Rui's arms squeezed the life out of Anthea with every ounce of power he had, holding him down and refusing to allow him to easily to adaptively evolve to the Gu poison. Because of the fact that Rui himself had adaptively evolved to the Gu poison by triggering a form of evolution with the help of the Transcendent healing fruit, his greatest fear was that Anthea would adaptively evolve and integrate the Gu into his body just as Rui had.
However, for once, he had overestimated Anthea.
"Rgh!!!" Anthea gritted his teeth as death itself coursed through his veins, darkening his invisible body until it was perfectly clear to everybody.
The fear in his eyes was palpable.
It was the fear of death.
Despite his extraordinary genetic adaptive evolution, his body struggled to do with the Gu what Rui had.
Even as his body shifted, it began aging at a shocking rate.
Anthea's skin began softening and growing wrinkled at an almost visible rate.
