The aura around the cube man underwent a radical change and everyone perceived the monstrous energy fluctuations building up in the arm holding his sword.
Several mirages of gigantic cubes of various colors except green, and including both black and white, appeared behind him and emitted a thick beam of light of the same color that all converged on his body. Vexa's power began to surge in a totally incoherent manner and he slowly raised his sword as he walked towards the Gumdolite block.
In addition to his insanely refined Aether Control and all of his bloodline abilities and amplification spells, Jake also perceived the presence of a staggering and abnormally pure amount of Sharpening Aether flowing around his blade. No matter what would be slashed by this sword, even if it was just a scratch it would be fatal.
This will be the last explanatory chapter for a while.
Some might think that someone like Jake might have something like True Will of Procrastination based on how he spent most of his life, but that's obviously not the case. His good fortune, like all humans on Earth, is that he had no Soul, just a brain during that time.
All the Soul Power he accumulated by increasing his mental stats and living all kinds of experiences in these Ordeals weighs thousands of times more than all his life before. It may have only been a year, but this one represents a huge part of his current Soul.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Jake's present personality is the result of his thoughts and experiences of the past year. Some of the thoughts stem from his past personality and have been amplified, but he has also changed a lot.