I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

You have ingested a small amount of Nyogda's retinue. Effect duration: permanent.

[Effect: Your self-awareness increases. Mental strength permanently +0.01.]

Does this reverse the side effects?

"Twist!"

[Reversal progress: 60 hours.]

Sixty hours? That long?

Evan smacked his lips.

"It seems this thing, like the claws of a ghoul, is pure poison."

"At this rate, even if I eat as much as I want, I won't be able to eat more than a few bites."

The copper plague has devoured the Dark Mother Fungus. Progress +1%.

The Copper Plague has devoured the Dark Plague spores. Progress +1%.

"Huh? There are such good things?"

"So the virus on that thief came from one of these monsters?"

Evan didn't have time to consider it further. Right now, pushing the copper plague to its maximum capacity as quickly as possible was more important than anything else.

"Oh shit."

He cursed inwardly.

"Money is hard to earn, and monsters are hard to eat."

"But in order to become stronger..."

He picked up the sticky black mud with two fingers and took a deep breath.

"Let's go, brothers! Let's do this!"

Then he held his breath, opened his mouth wide, and forced a huge lump inside.

You have consumed a large amount of Nijogda's retinue.

Option 1: Take it as medicine and reverse the process.

[Option Two: The Copper Plague states that it desperately needs the retinue of Nijogda as a supplement, which can greatly increase its own integrity.]

Ivan gagged while grinning.

"What else is there to say, brother?"

He decisively selected option two.

We'll encounter these monsters again in the future. Attributes are minor; extraordinary characteristics are what truly matter.

The copper plague has devoured the Dark Mother Fungus. Progress +1%.

The Copper Plague has devoured the Dark Plague spores. Progress +1%.

[The Copper Plague has consumed the Filthy Offspring trait. Progress +3%.]

Upon seeing the long list of reports, Ivan gagged while continuing to stuff food into his mouth.

In the end, he knelt down on the carpet, supporting himself with one hand, and scooped up clumps of the black mud into his mouth with the other.

The old grandfather clock in the living room ticked away, and ten minutes passed quickly.

He cleaned up every single corpse of Nyogda's retinue, leaving nothing behind, even scraping away the black liquid that had seeped into the cracks in the floorboards with his fingers.

"I just happened to have missed lunch."

"I don't feel very hungry now."

He then licked his lips: "The old hunter is still too young."

"Since the corpses of these monsters are so difficult to deal with, why not just eat them?"

After this battle, Ivan felt that there was nothing in the world he wouldn't dare to eat.

He patted his stomach and looked down at the progress bar for the copper plague on the status panel.

The copper epidemic has progressed beyond the third stage.

Only 11.483% remains to reach 100%.

"Monsters are great."

His face was full of emotion.

"We need to kill more monsters."

This time, it once again proved an ironclad rule.

The monster's body is full of treasures.

Having dealt with the monster, Ivan turned to look at Kerry, who was completely incapacitated, on the other side of the living room.

That once respectable gray wool suit is now soaked in pus and blood, hanging on his body like a dirty rag.

What's even more chilling is that a large number of coarse red hairs have started to sprout densely on Kerry's skin, spreading from his collarbone all the way down to his jaw.

"Goodness."

Ivan frowned.

"This is an ominous sign for his later years."

Just then, the old hunter's hoarse voice floated up from the depths of the inheritance once more.

"The sign of losing control is bestiality."

"When a person's rationality is devoured by their own animalistic nature, the animalistic characteristics will in turn devour their spirituality and then take over the human body."

"Then, this person is completely dead. What remains is a mad beast."

"Whether you are an ordinary person or an extraordinary person, if you don't have enough self-discipline, you will eventually become a monster."

Upon hearing this, Ivan let out a long sigh.

He walked over silently and squatted down.

Carey's cloudy eyes, which no longer recognized anyone, stared blankly and empty at the ceiling.

Ivan remained silent for a few seconds.

The coppery knuckles pressed against Carey's neck, sinking down cleanly and decisively ending his life, which had been hollowed out by disease.

This can be considered a relatively dignified way out for him.

After finishing all that, Evan's gaze fell on Carey's skin, which was covered with warts.

The person had already died.

Those twisted, multicolored warts were still slowly wriggling under the skin, each one like a living thing with its own heartbeat.

"These... all seem to be good things."

Ivan squinted.

He used his bronze fingernails to cut a gash in Kerry's chest, then lightly sliced ​​his own left wrist. The two wounds met.

The next moment, Copper Plague went mad.

[The copper plague has consumed the complete B-virus. Progress +1%.]

[Copper Plague has devoured the Phase 2 C Virus. Progress +0.8%.]

The copper plague has consumed the initial stage of the D virus. Progress +0.8%.

[Copper plague has engulfed a highly concentrated syphilis virus. Progress +0.5%.]

[Copper plague has consumed a highly concentrated gonorrhea virus. Progress +0.5%.]

[Copper plague has consumed highly concentrated tuberculosis virus. Progress +0.5%.]

……

The massive data stream is like a dammed river that has burst its banks, cascading down the panel like a waterfall.

Evan stared wide-eyed, almost unable to believe what he was seeing.

"Fuck."

"How did this guy survive?"

The true state of Kerry's body had far exceeded his prior expectations.

He originally thought that Carey's body only had syphilis, or at most a B virus.

Unexpectedly, the other party was carrying such a complete list of viruses.

"No wonder the warts on your body look like they've come to life."

He stared at the wart-like growths that were still slowly wriggling on the skin.

"That's fucking terrifying."

Just as Ivan was clicking his tongue and staring at the panel...

A soft cracking sound suddenly came from his head, as if something had been shattered from the inside by an unseen hand.

【warn! 】

[Exceptional Trait: Copper Plague, progress reached 100%. Full effect will be unlocked soon.]

[Full effect activated: Transforms the composite virus into an extremely fast-acting Copper Plague.]

[Warning: This effect is a cumulative extraordinary property, not a drug, and its side effects cannot be reversed.]

[Upon activation, you will gain the following weaknesses:]

[I. Top-Tier Copper Rust – On the first day of each week, random structures on the surface of your body will develop rust.]

[II. Top-Tier Weak Electricity - Your electric resistance is reduced by 40%. -40% effect: When attacked by electricity, you will lose the ability to move, and the effects of the Copper Plague Virus will also be nullified.]

After reading the last line, Ivan took a deep breath.

Finally, we've reached this point.