such a rare opportunity, especially when she had personally experienced how terrifyingly effective the Radiation was against even a Crownstar Life Ranker.

Although, personally, she would love to freely change her own body to become immune to such things, it was impossible, as she had reached the limits of what she could do to her body. Unless she evolved, unless the World Barrier was lifted, she could go no further. Her Freedom ability was powerful, but even it had boundaries.

If she wasn’t limited, she would have made herself immune to many things like flames and similar phenomena at a cellular and microscopic level. She could have altered her biology until countless forms of external damage became meaningless against her.

Although she would love to use the same attack against Azaron, she had no way to create this specific type of radiation. After all, her ability didn’t allow her to create what didn’t exist, but merely manipulate what existed to its limits. This meant that even if she understood the principles behind Azaron’s Radiation, she couldn’t simply reproduce it from nothing.

But alas, Threshold I wasn’t a chemist or anything of the sort, so she couldn’t combine some random elements or gases and create this Radiation. Her knowledge simply wasn’t suited for such experimentation, and her abilities had never required her to study the minute interactions between different substances.

Unlike Azaron, who had achieved Supernova through unstable atom and gaseous combinations, he had years to practice this. And someone like Threshold I didn’t undergo training like this, as her own abilities were simply too broad.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE: I released six Chapters; don’t miss any, read all.

We are about 60 golden tickets away from the next rank.

Thanks for reading.