"What benefit?" Ash instinctively lowered his head to look at his hands.
He discovered that the skin on both hands had completely returned to normal.
"My skin's back to normal! Great, I'm not some African guy. That color really gets in the way when I'm trying to pick up girls at bars. Heh-ha, you know what I mean!" Ash gave a lewd laugh, raised his brows, and shot Wu Heng a look.
"No, just your hands, because you currently only control the Black Bone in your hands."
"Only battle can awaken your potential. That struggle just now merely restored your hands to their normal color. Your face, neck, and even your thighs are still black."
"If you want to recover, you'll have to fight and completely take control of the Black Bone throughout your body. By then, not only will your skin color return to normal and no longer be affected by your bones—"
"You'll also become the strongest Marrow Eater."
Hearing this, Ash was instantly speechless. So after all that, it was only his hands.
"Can we discuss this? Could we start by changing my face first? My god-tier looks are desperately waiting to be revealed." Ash vigorously rubbed his face, seemingly trying to rub it anemic so it would look a little paler.
He then nudged the demon on the ground with his toe, sending it rolling in a circle.
"What should we do with this thing?"
"You can't leave, okay? It's still in my dream right now. If you go, it might come back to life."
The demon Eligos's body lay stiffly on the ground, covered in rotting leaves.
As it rolled over, some wet dirt stuck to its eyeball. Its completely black eye kept spinning, trying to shake it off, but to no avail.
So it