Chapter 1741: I am the best
Sensory overload was when one or more of a person’s senses were overwhelmed. It was like the feeling of being unable to think because the music was too loud, or being unable to focus because the weather was too hot, or being unable to look at something because you had eaten something too spicy.
That was an example of overload if only one sense was overwhelmed, but it was entirely possible for multiple senses to be overwhelmed together. Ever since he started cultivating, Lex had gained even more senses, but sensory overload had never been a problem because his spirit, or mental faculties, had grown proportionally.
Today, however, served to be an especially difficult day. The mortal equivalent of what was happening to him would be like sitting in a tight economy seat of an airplane where the air conditioning had stopped working in the dead of summer, causing the plane to become an over. He was barely dealing with the heat, and the fact that the flight had been indefinitely delayed when a baby started crying in the seat in front of him, and a kid started to kick his seat from behind.
The person beside him had become nauseous and had thrown up in the throw up bag, causing an unpleasant smell to spread, and to top it all off, he had a headache.
In truth, a scenario like that could only vaguely describe the agony Lex was enduring, because it couldn’t take into account his additional senses, such as spirit sense, instinct and area awareness - as well as having his consciousness split between himself, Jack and his clone.
Amidst all of that, Lex had to focus on protecting Kaemon, which wasn’t exactly hard - at least for now. But the combination of things just overwhelmed him until he was forced into doing something he had been avoiding.
He used his dragon form. The reason he didn’t want to use this form wasn’t something ridiculous, like not wanting to transform his human shape, which was also true. No, the reason was this form came with genuine risks.
Dragons, despite not being Elders or Sages, absolutely could not be underestimated. As individuals they had been hunted occasionally, but the whole universe acknowledged their strength, for they had never lost a war. Battles, yes, they lost. A war, they had never lost.
All their arrogance, all their attitude, their isolation and loner nature did not prevent them from rising to the occasion and carving out a piece for themselves in the universe every single time they needed to.
Humans, even backed by the Humanoid Alliance, could not achieve what dragons had done for themselves without additional support.