“Idiot,” Anise said, clicking her tongue as she massaged Eugene’s arm.8

The muscles in Eugene’s jaw twitched with each touch of her light-enveloped fingers on his sore muscles.0

“Doesn’t the recoil somehow seem to have gotten even worse?” Anise observed.4

“It’s because my body’s performance wasn’t able to keep up with my movements,” Eugene muttered through tightly clenched lips.1

His body may have gone through a complete metamorphosis in the Darkroom, but once he used Ignition and Prominence at the same time, on top of operating the White Flame Formula, he would still face the problem of requiring more than what his body at its peak could provide.3

Eugene tried to look on the bright side, “It’s still better than it was in my previous life.”0

In his previous life, his Core had been damaged from his repeated uses of Ignition, but that was no longer a necessary concern for the current Eugene. It might be true that, at the moment, his body was in such pain that it was difficult for him to even lie straight, but that was just because his body was not able to handle the extent to which his power had been amplified.1

‘As my divinity increases and my divine power becomes stronger, my physical body should start experiencing changes as well,’ Eugene guessed.4

And the more strength he possessed, the more his power would be amplified by Ignition. At the moment, he was having these difficulties because everything was so greatly out of balance, but his body would eventually adapt to his newfound power at some point, along with the physical transformations due to his increase in divine power.8

When that day finally came… Eugene’s brow furrowed as he became lost in thought.0

He was thinking back to his battle against Raizakia.0

Back then, Eugene had not only used Prominence and Ignition at the same time, but he had also managed to push Ignition one step further by overclocking it. Usually, he wouldn’t have even considered attempting such a drastic measure, but it had...3