Siva (Volume 7) Immortal Ascension

Chapter 051: Watch Closely

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Chapter 051: Watch Closely
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"—Ghrrm...!! I don't have time......" Siva groaned painfully as he staggered a step.

The headache was excruciating.

He had just used all and everything in his arsenal to win that last fight. It included the simultaneous exertion of his mental strength in using the IPU along with [Focus].

Then, the fact that he has been fighting two ultra-high ranked Demon King-level dangerous Final Bosses for the last eight hours has been another reason for the excruciating headache.

Even if Cortana translates 3% of all of his mental fatigue into physical pain thru his unique bodily constitution in the real world —it is nevertheless still only just 3%.

These past few hours was a test of everything that was currently him; everything that is currently "Siva".

From the defense of Horbe to fighting a Cardinal Hossain and a Priestess Sandra; to escaping the flames of the Fire Dragons, to suppressing these Acolytes in Maria and fighting against Kyle with all his might...

He had been pushing not only the very limits of his arsenal, he had also been pushing the limits of his current strength, proving his mettle, going past his boundaries, surpassing even his own expectations of himself.

To correct a wrong; to ease his guilt; to pay one debt; to revive his glory; to return to his origins; to remember forgotten memories.....

..........and to renew the reason he had to fight.

He did it all. And he succeeded.

Now, he was bordering on his limits.

Siva's vision was darkening and he could even feel that his exhaustion creeping over him. If he loses consciousness here, his real-world self will fall into a long sleep.

At least that was sure to happen given how he'd just exerted himself to his limits.

In this world, although it may seem like sleep, the fact remains that you use your brain to function your Player Avatar.

—that needs energy.

Mental Energy...

And Siva had been fighting the impossible that's bordering the edges of his avatar's capability. He had to make do and win with the arsenal he had, with the given situation... and because it needed desperate measures, the stress and fatigue was now creeping over and threatening to take over the lingering bits of awareness he had left.

Not only was he mentally tired, 3% of those long hours of continues fighting was also translated as physical fatigue in the real world.

Normally, a [Player's] awareness of his avatar and real body shouldn't be this distinct but because of Cortana, Siva's situation became unique that he was aware of his real world body now being covered in sweat that his blanket was actually wet with perspiration up to the sheets.

As such, right now, Siva was uncomfortable with the cold feel sticking on his skin. He can't even switch with his [Dual Mode] which enables him to move his real body while still being online.

—because it needed him to be on running on his peak condition since it exhausts too much mental energy to use.

And even then, he couldn't go into deep thinking or the link will destabilize and he'd either get back fully online or get ejected by the system itself for being recognized as 'not being present'.