After Aiven's "Aging" directive was issued, the spiral flies, who only had a mere 20 days of lifespan, were immediately sent on a fast track to death.
A total of seven doppelgangers rapidly met the decay of maggots due to continuous attacks from the Dragon-man and their sequential order of birth.
Even the doppelganger in front of Aiven, which had not been attacked at all, was inevitably decaying at a visibly rapid pace.
They had all seen animals or humans die of aging, but maggots dying of aging was truly novel. However... ugh! No one wanted a second look.
"You... you... demon!"
If it were a poison or curse entering the body, a Tier 4 Transcendent would have detected it instantly. But Aiven's molecular-scale attack had surpassed most Transcendents' understanding.
This was a frontier of human knowledge broken through by the Life Tree School, difficult to counteract without equal knowledge, leaving one vulnerable.
Nonetheless.
