Just Let You See the Pinnacle of Magic Engineering. That was why the Old Emperor would, from time to time, find all sorts of excuses to send the other party materials.
His purpose was to rope him in.
And once they had grown familiar, he planned to have the other party join his own secret research.
In the end, he had never expected that before the other party had even joined, he would actually create a Magic Array like Goddess Summoning, something that completely belonged in the realm of forbidden spells.
Although they could not use it because of the difference in Magic Power, they could conduct mutant research through this Magic Array.
That was right.
Mutants like those magical beasts.
Because before this, they had never been able to find any good method, nor had there been any precedent for human evolution.
So the Old Emperor could only seek out variants among magical beasts to conduct his research.
And with the Magic Array, and with the research data on magical-beast mutants in hand, the direction of the Magic Array research naturally leaned toward the magical-beast side.
As a result, the things they researched naturally became magical-beast-oriented.
It was just that at the time, in his impatience, he had not carried out any tests.
And so it had turned into his current state.
But that did not matter.
Although he had gone from a human into something like a magical beast, at the very least, he had obtained evolution and become an existence capable of long life.
It was merely that he needed to periodically obtain large amounts of Magic Power to maintain his "Palace."
To the Old Emperor, that was nothing at all.
He could even, because he fed on Magic Power, obtain strength from his "food" like Perry