Chapter 560: This is Our Era
Jack gritted his teeth. The tumors he had to constantly purge were one thing, but this situation was even harder to resolve. A simple purging wouldn’t work. Every evolution was spurred on by his own body, responding to the expertly designed fake stimuli provided by Enas—he was, after all, the original creator of human bodies. Moreover, the foreign life energy which had invaded his body was sneaky—it assimilated with his, polluting it. He had no way to purge it before it exhausted itself, but if this continued, he’d die long before that. His own regeneration now worked against him. His body was self-destructing through misguided evolution.
“You’re trying to use evolution against me?” Jack asked, calm despite the deadly threat. “Did you forget who I am, Enas?”
“I know exactly who you are. An arrogant pugilist, a fake god soon to be dead!”
“I’m something much better,” Jack declared. “A biologist!”
Jack’s life energy turned into tiny streams, drilling into every part of his body, coming face-to-face with the evolutionary transformations. “Two can play this game, Enas!” He created fake stimuli of his own. His body’s evolutions were held back, slowly reversed as Jack rapidly analyzed the situation and provided the perfect stimuli to counter Enas’s.
The God frowned. “You dare compete in understanding life against the God of Life?”
“So what if I do?”
“You’ll suffer!”
The foreign energy went wild inside Jack. It produced all sorts of evolutions, various odd and intricate interactions to challenge Jack’s understanding. Yet, even the most esoteric of those were countered by Jack. After years of meditations, he understood his body perfectly, and analyzed all changes to figure out how to reverse them. As the foreign energy inside him slowly exhausted itself, Jack’s body returned to normal, stronger than ever. Since Enas’s energy had wanted to assimilate into his, he obliged, using it to recover some of his spent energy.