It had only been two short months since we last parted. The alien elder, who was originally full of hair and high-spirited, now lost all his hair, no teeth, his skin was as ugly as an old tree knot, and his body was as weak as a candle in the wind.
Even breathing requires all the strength of the body.
Noticing Todd's gaze, Lawrence opened his dry mouth, coughed and laughed, "That failed soul link caused irreparable damage to my body. My memory is slowly degrading, and my life
It's passing by bit by bit."
Lawrence paused for a moment, looked at Todd, whose body had mostly mutated, and continued, "However, from the looks of it, you are no better than me."
Glancing at the weak-looking girl next to him, Todd pulled Rachel behind him without leaving a trace, and asked in a cold voice, "What are you doing here?"
"The first reason. Like you, I made a desperate move at the last moment of my life, hoping to find a way to save myself here." Lawrence looked at the superior Crow Feather woman on the viewing platform, and then turned his attention again
When he came back, his eyes became sharp and said, "Secondly, there is an account between us that needs to be settled carefully."
"Wait a minute," Rachel shouted toward the high platform, "During the trial of the Kingdom of Shadows, wouldn't it violate the norms of thousands of years to allow such a private fight?"
The Crow Feather woman shook her head gently, "My responsibility is only to bring the candidates who have passed the trial to my master. As for personal grudges, the Kingdom of Shadows will not interfere."
"Rachel, I will settle your account with you later." Lawrence said to Todd, "It seems that the last link that hindered us from resolving the conflict has been solved."
The latter looked at the old man's broken body and slow movements, and said in a deep voice, "Clark Lawrence, I don't think you have the strength to stop me."
Lawrence covered his chest with his hands and laughed. "King of Muxi, in the alien world, ignorance and arrogance have obscured your eyes. Today, maybe I can teach you what real power is."
Stretching his dead branch-like arms forward, the ground in front of Lawrence began to shake, and the soil and stones slowly floated up, spinning around his body.
Turning his palm, the earth and rocks turned into a spiraling hurricane, hitting Todd's body hard.
Pieces of cloth were scattered, and the robe used to cover Todd's body instantly turned into a pile of cloth strips and fell to the ground.
"Todd, I gave you many opportunities. You could have become the emperor of half the world." Lawrence shouted loudly amidst the flying sand and rocks, "Power, money, woman, everything you want is at your fingertips."
Todd held his steel-skinned arms in front of his face, resisting the storm.
"But, you chose to give up everything and protect those useless people. Why why?"
Lawrence reached into the soil with one hand, and a giant stone ball with a diameter of one meter was lifted into the air and hit Todd's position.
The latter activated his speed ability, and his mutated legs increased his speed to a level that was almost invisible to the naked eye. The moment before the stone ball fell, it seemed like an arrow from the string rushed towards the enemy.
The sharp steel claws, driven by speed and power, cut through the space, ignited the air, and left several trails of white smoke along the moving route.
In just one breath, Todd's attack was less than ten centimeters from the tip of Lawrence's nose.
The next second, a huge sinkhole appeared on the ground. Todd, who lost the ground support, fell into the trap prepared by the opponent in advance.
Lawrence closed his palms together, and earth and rocks poured into the gap in the ground, immediately turning the bottomless ground into a tomb without a monument.
"In terms of combat, your experience is too little," Lawrence sneered, looking at the thick soil under his feet.
Suddenly, a steel claw stretched out from the ground and grabbed his ankle firmly.
Todd broke through the shackles of the earth and jumped out of the earth. His sharp claws flipped, leaving three deep, bone-visible scars on Lawrence's chest.
Clutching the wound and retreating continuously, Lawrence looked at Todd in surprise, "King of Muxi, your progress surprises me."
Standing still on the ground, the mutation slowly spread along Todd's skin, completely eroding his limbs and torso, leaving only his head and neck, which still retained human characteristics.
Lawrence stretched out his hand, licked the black blood from the wound, and said to Todd with a smile, "There is something you may not know. The more frequently and intensely you use your powers, the faster you will mutate.
"
Todd bit his lip tightly as his whole body felt as painful as being burned by flames.
"Appetizer time is over." Lawrence smiled and took a few steps back. He took out a golden copper tube from his arms, poured half of the liquid into his mouth, and saluted Todd. "Next, it's the turn of the host.
It’s time for dinner.”
As the potion fell into his abdomen, Lawrence trembled violently, fell to his knees on the ground, and his hands and feet sank deeply into the soil.
The bones and rotting corpses in the earth, like metal attracted by magnets, gathered under him and were sucked into Lawrence's body and turned into flesh and blood. The originally dry and thin body expanded rapidly like a balloon.
Todd looked at the giant made of meat and bones in front of him, slowly stood up straight, opened his eyes wide and took a step back.
"The Sutherland legacy is really a wonderful thing." The two-meter-tall flesh and blood troll lowered his head and looked at his hands and feet, and said with satisfaction, "As long as we find the right way to use it, mutation will no longer be a problem for the heirs."
It’s a curse, but a horn of power. However, this kind of mutation that keeps you awake won’t last too long. If you don’t contact the tyrant in time, you will still fall into madness.”
"But this time is more than enough to defeat you." Lawrence slapped his palm on the ground. After shaking violently, a crack quickly extended along the ground toward the front.
Todd used his speed ability and was just about to dodge the attack when dozens of stone thorns suddenly protruded from the cracks in the ground, imprisoning him in place.
Just when he was still trying to struggle out of the restraints, the flesh troll's fist hit Todd hard, knocking him into the air. After falling, he slid along the ground for more than ten meters before he stopped.
.
Lawrence took steps towards Todd, the ground trembling and shaking under his feet.
"I don't understand, I really don't understand. Faced with the temptation of power, why do you still cling to human concepts?" Lawrence looked at Todd, who was seriously injured on the ground, shook his head in confusion and roared, "What are alien species?"
Alien species should be born to be the rulers of the world, and they are different from humble species like humans."
Lawrence stopped in front of Todd, squatted down and looked at the small existence in front of him. There was no anger in his voice, but a bit of calmness. "Todd, when I was in the Presbyterian Church, I once read the work of a scholar.
, he roughly calculated some figures about human beings. From the time of creation,
Humanity has existed for almost eight thousand years. According to the growth and extinction rate of species and the construction of mathematical models, the total number of human beings who died in war, disease, and accidents totaled more than 18 billion. And now, so many kingdoms and cities
, the total population is only about 50 million.”
There was a rare emotion in Lawrence's eyes, "Todd, do you know what this means? Human beings, in the final analysis, are nothing more than consumables. Their birth and death are designed to create heroes and gods."