That's until he faced the energy consumption dungeon and his energy supply was drastically improved his energy consumption drastically decreased energy recovery drastically improved his energy was now on par with John's energy however John lacks control and burns through most of his energy per second well John has mastered control and uses the bear minimum well also recovering at the same rate as John recovers energy however as John is burning through most of that energy he is at a disadvantage while John is burning through the bear minimum and has nearly all of his own energy to spare well also recovering it at the same rate as John recovers energy so in terms of energy Jackson and John are evenly matched in quantity but Jackson had surpassed John in quality and efficiency. Jackson was slightly damaging John with his attacks. However John was healing faster than he was taking damage and improving his defenses to overcome the energy blades. Jackson smirks and says "Interesting let's keep going but I'll give it more effort" Jackson improves the quality of his energy weapons and armor and continues to attack John. However John keeps withstanding all of Jackson's attacks as they still lack the necessary power to cause large amounts of damage all they manage to do is slightly damage John and allow him to improve his defenses and abilities on top of that his healing rate is insanely faster than the rate in which he is taking damage. As a result Jackson's attacks were having little to no affect against John but instead were helping John to improve.