Ignoring Caiyi, who looked as though he was questioning his entire life and kept muttering, "Comparisons really do drive you mad," Boer walked to the enormous floor-to-ceiling window. The morning sunlight stretched his shadow long, tracing what looked like a golden rim around his short, silver-white hair.
Bernia City lay beneath him, open to his gaze. This city of steel, whose rise he had single-handedly driven, now displayed a unique charm that mingled industrial might with the bustle of everyday life. But Boer's thoughts had already drifted farther away, toward the deeper dimensions of power.
"Energy... does that only mean life energy?" He unconsciously tapped his fingertips against the cold glass, making faint clicking sounds. "Can my magnetic sense vision only contract and compress inward? Can't it expand outward and break through?"
More novel, bold, even somewhat unorthodox ideas burst into his mind. He felt as though he stood before the gates to a new world, with the key already in his hand.
Thanks to the profound changes the Magnet-Magnet Fruit had made to his body, his adaptability and affinity for electrical currents now far surpassed those of ordinary people, almost reaching a kind of symbiosis. With the attitude that trying cost nothing, he carefully guided the bioelectric energy stored in his cells and attempted to mix it with the abundant life energy within him.
Bzzzt-
The faint sound, like a discharge of static electricity, rang especially clearly in the quiet room.
Boer raised his right fist. A familiar layer of pitch-black Armament Haki silently coated it, but this time, tiny, lively blue sparks leaped and coiled across its deep black surface! Like a band of mischievous sprites of light, they danced merrily across the black canvas.
"It worked! It really works!" A light of delighted surprise instantly flared in