Leonel heard the voice, and he burst into a laughter, uncaring for the state of his body. Every rumbling chuckle seems to cause another rain of blood to fall from him, but he was at complete peace even with his body being ravaged to this extent.
That interaction with Elysium had truly pissed him off. Even making him back off like that wasn't enough, because it was clear the man was still as arrogant as ever.
The only way Leonel would feel satisfied is if he truly made them suffer.
All of them.
The Variant Invalids tried to steal his wife right from under his nose.
The Celestial Embers had cooperated with the Owlans to try to steal his Life Tablet and Anastasia.
Minerva had tried to kill him more than once, humiliating him several times, and in the end, he could only let her get away because he didn't have the strength to stop Elysium.
The frustration was boiling over to the point he had almost returned to his old ways.
But it was fine.
If he couldn't crush them with his fists, then he would take advantage with his blade when he could, and then crush them with his mind.
His laughter echoed throughout the world, and yet the Celestial Ember that was able to cross an entire world with just a single flap of her wings couldn't seem to find him at all. It was like he had truly vanished.Gét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om
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At that moment, in another corner of the battlefield, a familiar Void Race member appeared in a cosmic swirl of black and violet. She frowned, her senses spreading, and almost instantly, she retreated into the portal again.
The fury of Nova was palpable, and it had spread across the entire world. As arrogant as Shan'Rae was, she knew that she was no match for an Ancestor level character.
Ironically, the moment she stepped into the world, he had been forced to vanish once again.
'An entire percentage point? Can I replicate that? Is it because my state of injury was just that bad? Or is it something else?'
Leonel looked deeper and found that he had actually moved along in the stages of progress that Aina had mentioned all that time ago.
Right now, he had reached 30% integration. As Aina had said back then, to push it past 30%, they needed to take drastic measure, forming a feedback loop between his body, brain, Ethereal Glabella and Soul.
But just now, it felt like [Instant Recovery] had done that all on its own.
Leonel suddenly wanted to run and tell his wife, but he couldn't do that. She was in the middle of having a breakthrough of her own.
'That much is fine. I don't need a huge boost in my strength right now. Now that I'm certain that [Instant Recovery] holds a secret to elevating my body to a new level, I can do it any time. Right now, my mind is more important, and this is just secondary.
'That said...'
Leonel did a few more tests, trying to figure something out.
Then he had a thought.
If [Instant Recovery] still worked, then the Dark Northern Lineage Factor reciprocal, their life steal ability, should likewise work.
'Hm...'
Leonel walked to one of the many Fallen God Beast corpses he had accumulated and placed a hand on one. Then, he used [Life Steal].
His eyes opened wide immediately as he felt the changes to his body.
'Holy shit...'
Once again, there was a feedback between the world and the technique that amplified their abilities. And, on top of that, the amplification only seemed to increase because of the modifications he had made to the Lineage Factor.
'If only I could use these techniques openly... I would be an unbeatable monster...'