Without its scaffolding, the corrupted mana lattice would disperse into the host's system as free-floating particles.
Which would still be corrupted mana, just unstructured.
And unstructured corrupted mana that couldn't replicate would be...
Gradually processed by the body's natural mana cycling.
Every living person with a functional mana system naturally cycled their mana, refreshing it over time.
Corrupted-but-unstructured mana would cycle out like any other waste product, slowly, over days or weeks, but out.
No new replication. Existing corruption gradually flushed by natural processes.
Not a cure. But a halt.
I sat back, staring at what I'd written.
operation: "pathogen_lattice_disruption"
method: indirect_modification
target: biological_substrate → anchor_point_destabilization
effect: force_detach(pathogen_lattice)
result: {
replication: SUSPENDED
existing_corruption: "unstructured_free_particles"
natural_cycling_rate: ~0.8%/day
}
risks: {
