His entire body was swollen and deformed, resembling enormous tumors hanging from his skin. Just moments before, the waiter had been as thin as a stick, but in the blink of an eye, he had become a grotesque, bloated monster.
The cracking sound of bones breaking in his neck echoed throughout his body. All his bones had been shattered and then forcibly pieced together and stretched, making his body nearly three meters tall. Those terrifying eyes looked down at Leo, who sat motionless on the sofa, transformed into a Homo sapiens.
The broken neck was straightened by an invisible force, and the teeth in the mouth, which were originally flat, were now all sharp and protruding.
Foot-long barbs sprouted from the bends of his long, slender arms, resembling portable killing weapons; the fingernails on his six fingers also became sharp and pointed.
On his bald head, bulging veins darted about like tiny snakes crawling wildly beneath his skin.
The respectful waiter from moments before was gone, replaced by a violent mutant. He stared at Leo, his mouth agape to his ears, "Why didn't you transform?"
"Because I'm your boss."
After Leo finished speaking, he suddenly threw out his fist, and the violent punch, carrying a tangible force, shattered the mutant's head with a single blow.
The headless mutant swayed and collapsed onto the floor of the room with a thud.
After killing the mutant, Leo showed no joy, because in his perception, all the Homo sapiens in the city had turned into the same thing, all looking like the mutant before him.
Some of them were still at level one, but some had already broken through to level two, and Leo could even sense the aura of a level three.
Although Leo could only sense the changes in this one city, he figured that such a terrifying mutation must be a collective mutation of the entire world.
How many Homo sapiens are there in the Homo Sapiens World?
More than 30 billion
Based on what he saw now, all of them had mutated to have strength levels of one or higher, which chilled Leo's heart.
The collective mutation of Homo sapiens was clearly aimed at the wizards hiding among them, because wizards cannot mutate, and as long as they hide in the city, they will be hunted down by these mutants.
With only a few hundred thousand wizards, how could they possibly hide and escape among 30 billion Level 1 mutants?
How many will survive?
Heh, Leo was about to curse.
With his current strength suppressed to only 65% of its original level, Leo's ordinary Thunder Magic has dropped to just over 8,000 points, and his most powerful Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft has just broken 10,000.
The worse news is that the concentration of elements in the air did not change due to the collective mutation in the Homo Sapiens World.
With elemental energy in the air still so weak, each time Elemental Wizard use magic, it means they weaken themselves by a fraction.
The wizards on this expedition were all from the Tower of Elements, making up over 99% of the total. It's safe to say that having even a handful of Elemental Wizard Body Refinement Wizard out of hundreds of thousands of wizards would be a stroke of good luck.
By the time the wizard rescue army arrives, it will be extremely fortunate if even a few thousand of these hundreds of thousands of wizards survive.
Leo had just killed the mutant and retrieved the Godslaying Set from the Shadow Space. In an instant, his mind realized his current predicament: he had to escape. The door to the room was torn apart.
One by one, the mutants, each with a huge mouth that took up half their face, tilted their heads and asked Leo:
Why didn't you mutate?
Outside the building, mutants instantly swarmed up the walls. In the blink of an eye, they covered the exterior walls of Leo's room like a swarm of mosquitoes, their sheer numbers blocking out the sunlight.
Why didn't you mutate?
The chorus of questions sent chills down Leo's spine. They were even speaking in exactly the same voice, as if they were all programmed.
These mutants marched in unison towards Leo, while mutants outside the building also broke through the glass and walked towards Leo inside the room.
With each step, he would ask Leo why he hadn't mutated.
He sensed that all the mutants in the city were rushing towards the building where he was. From the air, it looked like desert army ants had spotted their prey and were preparing to hunt it down and take it back to their nest.
The Homo Sapiens World is far too complex for these low-level wizards to handle.
Leo wanted to give the Earth Pulse Stigmata Wizard a good scolding. He had chosen such a bizarre world for his first expedition; he deserved to die young.
" Gravity Domain, activate!"
" Ice Domain, activate!"
It's time for Xintang Fali to act. Right now, they're only level one mutants. If they hold them off, level two and three mutants will arrive soon.
The two domains unfolded, instantly compressing all the mutants in the room into thin pancakes.
With a flick of his finger, Leo unleashed two domains centered on Leo, each with a radius of 6400 meters, unleashing a frenzied slaughter.
The dense army of mutants resembled two grim reapers; one breathed out Ice air, freezing countless mutants into ice sculptures.
The other one seemed to be a god who controlled Gravity. With a wave of his hand, he crushed the mutated army in swathes, like wheat being harvested. It was only because these mutated beings lacked their own thoughts that they were so terrified by the scene before them.
Leo only allowed the two domains to appear for ten seconds before withdrawing them. This was because within those ten seconds of unleashing his full power, 20% of the mana in Leo's body had been consumed.
Even though he had the Godslaying Staff to replenish his mana, he wanted to conserve every bit of it, and he didn't know when the Wizard World's rescue would arrive.
Shadow Walking
All the mutants around the building had been killed, Leo immediately hid in the shadows, intending to escape through them.
Escape the city and then find another hiding place in the wilderness.
Leo refused to believe that all the Homo sapiens in the city had become mutants, or that the animals outside the city could also transform.
If that's the case, the power of the manipulator behind it all far exceeds Leo's imagination. Controlling one Homo sapiens race is one thing, but controlling every race on an entire planet...
Leo couldn't imagine what kind of being could possess such terrifying power.
As Leo Shadow Walking, at the moment he took his third step...
Caught completely off guard, the next shadow he was about to land in suddenly vanished, leaving Leo directly exposed to the real world.
A punch came flying straight at you.
"Boom"
Leo's eyes had already seen the fist, and his consciousness had caught it, but he just couldn't raise his hands.
A powerful punch landed squarely on his chest.
The expected pain did not occur. Only then did Leo realize that his body was integrated with the Stone of Indestructibility, and his defense had reached 11,400 points, so he was not afraid of the attack in front of him at all.
Looking at the mutants emanating a level-two aura before him, and the increasing number of mutants surging towards him because of his exposure, Leo placed the Godslaying Staff in his left hand and directly drew a five-meter-long giant sword from the Shadow Space.
Left hand: staff; Right hand: greatsword
" Body Refinement Wizard, First Layer Hunter Bloodline, Activated!"
With a deep roar, Leo transformed into a four-meter- Hunter, a meter taller than the mutants. His slender muscles did not have the grotesque, tumor-like muscles of the mutants, but instead displayed a perfect combination of strength and agility.
With a swing of his greatsword, he instantly sliced the three mutants blocking his path in half at the waist.
It's true that elemental energy in the air is scarce, but Leo, transformed into the Hunter, doesn't need to use elemental power; he uses his own physical strength.
Although his attack power is limited to 65%, it's enough against these level one mutants. As for level two and three...
" Yaoyao, come out!"
At the Hunter's call, Yaoyao, who had already retreated into the Shadow World, appeared on Leo's shoulder.
"Holy crap, what happened?"
Yaoyao stared at the endless line of mutants. How could she have discovered such a drastic change in such a short time? Was this still the Homo Sapiens World?
"Enough talk, prepare for nuclear fission."
The Hunter brandished his greatsword, his entire being seemingly enveloped in countless sword lights, like a rolling wheel of swords, as he charged out of the city.
Any Level 1 mutant that gets close to Leo's sword wheel will be instantly torn apart by countless sword energies.
In the surging army of mutants, not one could stop Leo's advance.
As for the attacks he received, Leo completely ignored them. His defense was not weakened by the suppression of the World Will. He relied on this abnormal defense to attack the mutant army with impunity.
All the sharp claws scratched at his body, making a sizzling sound that made your ears ache, like fingernails scratching glass.
But it couldn't leave even the slightest mark on Leo's body.
Sensing the approaching Level 2 mutants, Leo sliced through all the Level 1 mutants in front of him with a single sword strike, revealing the Level 2 mutants preparing to ambush him from behind.
The Hunter grinned maliciously at the level-two mutant.
" Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft!"
The Godslaying Staff unleashed a beam of light, evaporating the Level 2 mutant along with the entire mutant army hundreds of meters behind him.
Taking advantage of the gap created by the Nuclear Fission Grand Witchcraft attack, the Hunter instantly covered hundreds of meters, having already killed his way across a street.
But the horde of mutants that swarmed in again cornered Leo.
While the Hunter appear to be rapidly eliminating the mutants, their actual advance is quite limited, with each step requiring a significant expenditure of energy.
To hinder Leo's progress, the mutants simply piled their bodies on top of Leo.
"Roar"
With a roar, the Hunter violently tore through the pile of mutated corpses and charged towards the city gates again, only to be blocked again after taking just a few steps.
"Let's use the atomic bomb to clear the field!"
Looking at the mutated army that seemed to show no signs of decreasing numbers, Yaoyao Yao thought that even if Leo could fight non-stop all year round, he still couldn't kill all these mutated people. It would be better to just throw a few atomic bombs at them and nuke the entire city.
"No, I suspect the mutation of Homo sapiens was caused by that big tree. The energy level of the atomic bomb explosion was too high; it would easily reveal our location."
If they could have used atomic bombs to achieve peace, Leo would have done it long ago; there would have been no need to kill people piece by piece.
If you've seen the movie Dead Rising, then Leo's current situation is similar to Dead Rising, except that all the mutants are surrounding him.
Countless mutants jumped down from the buildings on both sides of the street, using their bodies to wear down Leo's sword energy.
The greatsword whistled, leaving behind a trail of shattered corpses wherever it went.
The Hunter are like tireless perpetual motion machines, killing relentlessly.