The scenery in Leo's eyes had completely left the flat plains, yet it wasn't alien to him. He saw parts of Murim that he had never been to, but it was greatly familiar to him, especially at this specific mont!
In the end, Leo even saw Baekho, who was none other than himself, raising the White Tiger at him, which he received using the Blue Dragon. At this point, Leo could already guess what he was experiencing.
However, before he could confirm it, the scenery changed once more, and most importantly, the recurring swords of various forms that he held were no longer present.
'This is…!'
After holding high-quality swords worthy of only top powerhouses, a wooden training sword followed with an iron one flashed by before changing into a long weapon that Leo was similarly familiar with, the spear!
Although the fleeting scenes were very brief, the core essence of these monts was rapidly crystalized and etched into his mind. Leo could tell that the hands holding the weapon had also changed.
Every mont lasted less than a second, but as if ti was being stretched, each second felt like a year. Once the sword changed into a spear, it felt even longer.
Unlike the sword techniques used by the first person who Leo looked through his eyes, which he had only caught a glimpse at before, the spear techniques were extrely intimate to Leo…
They were the foundation that he had spent most of this life setting up!
'Senior Brother!'
The pitch-black spear radiating intense dread that appeared in 'his' hands confird Leo's suspicion.
This was indeed the Black Dragon's Transformation perford using the representation of The Black Dragon itself, and the one performing it was none other than Cheon Chang!
This was definitely a 'Character Reading', and it wasn't the first ti that Leo had experienced sothing like this. However, reading more than one character in a row and reading a character other than the protagonist were both undeniable firsts.
Leo wasn't sure, but perhaps because this was soone that he was actually close to, the experience he viewed seed more real and concrete. Aside from learning how to hold the spear one more ti, he also grasped snippets of his Senior Brother's life.
The grief that almost ate away Cheon Chang's soul, the brilliant yet distant figure of their Master in the background, the second wave of grief that ca with his passing.
The despair of being incapable of learning the sword no matter how much he tried, the emptiness that ca after he shot straight to the peak after giving up the inheritance that held him back, and finally…
The complex emotions that he felt towards this new junior of his!
Unexpected interest and intrigue followed by jealousy! Leo had never noticed it before from his side, but now that he was sohow in Cheon Chang's head, he recognized slight jealousy towards his ability to equally master the sword and the spear.
'...Unexpected.'
Despite knowing that he wasn't normal, Leo never viewed himself as soone talented. If he didn't rely on his reading to learn sothing, the learning curve for him was the sa as most normal people, average.
He never expected that he would be envied by soone who had an actual monstrous talent like the Absolute Spear.
'Well, it's not like I can't understand him.'
Leo was incapable of complex thought in the state that he was currently in, but he perfectly understood everything he perceived as Cheon Chang since he was literally looking at it from his point of view.
The dilemma of 'You can't possibly understand what I'm going through from the side' was nothing to him. At the mont, Leo was 'Cheon Chang'.
He didn't completely integrate with him as he did with Arthur or Baekho, but Leo deeply felt the stifling frustration that ca along with Cheon Chang's talent.
As long as it ca to the spear, he could do everything. As if to balance things out, however, he was trash when it ca to everything else. Even Leo could feel jealousy towards himself under the sa conditions.
In reality, there were really people who were perfect at almost everything. On the other hand, as a novel character with very clear settings and limitations, Cheon Chang's statistics weren't overwhelmingly high, they were just concentrated on a single aspect…
Even then, the jealousy that Leo sensed towards himself didn't last long. It was quickly replaced by a sense of fulfillnt through association. Cheon Chang couldn't fully inherit his master's path, yet he had still found soone he could, and that was enough to satisfy him!
The feelings that followed grew even warr, happiness, excitent, expectations… Unlike his silent character, Cheon Chang was quite expressive deep inside. It didn't take him long to progress to the stage where he perceived Leo as an actual little brother.
As the ti fast-forwarded back to the flat plains where the final battle was taking place, Leo once again saw himself through soone else's eyes, but the feelings were different and much more pronounced than last ti.
Cheon Chang was proud of the heights that Leo had achieved when he was battling Geochin and Namgung Hyun using both the sword and the spear!
'Eh?'
It was a happy instance to receive these feelings directly like that, especially since he didn't have much ti left in this world. However, it wasn't this that caught him by surprise. It was sothing far more unexpected that broke through the walls of the plot!
All of the feelings that he perceived suddenly disappeared as everything culminated into a state of clearness that was news even to Leo. It was like Cheon Chang had reached a whole new state of mind, and…
'... Profound?!'
His body simply followed through!
A heightened state of being at this level wasn't sothing that Leo had experienced before, but he could already tell what was happening by experiencing what followed that.
It was undeniably a breakthrough! A breakthrough to the Profound Stage nonetheless!
'To think that Senior Brother would breakthrough on the battlefield.'
The Greatest Spearman who was destined to die had actually stepped into the top of Murim's pyramid, this was simply the biggest butterfly effect that Leo had caused so far!
'If I can experience this for a little bit long-'
Just then.
"I surrender!'
Everything was shattered by a loud declaration.
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