Virus King - Chapter 88

Chapter 88: The Cult of the Plague! Plague Envoy!

TL: Yang

The corpse’s form appeared undeniably human, but its attire was bizarre in the extreme.

It was clear that this was neither a modern human nor an Evolver.

After all, no modern human or Evolver could cause such a profound mutation or serve as the source of a plague!

However, Chen Bai felt no alarm; in fact, the bacterial plague was continuously converting into evolution points, streaming into his body almost every second.

He was deeply intrigued by this corpse!

Slowly, he moved closer.

A strange and indescribable smell filled the air around him.

It wasn’t the stench of a rotting corpse, but rather, a peculiar scent of decay.

This figure wore a dark green robe, not the long robes of ancient times, but something more akin to a doctor’s lab coat.

The dark green robe concealed the already decaying corpse beneath it.

Mold had rooted and sprouted on its body, with countless spores festering and spreading across the decaying flesh.

Yet, in its hand, it held a special scroll!

Chen Bai thought for a moment, then used his Zombie Claws to retrieve the scroll from its grasp.

The dark green scroll was likewise covered in green fungal patches, but surprisingly, it showed no signs of decay despite its advanced state, which Chen Bai found unexpected.

What was this thing, really?
And which world’s unique human could have arrived here via the God and Devil Trial Grounds?

Chen Bai didn’t know, but he proceeded to open the scroll anyway.

The writing on the scroll wasn’t in Dragon Nation’s language, yet strangely, he could still understand it:

“The prophecy is revealed, heralding the opening of another trial among the heavens and the cosmos!

The High Priest sacrifices his life, leaving us with this prophecy!

The Supreme God shall ascend to His most exalted Divine Kingdom in this very trial!

The Great Lord will ignite his divine flame during this trial, guiding us toward eternal life!

With each purification our faith, our sect, performs, we draw ever closer to our merciful Father!

We have sacrificed an entire world to open the Trial Ground ahead of time, bringing with us the guidance of the Lord and the proof He requires, arriving in this realm,

To pave the way for the Great Lord’s ascension to the Divine Kingdom, to make every contribution within our power, laying the stones that will complete the path to supremacy!

Our sacrifice will ensure that our merciful Father remembers our names, and we shall live forever in His Divine Kingdom! Those who come after shall forever remember our names!

—The Cult of the Plague, Plague Envoy Rian Chuo”

A cult? Fanatics?!

Chen Bai raised an eyebrow, but he quickly noticed that on the back of the scroll, there were several large characters, composed of green fungal patches:

“All things shall rot; all beings shall endure!”

What the hell was this!?

Looking at those eight words, Chen Bai, for once, felt a rare and indescribable chill of dread.

Without thinking, he tossed the scroll to the ground.

Chen Bai’s brow furrowed slightly. At that moment, he could clearly sense, through the power of his Virus Sovereign talent, that the entire source of the plague in the sewer—the most terrifying contagion and fungus—was primarily emanating from this strange scroll.

Or rather, it was coming from those eight words on the back of the scroll!

“All things shall rot; all beings shall endure!”

Chen Bai’s brows knitted tightly. In his previous life, the apocalypse had spawned countless cults.

He himself had even been part of one, and, to boot, a cult leader of all things.

He had belonged to the sect worshiping the Dark Mother Goddess Helrose, the Cult of Desire.

But he’d never heard of anything resembling this so-called Cult of the Plague.

In his last life, neither Evolvers from this sect nor followers from any other world had ever appeared within his sphere of knowledge.

This was getting interesting!

A faint smile appeared on Chen Bai’s lips. This terrifying plague, with its rapid spread, posed no harm to him at all. On the contrary, it served as his greatest source of replenishment!

With this thought, he ignored the corpse that had already decayed into a pool of foul liquid and instead reached out his hand.

In the next moment, the dark green fungal patches on the scroll began to move as if they were alive!

Then, as if magnetized, those dark green fungal spots that formed the eight characters rapidly surged toward Chen Bai’s hand.

Yet, something unexpected happened once more.

He had assumed that these highly infectious and virulent fungi, the source of this mutation, would convert into pure evolution points within his Virus Sovereign talent, just like other bacterial and viral strains.

To his surprise, the fungal virus instead coalesced into a palm-sized mark on his hand—a mark depicting a fly enveloped in green flames!

In the next instant, the voice of the Cosmic Will echoed in Chen Bai’s mind:

[Special Task: “The Sewer Dweller” completed!]

[A group of lunatics sacrificed an entire world to secure a chance for a select few among them to draw close to divinity. They command the powers of plague, they nurture the seeds of life, they are the envoys of death, the nemeses of all living things! Now, they aim to unleash this power upon this newborn world once again!]

[You have gained 2000 experience points!]

[Ordinary-level dungeon “Old Sewer (Level 5–10)” is currently forming! It will officially become a dungeon in 12 hours!]

[Hell-level dungeon “Plague Sewer (Level 15–35)” is forming and will open in the second layer of the Old Sewer in one month!]

What the hell? Seriously?

Chen Bai understood and anticipated the first few messages clearly.

This Old Sewer’s difficulty was incomparable to that of the Cooling Incinerator; he had indeed expected an ordinary-level dungeon.

But what was that last message?

A hell-level dungeon?!

And a Level 15–35 dungeon at that, forming in just one month? That was simply terrifying!

He knew that even the Cooling Incinerator was rated only as a nightmare-level dungeon!

Before Chen Bai could recover from his shock, another notification from the Cosmic Will resounded in his mind:

[You have uncovered a unique clue and resisted the complete corruption of the fungus. You have obtained the “Mark of Plague” and achieved a special condition. You have accepted the mission: Cult of the Plague (SSS).]