Tyris telepathically sent him her coordinates and a Warp Steps immediately appeared next to her. The one who walked out the dimensional gate was barely human in appearance
It looked like and albino man, with pure white skin and hair, with bright red eyes and clad in a black war armour. On his exposed face and hands there were multiple spots where the skin turned into scales.
He had claws instead of nails and fangs instead of teeth. His smile would have struck terror in any living being with a shred of sanity.
"Tyris, my dear, you are always so flashy. If Milea was here, you would crush her self-esteem."
"The pot calls the kettle black." She replied.
"I have many forms. Unlike you I spent a lot of time around my country, I need a suit for every occasion."
Tyris snorted, considering herself less lucky with every passing second. Guardians were very proud, and didn't like their flaws being pointed out. For every superior magical beast, assuming their first form was relatively easy.
It was the one they had in their heart. In Tyris' case, it was the one she had chosen hoping to please her first love. After that, she had interacted so rarely with humans that she had never bothered acquiring another.
Leegaain, instead, after his self-imposed exile, had often walked among humans doing his best to go unnoticed. To do that, he had to spend a lot of time and efforts to achieve multiple alias, be them humanoid or animals.
It wasn't possible to modify a form, even changing a single detail required to start everything from scratch, no matter how similar it was to one already available.
Instead of fighting a lost cause, Tyris moved toward the source of the anomaly, forcing Leegaain to shut up and focus to keep up with her speed. In the blink of an eye, they had covered dozens of kilometres, stopping only from time to time to use Mother Earth again while chasing their prey.
When the hunt came to an end, they couldn't believe their eyes.
Three fully developed Abominations attempted to ambush them. They were an Empowered one and two Puppeteers, respectively in the body of a human and of a Byk.
"That's impossible!" Leegaain blurted out avoiding the Empowered deadly touch with a side step. The creature was entirely made of shadows, with no facial features.
Despite the complete lack of a body, the energy mass was so dense that is was almost impossible distinguish it from a real one.
"According to my intel, they have spawned barely a day ago. How can they have evolved so fast?"
Tyris was surprised too, but decided to attempt a non violent approach.
"We don't want to harm you. As long as you are able to control your urges, you are living beings like anyone else. Just tell us what happened to you and we will let you go."
Instead of reacting to her words, the Abominations emitted an inhuman shriek relentlessly attacking the two Guardians with physical and magical attacks, with the only result of angering them.
There was no method or strategy behind their actions, it was just a suicidal series of attacks.
Tired of their madness, Tyris clenched her fist, squashing the Empowered Abomination like a bug by using only spirit magic, paralyzing the other two in her magical grip.
"This is your last chance, speak or die!" The Abominations just kept shrieking, almost breaking free from Tyris' grasp with sheer brute force.
"This shouldn't be happening." Said Leegaain.
"Developed Abominations should aim only for survival. These things look even more senseless then newborn. Let me attempt to read them."
Tyris nodded, focusing her strength on not letting them escape. It wasn't only their mind to be apparently broken, even their powers were out of scale. It was just them being too stupid to use them properly.
Leegaain let out two tendrils of mana, attempting a telepathic communication with the two anomalies. As soon as the link was established, Leegaain fell on his knees screaming in pain.
Tyris squashed them mercilessly, going to aid her old friend.
"What happened?"
"It's worse than we thought. Not only something is creating artificial Abominations, in a way similar to what you use for your artificial Awakened ones, but it's also fusing themselves together to force them to evolve faster.
Each one of those things was several Abominations merged into one. That's why they were so strong."