"I..."
"I'm going to go for the unique skill [Frozen Ti]."
Kavasta thought he would have made the sa choice.
"It's definitely a good investnt, since this skill is a defense, attack and evasion skill all at once."
Maxi nodded.
"Yes, this skill will be useful all my life and maybe it will bring surprises."
"As for the legendary artifact, chances are that it will be stolen from and, above all, it doesn't matter. I will have other opportunities to obtain very good quality weapons. And when they can no longer keep up with my growth, I can always replace them."
"But a skill like [Frozen Ti]... maybe the opportunity to acquire such a skill will never co up again in my life."
Adriane and Kavasta totally agreed with what Maxi said and with his choice.
So without hesitation, Maxi decided to purchase the skill.
[Confirm purchase of 'Frozen Ti?']
"Yes."
[Purchase of 'Frozen Ti' confird.]
[1500 Eternity points deducted.]
As his purchase was confird, the world around Maxi froze.
A vague murmur gently tickled his ears.
"Interesting..."
This voice had appeared as quickly as it had disappeared, which made Maxi shiver slightly.
The unknown was always the most frightening.
At the sa ti, he felt an icy wave run through his mind as a new understanding of the world imposed itself on him. It was as if an invisible door had just opened in his mind, revealing a concept he had never even imagined before.
Knowledge was forcefully introduced into his brain as his mind was subtly changed.
As if his very existence was being modified to be optimized.
His breath montarily suspended as information poured into him, intangible but with absolute clarity.
An intense pain struck his brain, but it only lasted a mont.
At the sa ti, he realized that he was capable of doing sothing that would have been totally unimaginable to him before.
Ti... could be stopped.
Not slowed down. Not disrupted. Stopped.
Half a second.
It was both infinitely short and terribly long.
In that fraction of a second, everything around him would beco a frozen image. The particles of dust in suspension would remain in the air, the flas would cease to flicker, the sounds themselves would be devoured by absolute stillness.
Within a radius of 10 kiloters, the whole world would be his playground.
Out of curiosity, he imdiately activated this skill.
He blinked, and a strange sensation washed over him. An increased awareness, an overwhelming lucidity. As if his brain were an engine running at full throttle, assimilating variables it had never taken in before.
His gaze swept across the room. Kavasta, still motionless, his expression frozen in a mixture of approval and concentration. Adrian, arms crossed, still analyzing the situation.
It all seed clearer to him. More understandable.
Maxi took a deep breath.
He could see the implications.
An attack coming his way? He could stop it. Deflect a sword strike with surgical precision. Then reposition himself before his opponent even realized what had happened.
Dodge? He would have enough ti to disappear at any mont, like an elusive ghost.
If he wanted to attack? He could approach his target and strike at the exact mont when the world would return to normal.
His fingers trembled slightly with excitent. He had just acquired a skill that transcended the laws of nature.
He took another breath and let the energy settle within him.
"…Maxi?"
Kavasta's voice brought him abruptly back to reality.
"You were silent for a mont."
Maxi looked up at him and smiled slightly.
"I… I understand now."
Kavasta raised an eyebrow.
"Understand what?"
Maximus ran a hand over his face, gathering his thoughts.
"The true potential of this skill. It is more than just a combat tool. It is literally a skill that humans cannot normally use."
At these words, even Kavasta turned pale.
For he had just realized that if Maximus wanted to kill him, he really could.
Of course, that didn't an that Maxi had beco invincible in 1v1 situations; there were still many ways to anticipate a stop in ti.
But that was limited to really strong n. On the original continent of Eternity, Maxi would beco truly terrifying with this skill.
And even against strong n, it was still an extrely powerful skill.
Because apart from the Gods, who could fight against ti itself?
"You really have learned a skill that shouldn't exist. It's scary."
Maxi smiled at that, he was simply happy with this new skill. At that mont he had no idea how Kavasta might be feeling.
At the sa ti, Maxi thought of sothing during the acquisition of this skill.
"But sothing happened..."
Adrian and Kavasta frowned.
"What?" asked Kavasta.
"Soone spoke to while ti was stopped," Maxi explained, not understanding where it ca from.
And it wasn't the first ti it had happened to him.
And every ti it had happened... it was the Gods who had spoken to him.
"Soone spoke to you? How strange."
Kavasta had never had a similar experience, so he didn't understand.
"In any case, be careful, Maxi."
In saying this, Kavasta was not paying attention to what Maxi had heard, but rather to his new skill.
"My main tutor at university, when I had shared so of the power of my talent with him, had said this to : When the world becos a playground, we sotis forget that we are not gods."
Maxi nodded, fully understanding.
Every talent and skill has its limits. Too much recklessness can lead to an unexpected end.
Without waiting, Maxi took a look at his remaining balance in the shop of the dinsional battlefield.
[Remaining balance: 326 Eternity points.]
He thought for a mont about what to do with the remaining points.
He quickly made a decision.
[Purchase of 'Sharpened Body Fruit' confird.]
[50 Eternity points deducted.]
[Purchase of 'Rank B Martial Technique' confird.]
[Choice of a random spear technique.]
[250 Eternity points deducted.]
[Remaining balance: 26 Eternity points.]
[Conversion of the 26 Eternity points to gold coin completed.]
Maxim was curious about the taste of the fruit, while he found it very rewarding to be able to master the spear, which is one of the most complex weapons to handle.
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He would have liked to learn archery, but the purchase was limited to lee weapons.
The transmission of knowledge about the spear was much less sensational than the 'Frozen Ti' skill.
For five seconds, he received a lot of information about how to handle the spear, and so changes were made to his arms and hands, but that was all.
Maxi didn't worry about it any more; he thought about exploring his gains later, as well as his new breathing thod.
Maxi, Kavasta and Adrian continued to talk together.
Of course, Kavasta and Adrian promised that they wouldn't let any information escape from the room, even if their superiors asked them questions about Maxi.
...
In a black space, which was now familiar, a gigantic silhouette opened its eyes again.
Never before had it opened its eyes so often.
"That brat has acquired a skill that even the Gods could be envious of..."
"And he got it so easily... He must have also caught the attention of that person..."
"There was Viviana and now there's this guy. My young boy is definitely attracting more and more attention."
"But I'm the first to have noticed him and invested in him. It's already too much for the others, I'm the one who would benefit the most!
Then he closed his eyes again, this ti in a very good mood.
He felt that his investnt would certainly not disappoint him this ti.
...
Maxi left the eting room, but with a strange feeling of weakness.
As if it was all finally over and he would finally be able to get so rest.
He wanted to grab a bite to eat in the fortress cafeteria.
Because as soon as he had been woken up, Orvari and Emmanuel had taken him to the eting room.
So he still hadn't eaten, and now he was starving.
And at the sa ti, he felt a little cold.
With his physique it was surprising, but his injuries greatly weakened his immune system.
So maybe he had caught a cold.
Especially since it was still raining outside and there was no heating in the fortress.
It seed that the entire budget had been allocated to the efficiency of the fortress at the expense of comfort.
Only the dical wing seed to have heating.
So he went to his room, took a blanket with him and wrapped himself in it.
"So comfortable."
He felt really good there.
Soon he went to the cafeteria as planned, collected a tray of food under the strange gaze of the kitchen staff.
They rarely had the opportunity to see such young n, and especially wrapped in a blanket?
It was a military fortress, who would dare to show up like that in a military place?
It would definitely be social death under the teasing of the other soldiers if soone did that.
But Maxi didn't care at all since he wasn't in the military.
Soon he sat down at a table alone, taking a little ti for himself.
His tray was very ordinary, a large bowl of hot soup with so vegetables, bread and water.
That's all he needed.
Around him, there were many tables filled with soldiers and rcenaries. None of them recognized Maxi, so he was really at ease.
It would take Shibuya rcenaries or so of the n from the second regint to recognize Maxi's face.
So of the n in the command room might also recognize him, as well as the captains of the regints.
But otherwise, although now almost all the soldiers in the fortress knew his first and last na, very few had seen him in person.
Maxi slowly began to eat his al.
Taking a small spoonful of soup, which slowly went down his throat, made him feel so good.
The weather was particularly cool, so that sip of hot soup seed so pleasant.
Especially as he was still in pain from his burns and injuries.
So it really did him good to drink the soup, as if it helped with the healing.
Ti passed slowly.
He took the opportunity to take a look at his new ditation thod.
A notification panel appeared in front of him.
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