[Optimising new evolutionary path focusing on strength and elegance.]
Adam's body twitched, scales erupting and bones snapping into his original form. But his chaos, influenced by his desire or perhaps just finding the colossal size unnecessary, suppressed his growing body.
[Discarding useless scales and increasing skin thickness. Refining humanoid form and features.]
Scales receded, and dark bones returned to their original forms. His pointed ears became round, assuming a human shape. Messy hair shifted, a hairline dividing them into ivory-black and ebony-white silk.
As if influenced by Yamata-no-Orochi and Kagutsuchi, his scales condensed into finely engraved symbols on his arms and chest—an eight-headed serpent on the left, a dragon on the right—both proof of his origins. But he had another origin, too.