Leonard Churchill looked up at the serpent coiled around the temple ceiling opening its eyes, and before he could register much surprise, a strong sense of corrosive burning already swept through his entire body.
It was not just a physical pain that seemed to want to burn the body to ash,
but also a microcosmic pain that felt as if it would shred every human cell.
This made him acutely aware that he was about to mutate from a human into a monster.
Leonard knew he had been contaminated.
This blood pool was a sacrifice with strong contamination—[Corrupt Blood Mediator].
He had never dared to touch this blood pool before.
He had only absorbed the Transcendent Traits that diffused into the air from a distance.
Now that his entire body was immersed in the blood pool, the corruption was inescapable.
Like a sudden burst of flash flooding, it violently penetrated through thousands of pores, washing over his body.
Although Leonard could be exempt from Faith Pollution,
