The remaining twenty hours of the Stat Redistribution Token process passed in a blur of discomfort, embarrassment, and absolutely zero additional visitors (thank god, thank every deity that might exist, thank the System itself for small mercies).
By hour eight, the intense biological response had finally faded, replaced by a deep, bone-level ache as his body underwent actual physical restructuring. The sensation was unlike anything he'd experienced before.
His muscles felt like they were being pulled apart and rewoven, fiber by fiber, each strand individually deconstructed and rebuilt stronger than before.
His bones ached with a persistent throb that suggested they were densifying, strengthening to handle his increasing VIT score. He could almost feel the calcium deposits shifting, the marrow adjusting, the skeletal structure reinforcing itself from within.
