Lucas knew that this was not yet its most dangerous moment.
Sure enough, after a while, Lucas realized that because it had devoured only dark-attributed power, while it possessed both darkness and destruction attributes, the power of darkness was now suppressing its power of destruction. This had brought it to its most dangerous moment.
As these energies clashed, its body visibly swelled as though it were being inflated. There was nothing Lucas could do now, either. This was the trial the laws of the world imposed on every creature that sought to break through the limits of its level of life. It had originally been a black bear that could only grow to the ninth rank. Perhaps, with exceptional talent, it could have advanced to Saint through the relatively gentle method of comprehending the laws.
But it had chosen to devour the core of a Saint-level magical beast, so it had to bear the danger of whether it could control power that surpassed its own.
If it could endure this period, it could advance to become a Saint Magical Beast. If it could not, Lucas would lose only a contracted beast. Moreover, Lucas did not know whether the death of one party to this Equal Contract would affect the other.
So Lucas now hoped in his heart that it could safely survive this advancement.
A day quickly passed, and at one point, Lucas had even wanted to give up. Its body had been so filled with rampaging energy that it had nearly exploded, but after a night had passed, although Lucas could sense that its soul was now very weak, that energy was slowly being brought under control, and its body had begun to shrink back.
After noon, when Lucas returned to the place where it was making its breakthrough,