pronounced in advance forms. This always-active sense warns the user of threats with a humming noise in the ears and a yellow-colored haze on whatever angle of their vision the threat is coming from.

 

Virus Cleansing: A virus can destroy its tiny brethren at will. It can absorb them for later use, but when it decides to destroy them, the effect is called virus cleansing. This can be used to destroy any viruses, bacteria, cells, dead bodies, and other such organisms, as well as chemical substances, and it is visible as a flame that makes no heat. This can be used very selectively, and can even eliminate infections from living organisms if the user can properly control it.

 

Physical Prowess: Many viruses have huge strength and the ability to move quite quickly and jump to great heights. This occurs to some extent as a passive ability, but doing it more strongly requires the use of virus power.

 

Natural Weapons: Part of the mutation into advance forms generally creates some sort of weapon, like arm blades, which the advance forms can then use in battle. These, unlike the mostly-cartilage skeleton of advance forms or the entirely cartilage skeleton of base forms, are rock-solid and absolutely deadly as combat tools.

 

Virus Rage: A power available only to advance forms, this activates and augments every virus power to great strength and makes the user far physically stronger than otherwise. However, it causes great injury to the user if continued long enough, as the pathogens attack the user’s body as they would in an actual infection, only at a much more rapid rate.

 

Regeneration

All advance forms can use their pathogens to rebuild their bodies, replenish their energy, and heal injuries quickly. Through physical contact, this can be used to rapidly heal injuries on other organisms.

 

Infection

As could be expected, pathogens from user’s bodies can be used to infect foes, causing them to die from the disease within the space of generally a few seconds. This power usually needs to be executed by some form of injection into an enemy body (all base and advance forms have glands for this purpose in spikes in their mouths and/or on their natural weapons), but depending on strain, it can be done with simple skin contact, injection into the blood, or in the case of airborne strains, contagion, the most deadly infection route of the three, because it can be done at distance.

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