Northern Lands

Raising her hand, Selen prepared herself to slash down but hesitated before letting out a fatigued sigh.

She hated Alice.

At first, she thought the two of them were kindred spirits, both the result of heinous experiments conducted by the Zenia family. Little did she know, Alice was the root cause of it all.

The source of the cursed blood that runs in her veins.

Everyone that had been injected with her blood mutated without exception. It was simply too potent and the Zenia's struggled to dilute it without losing the effectiveness of its properties.

It was only recently that they had a breakthrough. To merge the abnormal blood with the blood of various sealed Lords.

To have several 'poisons' fighting one another within one body in order to balance it out. For each 'portion' of Alice's blood they injected, they needed to balance it out with the blood of four different Lords.