Both he and Kevin had been dragged into a bizarre incident in a secret domain, forced into a chamber filled with ominous symbols and mechanisms that none of them understood.
An unknown entity within that domain had implanted a blood parasite into both of their bodies. The creature clung to their life force, stubborn and vicious, refusing to be removed by any normal means. Max recalled how they had struggled to extract it together, fighting for hours without success.
Max only managed to rid himself of that parasite because he later went through the body tempering of the Giant Dwarves in the Heavenly Lords Secret Domain. Their unique forging technique purified his body from the inside out, burning away every impurity.
The parasite, no matter how tenacious it had been, was still considered an impurity in the eyes of that divine tempering, and so it was destroyed and expelled. Max had walked away free and unaffected.
