Chapter 54

When I awoke the next morning, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I groaned as I tried to move, only to learn that I was hooked up to an IV once again.

“Fuck!” I complained as I lay in bed.

“Yes,” I heard Lisa’s voice responding to my frustration. “I can imagine that this does suck for you, considering how often it keeps happening,” she said as she walked over to my bed with a clipboard.

“What happened now?” I asked.

“Renard nearly sent you into shock by unloading a surplus of magic into your body that is was not prepared to handle,” she explained. “It seems that he was under the impression that your new form was just as powerful as your old one in its current state.”

“Ugh! Does this mean that my new form will never reach the same power level as my old one?” I asked in anger.

“No,” Lisa shook her head. “Your old form was hundreds if not thousands of years old. It had more time to adjust to the level of power you ended up possessing before it w