Reidar sat in the ruined building; the journal was in his hands. The Ignis writing had been dense, technical, and at times almost cryptic, but the translator did its job well enough that he understood everything that was being said.
He placed the journal back on the metal table. He stared at the grey cover for a moment. What he read was a lot to digest.
What the Ignis said was heavy. Two things made his stomach particularly tighten.
The first was about feralization.
The journal said it started around level 450 if the system wasn't there to regulate mana absorption. The author described it as a gradual process where higher-level beings began losing reason.
Their minds degraded as raw mana saturated their bodies faster than their neural structures could adapt. The system prevented this by acting as a filter, pacing the absorption of ambient mana to match biological tolerances.
It was a life-support machine.
But Reidar was already past that threshold.
