Shalu had been bare-chested to begin with, wearing only a pair of trousers, so the change was even clearer to see. The skin of his upper body was almost covered in densely packed barbs that glinted with a dim, chilling light.
Not only that, Shalu's palms had grown larger and thicker, and from the tips of every finger sprang black bone blades nearly thirty centimeters long.
His ears were swelling as well, transforming into butterfly-wing-like structures streaked with black, yellow, and white.
In an instant, he had changed from an ordinary young man into a humanoid aberration.
Shalu's transformation did not merely leave his opponent, Sabel, bewildered. Leon, who witnessed the scene, also stared with his eyes wide open.
Leon could not help looking around, then raising his head to gaze at the sky.
He was certain that he was in the Dream Wilderness, at the Stone Pillar Colosseum. Other than the weather suddenly clearing up, nothing else had changed. So how had this happened? In his daze, he almost thought he was in the Infinite Battle Tower, watching the matches of New Star Tournament contestants!
After all, in Firstheart City, Leon had barely encountered any supernatural power.
Shalu's transformation truly gave him a fright.
Leon could not help quietly asking Angel, "He... what is going on with him? How did he suddenly mutate?"
"It is not a mutation. He is merely resonating with the sin demon inside him," Angel replied.
"What is a sin demon?" Leon hurriedly pressed.
A sin demon was, in truth, a Sin Creature. Angel called it that merely for convenience.
"You can understand it as a unique power system of the Dream Wilderness. By merging with dangerous sin demons, one can wield strength beyond that of ordinary people." Angel paused, his gaze falling on Shalu