Sirin did not actually need to do this, but when she saw the Beastmen's expressions, she decided to use the most brutal method after all! It was all the same anyway...
Sirin walked up to a Beastman and opened her palm... A Honkai Crystal the size of a grain of rice appeared in her hand.
She had a Honkai Beast pry open its mouth and tossed the crystal inside...
At first... there was no reaction.
About ten seconds later, the Beastman's body began to tremble violently, as if it were in great pain.
Around thirty seconds in, the Beastman could no longer endure it and began screaming madly. It screamed for several minutes, its cries filled with such unbearable agony that no one could stand listening to them.
Linglong, standing nearby, looked somewhat unable to bear it. But... after recalling something, her expression gradually hardened.
A few more minutes passed, and the Beastman's body seemed unable to withstand it any longer. Its blood vessels kept swelling, and its skin began to split apart.
Just as Sirin thought the test subject before her was about to explode and die, a miracle happened...
The Beastman's blood vessels suddenly began to contract, and its torn skin started healing itself... After roughly ten minutes, its body had shrunk by half. Though it was half its former size, its physical strength was several times greater than before.
Even... quite a bit of the fur on its body had fallen out.
"Did it work?"
Sirin stared at the Beastman before her in surprise. The Honkai energy within its body had stabilized, and Sirin could clearly sense that the Honkai Crystal she had given it was now located at the center of its brain.
Only...
The way it manifested was not that of a Honkai Beast...