The improvements to Aberrant Reconstruction were not merely reflected in the stats panel in the [Guide]. Renato's very nature had also been utterly transformed by Dakoul's distant call.
He had grown slightly taller, reaching two meters, and his already powerful physique had become more balanced and muscular. His muscles were not bulky; instead, they formed sleek, compact contours, with the spaces between every bundle of fibers filled just so.
Renato's coordination and reaction speed had both improved since before he lost consciousness, and his strength had increased considerably. In the grip-strength test just now, he had been able to knead steel with his fingertips alone, leaving finger marks on its surface.
Yet compared with these outward signs, the changes inside Renato were far more drastic. Under Klauthsura's psionic scan, the interior of his body presented a disturbing picture.
Twisted flesh, strange additional glands, skin tougher than leather armor...
Had his skeleton and major organs not still barely retained their general human form, Renato would have questioned whether he even counted as human anymore, without anyone else having to raise the issue.
After the comprehensive physical examination, however, Klauthsura did not rush off to research some new subject, nor did she focus on her own psionic training.
Instead, quite unlike her usual self, the female Dragonborn pulled Renato along for a stroll through the Colony.
The Mind Flayer Hive, most of its structures already in ruins, stretched beneath their feet. They skirted cracked floors and shattered walls, passed through one deserted corridor after another, and eventually arrived outside an unremarkable room in a remote corner.
The small room looked neglected. Around its doorframe, there were none of the Mind Flayers' signature biometric devices or sphincter gates.
Even the door itself was merely a mechanical sliding door, without so much as a