The next forty minutes of the purge were the densest period, and Rex moved through them with the specific quality of someone who had stopped pretending that what they were doing was reluctant or circumstantial. He was fully immersed in the experience, which provided the specific pleasure of complete engagement without any restraint or the need for performance.
The pockets of resistance he faced included individual marked contacts making their last stands and organized groups of non-marked reincarnators who believed they could fight back together, and he handled each situation with the complete set of skills he had developed over months, without needing to use everything.
The Peak Physique made the physical engagements qualitatively different from anything before. Against opponents with conventional enhancement, it was the difference between fighting someone with a weapon and fighting someone without one.
