"Humans!"
"Humans really are so fragile!"
The monster muttered low, feeling the immense power within its body. Yet it had not lost its sanity.
Of course, that was only temporary.
This man was not the first person to turn into a monster. According to the experience Zhao Cheng had gained from observation and dissection—
In the first stage, after humans completed the ritual and turned into monsters, they initially retained their reason. It was simply that the darkness already present in their minds would be endlessly magnified.
Depending on the strength of their will, the duration for which they could retain their sanity varied.
Theoretically, if one's will was firm enough, one could retain reason and humanity for a long time after becoming a monster.
But clearly, someone with such a will had no need to choose such a path.
"Revenge!"
Fire blazed in the monster's eyes.
But just then, his keen hearing caught a series of heartbeats. He immediately recognized them as the heartbeats of the brother and sister living next door. At this hour, they were clearly already sound asleep.
When he had first fallen into this place, the older sister of those siblings had given him a little help.
He had once had a happy, complete family, and their life had been decent enough. But a few days ago, a group of people, under the banner of being followers of the God of the End Times, had robbed him of his wealth and burned down his home. His wife, who had never been in good health and had been pregnant at the time, miscarried because of it—and died as a result.
In a very short time, he had lost everything.
Yet he had no power to take revenge.
But when he was at his most desperate, when