Beneath the night sky.
On a balcony lounge chair, Josen toyed with the card in his hand, looking somewhat contemplative.
A minute later.
He sorted out his thoughts.
The last time his main body had used "Limiter Breakthrough" to strengthen itself was, well, last time. Although a long time had passed, the thrill of cheating was still fresh in his memory.
Based on his previous experience, all the changes from breaking through his limits happened inside his body. Unless he lost control, they would not affect the outside world.
Still, Josen set up a protective force field in advance, with F-kid on standby to prevent any accidents.
With everything ready, he slapped the blue card in his hand into his chest without hesitation.
Within a breath, Josen's body visibly flushed red and grew burning hot. Veins throbbed over his swelling muscles, as though they were about to burst through the confines of his skin.
A long-absent sensation traveled through his nerve endings. Sweat trickled down from his hairline, soaking his fitted T-shirt in an instant and fully outlining his broad back and narrow waist.
It hurt! It hurt so much!
The server's level cap unlocked once again. His nearly maxed-out base stats cautiously climbed to the critical threshold, discovered that the promised account ban had not arrived, and immediately began hungrily absorbing the energy that broke through his limits. Every stat point broke through a new limit.
The corresponding changes manifested in Josen's real body. Almost every cell in his body was breaking down and being destroyed while simultaneously rebuilding itself.
Triggered by unimaginable pain, an indestructible layer of "AT Force Field" enveloped him, structured like an eggshell,
Inside the shell, psychic power, chakra, soul matter, and the natural energy stored within his body-powers belonging to different ability systems-boiled and