With fluid movement there were vastly fewer moments for him to talk. Which was fine from his point of view. While his initial plan failed along with the back up, the time to use his power was still enough to win. One can never belittle a god, devil, or even a demigod. Even at this moment he was ducking and weaving without using an ounce of mana. Combat experience along with a tiny fraction of his basic bodily strength was enough to deal with him. 

 

The most troubling was not being able to go on the offensive. He actually needed a considerable amount of mana to filter the mana to a point he didn’t kill the person in front of him. If put into an analogy mana usage was like pressurized water. Lowest level worlds mana was similar to a squirt gun that was played with for entertainment by children. Peak worlds had mana similar to water jets used to cut metals. Demigods, gods, and devils mana was something that had enough pressure to cut diamonds and as the demonic cult’s peak demigod showed in the incident with the Blood Cult. She used her mana to drill to the planet's core to disrupt the core and cause the planet to explode.

 

He used a majority of his allotted mana that was part of the deal to try and force out his mana. It was a bad move on his part as he wasn't allowed to scan his body. Prior to the deal he had not bothered to look at the abnormality in his body. The mana control was basically trash and beyond a shadow of a doubt useless to a demigod. What he had focused on was the seed. The boy named Monte received a seed but without trespassing etiquette he couldn't study the seed. Nor had the boy woken up as the seed had to do with a dormant portion of his bloodline. So he couldn't study the effects the seed had.

 

Green thumbs were a terrible existence to have in a trial as an overseer. If nature determined any negligence on the overseers' part they would become an enemy of nature. Nature wasn't just part of earth and botany. There were nature elements in tribulations. If he became an enemy of nature he would be safe so long as he stayed in the trial. This would mean he couldn't gather creatures for his trial. He could even make an indestructible foundation, if such a thing existed, and still die in the tribulation to become a god or devil.

 

So even though he focused constantly on the seed in Amit he didn't pay any attention to anything else. That was why he failed to realize why his technique that should have sent him into mana deprivation failed. Yet even still he could react to him just off his body's ability alone. The biggest struggle was knowing the seed’s effect on the body was allowing him to learn rapidly. The amount of useless and exaggerated movements he was deliberately making him do were becoming less effective.

 

Image of the black wings was just a physical manifestation. The imagery wasn't very solid and only gave off the appearance of the frame of a set of wings. This was caused by the combination of body and soul. Two sides of the same coin. Even if one side was removed it would still be a coin just smaller. There were many impurities between the two sides that felt a massive disconnect between the two. Amit fascinated him as there was something different and he believed it had to do with how the boy had built his mana circulation not like an intelligent being but an instinctual one. 

 

The differences between the two weren't small. Demonic beasts had souls connected to the body in a different way than intelligent beings. The two sides of the coin started with less impurities thus their control of mana was somewhat spiritual that gave them large advantages. Intelligent beings on the other hand needed to remove and refine the impurities so the body and soul became a solid and complete set. Their mana was purely using the body's side of the coin. 

 

This meant their consciousness that came from the soul had to dredge through the impurities to use and control mana. In fact this was true for all aspects of soul to body. It was this reason some people had better ability to sense, absorb, and feel changes when the aspect of mana came into play. There were a number of things that would only come clear once one reached a threshold that only absolute peak, demigods, gods, and devils could come to understand. 

 

As for which aspects the person in front of him had he wasn’t exactly sure. The black wings were from the seed that was put in the body. To create a physical manifestation didn’t mean they had reached a peak but that they’ve reached a breakthrough. There were a number of such breakthroughs but the one in front of him from the imagery being shown that was nearly illusional was from the acceptance of the seed. One of the channels that were connected between soul and body had connected to the seed.

 

As the fight continued there was a third individual that started to smile from the beginning and only the smile continued to become more pronounced. She was finding it hard to hold back her laughter, which she failed a few times. What she was doing could and would by many be considered suicidal. She had repeatedly forced her apostle into a dead end that would push him to the break. If he really did and the seed inside him took enough damage it could be fatal to her. This started with her own hands as she took a group of individuals that had absolutely no reason to be in a hard trial let alone a hell trial. And still each time the outcome might have many bumps along the way to reach a point even she couldn’t gauge.

 

His lack of connection to the seed was beyond her imagination. As someone that had no right to be in hell the impurities between his body and soul were in massive amounts. He could maybe sense it but he never reached out and tried to accept the seed maybe because of the trauma that was associated with it. Thus his growth was abnormal. Instead of allowing the seed to accelerate his growth he was like a tree that for some reason didn’t grow straight but for some inexplicable reason grew sideways. For this reason he absorbed an insane amount of mana that congealed in his chest but because he hadn’t accepted the seed, had to be controlled personally to cause it to do anything. 

 

It took him so long just to stabilize his body when the amount of mana in the environment would normally have taken a fraction of that time. This was because his mana was congealed in a single place only having pieces of this chunk fell off would it be cycled through the body to slowly feed the starving body with energy. When this reached an extreme the body finally broke through the impurities and allowed his consciousness in the soul to realize this. It was this increase in sensitivity that allowed him to sense mana but not help him increase his absorption of mana of neutral mana. As the mana he had was too high so subconsciously the body hid the neutral sensitivity.

 

As he watched the overseer’s creatures he did something she again would have never guessed would happen. Instead of following his consciousness he basically left it to his body again. What should have been his consciousness breaking up the impurities as it connected with the body was the seed accelerating his body to connect to the soul. It was extremely reminiscent of a demonic beast. Only demonic beasts start with a larger piece of the body of the coin while the soul is very small that slowly grows allowing the body to slowly burn impurities as the soul portion grows allowing for them to have a complete coin with very few impurities. 

 

While he was an intelligent being he was basically advancing like a demonic beast by clearing impurities from the body to connect to the soul instead of the soul connecting to the body. Normally when the soul connects to the body the body is then allowed to slowly solidify the pathways to the soul. This takes time as mana creates metamorphosis in the body to make it stronger. The soul on the other hand is hard to strengthen like the body. By reaching an extreme where the seed uses the body to reach out to the soul he was building these solidified pathways backwards. It was for this reason she repeatedly sent him into hellish situations that would push him both physically and especially mentally. 

 

This balance was extremely hard as could be seen by Amit’s personality. He didn’t want to be alone and yet if pushed he was willing to throw away the friendship he wanted so badly. Because of the development of the seed, and the reinforcement of the body caused him to become twisted where his personality and wants took a backseat to his bodily needs. The apathy state was one such example of this. His experience was not the way the class was meant to work. In fact not even she could have expected for him to invoke the class to work backwards. This was one of the reasons she put herself in such a dangerous situation, and voluntarily put forth this bet with the overseer.

 

Once he accepted the seed he was able to control the apathy state to an extent. This was its original use. While the first few episodes would work the same way, as he entered an apathy state he would show its benefits thus causing him to dance on a knife's edge that would produce similar effects that he had seen already. But this would be done willingly as he slowly connects to the seed from the side of his soul. His current state was the ultimate goal, just in this current situation he couldn’t see the benefits as he was being dragged into desperation.

 

Even though he was not making any unnecessary movements because of the seed’s influence on the body to evoke his instincts to perfectly work with the soul. This gave him the false impression his body was moving on its own. While it was true his consciousness was taking a back seat but he could switch and take control at any moment he wanted. And he slowly started to feel it as his body was starting to get tired. For even just the necessary movements were starting to drain his stamina. 

 

“Just give up, you can’t win.” He could hear the superiority in the voice that was talking down to him.

 

With heavy inhales and exhales he spat out, “Either can you… It’s clear by this point. You can’t kill me without losing whatever wager you two got going. Ha… hahaha… So long as I don’t give up I will win by default.”

 

“I could just kill you.” He could feel a slight chill run down his spine but it quickly went away.

 

“I don’t know what that person wants but my first conclusion was that I was just a toy. While it is true my life is being played with. Thinking about it, each time they interfered with me had given me unimaginable benefits. Even the worst days of my life had allowed me to reach this point. Even if they had evil thoughts it doesn’t change that until that point I need to be stronger. Meaning if you kill me now I bet you will very quickly follow.”

 

He wasn’t sure but he spoke as confidentantly as he could. This was just one of his many guesses. The one he liked to focus on was that he was just a toy they were raising out of boredom and didn’t actually have any negative or evil endings in mind. Though this was even too optimistic for his own beliefs but he couldn’t change anything at this point. Unlike the question that brought him to this world, they had asked and warned him of the consequences of him receiving their help. So even though he would love to shove all the blame for his situation on them he had made all his own decisions since the day he was offered that hand.

 

With that in mind he couldn’t help but think back on everything. In the back of his mind he always attributed all his decisions because he was forced to. In the end he had no choice. This was ultimately bullshit. He just never thought about it too deeply. Maybe by design he didn’t allow himself to focus so deeply on these issues. Even at this moment he was feeling like he was about to die he couldn’t help but slightly start to smile. With his new connection with his body by accepting that hand he could feel it very clearly.

 

The things he did in hell at the beginning. Before that and his loved ones and friends on Earth… It was sad he would never see them again. But at the end of the day just like he tossed Valeria, Aegle, Rory, Jackie, and Steven away. It was time to let go of people he would never see again. As he stood straight up he thought saying goodbye to his parents would be much harder. It was sad but did that mean he had to dwell on it?

 

It was at that moment the two saw the boy stand up straight and there was a light hearted smile of joy on his face. His breathing was a bit heavy but it was quickly returning to normal. Neither paid attention to this as the black wings behind him started to turn from two fuzzy thick lines that lightly curled around him that gave the false impression of wings because of the way they seemed to start from the back and wrap around him. At this moment as they solidified there was less fuzz and more lines appeared from the original featherless wing frame. It was very basic like a sketch barely showing the bones of what would come next.

 

This was one’s seeds showing a physical manifestation of the progress of the individual's compatibility with the seed. In the end they truly look like wings. Celestial wings were the representation of god's physical manifestation. While black wings that appeared to be trying to block out all light as the black seemed to absorb all light was the representation of a devil’s seed. The importance of this so soon into the System Universe was not that important but to see such a manifestation actually filled the demigod with a bit of nervousness.

 

This didn’t have much to do with the wings but the reason they reached a new level. There were many types of enlightenment but there were two that were extremely desired. Selfless enlightenment and selfish enlightenment. These weren’t with any correlation to having a seed. These were two states that one could reach enlightenment regardless if one had a seed or not. These two enlightenments were similar in nature as they were different ways of letting go of burdens on oneself. By letting go it allowed one to experience a sudden growth. 

 

While wasn’t a requirement, those that were able to reach this state during a fight would evoke a sudden attack that would rival the danger that was felt. This was similar in nature to a tribulation. A tribulation could kill the individual that was undergoing it. But if a second individual forced their way into the tribulation they would face retaliation that wouldn’t dampen the tribulation itself but the force they would face would be worse than the one undergoing the tribulation. It was for this reason when that giant individual started to fight during the tribulation was so extraordinary. For this action caused him to face not just the tribulation but the interference attacks that were stronger than the original tribulation. It got so bad that the tribulation striking him was striking everything in his surroundings.

 

His eyes were completely oblivious of anything in front of him. Like focusing on a whisper his body moved slowly without much volatility. Yet the finger raised made the demigod feel danger. Before he could press forward there was a loud bang as a huge amount of mana exploded out and the boy fell back with a massive hole in his chest. He wasn’t the only one hurt by this. The demigod coughed up a large amount of blood as some dripped from the corner of his mouth and more started to flow from his nose. He was breathing heavily as he tried to stabilize the injury. It might be worse if not for his class.

 

Though the loud laughing that was causing the space to physically vibrate caused him to hesitate slightly before he heard some stabbing remarks. With a very deep and emotionally heavy sigh escaped his wet lips, “Fine. I lost, now shut up.” 

 

He didn’t feel like talking anymore. With a wave of his hand the boy’s body slowly stood from the ground as if he was reversing the motion of the fall. As the boy's finger was raised the hole in his chest slowly started to disappear. As soon as the hole disappeared completely the cloth on his chest reappeared as everything seemed to pause before the finger pressed lightly forward as another loud explosion was heard. A large finger sized hole behind where the man had just been standing before he moved was seen in the hole behind him.

 

Very quickly a force was felt from a crack that had appeared at some unknown point during the fight. This force gently warped around Amit as he was forced into a cross legged position. Soon after another crack was created by the man as the boy was roughly shoved into it. Though the gentle force that had warped around him made it so he didn’t feel any of this. As soon as the crack closed the small one where the gentle force appeared from also disappeared. With a nasty look the man used his thumb to close one of his nostrils as he breathed out and a large amount of blood was removed.