A few more hours had passed before Aleph could y down in his bed.

  His tension from earlier was gone by now. He kept recalling the ses from earlier.

  Aleph ducted regur testing. He wasn’t surprised that his running speed could go to one hundred meters in five seds. He focused more on the sensation of fighting against the armed group.

  “That’s how it is… It feels like fighting against kids with guns.”

  He doesn’t know whether his body could withstand an explosion. The most he did was to experiment whether he could tank gunshots—he could.

  As long as it’s not an armor pierg round, he could tank it with ease. If it was the tter, he would be injured, but that was it.

  “It’s not enough.”

  Aleph thought of the Hind Chopper. If it straight up fired its missiles at him, how would he fare? How about mechs? he fight against them just like honkai beasts?

  “I got pt.”

  Many things that he overlooked fshed in his mind. After a while, he calmed down. He decided to check the achievements he unlocked during the fight.

  [Achievement Unlocked: Predator to Prey]

  [Reward: Elemental Sight]

  [Predator to Prey: Reverse the situation from being huo being the hunter.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: Angel’s Judgement]

  [Reward: Bnk Sephira Crystal Fragment]

  [Angel’s Judgement: Punish an evildoer.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: Dashingly Cool]

  [Reward: Major Energy Box]

  [Dashingly Cool: Avoid a life-threatening situation with a drift.]

  [Achievement Unlocked: One Man Army]

  [Reward: Cursed Sword]

  [One Man Army: Fight against aire army on your own.]

  A total of four rewards were present. Aleph first took care of the [Major Energy Box]

  [Cursed Energy (verted): 930 → 1020]

  Click-!

  The moment his cursed energy broke through ohousand, a strange sensatio all over him. His entire body turned numb. Aleph tried to move his arms, only to be met with crag sounds.

  sequently, pain began to sweep through his body. It was a strange sensation that bined numbness and pain.

  “Ugh…”

  Aleph grasped the mattress. His fiore through the entire foam.

  At this moment, he regretted g it first. He thought that he wouldn’t reae thousand tonight. Who would’ve thought that it provided a shog y units of cursed energy?

  Aleph nearly bcked out several times. It wasn’t until the pain and numbness started fading away did he regain sciousness.

  “Ugh…”

  The first thiiced was the dark red blood stains all over his bed. The mattress was destroyed due to his g and grasping. A bloody stench came from his entire body. His pajamas were not spared, either.

  Aleph stood up from the bed.

  “Huh..?”

  He immediately felt the difference. His current body felt several times lighter pared to the previous him. Crag sounds came from his muscles as he tiretg them. Strangely enough, he felt no pain from what was supposed to be a painful process.

  It didhere.

  “I became taller by… four timeters? My entire senses are sharper too. Just what the hell..?”

  [Cursed Energy (verted): 1020]

  [Estimated Grade: Grade 1]

  Once again, Aleph suffered from a huge information gap.

  He didn’t know that the strengthening of the body through the cursed teique was inally dohrough the fine trol of cursed energy. The greater one’s trol, the more the body bees stronger.

  Aleph’s situation of his body being stronger as the cursed energy progresses is pletely unheard of. Even in its in world, there isn’t something that could expin it.

  Even his Active Power State in the form of veins was unheard of. It granted Aleph unpreted trol of his cursed energy inwardly. The only thing he o practice was the outward expression, which was dohrough his cursed teique, Juezhao, and Sphere Boundary.

  Simply put, he was doing half the effort for double the rewards.

  Aleph had to up his bed. He threw away the broken mattress and quilts before repg them with new ones. Before he could e outside, he already took a shower to himself off the patch of solidified blood in his body.

  It took him another hour to y down on his bed.

  “The transformation took thirty minutes. Should I… that’s it. I’ll pletely settle everything today.”

  Aleph’s eyes came to the [Elemental Sight]. It appeared in his hand in the form of a blue eye-like jewel.

  Crack-!

  Shatter-!

  In an instant, his vision ged into a transparent blue. He saw patches of purple light floating in the air. He also saw through his entire body which was filled with bck-purple energy.

  Outside his room, he saw several red patches of light that came from the f furnace of the third institute.

  “Energy… I see them?”

  Aleph pyed around with this ability before taking out the [Cursed Sword].

  A pin silver katana with a bck handle appeared out of thin air. He decided to look at it with [Elemental Sight] and saw a huge bck-blue energy pressed within the bde itself.

  [Cursed Sword: An ordinary cursed tool used by a person with extremely high cursed energy reserves. Using it improve one’s trol of cursed energy.]

  “Improve the trol of cursed energy? Is this just like the [Sphere Boundary]?”

  For a time, Aleph experimented with it. Purple lines appeared all over his body. He tried inputting a certain amount of cursed energy ihe bde.

  Much to his surprise, he found out that his trol became slightly better.

  “What about with [Sphere Boundary]..?”

  He tested using the [Sphere Boundary] while he was inputting cursed energy into the bde.

  “Huh?!”

  Aleph’s guesses were correct. He could use the two of them at the same time.

  His training regime used to be posed of separate ses. It was the first time he did two things that overpped with the same purpose—that is, to increase the trol of his cursed energy.

  “My cursed energy couldn’t go farther than five timeters… I o train it until it goes back to the usual…”

  That night, Aleph lost his sleep.