The problem would persist if he took this fruit and became a Martial God, but did he have a choice? This was the only way to maximize his gains at the time of settlement, not to mention that he had an advantage.
While others had to accumulate to increase power, he simply had to Level Up and increase physical stats to increase Internal Force until he eventually surpassed the strongest Martial God, so it was not hopeless.
It was also because of this revelation that Damon refrained from doing anything violent so far, because if his actions caused some random Martial God zo appear - even though it was claimed that none existed here - his time in this Instance could come to an abrupt and unfortunate end.
Anyway, that was inconsequential before the promise of power, so Damon swallowed the Bodhi Fruit whole without chewing.
