I watched as my missing arm fully returned, forming itself out of glowing violet and blue light. My soul shone brighter and brighter, and its height kept rising, inch by inch until it passed ninety feet. After that, the growth slowed almost to nothing.
Still, I continued.
I kept dragging Essence from the world outside and forcing it into the ocean beneath me, letting it convert into more and more soul energy.
I didn't know how long I stayed like that. Time felt distant. Only the flow of Essence mattered.
Then, suddenly, a deep tremor ran through my soul. I had reached the ninety-nine-foot mark. The ocean below stilled. No new soul energy rose.
Power flooded me in a way I had never known.
It wasn't normal Essence strength. It was something far sharper, my sensitivity to Essence had exploded. My affinity had already been infinite, but now it felt as if a barrier I never noticed had been removed. It was like stepping from infinity… to something beyond it.
