While the world outside the walls of the Spirit Martial Academy was descending into a state of frantic, digital hysteria, Leo Shaw remained in his seat at the back of Class 2-Spirit, looking for all the world like a student who was merely bored by a long lecture.
Externally, he was a statue of calm, his chin propped on his hand as his eyes lazily followed the dust motes dancing in the amber afternoon light. But internally, his consciousness was fully submerged in the sapphire interface of the Goddess Affection System.
The sensation of his newly acquired power was... transformative. Following his encounter with Elder Crane and the consumption of the "Nirvana Nectar," Leo’s physiological baseline had been rewritten. Thanks to the A-rank evolution of his Spirit-Forged Body, he could feel th
