Beast Hack: Customizing Beasts and Capturing Beauties

The doors opened, and several spectral staff members guided a single Vornis into the hall.

Lucius turned his gaze toward the beast, his smirk widening slightly.

The Vornis stood firm, its stance aggressive, its eyes burning with battle instinct—the same fierce personality as Vorafang.

But—

It wasn't yet a true war beast.

And—

It was still an Elite-tier beast.

Lucius tilted his head slightly, observing its movements, already formulating his plan.

"Hmm… You're not quite there yet."

Luna, watching from the side, raised her eyebrow.

"It looks tough, but you're saying it's not ready?"

Lucius nodded, his smirk deepening.

"It's fierce, yes… but it lacks discipline. It lacks tactics. It lacks true war instinct."

Liora crossed her arms.

"Then, are you going to train it like Leon?"

Lucius chuckled.

"Not just train it. I'm going to evolve it and make it a perfect war beast."

He raised his hand, activating his system.

"System."

His eyes flashed coldly, his smirk stretching further.

"Evolve Vornis into a Sovereign Beast. After that, like Leon, send it into the brutal battlefield."

Luna's eyes glowed with intrigue. "You're giving it the same war training?"

Lucius grinned.

"Not just that."

He turned toward Liline.

"Clone it in the virtual world—make it fight as a single army under Leon."

Loraie blinked. "Wait… an army of Vornis?"

Lucius nodded.

"An army of disciplined, tactical, war-trained beasts—working under a general."

Luna let out a low whistle.

"Damn, Master… You're not just making war beasts. You're creating an army."

Lucius chuckled darkly.

"Exactly."

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[Hack Initiation: Sovereign Evolution & War Training]

[Target: Vornis]

[Modifications Applied:]

[Evolution: Upgraded into a Sovereign Beast, elevating all abilities and intelligence]

[Virtual War Immersion: Forces Vornis into a full year of brutal, tragic war within a hyper-realistic virtual world, compressed into one night]

[Combat Mastery Injection: Grants complete knowledge and proficiency in utilizing various war weapons]

[Tactical Adaptation: Self-cloning within the virtual world to learn formation tactics, discipline, and coordinated combat as an army under Leon]

[Cost Required: 11,000,000 Hack Points]

[Status: Executing...]

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The moment the hack was activated, Vornis collapsed, its body trembling slightly as it fell into a deep, forced sleep.

But unlike Leon, something different happened.

Its body immediately began shifting as it slept.

Its armor growing thicker, its presence rapidly evolving before their very eyes.

Luna stared, watching the transformation unfold.

"Tch… it's changing already?"

Liora smirked. "Of course. Master is forcing it into an instant evolution."

Loreia exhaled. "This is ridiculous."

Lucius, arms crossed, watched calmly.

"Let it sleep."

He smirked.

"By tomorrow, both Leon and Vornis will be at the top."

And with that, the ultimate war beasts were finally in the making.

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Inside a dimly lit lab, Cassius Aurelius stood before a restrained Vorafang.

The lab was filled with strange machinery, containment tanks, and scattered notes.

The beast snarled, its crimson eyes burning with defiance, even as chains held its body in place.

Cassius smirked, adjusting his gloves.

"This Vorafang... is what you'd call a glass cannon."

He tilted his head slightly, his fingers lightly tapping against the metal table.

"Quite powerful, but its body is pathetically weak."

He chuckled to himself.

"No wonder they were able to catch it and sell it off."

But—

What truly fascinated him wasn't its strength or weakness.

It was its personality.

This beast was vicious, filled with pure killing instinct.

A feral, untamed nature that reminded him of certain failed experiments in the past.

Cassius grinned, his eyes gleaming as he held up a syringe filled with an unknown mixture.

"But that's what makes it fun. Let's see how much you can change, little beast."

Before he could inject it, the door to his lab slid open.

Footsteps echoed in the room as Victor Aurelius entered, his expression calm but expectant.

"Cassius."

Cassius didn't even turn around, still focused on the beast before him.

"Ah, Victor. You're early."

Victor stepped forward, his hands in his pockets, his gaze settling on Vorafang.

"I came to ask when the new beast from Vorafang will be ready."

Cassius finally turned, raising his eyebrow.

"Oh? You actually want this beast?"

Victor nodded casually.

"It has a nice appearance. It's strong. And I like it."

He smirked slightly.

"I could use it as my personal hunting dog later."

Cassius chuckled, setting the syringe down.

"A hunting dog, huh? That's quite an amusing thought."

He tapped the table, glancing back at Vorafang, who continued to struggle violently.

"You do realize it's a glass cannon, right? Powerful attacks, but it'll break the moment something hits it too hard."

Victor shrugged.

"That's fine. I'll just keep it from getting hit."

Cassius grinned, his fingers tracing the surface of the table.

"I see… So you don't mind what I do to it, then?"

Victor nodded without hesitation.

"Do whatever you want. As long as it turns into something useful for me."

Cassius laughed softly. "Good. Then I can have some real fun with it."

He picked up the syringe once again, turning toward Vorafang, his expression unreadable.

"It should be ready later. But by the time I'm done… it won't be the same beast anymore."

Victor grinned slightly.

"That's exactly what I want."

As Victor left the lab, Cassius turned back to his experiment, his silver eyes gleaming with twisted excitement.

"Now then… let's see just how much I can push you before you break."

The experimentation of Vorafang had truly begun.

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The next day, inside the reinforced containment chambers, two beasts stirred.

First—

Leon.

His Silver Sun flames pulsed, flickering brighter than before, his body unchanged in form, yet something felt different.

No longer just a wild war beast, but a seasoned warrior who had survived countless battles.

He had fought, died, and learned in a brutal war simulation that felt like an entire year.

And now—he understood.

Meanwhile—

Vornis awakened.

Unlike Leon, its transformation was clear.

The beast that had once been part flesh, part armor was now something entirely different.

Its entire body gleamed, forged purely from steel, yet somehow retaining the organic flexibility of flesh.

The once visible muscles and tendons had been replaced with metal fibers, designed for ultimate combat precision.

It was no longer a beast of flesh and bone.

Vornis had become a Pure Steel War Beast.

Its metallic claws flexed, its eyes glowing with a cold, mechanical precision, built not just for combat—

But for war.

The two war beasts of Luxoria Castle had finally awakened.