Even though Ryan was getting stronger, at some point, the future stopped changing. He began to be defeated by Lucifer at the exact moment.
"Do you understand why that is happening?" Chronus asked. "That is because your reservoir of mana is decreasing. It doesn't matter how much you try. You won't reach his level before you run out of mana."
Ryan bit his lips in annoyance when he heard that. He couldn't say that Chronus was wrong… Regardless, at least that made other people notice that someone hadn't given up. Right in that place, the humans began to train and spar against each other. They could only obtain so much strength in a couple of hours, but all the strength was welcome. They survived the last year struggling to their utmost limits, so they might as well keep doing that.
