Not long afterward.
Professor Kazel moved the mutating white mouse to an open area outside the laboratory.
By then, the small barrier surrounding the white mouse had been forcibly burst apart by its endlessly growing body.
The white mouse had already grown larger than a water buffalo and was developing toward the size of an elephant.
It had not let out a single howl throughout the entire process.
Because it had actually died long ago.
The effects of the Philosopher's Stone exceeded the limits an ordinary lifeform could endure.
Although its bodily cells appeared to still be proliferating endlessly, its life structure had already collapsed. Its brain, in particular, had long since suffered brain death from excessive expansion.
However, if one activated Spirit Vision, one could see its soul screaming in incomparably agony.
The white mouse's soul had also changed shape along with the mutation of its flesh.
But unlike its body, its soul was continuously thinning throughout the mutation process.
It had not evolved because of the Philosopher's Stone. It was still the soul of an ordinary lifeform.
And the souls of ordinary lifeforms could not withstand being stretched to such an extent.
Sure enough.
The white mouse's soul shattered first.
Although the mutation of its body had yet to stop, with the complete collapse of its soul, it had become nothing more than a useless mass of flesh.
The professors did not intervene. They merely wanted to observe the extent of the effects that tiny grain of Philosopher's Stone could achieve.
After waiting for some time longer, the white mouse's bodily cells finally collapsed as well.
By then, it had filled the entire open space of the Hidden Place.
"..." Yet judging from the result, it was not that the effects of that grain of Philosopher's Stone had