Deleting the Human Limit

"If I could set a Growth Trait for my body that increased my strength, the rate at which I absorbed brain holes would also increase dramatically."

As he absorbed the molten slag, Bai Ge pondered.

There were many ways to increase his strength, such as changing his muscle structure, altering the organizational strength of his cells, or increasing the hardness of his bones...

He could give himself the trait of being able to lift objects a hundred or a thousand times heavier than himself.

Or he could set his jumping ability beyond all common sense.

But none of these suited Bai Ge.

What Bai Ge wanted was gradual, steady growth. After seeing the benefits of a Growth Trait, he no longer wanted a trait that would directly make him stronger.

"If I directly set my strength to be several times greater, what happens when that's no longer enough in the future? Do I increase it several more times? Repeating this over and over would cost more energy each time than the last. When would it ever end?"

In the past, Bai Ge would have imitated ants or Spider-Man. Once he had enough energy in the future, he might even have directly added super strength to himself.

But now, he had decided to solve the problem once and for all.

"Humans can increase their muscle strength, physical fitness, bodily coordination, and even reaction speed through training."

"Every aspect of overall physical fitness can be strengthened through training. It's just that the human body has limits."

The limits of the human body depended on the environment in which humanity had survived since ancient times. The oxygen content and Earth's gravitational constant both affected this.

That was not all. It also included the nutrients the human body required, the speed of metabolic turnover, the upper limit of cellular activity and division, and so on.

Consuming sugar and protein determined how high the limit could be.

If humans had needed sulfuric acid and plutonium instead of these things since ancient times, then the human limit would also have been an unpredictable value.

"Can I directly change the human limit? Or better yet... can I make it so that I have no limit?"

If the human limit was a limiter,

a peak of physical fitness naturally set by the laws of nature for different species in different environments,

then what would happen if that peak were removed and the limiter abolished?

The greatest possibility was gaining the potential to grow infinitely stronger.

For example, an athlete might develop extremely powerful physical abilities through several years of training, but that growth would eventually slow down or even stagnate.

The first year would produce obvious results, the second year mediocre results, and the third year...

He would say, "Continuing to train like this isn't having any effect anymore..."

If the limitation imposed on him by nature were removed at that point, then every time he continued training like that, he would gain something.

The harder he worked, the more obvious the results would be. The time and sweat he invested would all be converted into an equivalent amount of gains.

If he gained something every day, and his physical abilities grew stronger with every training session, then... one day, he would train himself into a god!

Of course, that assumed he had a sufficiently long lifespan.

"But wouldn't this be too slow in the early stages?"

Bai Ge continued thinking while having Bell assist him with the settings and refine the details.

"Just removing the peak isn't enough. I'd have to spend a huge amount of time before I could become stronger."

"Suppose it takes me ten years to reach the human limit. Wouldn't training for my entire life still be inferior to directly increasing my strength a hundredfold?"

Bai Ge wanted a Growth Trait, but he did not want such a slow-growing one.

"I've got it!"

"Make efficiency unrelated to my foundation. The amount of exercise required for one hundred percent training results must not increase as my physical fitness improves."

"Use my current training efficiency as the baseline and lock it in. However effective my first training session is, that will be my efficiency in the future. It won't decrease just because my physical foundation becomes too strong."

"In other words, no matter how strong I become, every training session will forcibly have the same efficiency as my first one."

Here, Bai Ge set an abnormal level of efficiency.

Efficiency was not the same as results. It was a ratio. The base value multiplied by efficiency equaled the result. Normally, training efficiency would decrease as the human body grew stronger, but Bai Ge intended to remove that relationship entirely.

To give a simple example:

Bai Ge was currently weak, so one high-intensity workout would produce excellent results. Suppose lifting a dumbbell one hundred times could increase his arm strength by one kilogram.

Then lifting a dumbbell thirty thousand times in one day could increase his arm strength by three hundred kilograms.

If he kept it up every day, he could lift a dumbbell ten million nine hundred fifty thousand times in a year, increasing his arm strength by one hundred nine thousand five hundred kilograms.

That was obviously absurd and unrealistic.

But it was only an example. What Bai Ge wanted was precisely that kind of result.

What he wanted was for his future training to always be as effective as it had been when he was weak and doing it for the first time, no matter how powerful he became.

What kind of situation would this create?

When Bai Ge was an ordinary person, running ten kilometers would have such a great effect. When Bai Ge was a superhuman, running ten kilometers would still have just as great an effect!

When Bai Ge could shatter an island with one punch, running ten kilometers would still have the same effect.

With such a setting, Bai Ge might suffer tremendously at first.

But that suffering would eventually pass.

As Bai Ge grew stronger day by day, training would become simpler and simpler until it was merely a formality!

Once Bai Ge truly became extremely powerful, the training exercises he had done when he was weak would become effortless.

At present, Bai Ge had to struggle for ten minutes to lift a ten-kilogram dumbbell one hundred times. Once he became stronger, he could easily do one thousand repetitions in ten minutes.

If he became as powerful as Superman, what would a ten-kilogram dumbbell matter? He could do ten thousand repetitions in one minute.

Under this trait, where he continued growing stronger while the effects of training remained unchanged, Bai Ge's rate of enhancement would increase by a geometric multiple.

At first, he would be like an ordinary person. Gradually, he would exceed the limits of normal humans. Eventually, one day of training would produce results greater than several years in the past!

To use an even more direct analogy:

In an online game, leveling up required a certain amount of experience. The experience required increased with every level, even doubling at times.

Bai Ge's setting, however, was equivalent to requiring the same amount of experience for every level as was required for the first level.

The first level required one hundred experience points, the second level did too... the hundredth level did too... and every level forever would require only that amount.

But the power wouldn't stay the same! His execution would grow stronger!

Once his strength was high enough, a single skill could kill an entire crowd, and his level would continue skyrocketing without end.

No idiot would make an online game like that.

Reality was the same. Such Divine Training would not occur in any living creature.

But that was precisely where the terror of abnormal settings lay...

"It should definitely be possible to realize this. I just don't know how much I'll have to pay..."

"First, this setting isn't universal across the multiverse. It's merely a special case applying to me personally."

"Second, I'm only modifying an existing setting. I'm removing the 'thing' that should be there and deleting the 'setting' that should be there."

Bai Ge constantly adjusted the details, trying to reduce his consumption as much as possible.

But every time he entered reality, he still failed to realize it.

"As expected, even if I reduce the consumption to the minimum, it's still beyond what I can afford right now!"

"I have too little energy at present. I'll save up for a while first!"

Bai Ge shook his head and silently left the brain hole.

He remained immersed in the terrifyingly hot molten slag, continually absorbing the surrounding matter.

At the same time, the generators in the brain hole continued operating, charging his appendix.

Nearly three hours later, Bai Ge returned to the brain hole from the molten slag.

It was not because he had enough energy, but because he needed to rest.

The Calm Command was a method of forcibly maintaining calm, and it placed tremendous psychological pressure on him.

The distress caused by the high pressure and suffocation tormented him. Although he could still endure it now and continue holding on,

human endurance had its limits. He could not remain calm forever without adjusting himself. Otherwise, if he used the command one more time later, the suffering he was experiencing during this period would become a memory so painful that recalling it would make him wish for death.

Since he could return to the brain hole and catch his breath, there was no need to torture himself until it left him with psychological trauma.

"Human endurance definitely has limits. To withstand such terrifying pain for three hours, I must already be at the pinnacle of all humanity, right? No one could keep enduring this kind of extreme torture without eventually breaking down."

Bai Ge returned to the brain hole. Though he called it resting, he was really only relaxing his mind.

He could not sit idle when it came to removing the limiter.

Bai Ge asked, "Are there any radioactive elements?"

"Yes!" Bell replied.

Bai Ge nodded. Part of the underground heat came from pressure, while another part came from radioactive elements.

The latter ensured that the molten slag's heat source continued unabated.

"Good!"

As Bai Ge spoke, he looked toward the roiling molten slag pool. After losing the mantle's immense pressure, it had become orange again.

The container holding it was a space-time meaningless box, a place shaped like a pool by isolating space-time itself.

In nearly three hours, Bai Ge had absorbed a total of five thousand two hundred tons of molten slag.

After the problem of thermal energy was solved, the problem of radiation energy was solved as well.

When radiation touched Bai Ge's cells, it would transform into electrical energy and then be absorbed.

Because radiation itself was a method of transferring heat, while Bai Ge resisted the spread of heat, he was also resisting radiation.

"Change back..."

Bai Ge returned to his normal appearance. There was no need to maintain his Shadow Person state inside the brain hole, where there was no surface pressure a million times greater than normal.

He tied his necktie into a dead knot around his neck and continued approaching the molten slag pool.

The necktie had the same traits as the Shadow Person, so Bai Ge did not need to worry about it being burned. He only had to make sure it did not leave his body.

Scorching waves of heat surged toward him, yet Bai Ge did not feel even the slightest sensation.

He had already lost the right to experience "warmth."

He could only experience bitter cold; he would never know what heat felt like again.

He approached the molten slag pool step by step, flying as he did so.

When he plunged his hand into the pool, wisps of electric arcs danced and surged through his entire body.

It was an intensely contradictory sensation.

He was clearly touching molten slag, yet what he felt was the exhilarating sensation of electricity coursing through his body.

After confirming that there was no problem, Bai Ge directly jumped into the molten slag pool.

Only half of Bai Ge's body sank into the pool. The terrifying heat did not harm him.

Bai Ge's current heat tolerance was fifty thousand degrees, while the molten slag was only slightly above five thousand. By the time the heat reached his cells, the heat that should have been transferred to Bai Ge had already transformed into electricity.

As a result, Bai Ge stood there surrounded by dancing, circling, and leaping arcs of electricity.

To absorb it faster, of course, it was best to submerge his entire body in the molten slag.

Bai Ge bent down and held his breath, remaining still.

An income of one hundred thousand units of electricity per hour was far better than what his appendix could provide.

"In theory, the conduction efficiency shouldn't be this high..."

"That's it! The conversion speed I set back then was one hundred million Planck times. It directly magnified the efficiency of heat transfer!"

"Fantastic! Geothermal heat is important to me because it's free and sustainable. As long as I soak in it, I have electricity!"

"There are vast amounts of radioactive elements here, constantly releasing thermal radiation. They'll be enough for me to absorb for a very long time."

Ten hours.

Twenty hours.

Thirty hours.

Every ten hours, Bai Ge would go out and test whether the Growth Trait of Divine Training could be realized.

The trait had already been bestowed upon his Earthling body. As long as he had enough energy, he would know whether it had been accepted as soon as he went outside and felt the consumption.

Unfortunately, thirty hours passed, and he still could not succeed.

"How much is it going to take... I'm not going back up until I get it!"

Thirty days later...

P.S. I know this involves many other aspects. Just understand that he's removing the limiter.