Hagen observed his left arm, where the long extremity of the abyssal Acrocinus Gorilla had fused perfectly with his original body. The purple-black flesh pulsed with its own rhythm, different but complementary to his human heartbeat.
Three beasts ran through his system: the abyssal scorpion that had been his first corrupt addiction, the golden griffin he had possessed before the corruption, and now the gorilla whose limbs had replaced those he had lost in the battles in Yano.
It wasn't as spectacular as the new sextuples that had emerged among the high ranks...
Despite being one of the first test subjects, he hadn't been a double from the beginning.
Those monsters had been gold-rank double tamers before abyssal energy, which allowed them to add three or four additional beasts: two silver ones for each gold they had originally possessed. But Hagen had learned that specialization mattered more than brute quantity.
Or he liked to deceive himself into thinking that was true.
