Everything was not just repaired to their previous state but renewed, which was a different thing, the material of the cores emerging from the process denser and more integral than it had been before the ruptures, as though the healing the fruit produced worked not just to the previous baseline but beyond it.
His life force, which had been stabilised by the Eye of the Future but had not been genuinely restored to what it should have been, began to rise.
Not gradually. Rapidly.
He felt it in every part of him, the rising moving through his physical structure and his energy structure simultaneously, the two of them responding to the fruit's effect together, and the level it reached was not the level he had been at before the Analyzer penalty had begun taking effect but considerably beyond it, the life force that emerged from the fruit's work hundreds of times more robust than even his original baseline.
