Despite her hatred for him, No one knew her body's workings better than Ignatius. If he was confident she could become twice as powerful after evolving, it had to be true.
"Quick! He is moving!" Ignatius urged as cold sweat dripped from his forehead. His life couldn't end ! His ambitions were far from fulfilled, and he still had much to discover through his experiments and research.
Upon hearing his words, Misha made up her mind. She collected the four cells from the hybrids before approaching him with heavy steps. Resolve but also burning hatred flashed in her golden eyes as she extended her left hand and grabbed the remaining cells before smiling at him.
This slight sign reassured Ignatius. Sure of his survival now that the strongest of his creation joined his side and was about to prove how adaptable the human body was, he proudly declared, "Good. With your coopera... ARGH!"
The taste of blood filled his mouth as he glared at the girl with a wicked smile despite her arm traversing his body. Silently, he closed his eyes as the insect-like chimaera left his right ear.
"Even when death knocks at your door, you still have that revolting smile plastered on your face," Misha said in disgust before retrieving her bloodied right hand. Following his instruction was one thing, but working with him after everything he'd done to her and Sunbeam? Unthinkable.
"Rot in the hell you belong, monster." She said before swiftly devouring the twenty evolutionary cells and gazing at Adam, unaware that the insect-like chimaera was hiding beneath one of those.
As they slid down her throat, a warm and soothing sensation enveloped her body, and her eyes brightened. Detailed animal and insect figures flashed through them as her brain adapted to their natural traits and forced her cells to rearrange themselves.
However, midway through the process, a disturbingly familiar voice echoed in her mind.
"My dear Misha, did you take me for a fool?" Ignatius said mockingly before continuing, "With all the resentment, why would I let you approach me? Everything was planned idiot, Hahaha."
Her eyes widened in terror as she asked in dread, "What is happening?"
"Nothing much. I just used my brain parasite to displace my consciousness to your body. Why do you think I left it in your brain for so long?" He roared with laughter as he continued his explanation, "Every piece of my plan fell in its place! I can finally leave this old, weakened body to become this planet's most fearsome being."
That was Ignatius' true objective. Create powerful chimaeras? Why would he if he was doomed to die from old age? That was why he abandoned his research on insect-based hybrids despite their success and returned to researching humans and beasts.
As the years passed and the bodies piled in the lab, the government retracted its Keep reading on NovelHub - where stories come alive! That's when he found the travelling Misha.
As he remembered this long journey, his voice happily sang, "Thank you for your hard work. I'll take good care of your body."
"No! I won't let you!" She screamed, her voice, filled with defiance, echoing through the chamber. Despite her vigilance and swift actions, he still caught her off-guard. Desperately, she scanned her body to locate the bug and tried to tighten her muscles, ready to crush it.
"It's useless. Your body is rewriting your genetic code to adapt to the foreign attributes. You won't be able to control it." He answered, his voice dripping with mockery as he proceeded to parasitise her consciousness.
"AHH!" With a harrowing cry, she held her head in pain as she felt her thoughts' manifestation gradually slowing and dissipating.
Amidst her suffering, a bitter smile stretched her lips as her ultimate thought manifested with difficulty, 'Until the end, I couldn't do a single thing right. I hope... you recover... my friend...'
With those words, she lost all sensations, and her eyes' light faded.
However, her body kept its masterful work, racing and breaking through the last barriers to reach the chimaera queen realm under Adam's eyes.
As Misha's transformation unfolded, Adam halted all movement, his gaze fixated on the spectacle before him. Despite the apparent madness in his eyes, a calculating gleam shone through. "BoDy? FuSiOn?" His voice, though discordant, echoed with a perverted curiosity as his twisted thoughts resurfaced. "Me InSiDe... WoRk?"
In his depraved mind, he still had to look for a body, so he first tried to insert his soul inside the hybrids. Yet, since he was corporeal in the dream place, his efforts proved futile. Left with no choice, he cut them open and attempted to enter inside. But even that approach failed, forcing him to give up before witnessing this scene.
Chaotic thoughts collided in his mind, converging to birth a single question. If this body was peculiar enough to transform, could it accept him?
"mE TrY," he declared, his misty maw broadening into a disgusting smile and his steps carrying him to Misha as her golden hair turned violet.
Then, her body gradually changed. Her face became more masculine, her forms more straight, and her muscles more pronounced.
"HAHAHA!" She rose to her feet with a burst of madness-filled laughter as her skin secreted dark chitin, shining like plate armor on her entire body. Feathered wings and terrifying tentacles sprouted from her back as her legs arched and her feet mutated into deadly talons.
"That's how you use this body, my dear Misha." Ignatius' voice echoed as sharp claws extended from his hands, completing the transformation before Adam's curious eyes.
"I must thank you for your help, friend. Without you, I would have needed to truly break her mind for her to cooperate and eat the last cells." Ignatius said, closing and opening his fists, relishing his newfound power before adding with an innocent smile, "How about being dissected by the world's best scientist? It is an honor, trust me."
"i'M ThE bEsT sCiEnTiSt iF I WaNtEd To bE oNe," Adam answered before his eye's red light ominously intensified after he caught a detail in his words.
The temperature dropped as he drew a mouthful of oxygen and roared, freezing the water in the air and causing ice shards to fall to the ground, "I HAVE NO FRIENDS!"