Chapter 146 - When Cause Becomes Effect

Back to the moment Dunstan approached Hildred's position. On the opposite side, the Primordial beasts still groaned, their guttural bellows ripping the air like thunder, dripping with agony and rage. Their massive bodies twisted into grotesque contortions, writhing against the storm that rained mercilessly down upon them. The bone dust that coated the knives and blades had already begun seeping into their veins, diffusing into their systems like a slow poison, draining their strength and hollowing their power. Yet, something unexpected stirred amidst this collapse, the residue of the pills used by the Devouts still lingered in their bloodstreams, and instead of the bone dust weakening the collosal beasts, the bone dust warped, awakened and amplifying the venomous fragments of those pills.