John than spent 200 years in the forests with Elves becoming spiritually superior and in tune with nature followed by with elementals he spent 200 years with each type of elemental. John than spent 200 years living with monsters, supernatural races and others. At the age of 4 thousand John spent 200 years with Dragons then he spent 200 years with demi humans followed by 200 years with beastmen. At the age of 5 thousand years old John retrieved the metals that were used to kill him in his last life. John used his black smithing skills to create an armour and gear so heavy that even he would have trouble using while at his best he also enchanted it to be even greater and heavier he used transmutation to reproduce the material he made billions of mountains of the material which he than used to create even stronger and heavier gear with the enchantments to make them heavier. Just touching something with the sword would effortlessly cut through it like a burning knife through hot butter even if it was John's last body. John took all of the equipment and used it to train himself physically to make himself stronger. John spent 500 years like this before finally becoming strong enough to lift the equipment he trained himself to fight in it speed training endurance training strength training training his whole body the same with his healing his energy his magic his spirtual self everything was undergoing this brutal torture. It took John 4 thousand years to reach a level where he was able to wear the equipment and fight perfectly as though it was nothing but a coat of feathers the same with all of the weapons everything was perfected through never giving up.