[Development Route: Lv3--Getter G; Lv6--???; Lv12--??? (Unique); Lv25--??? (Unique)]
More shocked and excited than Ryoma Nagare were Hayato Jin, Dr. Shikishima, and the other researchers of the Saotome Research Institute.
They understood Getter's dangers better than anyone, yet they had never abandoned their research into the Getter Line. They had always believed some elusive hope lay hidden within it. Even after sacrificing countless colleagues and compatriots, they had never given up on researching the Getter Line.
Getter had always been capable of infinite evolution. The lumps of metal created by humanity were more like vessels designed to receive the Getter Line.
What frustrated humanity—or rather, the Saotome Research Institute—the most was the uncertainty of Getter Line evolution.
You never knew what it would lead to, much less could you control it.
Yet Cheng Tian had used the Beyond the World template to artificially intervene in Getter's evolution on the level of rules, demonstrating that the future evolution of the Getter Line could be controlled!
Getter G developed and evolved into Shin Getter... How could we ever have dreamed of something like that!?
But the truth was right before their eyes. Believe it or not, they had no choice but to believe.
The reason Cheng Tian had chosen to develop Shin Getter was, on one hand, to demonstrate his ability to control Getter's evolutionary path. On the other, he was exploiting a little loophole in the rules.
With the development complete, Shin Getter's EN had also been directly restored to full!
Even the energy had to be freeloaded. All one could say was that Cheng Tian possessed the admirable spirit of biking to a bar: save where he could, spend where he should. He felt no shame whatsoever over what might seem like petty stinginess.
At the same time,