Leon exited the Inner World.
He looked at the enormous black egg beside him.
"It looks like an egg from the Torch Beast race. Isn't this species a little weak?"
Leon only wanted the strongest life forms.
But you got what you paid for... No, the more time you spent, the better the result.
Exchanging more than two years of waiting for a Torch Beast clone didn't seem like a bad deal.
Leon knocked on the eggshell with his right hand, and his mental force silently entered it.
Through mental-force imaging, he "saw" a developing fetus inside the eggshell.
The fetus had savage horns and eyes, and sharp scales covered its body like rows of blades. A pair of wings as ferocious as iron grew from its back.
"A Torch Beast?" Leon was stunned. "How did it turn out to be this thing?"
The creature inside the shell was none other than the monster that was supposed to be taken over by the story's protagonist—the Torch Beast.
But Leon already possessed the Torch Beast's most useful talent, "Clone." The Clone talent was based on the Inner World and couldn't be stacked.
So what did he need this thing for?
"No wonder it only charged me two and a half years' worth of 'payment.' It merely accelerated the Torch Beast that was already drifting toward Earth?"
Leon had no intention of turning the Torch Beast into a second clone.
"Useless. It's way too useless. Can I exchange it for something else?" He tried to bargain with the World Consciousness.
[No.] The World Consciousness refused.
Leon called out several more times, but received no response.
He sighed and casually stored the enormous egg in his Inner World.
It had been free, after all. Having something was better than having nothing.
"I'll keep