Jar after jar of fine wine went down. Rhodes sat in the garden drinking for two whole days, even eating a good deal of the Divine Beast meat in his spatial ring, before he fully calmed his excitement over strengthening himself. With his emotions in order, Rhodes rose and walked toward his room.
When he reached Hathaway's door, Rhodes could not help pausing, but then he continued toward his own room without stopping. Some things could not be rushed; taking them slowly was fine too. Time was the one thing he lacked least.
Bang!
Hearing Rhodes's door close, Hathaway, in another room, also let out a slight sigh of relief. She closed her beautiful eyes again and continued comprehending the Death Rule. Only the fluctuations of death divine power around her revealed just how nervous she had been. As for why she was nervous, perhaps only Hathaway herself knew.
With a wave of his hand, Rhodes took out the divine spark essence he had frantically extracted with his innate divine ability over the past five hundred years. He withdrew a total of one hundred drops of Lightning Element and Wind Element divine spark essence from his spatial ring.
In Rhodes's previous experiments, no Midgod Divine Beast's body had been able to withstand more than one hundred drops of divine spark essence during strengthening. Moreover, the closer it came to the end, the longer each drop took to fuse.
As for Lowgods, none had withstood more than ten drops of divine spark essence. All those that exceeded ten drops had died. After death, their bodies continued growing stronger on their own, becoming increasingly like divine sparks, as though their entire bodies were going to turn into oversized divine sparks.
As for the time needed to fuse divine spark essence, the early