My Muscle System in the Mage World

Zhhh!

A strange crackling sound echoed through the room, followed by a sizzling noise as the purple lightning coursed into Aur's body. His muscles tensed and hissed, while thin wisps of smoke began to rise from his skin.

Aur's pupils contracted, and his eyelids fluttered, fighting the urge to close under the overwhelming sensation.

"If you can't focus, this purple lightning will be wasted," Stella remarked calmly, her gaze fixed on him with genuine interest. She was intrigued by this peculiar individual who seemed immune to the laws of their world.

"If you lack persistence, you're unworthy of walking the path to power…"

The road to the peak was long, arduous, and fraught with unthinkable challenges. It required not just fleeting effort, but a relentless pursuit of strength, forged through a lifetime of unyielding determination and growth.

There was a saying Aur often remembered from his previous world: "I worked hard my entire life, focusing and training just for those few seconds and gained it all, while those who lack perseverance give up after just a day."

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Aur's muscles felt like they were frying from the inside. The intense pain surged through his body, growing more unbearable with every second.

With his eyes shut tight, the agony reached such heights that the lines between reality and delusion began to blur. His nerves felt like they were burning, yet somehow, the pain persisted, radiating from every part of his body.

His clothes tore apart, unable to withstand the intensity, exposing his chiselled physique, glistening with sweat.

Aur's mind, however, was struggling to keep pace. The overwhelming force of the purple lightning had surpassed his control.

His thoughts began to slow, unravelling like a thread pulled too thin, until it felt as though he was drifting into a deep, endless dream—a dream far more pleasant than the torment he endured.

It felt warm, comforting, almost like being wrapped in his mother's embrace.

"Give up, brat, you can't handle this," a mocking voice rang out, distant but clear.

Stella snickered; she knew Aur couldn't do it.

According to the records from the Golden Age, for people who reached Tier Three with their bodies, there was no way they could handle even a strand of Purple Lightning.

Even Tier Four individuals needed terrifying perseverance to reach the level where they could use Purple Lightning to strengthen their cells.

As she crouched down and was about to touch Aur, his eyes suddenly snapped open, revealing his crimson pupils.

"Wait."

Aur shouted with all his strength at the cusp of death.

Stella's eyes widened as she looked at Aur with a scowl: "Brat, stop wasting time; you can't do it."

"I can do it."

His lips quivered as he slowly spoke in barely a whisper.

"Really?" Stella retracted her hand as she silently looked at Aur again with questioning pupils.

Aur's limbs were weak, and his body was being destroyed every second.

Slowly, he moved as his eyes sharpened. His trembling leg felt like it was being electrocuted with every step.

Every fibre of his being was experiencing hell itself.

Yet despite all this, Aur stood, enduring the excruciating pain with shaking legs.

Pain was something Aur had known since birth, whether in his previous world or this one. Every step of his journey had been marked by pain, whether physical or emotional, and still, he hadn't grown immune to it.

After all, Aur was human. He inevitably felt pain, but through it all, his determination and drive had been hammered and refined, creating a sharp, unwavering will.

His determination outweighed all the pain combined.

Every muscle in his body was destroyed, and almost all his strength was snapped away by this purple lightning.

"I still have a slither of strength left, and I must not give up until the end."

Aur stood in an attentive position; the thin line of blood and Qi in his body slowly circulated in his core as he slowly and gently retracted his five fingers to form a first, his breathing controlled.

The punch was extremely slow and didn't contain any power in his body even as the thin slighter of blood and Qi in his body made a trident circulation in his destroyed body and spread outward from his fist.

"Void Fist."

A small gale produced while a thud sounded, but that was all there was to it.

Stella looked at this scene silently with a disappointed gaze. However, when her eyes went towards Aur again, her pupils violently widened to the limits.

"This... this is possible?"

Aur's body was recovering at a rapid pace, and the purple lightning seemed to be contained within him.

There was a moment of respite from the purple lightning, and his body's regeneration immediately took place, with his golden blood becoming increasingly and more active.

His destroyed body started to heal, and most especially Aur was able to focus his mind again.

Immediately he slowly started to direct the purple lightning towards his cells, circulating it in a special way before it was finally strengthened.

One by one, his cells started to begin the process of strengthening again, and this was happening rapidly through countless cells.

With greater danger comes greater reward, Aur quickly summed up his speed in just a thought.

"I can strengthen my cell by at least 100 every second by this purple lightning."

He immediately focused his mind, but although he tried to guide all the purple lightning to his cells, he was still not able to completely control it and directly felt every fibre of his muscles being electrocuted.

Ahh-

Aur screamed with excruciating pain but still persisted, his cells being strengthened every second, and this continued for a long and long time.

Eventually the strand of purple lightning eventually exhausted itself, no matter how terrifying it was. It would still be exhausting eventually.

Aur fell to the floor, his crimson eyes vacantly looking at the white ceiling.

"Brat, I didn't expect for you to be even able to find a solution." Stella looked at Aur with a deep gaze. "That move you did seemed to contain a faint image of the law; that's why you were able to suppress the purple lightning for some time."