"All things rot. I simply quicken the process. It's my nature. I am the Blight Sovereign."
The moment Kuroshi uttered those ominous words, the very earth beneath him responded in horror. The soil cracked and aged visibly, like decades of decay forced upon it in mere seconds. The lush greenery withered almost instantly. Leaves browned and crumbled into dust, insects twitched and collapsed, their fragile bodies disintegrating as if time itself had chosen to accelerate only for them. Fungi bloomed unnaturally fast before collapsing into rotten slush. The corrupting influence expanded outward, blanketing the area in a radius that reached nearly two hundred meters—and it showed no signs of stopping.
