"Me?"
A wild, unrestrained smile curled at the corners of Dago's mouth.
Deep within his eyes, tiny Storm Runes flickered silently like miniature tornadoes.
He slowly clenched his fists, his bones cracking like muffled thunder. His deep voice carried an unmistakable fervor. "Right now... I feel fantastic."
The world-ending thunderstorm unleashed by the Storm Lord on the verge of entering the divine domain of Seven-Ring-the Stormweaver-had brutally torn Dago's flesh apart. Yet it had also acted like a supreme furnace of destruction, granting him another overwhelmingly powerful rebirth through Nirvana.
Dago closed his eyes and called up the system panel deep within his retinas.
Most of his stats had barely changed. Aside from his soul age, which had been forcibly pushed forward amid the struggle between life and death, ticking from its fixed value of 21 to 22, the most astonishing transformation had occurred in his [Blue Demon Physique].
Nearly a year of inhumanly grueling training in the Storm Realm, followed by his final, insane gamble of willingly throwing himself into the Stormweaver's clutches, had at last brought Dago the richest of rewards.
His [Blue Demon Physique] had undergone an immense leap beyond its limits, giving his body an explosive increase in strength that almost transcended the boundaries of his species!
Now, his incomparably powerful demonic body had reached the terrifying point where it could almost completely ignore wind and lightning spells below the Fourth Circle!
Meanwhile, the mysterious Blue Conch nurtured within the sphere of light in his lower abdomen had grown increasingly intricate and profound, expanding by an entire size.
This was direct proof that the [Second-Tier Conch Palace] within him had been perfectly constructed.
But if all these increases in his stats had still fallen within Dago's precise calculations...
Then the other changes he discovered next were