Novel's Extra: I Awakened The Strongest Physique From The Start-Chapter 273 - 274 - Star Connection 1.

A while later.

Alex sat cross-legged in the center of the dimly lit cultivation room, his breath slow and measured.

It was a plain and simple room, constructed by him in the trial palace when he was rebuilding this palace.

The room was empty. No bed. No chair. Nothing.

The only thing was the simple carpet beneath him, but comfort was the last thing on his mind.

His entire focus was on the surging energy within him—the chaotic swirl of mana rushing through his body like a raging river.

Even the room could feel the aftermath of the rushing mana as the wind howled in the surroundings.

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The illusionary stars spun wildly on his chest, while on the inside, they kept colliding with each other in an untamed dance. He needed to bring them under control. He needed to forge his first link.

Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and concentrated.

He had already consumed a concentration potion and a haste potion before beginning.

Both were rare items, available only through his system's shop. Their effects were extraordinary—sharpening his mind and accelerating his cultivation speed to an unnatural degree.

Even Zahara had used the same potions before, a key factor in her rapid rise in power.

Now, it was his turn again.

"Time to start the process," he muttered, closing his eyes.

His vision darkened as he sank deeper into his consciousness, where his inner world stretched vast and endless.

The thirteen swirling stars—the foundation of his cultivation—burned like miniature suns within him.

Each one contained boundless energy, but they lacked structure and coherence, swirling without any support.

Every star provided mana to the body, strengthening it. But since they kept swirling, the efficiency was very low. The circulation of mana within the body was messed up.

Without forming a link stopping the stars in their place, his power would remain scattered, raw, and inefficient.

In the star-connection realm, the phase he was about to enter, people had to stop their stars from rotating forcefully. That way, the efficiency of mana circulation increases, giving one a significant boost in their power.

The stars that contain mana are fixed on a spot, making them work like a functioning body part rather than an unstable mass of energy.

His aim right now was to fix all thirteen of his stars in a spot. He wanted to make them immobile.

[You'll need a lot of mana.]

Alex heard Sophie's voice in his head and grinned. "Mana is the only thing I don't lack."

Unlike others, who sat for days, weeks, or even months to stabilize their stars and form a link because it consumed a lot of mana, Alex didn't need that.

He had infinite mana to help him keep pouring mana at the stars without worrying about running out of it, and with the help of the concentration and haste potions, he wouldn't need more than an hour.

... Or so he thought.

...................

An hour later.

'What the fuck?!' He roared inwardly as all he could do until now was force three out of thirteen stars immobile. The others were still swirling.

[What did you think? Did you think there was no one until now who had a very large mana pool? Or good mana control?] Sophie spoke, sighing inwardly as she realized that doing it in an hour wasn't possible for Alex as well.

But just then—

'Wait. Mana control?' Something clicked in Alex's head.

It wasn't related to mana control. The only word that clicked was control.

He stared at the stars swirling in his inner space before an idea bloomed in his head.

[W-What is it?]

Sophie, however, felt uneasy for some reason.

She felt like Alex had just planned something crazy.

Alex didn't answer her. He simply doused another concentration potion and focused on the stars.

This time, instead of trying to stop the stars, he forced them to move faster. It was so fast that the stars, unable to maintain their momentum, crashed into each other, and as they did, the circle started growing smaller.

Alex was forcing them to move in one direction, and slowly but surely, it was happening.

In just ten minutes, the stars were now moving together.

'Hah!' Alex, looking at that, let out a short laugh, but Sophie still couldn't understand what he was trying to do—that was until she saw his next move.

[Wait! Wait! You can't do that! The power within thirteen stars is so high that stopping them all at once is nearly impossible! If even one of them were to break out of the formation, the result could be disastrous—]

'Nearly impossible?' Alex cut her words, smirking. 'If it's not impossible, then it's possible.'

Yes, he was trying to do exactly what Sophie had thought.

The reason why Alex had pushed the stars to move in the same direction and same speed was so that he could try to stop them all at once.

After all, the problem that made it impossible for him to stabilize the stars before was their random movements.

When he tried to control one star, another would come his way.

That problem, however, wasn't going to happen now.

But as Sophie had said. Controlling thirteen stars at the same time was nearly impossible.

Usually, people use the mana within the unstable stars to stabilize one of them. But right now, Alex was stabilizing all of his stars.

The good thing was that he had unlimited mana to pull it off, but the worst part was that controlling that mana was hard, and if any of the thirteen stars were to break out of the formation, everything he did until now could be for nothing.

There was a chance that he might suffer some serious backlash as well.

But as impatient as he was, he was willing to take the risk instead of working on the stars for days.

So while gritting his teeth, he pushed a wave of mana, crashing it into the rotating stars, covering them like water.

He was trying to slow their speed like water slows down any movement within it.

He was increasing the density of the mana covering the stars, considerably slowing their speed.

And soon...

'Yes! I knew it would work!' He exclaimed as the stars had all stabilized.

Yes, he had to keep them in place for a while now; only then would they stay like that.

[Did you really know...?]

Sophie breathed a sigh of relief, calming her heart, which had almost jumped out of her mouth.

She was terrified for a while, but now that things worked out well, she couldn't help but be happy.

Her lover had done something unprecedented again.

He did something that took people days or even weeks to do in less than an hour.

Not even an hour, but less than an hour.

All that was left now was for him to form his star connection, and although it wasn't as hard as stabilizing the stars, it still wasn't an easy feat.

The problem was that unlike the process of stabilizing the stars, which required patience, the connection of stars needed one to have endurance, as it was painful.