Ren remembered the surprise on the faces of teachers and students alike when the second head had first appeared. Because everyone "knew" that hydras could only accumulate heads in their wild form, when they reached absurdly deep depths where pressure, heat and mana density allowed such development.
The few whose eggs had been found and which had bonded to human tamers, "domesticated" beasts, were supposedly limited to a single head permanently through some fundamental restriction.
Except they weren't actually limited at all.
They only needed someone to find the appropriate cultivation method to overcome that "perceived" limitation that everyone had accepted as the absolute truth.
And Ren had cultivated his hydra perfectly for breaking that barrier. Even more than perfectly in execution. Refining its complete elemental control that shouldn't exist in its lineage through the standard evolution. Pushing it in many ways far beyond what others believed possible for the species.
