Chapter 122 - Frostbound Hammer
After choosing the permanent option, there was a further choice that I could make. This one was optional and it was my chance to influence the result in some way. I could have the boost focus more on the Vitality and Endurance enhancement if I wanted to, or the magical enhancement.
I wasn't able to change it much but I decided to leave it as was. The vitality, endurance, and magic boost were all something I needed. One wasn't that important over the other and I didn't want to mess with something I shouldn't.
It was already hard enough trying to contain the concentrated heart energy coursing through me. I wanted this to be over as soon as possible before I went pop.
My body was strong enough that it was able to integrate the Frost Giant heart but I didn't have time to muck about choosing my options. It was a higher-tiered energy that I was using and it wasn't playing nice.
I was glad I chose the material I did, though. It was just high enough that I was able to use it without going too far and reaching for too much. It felt like if it was any stronger, unpleasant things would have happened. Like trying to fit 10 pounds of stuff in a 5 pound bag.
With my choices made, the energy flooded into my chest and started revolving around my heart. Pain blossomed and it felt like I was having a heart attack.
Alarm spread over me as the pain intensified because none of the others said anything about pain. They all said after making the options the energy would rush into their core and settle there after some time, not start stabbing pins into my chest.
There were two things it could be and there was no way for me to know which one it was. It could be the material's tier coming to bite me in the ass or it could be the permanent changes being made to my physiology.
I elected to think it was the physical changes to my heart being made rather than the risky decision of using the heart.
It made me feel better at least.
After the pain I went through refining my body, this was nothing. It was rather unpleasant but it wasn't the sharp, sustained pain of the Wind Chamber.
It took a few moments to finish the changes before the process was complete. My eyes opened slowly and the only thing I could see was a face millimeters away from mine.