The mushroom rapidly ran a diagnostic on Ren's system state, and its tone instantly morphed into panic.
"...Ren. I see that you have developed a vastly superior understanding of the cores' activation mechanism, I acknowledge that. You are managing the draconic flow significantly cleaner than you did some minutes ago." The beast's voice dropped, becoming terrifyingly severe. "But do not get arrogant! The mortal body possesses biological limits for a reason. Your actual safe threshold right now is two hundred and seventy-five after the damage we took. Because of that twenty-five percent overflow, your structure is actively crystallizing vastly faster and more aggressively than before! We are bleeding over the edge!"
Ren knew and had felt it instantly despite trying to push the energy to his hands.
