Chapter 398 Who Are You Exactly?

Lu Bu'er realized the crisis just as he turned his head to meet those bloodied eyes. A heavy sense of death, accompanied by wind and sand, struck his face, tainting one side of it.

In an instant, the left half of his face seemed to wither away like it had been subject to a thousand years of erosion, severely dehydrated; skin flakes fell off like chaff, exposing the ghastly white bones underneath.

It was said that during Ancient Egypt, especially during times of life disasters, people infected with the Corruption Virus would gain cursed powers, becoming demons returned from the underworld, who needed only to exhale gently on others to turn them into skeletons.

Such rumors still circulated along both banks of the Nile River today, with tales similar to the Pharaoh's curse being discussed from time to time. In actuality, this seemingly eerie ability was simply a Conceptual Change of the Eye of Mortality, known as Withering.