While sitting in meditation alongside Lily and waiting for the Hollow Deifiler to come, Almond was creating a simple ability to temporarily strengthen his foundation.
'Hmmm, it looks like there's only one way to do that. I'll need to sacrifice a Griminion Emperor's spirit and specifically use its data to supplement my foundation.'
Almond was going to steal a Hollow Defiler's stats using his Unbound Blade by cutting off its stats and attributes and absorbing it into him.
But since Hollow Defilers had tremendous stats and overwhelming power surpassing the ceiling of the second layer of Grimword, the moment he harvested the stats and power, he would have to bear crazy existential pressure, and his foundation would be strained to the extreme.
By exerting himself in that state to make a devastating fatal attack, he would instantly die.
