The feeling of fire flowing through his body was strange to Yeon-woo. ‘Yeah. This is it.’ This was the peak of all three parts of the self—mind, energy, and body—becoming one. As the Head Elder had seen right away, Yeon-woo hadn’t been able to grow much after reaching the expert level, as though all of his potential had evaporated.

All of his attempts to circumvent this—improving his magic, Consciousness, Wave of Fire—didn’t go very far. He’d pushed himself to his limits so perfectly that he’d lost the ability to grow. Of course, he still had some alternatives.

‘I can awaken the fourth step or absorb more Draconic Factors and Demonic Factors…but that might ruin the balance.’ He was sure that there were even more ways. ‘But it’s not like they’ll happen right away as I want them to.’

However, one ace up his sleeve was an external method that no one would have ever been able to use: ‘The Summer Queen.’ All he had to do was absorb the...