The appraisal interface on the system's Light Screen kept flashing.
It could not identify [Mutation]'s true form.
Level thirteen or no level at all-even its race kept shifting between Oddity Species and Demon.
Utter chaos.
This space had begun to warp the moment the Altar Platform rose.
Gravity, rules, everything was being altered at will.
No, rather, it was being mutated.
"Ruler, this space has been completely sealed. No means of escape will work. Your machines have been locked outside and cannot enter to assist you."
"Ruler, please accept mutation. Then I will become your aid."
Above the Altar, at the center of that unique Ring of Evil formed from a single Demon Card.
A malformed humanoid that was not human-a [Demon] whose entire body inspired discomfort, as though the flaws and errors of countless races had fused into one-floated in the center.
Sealing off space, huh?
A Dark Gold Card Sequence flashed through Ye Qiyan's hand.
The corners of his mouth lifted in a subtle curve.
"What if I refuse?"
Mutation answered evenly:
"The world loathes deformity and fears abnormality, treating all mutation as demonic. But in my eyes, mutation is evolution, progress, the different choices all things make as they evolve.
You refuse only because you cannot understand true evolution, because you are unwilling to discard your useless shell to hasten your progress. Ruler, humans, demons, Oddity Species... so-called races are meaningless.
You can no longer leave. I will offer you the path of evolution.
Whether you wish it or not.
One final question: do you accept?"
Ye Qiyan looked at Mutation's appearance with distaste, then turned his gaze to Red Tears beside him.
"That won't do. You're too ugly. You'd have to be at least as good-looking as my Red Tears before I'd even consider it."
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