CH58 The Final Piece
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The Class 3 Beast Core glimmered faintly under the artificial light of the pocket dimension's faux sky.
It lay nestled between two figures: a dormant Bonsai Tree and a sleeping wolf cub, whose body passively absorbed ambient energy—fuel for whatever mysterious transformation was still underway within it.
Alex had thrown the Beast Core towards the cub, hoping it would instinctively draw upon the immense energy inside to accelerate the transformation.
Unfortunately, Alex wasn't that lucky.
If the cub had already matured into a proper beast, his plan might have worked.
But as a mere infant, attempting to absorb energy from a fully intact Class 3 Core—an object dense with raw, violent power—was far beyond its current capability.
And so, the prized core, for which so many beasts had died in the inner rim of the Subspace Forest, simply sat there… untouched.
Useless.
Or so it seemed.
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Then, something stirred.
Not the cub.
Not Alex.
