That incident in the gathering exams…
The student who had been infected with a new form of mutated corruption that was fundamentally different from the known variants they'd been dealing with for years.
That had shown properties conventional purification couldn't neutralize completely no matter how much mana Ren poured into the attempt.
That suggested someone somewhere was experimenting with evolved forms of the infection that had plagued the frontiers during the extended conflict with the mutants and corrupted.
Julius stopped in his pacing, the thought crystallizing into something more substantial than vague anxiety. "Arturo, do you remember what Ren reported about Jin? That new 'less aggressive' mutation of the corruption?"
