He could feel the mana that lay rampant inside the Seal. It was gathering around him. Reign of Fire burned even fiercer under the influence of his mana stream. His body drew out its potential faster and faster.

As the power fueling it grew stronger, the mana within him didn’t deplete whatsoever.

“How late,” Lee Jun-Kyeong said as he rubbed at his neck that had been crushed in the boy’s grasp. He wasn’t talking to anyone around him, but rather, he was just speaking to himself.

‘I had aimed for that to happen before that, however…’

His mana stream had been extremely active during combat.

In combat, one would be in an intense state of concentration while surrounded by danger. Those things would instinctively depend on how much one would be able to draw from one’s potential and circulate up to even the bare dredges of one’s mana.

Lee Jun-Kyeong had maximized this as he had had his mana stream activated. Therefore, he had a hunch that his mana stream would improve during this battle. No matter how hard he had fought with the other monsters before, he hadn’t felt as though he was in a crisis. This battle, on the other hand, sacrificed safety for a faster return on strength.

The result was as expected as well.

"It was a little late, but it was a success."

He felt the power overflowing within his body. Every cell was wrapped in mana and evolving. The him before his mana...