Ultragene Warlord

that had escaped from Renhuang, and were somewhat unreliable to begin with given the circumstances.
As a result, the finished portraits were so embellished that even Li Feng and Fang Yi would be hard-pressed to recognize them as themselves.

”According to reports we received from within Renhuang, the hunters who killed the allied invasion forces are part of this ’Team Zenith ’, and their strength is on par with the strongest sura kings.
They ’re the elites of Renhuang, ” the monarch of the moon explained.

The sura kings had found it hard to believe that mere humans had been able to take down a sura monarch, but after looking at these portraits, everything seemed to make sense.
These weren ’t humans—they were basically peak-grade lifeforms!

Indeed, it made sense that only such monstrosities would be able to take down sura kings.

Those sura who had escaped from the battle had, to some extent, exaggerated the humans ’ capabilities intentionally.
It was embarrassing to have lost to humans, but far less so to lose to monsters in human guises.

The monarch of the moon continued, ”According to our sources in Renhuang, the man on the left is known as Li Feng, and that on the right is Fang Yi. ”

The monarch of the sky added, ”Although Li Feng looks like a human, he transforms into a half-draconian form in battle.
He ’s said to possess the bloodline of an arclight dragon, and he has frightening capabilities. ”

The sura ’s sources weren ’t particularly accurate; even in Renhuang, they would have to sift out fact from fiction, exaggeration from lie.

Some of the sura kings gasped.
”A peak-grade dragon ’s bloodline? Surely this Li Feng isn ’t a half-breed! ”

Beside him, another sura king rolled his eyes.
”That ’s impossible.
Don ’t you remember the monarch of stars ’ experiments? He ’s tried it countless times, and it hasn ’t ever succeeded.
Members of different species might still be able to have sex with each other, but their biology doesn ’t allow for interbreeding.

”If you have the time, you should have a look at the science magazine series distributed by the empire of stars.
The monarch of stars came up with the idea himself in order to improve the sura ’s understanding of the world as a whole, and it includes details of many experiments that the monarch of stars conducted. ”

In truth, the monarch of stars had distributed this magazine in order to find useful research assistants—this was how he had found Fenghe.
However, Fenghe was his lone success from this venture.
Most of the sura preferred physical, rather than intellectual, domination.

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”Could the humans have found a way to perform this interbreeding, then? ”

”It ’s very likely.
You know of Fenghe, the monarch of stars ’ godson, don ’t you? ”

The sura kings nearby shuddered; no one thought highly of mad scientists.

”Surely half-breeds are just the next step up from Fenghe ’s creations—it ’s not strange at all. ”

The monarch of the moon held the portraits in his hands up high.
”We monarchs agree with this sentiment.
It ’s very likely that the humans ’ breakthrough had to do with combining their own bodies with those of genetic lifeforms to produce superpowered mutants.

”This Li Feng might be an exception, but how about Fang Yi? All our eyewitnesses report seeing him transform into a dragontiger with dual elemental attunements in wind and thunder.
I ’ve never heard of such a beast, but it ’s clearly peak-grade or higher. ”

The sura kings nodded earnestly as they glanced at the portrait of Fang Yi.

The monarch of the sky warned, ”We suspect that there are far more of these mutants than were reported to us.
At the very least, the six members of Team Zenith are all such mutants. ”

The sura kings became even more serious.
They couldn ’t treat the humans in Renhuang like humans; they were mutants, a new race in their own right.

Of course, if Li Feng and Fang Yi were to hear of such a conjecture, they would fall over laughing…