Chapter 40: A fire too hot

"The fire is not quite on your side..." Katharina murmured as she looked at Vergil's situation.

"W-well, we expected this, didn't we?" He said, looking at his arms, which were passively healing.

What happened? Well, they were training the demonic fire energy of the Agares Clan, but... They realized something quite serious...

"Your body hasn't adapted to the fire yet... It's self-destructing while rejecting the healing effects as it consumes your energy." Katharina said. At this moment, they were in a battle dimension while she was trying to guide him to improve his energy control, but...

"This is a big problem..." she murmured, even though he was trying to use demonic energy to strengthen his body. Thanks to the burning fire's properties, nothing was working...