Chapter 134 - Evolve Or Die!

Byung's resolve hardened in the suffocating void of his mind, the warped hall closing in like a living tomb. The Goblin King's colossal sword loomed above, its descent a harbinger of finality, the air shrieking as it cleaved downward. Time seemed to stretch, each heartbeat a thunderous echo in his ears—fading, faltering, with only four minutes until his heart stopped beating. But in that moment of despair, something ignited within him: the core of his half-blood mutation, that enigmatic fusion of human and goblin biology, stirred like a dormant awakening. It wasn't a deliberate choice; it was instinctual, a survival mechanism etched into his very essence. The mutation, sensing he was on the brink of annihilation—the bleeding brain, the failing organs, the encroaching death—initiated an upgrade. A radical reconfiguration.