Leo was writhing on the ground in pain. This pain was different from being injured or hacked; it felt as if someone had ripped his soul out and was violently tormenting it.
Leo was a little confused because he couldn't sense the Healing Rune Array Healing Rune Array on his body, even though he wanted to activate it.
Suddenly, starting from a certain second, all of Leo's pain disappeared.
Leo's expression changed instantly, because it wasn't that his body had recovered, but rather that there was a problem with his nervous system!
The problem is getting worse!
Then his mind went blank, and all his memories flashed before Leo's eyes in a jumbled mess. One second he might have been flirting with a female classmate in school, and the next second a greatsword fell from the sky, and a group of Wizard Apprentice blew the entire classroom to smithereens.
The arms and legs swung uncontrollably, sometimes the legs would take over the hands to pick things up, sometimes the hands would take over the feet to walk, and the buttocks could even be placed under the feet.
Large patches of skin and fur fell off, like an animal molting to welcome new life.
Leo is currently unable to control his body, or rather, Leo consciousness is out of control, wandering into wild thoughts.
The entire body, every part of it, seemed to have its own thoughts, each busy with its own things.
My five senses are also not working properly; sometimes I can see, sometimes I can't, sometimes I can see with my left eye, sometimes I can see with my right eye.
One moment its ears are flapping like an elephant's, the next it's biting its own tongue, and then its nose is enthusiastically performing a closing dance.
If any human on Earth saw Leo, they would surely think he was a hybrid monster combining elements of an oddity, a zombie, a ghost, and a ghoul.
Leo's mind has completely descended into chaos, he can't control anything, or rather, Leo has lost his self-awareness. In this world, Leo, the Wizard Apprentice, no longer exists; what exists is merely a strange monster.
But just as Leo was digging a hole in the ground like a pangolin, his chaotic body stopped.
First, my lungs resumed breathing, and I began to breathe frantically, like a bottomless pit, as if I was about to suffocate and die from lack of oxygen at any moment, and I had to absorb enough oxygen in that second.
He took a very deep breath, which created quite a gust of wind in the room.
A large amount of oxygen enters and is crammed into the bloodstream by the unusually active lungs, forcing the blood to circulate at its fastest speed.
The blood brought a large amount of energy, and within just a few breaths, all the organs returned to normal, even the brain began to function normally.
Although still somewhat dazed, Leo forced herself to regain her rationality and memory and quickly deal with the problem at hand.
Once his senses returned, Leo immediately reached for his pants.
Very good, it's wet.
Leo really wanted to punch his own kidneys a couple of times; he just couldn't control himself and kept playing like this!
Leo hadn't quite figured out what had just happened, why his body had suddenly lost control, and so completely at that.
It's certainly related to the mutated shadow, but Leo couldn't figure out what caused it for the time being.
There was no time for Leo to figure it out, because an intense feeling of hunger struck like a storm.
His stomach pounded like a war drum, urging Leo to eat!
The organs that were out of control just now are like a naughty child who has been playing wildly for days; now they know they want to eat!
Eat, keep eating.
The Shadow Space is always stocked with plenty of food. Leo is aware of his identity as Body Refinement Wizard Apprentice, so he knows how much he can eat. Eating a whole cow in one meal would only make him half full, so he has prepared enough food for half a year as a reserve.
However, the food reserves that were usually enough for half a year were eaten up in less than ten days.
For ten days, Leo ate non-stop, day and night. His stomach felt like it was connected to a bottomless abyss. No matter how much he ate, his stomach didn't swell up, and he didn't feel full. In fact, he would feel even hungrier.
Leo suspected that his stomach acid had evolved into aqua regia, capable of dissolving metal if ingested.
This is not an exaggeration. Leo ate a lot of bones because he was so hungry that he found that these bones, which should have taken some time to digest, were digested completely in his stomach, just like the meat.
Stomach acid has indeed evolved, to a level that Leo hasn't even figured out yet!
There's no time right now, otherwise Leo would like to extract some stomach acid to see if it can melt the metal!
In ten days, half a year's worth of food reserves in the Shadow Space were completely wiped out.
Despite eating so much, not a single drop of feces was excreted. Everything was completely digested the moment it entered the stomach, leaving not a single residue.
This is not a normal physiological phenomenon!
Leo was a little confused.
There was no time for Leo to figure out why this was happening, because the hunger in his stomach showed no signs of abating; on the contrary, it was still growling loudly.
Leo noticed that her body fat was decreasing rapidly as soon as she stopped eating, and the trend seemed to be intensifying.
My belly has shrunk, my buttocks have shrunk, and even my arms and legs are getting thinner at a visible rate.
This is because the body is rapidly burning fat to replenish the energy it needs.
But looking at his rapidly thinning body, Leo recalled his arduous journey through the desert. Back then, due to the lack of external energy intake, his body was forced to sacrifice some cells to save its most basic functions. As long as he didn't die, he could sacrifice any tissue or organ.
The situation is exactly the same as it is now.
If Leo doesn't eat immediately, not only will fat be digested, but also more cells and organs will be digested. At that point, Leo will die from being drained of energy.
Leo was familiar with this situation; it meant his body was evolving, but the rate of evolution was too fast, and his energy couldn't keep up.
What the body needs now is energy, a lot of energy, not food. The food we eat will eventually be converted into energy and absorbed.
Leo desperately absorbed the elemental energy in the air, but he was still just a Wizard Apprentice, and the speed at which he absorbed it was only a drop in the ocean compared to the consumption of his body.
He quickly retrieved the Black Pearl Potion from the Shadow Space; this was a mana-restoring potion that only Level One Formal Wizard could use.
one bite,
The body's magical power was instantly restored to full.
But the hungry body, like a tiger with bloodshot eyes, devoured the magical power.
Another bite,
His mana was instantly replenished, but in less than two breaths, all his mana was drained.
Leo simply downed the remaining half-bottle of Black Pearl Potion.
Excellent, every cell in his body was sending signals of satisfaction. Unfortunately, before Leo could even rejoice, the amount of Black Pearl Potion he had enough to recover five times was rapidly decreasing.
Without giving Leo a chance to catch his breath, all of his magical power was drained!
Hungry, hungry, needing to eat
Every cell in his body was screaming for help; the hunger signals made Leo dizzy, and he wanted to swallow everything he saw.
"Instead of breaking down food into energy and having it absorbed, it's better to directly ingest energy."
Leo reached out and grabbed eight dazzling energy crystals, which appeared in his hand.
This is the purest form of energy, and also the source of the most energy that Leo possesses.
Without a second thought, the moment Leo knew that this was exactly what his body was lacking.
Leo endured the excruciating hunger that tore at his body. The energy crystal was neither food nor medicine; consuming it would likely cause problems.
But his body instinct compelled Leo to swallow it. There was no need to hesitate or doubt whether he could consume it; none of that mattered.
Swallow it.
Swallow it.
Swallow it.
This is the sound of every single cell desperately screaming!
" Gulu "
With his Adam's apple bobbing, Leo finally succumbed to his body's instincts and impulsively swallowed an energy crystal.
I felt a heaviness in my stomach.
At this moment, Leo regained his senses slightly and recalled the scene of embedding energy crystals into the greatsword; the scene of putting energy crystals into the atomic bomb when he modified it; and the scene of the nuclear explosion.
Energy crystals are crystals of energy. Although their structure is stable, once this stability is broken, they will instantly unleash a powerful energy shock.
Leo didn't doubt whether his stomach acid could digest the energy crystal; rather, he worried that he might be torn apart by the energy shockwave from the crystal.
Thinking about it any further was useless, because Leo felt that the moment the energy crystal entered his stomach, the stomach acid, which had become many times stronger, enveloped the energy crystal and was constantly dissolving its outer layer.
As expected of evolved stomach acid, it can even melt the outer layer of energy crystals.
The hunger kept coming, but knowing there was food in my stomach made the hunger less intense; it was clearly a case of self-deception.
Yet, this very behavior clearly showed that she understood this body better than Leo. Ten breaths after Leo consumed the energy crystal, a powerful energy erupted from her stomach.
It was the stomach acid that dissolved the enhanced outer layer of the energy crystal!
Leo tried to open his mouth to guide out the violently erupting energy. Although he was Body Refinement Wizard Peak Apprentice, he still couldn't withstand such a strong energy erupting in his body. He hadn't yet cultivated to the point where his internal organs could withstand the energy impact.
But the result was completely different from what Leo expected. Before the energy crystal could even damage his body, his body, like someone who had been starving for half his life, suddenly saw a Manchu Han Imperial Feast and pounced on it like a madman.
Every organ, every cell, anything that could come into contact with energy was absorbing it like crazy.
The energy released when the energy crystal shattered was terrifying, but the speed at which Leo's body absorbed the energy was even more terrifying.
The frenzied cells and organs devoured all the energy they had, without ever showing any signs of being satiated.
An energy shock can cause enormous damage to internal organs, but the injured areas recover rapidly in the next second, and then pounce on the food with ferocious speed, as if afraid of missing out on this lavish feast.
His entire body was rapidly devouring the energy of the energy crystal, like a lawless bandit!
Leo smiled because he finally understood what had happened to his body.