Ding!
[Critical alert]
[Foreign energy intrusion detected!]
[Host's physical body is being corrupted! Creep energy is bypassing sealed mana circuits!]
[Berserker state is accelerating corruption! Immediate cessation recommended!]
The System's warning was like a bucket of ice water. Riku looked down at his own arm—the one he had been using to block Vyon's attacks. Faint red tendrils, like tiny, glowing veins, were starting to snake up his skin from his knuckles.
"Riku! What is happening!" Clara's grave voice rang in his mind.
"I.. I don't understand. How is the creep affecting me now?"
Riku was extremely puzzled. The Creep, which had always bounced off him, had now almost fully invaded him, without him being able to feel a thing.
DIng!
