As he focused on nudging his red scars with the world essence energy, Zach suddenly felt that the suffering he had gone through in the past at the Academy hadn't been so bad. Everything he had experienced after the Academy was worse.
On a purely physical level, what he was going through right now was at the top. Almost nonstop pain of his body telling him to stop aggravating its injuries. He wasn't just going through it, though. He was putting himself through it.
But it was because he had to figure out why the broken parts of his body rejected the world essence energy.
Eventually, he realized that the brute-force method wasn't working so well, even if it was the only one he could think of. He took a break from that and instead just looked at the red lines scarring the inside of his body. He looked as closely as possible to try to see what made the injuries so different from the rest of his body and other types of injuries.
