Hell Island had strengthened Ron the most not through his physique, but through the tempering of his spirit.
On this land filled with danger, humanity's human nature would shrink without limit, while the savagery buried in its genes began to stir. Combined with the island creatures' terrifying combat power, once that spark of wildness was ignited, only death could extinguish it!
Ron had already felt that his strength was progressing more and more slowly. By now, every training session had almost no effect at all.
He knew... he had reached his limit.
Everyone had limits!
They were everywhere, even following people throughout their lives. From birth to burial, no one could avoid them.
And Ron's limit was right now...
However, breaking through one's limits was nothing lofty, nor was it some one-of-a-kind event. Looking back over life, there were simply too many limits that could be surpassed!
For example...
Some said that before people died, they would instantly relive their entire lives, like a slideshow.
Was that really possible?
Ron, who had nearly died countless times, could thump his chest and say, "It is!"
Unlike a judgment made by conscious thought, the instant the body realized that death was imminent and survival was impossible, after the body made its own judgment, some shackle deep within the brain would break apart. In that instant, a person's ability to think would become thousands, even tens of thousands of times sharper than usual!!
Time seemed to slow down, allowing people to review their entire lives in the briefest instant. Things they thought they had forgotten would also be dug out by their heightened thoughts at that moment.
Doing something before death that one could not normally do was proof of surpassing one's limits!
And this ability to accelerate one's thoughts before death was