The ambient mana inside the gate was entirely different from the real world. The real world mostly had pure mana, spread over the area of the whole world.
While inside the gate, the mana was a mixture of pure and Dark Mana.
Dark mana was heavy, corrupted, and stained with the malice of the Calamity Beasts. To a normal human, or even a standard Exterminator, absorbing this mana directly was a death sentence. It was poison, guaranteed to cause severe mana toxicity, internal ruptures, and eventually death.
But Hide possessed a completely different foundation.
He possessed the S-Rank passive skill: Dark Abyssal Core. This allowed him to absorb and use Dark mana without harming his body.
Focusing inward, Hide located the dense, cold center of his being, just besides his heart and opened the floodgates.
