As soon as the digestion was complete, Jake immediately put an end to the Aether bombardment. The Aether Cores and Aether Sun Cores stopped emitting their light beams and he finally got a respite.
However, he did not recover. With his current Vitality and boosted by the increased Aether density it should have been almost instantaneous, but instead his body just kept breaking down, while his cells continued to disintegrate.
The accretion disk had accumulated so much Aether that it would take hours for it to finish being absorbed. With no choice, Jake gritted his teeth and reactivated the Aether Sun Cores, Lightning Cores and other modified Cores to boost his Myrtharian Bloodline. At the same time he resumed devouring the asteroid he was standing on.