Click! Click! Click!

The sound of stone skin shattering continued to sound in the huge laboratory in the inner city of Twilight.

A stone statue sealed by petrification was constantly moving, and pieces of stone skin were constantly falling off the stone statue's body.

Under the cover of the night, a gray-covered humanoid life form was in this radiant environment.

Resurrected, he is Hughes, a life that has survived the petrification of Mr. Lyle.

"It's the breath of life, and I'm finally alive again!

Even though this kind of life has been detached from the appearance of human beings!

But I survived after all!"

Hughes at this moment is not so much a living form as a gargoyle lifeform.

His body was no longer made of flesh and blood, but a bodily structure made of a large number of stones.

The petrification technique itself is only a fixed spell, and in the hands of the swastika nobles, it only restricts a person's movements.

Aside from the fact that it looks like a stone statue on the outside, its internal structure is still normal to the like.

But when the same technique appeared on Mr. Lyle, it changed dramatically.

The terrifying energy from the radiation, combined with Mr. Lyle's powerful soul consciousness, possesses a terrifying ability that can alter the structure of the human body for a long time.

It is the application of this ability that makes Hughes a lonely stone statue standing in the laboratory.

At first, he could only wait quietly for his death, and his soul consciousness was sealed in this stone statue.

Having lost the supply of flesh and blood energy, Hughes's consciousness was weakening step by step.

If this continues, Hughes will one day die under the seal of this stone statue.

However, Hughes was unwilling to accept his own death, so he struggled desperately, trying to seize his own glimmer of life.

Before being captured in the Twilight City, Hughes was a scientist who specialized in the transformation of matter into each other.

Hughes's long work experience has given him plenty of experience, which has only fed him during the human period.

After all, in this world where the pursuit of economic benefits is almost crazy, a large amount of capital investment is needed to conduct basic research on the underlying materials of the world.

He was not favored by the power of capital at all, so Hughes before was poor, barely enough to make ends meet.

Then there is the profound and subtle knowledge, as long as it cannot bring huge returns to investors in a short period of time.

Then this is a loss-making trade, and a loss-making trade is something that no one wants to invest in.

In human times, Hughes was almost useless.

Sora has some experience in the study of material transformation, but he can only live a life that barely starves to death.

But now, this once-painstakingly researched knowledge has come to fruition, through a reverse study of Mr. Lyle's terrifying and powerful petrification.

Hughes discovered the power to resurrect himself, a power that Hughes called equivalent exchange.

Exchange one's soul with the material of this world in a certain proportion, let one's existence give life to the world, and exchange it for a glimmer of life in this way.

The soul of the self becomes the whole world, and it evolves from an immovable substance to a living creature with soul consciousness.

Correspondingly, the world will give something in return, such as giving up part of one's body in exchange.

This kind of strict and orderly exchange rules exchange one's most precious soul for the infinite substance of the blue star.

......

Emerging from the shattered stone skin, Hughes, dressed in gray skin, walked around the radiating laboratory.

As he wandered around the lab, he said to himself, "Lyle!

I, Hughes, are alive again!

I'm going to make you pay this time!!"

Walking to the button that activated the radiation energy, Hughes looked at the red button in front of him.

With an excited face, he covered his palm over the red button, and immediately pressed it without hesitation.

Suddenly, layers of invisible radiant energy began to be released in the laboratory, and Hughes opened his arms.

Closing his eyes and enjoying the baptism of radiant energy, he was going to continue to complete his unfinished exchange.

Exchanging precious soul energy for stone was not a good deal in Hughes's opinion.

And the reason why he exchanged a part of his soul was only because he was going to be reborn again.

So once he regained the ability to act, he couldn't wait to start his own operations.

Swap your soul for radiant energy and give a portion of your soul to the world in exchange for radiant control.

Radiation has the ability to break down genetic structures, and this ability is used in Mr. Lyle's application.

Many devastating spells were born, especially petrification, which turned a living person into a stone.

What a cruel thing it was, allowing the living life to wither away under the blockade of the stone statues.

"Lyle deserves to be judged!!"

After exchanging his few souls, Hughes gained a portion of the radiant energy.

This energy intertwined with his soul and became a part of his body under the law of equal exchange.

And with the completion of this soul exchange, Hughes's soul is only a trace of soul to maintain memory.

However, he gained control of the radiant energy, and with the application of these radiant energy, Hughes could plunder the soul energy of other lifeforms.

Equivalent exchange, that is, it can be exchanged with the world, and the same can be exchanged with living beings.

Exchange radiation energy with the world, exchange soul energy with living beings, and constantly switch back and forth with each other.

Ultimately build Hughes into its own strength!

Rumble!

Suddenly, in the middle of the night, a huge explosion rang out in the inner city laboratory of Nightfall.

This huge explosion carried a huge amount of radiant energy, and it was radiating unscrupulously towards the entire city.

The terrifying radiant energy spreads out in all directions, and this terrifying energy that has penetrated the genes of the living form is attacking.

In just a moment, the people of the Twilight City felt the pain.

Even in the middle of the night, nightmares surging like a tide kept sweeping towards them.

The nightmare terrified them, and their souls were shaken by the endless panic and fear.

The turbulent soul gave Hughes the opportunity to speak to the terrifying creatures in the voice of the devil's demagoguery, and he lent the power to tranquil the souls of these people.

And then in exchange for the soul energy belonging to the people of Nightfall City, in order to make his soul energy grow.

"Five days! I only have five days!

In five days, the Lord of the Dead will come to this world, and I will create a world of mine!"

In the middle of the city, Hughes shouted in an almost crazy roar.

The weakening of his soul has strengthened his tendency in a certain direction, and this tendency is under the influence of the general trend of the world.

Slowly rushing towards the form that this world is pushing, letting everything fall into the abyss.

Soul consciousness is an extremely sensitive thing, and when the body is still there and the soul consciousness is still strong, there will be no big problems.

But once the physical body is lost, and the soul consciousness is weakened, it is easy for external demons to take advantage of it.

And this external demon is nothing else, it is the general trend that is now prevailing in Blue Star, making everything close to stability and depravity.