บท 154: Summit of the Human Realm

Weeks had passed since Harun fell into his coma. At first, the Dark Stone City's mutants mostly followed their initial pattern, either praying at the palace's gates or at the various statues' feet. By now, few could still connect this illustrious example of devotion to the polite fiends ripping off cultivator heads as if their lives depended on it. But as time went by, the devout mutants evolved in a direction Mehran had not seen coming, and started contributing to the mortal society they hailed from. Out of the 8.5 million uninfected citizens, the most dedicated to Lord Revelation's worship received the protection and assistance of the mutants, who often set aside five hours per day for manual labor and mystical healing. Using their unusual understanding of poisonous arts, the 1.5 million mutants handled many afflictions, even going as far as increasing the energy and lifespan of those mortal citizens by breeding inoffensive, Vitality Worms.