"EXPLAIN WHAT?!" Liu shouted from his position. "HOW TO THROW YOUR MONEY IN THE TRASH?!"
"This one needs an extra step," Ren continued calmly while tracing a different rune on the hydra core. "Since I'm going to change its beast type..."
He pulled out a male Shadow Stalker tentacle.
The preserved appendage seemed to writhe slightly in the dim light, as if still possessing a fragment of its former life.
Min groaned from his bed. "Oh great. More monster parts. Are you making a collage now?"
Their mockery transformed into horrified fascination as Ren used the tentacle to methodically destroy the core's edges, systematically erasing the "form" that defined its original species.
The room filled with a subtle humming as he worked, the whisper of ancient magic being undone.
The core, now more spherical than before, emitted a soft pulse of light as Ren began tracing new runic symbols with his solution.
