Thanks to his naked figure, the soldiers around the old man could see his veins swelling and pulsating rapidly as if blood was pumping furiously through them. They watched the old man's skinny frame transform into a bulky, bodybuilder-like physique. The transformation led the rope to began to snap with his struggle.
Henry watched with interest, his eyes glimmering with a purple light - "He really is acting like an animal, even in the way he's moving mana. He's just spilling it outside his circuits and injecting it into his muscles" - Henry observed, his fingers tapping rhythmically the chair - "But how long can his body take it?"
Henry knew that sustaining such intense mana flow against the muscles and bones required a well-trained body. Not every technique allowed for this, and it was even more challenging for elders whose bodies were already deteriorating.
