After speaking with Shana and settling the matter of her future role within the Estate, Ulrich returned to his room.
He summoned the physicians shortly afterward.
The treatment was inconvenient, painful, and slow, but Ulrich preferred careful, natural recovery over anything reckless.
His body had endured enough strange methods already. Poison, demonic mana, the serum Valdris had forced into him, emergency preservation spells, and mana pushed past every safe limit, he had no desire to add another dangerous shortcut unless there was no alternative.
He wanted to recover properly and completely.
He had three years before the events of the novel truly began.
Three years to strengthen House Rubenhart.
Three years to prepare the sisters.
Three years to turn the Hollow Core into something he could control without destroying himself in the process.
And three years to reach the peak of his own ability.
