This strip has been reformatted! (Not redrawn! I only redrew pages I'd lost the original PSD files on.) The art is the same, but the page has been laid out to fit the ratio of later pages wherever necessary, and the font has been changed as well as the speechbubbles. :)
Sweat, shaking, BLOOD... Something tells me that blessing that ore wasn't a very good idea...
There's a reason his curse is called a curse, after all. If I had to guess, I'd say he nearly killed himself doing just that much.