The mana he absorbed had disappeared entirely inside his body while the feeling of emptiness overwhelmed him, he tried again to absorb more mana into the gates in his body, but the same thing happened. His body was absorbing every strand of mana his body came in contact with, yet his body wasn't feeling as if it had become stronger, he didn't know why!
At one point, he felt as if his body was shedding a new skin as a sense of familiar nauseating liquid began to come out of his right arm. Seeing it, Ainz finally understood what was happening and looked at the system message again, and quickly went through the part of evolving to rank 2 and gaining shadow shards.
Making him realize it had happened before when he had become rank 1 and also gained a set of shadow shards.
