On the beach, a man in a black cloak sat with only one eye exposed through the mask covering his face. A gray umbrella lay by his feet. "Looks like Jackal's experiment worked well. It's not like the Lord's, but it can still make the most of this Honkai Beast's power."
"You agree, don't you, me?"
Another man dressed the same way approached.
"That goes without saying. After all, this is technology brought by the Lord. Compared to it, the experiments Schicksal and we conducted before were nothing more than child's play."
The man sitting on the beach nodded in agreement and checked his watch. Then he pulled an injector from his clothes.
"It's time for today's experiment."
The other man also took out an injector.
"Indeed."
The two men then plunged the injectors into their necks. Their bodies began to swell before finally turning into pools of black liquid. Like a gate, the liquid opened, and a giant monster with mismatched arms crawled out.
A squid-shaped Floating-class Honkai Beast witnessed everything and quickly entered the water, swimming toward Feng Chen.
At that moment, Feng Chen happened to be sitting on the other side of the beach, waiting for the Honkai Beast he had sent out to bring back news.
"You let us go searching everywhere while you sit here alone watching the sea?"
Seele's slightly dissatisfied tone made Feng Chen smile, but he said nothing.
"It's your first time coming out on a mission, so why are you so relaxed? I remember St. Freya's missions are pretty complicated. If anything is mishandled, the reward gets cut in half—or you might not get one at all."
"You're talking about Kiana's situation, right?"
"Isn't that basically the same?"
"It's completely different!"
Feng Chen knew that as long as Kiana completed a