Theo narrowed his eyes.
"Not yet," he muttered. "But soon."
He didn't interfere.
Instead, he slowly walked forward, boots crunching on ice and ash, shadowed by flickering firelight and swirling wind. His body radiated barely restrained energy, flame, frost, toxin, wind, and shadow all pulsing beneath his skin like an unstable storm.
He cracked his knuckles.
"Now mutate," he whispered, eyes gleaming gold again. "Give me something worth killing."
The air thickened with the stench of blood and metamorphosis. One UMS slumped sitting against the wall, thrashed violently, back arched as bones cracked, muscles swelled, and skin split. His scream gurgled into a deep, monstrous growl. Flesh warped and twisted until he was no longer human.
A hulking beast stood in his place, skin a toughened gray, veined with pulsing orange. Spikes jutted from his shoulders like crude armor, and his eyes glowed with primal rage.
[Mutation Detected: Meteorborn Maulhide]
[Meteorite Core: ACTIVE]
