Its transformation left all the guards in shock. It took exceptional effort for World life forms to kill one another, especially when their strengths were roughly equal, and they didn’t have attributes that countered one another. Even with allies, one would have to spend a lot of energy to kill a World life form.0

The Origin of Mutation’s Gene Lock turned that norm on its head. Obtaining part of the tenth guard’s powers had allowed it to grow stronger, and the guard could feel that the pressure emanating from it had intensified.0

Worse still, none of them knew if there was a limit to how many times it could do so. There was always the possibility that...0