CHAPTER 28

There was silence all around Gary, which helped him easily focus inwardly, into his own body and feel the energy that was coursing all through his body with no set place to reside at.

“Is this the reason that I’m unable to sleep properly?” Gary wondered. His body felt like it was having a mild fever recently, so he wasn’t having it easy to slip into sleep.

[Don’t think about other things.] Ai’s voice softly rang in his mind. [If there’s any danger outside, I’ll warn you, so just focus on yourself right now. Focus on the now. Not the past or the future.]

As Ai kept talking, Gary listened to her words.

[Every time you defeat a monster, you automatically absorb their energy if I think it’s necessary for you. All the energy you absorbed till now is still in your body right now, and it is still not your own, so you have to first make it yours.]

[Generally, people absorb this foreign energy into their organs and get physically stronger. And then they’ll move onto forming a core. Because the