The two stared at each other for a few minutes, Lucas only saw an unwavering determination in Robert’s eyes.
"How can I prove it to you?"
Hearing this, Robert immediately replied, "Let me go."
A smile appeared on Lucas’ face, talking politely made this scientist think that he really had a choice.
He didn’t have any hidden agenda, but he also knew he couldn’t prove that. "Then it’s settled, you will start working from tomorrow."
"What?" Robert looked at him with a stunned look, he clearly refused.
Lucas patted his shoulder and he increased his strength with each pat. Robert glanced into his eyes and although Lucas was smiling, he had a cold glint in his eyes that made him tremble in silence.
Although he didn’t want to coerce him, Lucas didn’t have a choice, his goals were too important to have any mercy for just a researcher.
Lucas then turned around and walked towards the tied-up specimen. When he arrived closer, the thing that was tied up tried to reach desperately to bite him.
He gazed thoughtfully at the experiment, if the Dread Doctors really were the culprits and created this, would his ability work?
’I guess we have to find out.’ Lucas’ claws slowly came out and he reached and grabbed the creature’s neck.
"Rip!"
Blood shot up as the creature’s neck was slashed, Lucas took a step back, managing to dodge the blood.
Then he closed his eyes, a few seconds passed and just as he thought that his ability wasn’t working, a foreign energy entered his body.
He thought about in what direction he should use this energy, a new ability sounded nice but looking at the dead creature he wasn’t sure if that ability would be useful.
Lucas then decided to use it for his Obsidian Defense, this ability was one of the most important he had.
The energy washed over his body, then he felt his Obsidian Defense was about to evolve, just as it was almost done, the evolution suddenly came to a stop.
"Why?" Lucas’ face crumbled, but then he glanced down at the dead creature and realized that with their huge difference in strength, it was good that he even got something.
He could feel it, just a little more and his Obsidian Defense would evolve, now Lucas felt like he had an itch that he couldn’t scratch.
"Just one more...." Lucas whispered to himself as he really wished that a shapeshifter would just cross his path.
"One more what?" Steven and John happened to hear him and Steven asked curiously.
Lucas glanced away from the body and looked at him. "Did you tell him?"
"He did." John took a step forward and nodded solemnly. "In fact I...was saved years ago by someone in combat who I thought wasn’t human."
"When I saw you holding my daughter’s hand, and her pain slowly fading away, I found it weird, and I immediately thought of that person."
Lucas’ gloomy mood from the evolution failure faded away, and he reached out to John. "Welcome to the real world, are you ready to be a hunter?"
John was slightly stunned, then he looked down at the dead bodies. He then looked back at Lucas and without responding, he grabbed his hand.
Lucas smiled and patted his shoulder, now he had one more qualified hunter added to his family.
"We should go." Lucas added as he was still anxious to find a shapeshifter and evolve his ability.
He then grabbed the dead creature, went to the Alpha, and threw his heart to Robert while he lifted the body.
"Hold on to that for me, and be careful, it’s fragile."
"What’s this?" Robert’s hands trembled as he felt the heat from the heart in his hands.
"The samples for the experiments, of course." Lucas gave him a weird look, then he signaled with his eyes at John toward Robert.
John nodded as he got the meaning, and got behind Robert, this made him nervous as he realized that Lucas was really going to take him even against his will.
After arriving at the car, Lucas put the bodies in the trunk and glanced at them. "Remember to take good care of the bodies, and of course of our good friend."
Lucas glanced at Robert then looked at John. "If he tries to run, shoot him."
Robert’s body stiffened when he heard this, he really thought of running as he thought Lucas wouldn’t hurt him since he needed his skills, but now he was faced with reality.
"Roger that." John nodded seriously and even showed Robert his gun.
Lucas glanced one more time at them, and in the shocked eyes of all of them, his body melted into the shadow and disappeared.
"How is that possible?!" John’s cool persona was broken as soon as he saw that unbelievable sight.