Mutation

To be honest, after similar thoughts surfaced in both their minds, they both revealed bitter smiles.

Gu Yu had clearly dealt with most of the Herrschers of this era, yet now they were beginning to guard against him and think about how they could defeat him.

What made them feel even worse was that this possibility was not low at all. Even if they did not want to do this emotionally, for the sake of this world, they could not make every choice based on emotion.

Their current positions meant they had to make their choices carefully, so...

"Wait... damn it, what is going on?!"

"W-what happened?"

The two had intended to continue thinking, but as they sensed the changes within their bodies, they looked at each other in disbelief.

Then, they confirmed that the same thing had happened to the other person.

"The Herrscher Cores inside us are still there. But our Herrscher authorities..."

"Have completely disappeared."

After failing to activate his Herrscher authority, Su tried to deploy the Imaginary Barrier, which only Herrschers could use.

As expected, Su failed.

"Even the Imaginary Barrier can no longer be used..."

After failing to activate his ability, Su could still sense that the Herrscher of Rock Core within him was actually operating beyond capacity.

"My Herrscher of Reason Core is running wildly... Strange, what exactly happened?!"

After thoroughly confirming this dreadful fact, Welt immediately turned on his communicator, trying to contact the other Herrschers and learn about their situations.

But at that moment, as though he had sensed danger, he directly threw the communicator in his hand aside.

Along with Welt's action, the communicator he had just thrown exploded in midair.

"A Honkai Energy explosion... This is not right. The communicator in my hand was hijacked. Is this... the Corrosion Herrscher's