Peko sat frozen in her chair as the world around her seemed to blur, narrowing down to the man sitting across from her with a plastic cup in his hand.
Her mind, usually a fortress of calculated strategies, ground to a complete halt as it tried to process the word he had just dropped with the casualness of a weather report.
"Infinity…" she stammered in a voice barely rising above a whisper.
"Yeah… basically infinite everything," Nico said before taking a long, relaxed sip of his milkshake. "Thing is volatile though, nearly consumed the System, but it somehow managed to bind infinity to my mana recovery... more out of self-preservation than anything... "
She lowered her gaze to the table to hide the turmoil in her eyes while her heart hammered against her ribs.
[True Infinity…] she thought, feeling a cold sweat prickle at the back of her neck. [To him, his mana pool is just a limiter… not a reservoir…]
But then, a glaring contradiction struck her.
