The anomaly had left behind almost the same amount of anomalic power that would be yielded by a level three anomaly, and that was quite a precious resource to Adam.

The anomalic power wasn't going to be very effective on his higher-level anomalies, but he was very eager to evolve Distortion, which was still only a level two anomaly at this point.

Distortion had displayed formidable combat prowess on many occasions, and Adam had always wanted to evolve it, but unfortunately, the correct circumstances to do so had never arisen.

At the moment, his priority was to have a sane helper by his side when he went on his missions, so he had no choice but to evolve Hellhound at the expense of Distortion's development.

Hellhound was the anomaly that was most compatible with Shae, and it was the only one that she was able to fuse smoothly with.

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