Magic Chips
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
A grouper swam through a stretch of water.
This was where the sea fish possessed by the god Tyr had once appeared through spatial teleportation.
Back then, that sea fish had been unable to withstand the pressure of spatial teleportation and had burst into a bloody pulp. But in the sea, currents washed everything away, and the bloodstains in this area had long since vanished.
The grouper swam past calmly, but before long, its body suddenly swelled by a full circle. The fins on both sides of its body also stretched outward, even changing shape, gradually becoming something like two scaled claws.
Its swimming speed abruptly more than doubled. It suddenly pounced on a school of sardines, opened its mouth, and sucked in, actually swallowing two fish straight into its belly. Then one scaled claw reached out, grabbed another sardine, and stuffed it into its mouth.
As it fed madly, its body kept swelling as well, as if all the flesh and blood it ate had been transformed into its own tissue.
Yet just as it was gorging itself, a large net was suddenly dragged over. It and dozens of nearby sea fish were all scooped into the net, hoisted up, and then dumped onto the deck of a fishing boat.
A person wearing a full protective suit pinched the grouper's tail with a rubber-gloved hand and lifted it up, ignoring its frantic struggles.
"Mutant. The third batch now, and they still haven't disappeared..."
As he spoke, he and several others counted through the various fish, tossed the mutated species like the grouper to one side, and then tallied them up.
"A total of fifty tons of various sea fish caught. Forty-six mutated fish, totaling two point three tons. Mutation rate: