In the secluded depths of the forest outside Lumina Crown, Maximilian walked alone beneath the dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy. The features he had worn as disguise—borrowed from the demon fragnt—began to shift and contort. His skin rippled like disturbed water, bone structure realigning with audible creaks as his face gradually returned to its familiar form.
"I can never get used to this," he muttered, fingers tracing the contours of his face, reassuring himself that his true appearance had fully returned. He winced slightly at the lingering sensation—like pins and needles across his skin where the transformation had taken place.
The small demonic entity perched on his shoulder observed him with its singular, massive eye that blinked occasionally with an unnerving wetness. The creature's gaze held a strange intelligence as it studied its host.
"Was that really okay?" the demon inquired, its voice surprisingly delicate for such an otherworldly being.
"Was what okay?" Maximilian responded, though he already anticipated the creature's concern.
"About your daughter..." The demon's voice trailed off aningfully.
Maximilian's expression hardened, the montary tenderness evaporating from his features. "And who's fault do you think it is that I can't see my kids?" he challenged, the accusation hanging heavily between them.
The demon fell silent, its enormous eye blinking rapidly before darting away, unwilling to et Maximilian's piercing gaze. After several monts of uncomfortable silence, it changed the subject.
"Where are we going now?" it asked, its tone deliberately lighter.
"No idea," Maximilian replied with casual indifference. "Let's just move east."
With that declaration, massive black wings erupted from his back, spreading wide with an audible snap. The feathers rustled in the forest breeze as he launched upward, powerful wingbeats carrying him above the treeline and into the vast open sky beyond.
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When Ambrose saw the notification appear before him, a surge of excitent coursed through his being. Could it be? Was his hypothesis correct? Would the system finally show him the path forward? He wondered how it was going to do it, would it straight up ask him or would it unlock so sort of quest function. His anticipation built rapidly, only to deflate just as quickly when he read the actual notifications that followed.
[Ding!]
[The host has overco their ntal limits]
The stream of notifications continued to flow:
[Skill [Mathematician] has been upgraded]
Though not what he'd been hoping for, surprise still registered within him. His Mathematician skill ranked among his most valuable abilities, enhancing the ntal faculties he relied upon most heavily. Even as he processed the notification, he could already sense the difference taking effect, his mind expanding in ways difficult to articulate. With practiced efficiency, he summoned the system interface to examine the upgraded skill:
[Mathematician](Unique) - A rare talent that has evolved to fundantally reshape reality through the mind's incomprehensible processing capabilities. This transcendent mathematical insight allows the user to perceive, understand, and manipulate the underlying mathematical principles that govern existence itself. (Subskills: [Reality Simulation](SSS), [Rational Mind](SS), [ntal Fortress](SS), [Perfect Recall](SS), [Thought Acceleration](SS), [Parallel Processing](SS), [Ti Perception](S))
Ambrose observed the descriptions of his enhanced abilities with genuine amazent. His Rational Mind skill had improved significantly, which sparked a subtle uneasiness within him. As the skill grew stronger, it was helpful to him but it beca harder and harder for him to control it, at this rate, the skill might really take control of him.
His other abilities had undergone considerable enhancent as well, with Thought Acceleration and Parallel Processing standing out as particularly noteworthy:
[Thought Acceleration](SS) - Transcends conventional ntal speed, allowing the mind to operate at near-infinite speed. ntal processing accelerates by a factor of 10,000, enabling the user to experience milliseconds as hours of subjective thought ti. In this state, the user can perform years of ntal computation in seconds, analyze countless variables simultaneously, and consider every possible outco of any decision instantly. This acceleration applies to all ntal functions, granting seemingly precognitive reaction capabilities as the mind processes information far faster than events can unfold.
[Parallel Processing](SS) - Evolves to allow the mind to fragnt into countless independent yet unified thought streams. The user can maintain hundreds of completely separate ntal processes simultaneously, each operating at full capacity with total access to all ntal resources. These processes can work cooperatively or independently on different tasks, effectively multiplying the user's ntal capability by orders of magnitude. The mind becos a vast network of interconnected yet independent thought engines, enabling simultaneous analysis of countless complex problems with no reduction in efficiency.
Even now, he was leveraging his enhanced Thought Acceleration to process information at extraordinary speeds while simultaneously employing Parallel Processing to maintain his conversation with Aurora. The goddess remained completely unaware of his ntal gymnastics, as he executed these complex cognitive maneuvers with effortless precision.
Impressive as these upgraded abilities were, they paled in comparison to the entirely new skill that had manifested following the enhancent:
[Reality Simulation](SSS) - An extraordinary ability that allows the user to create perfect ntal models of reality and run complex simulations within their mind. By leveraging their transcendent computational capabilities, the user can create detailed simulations of any scenario using observed variables and mathematical principles. These simulations can model complex systems with near-perfect accuracy, from combat encounters to economic markets to weather patterns. The user can run thousands of different simulation branches simultaneously, testing different variables and actions to predict outcos with astonishing precision. The accuracy of these simulations depends on the quality of available data, with familiar scenarios reaching up to 99.8% accuracy. Most remarkably, these simulations can be run in subjective ti asured in nanoseconds, allowing the user to explore countless potential futures before making a single move. The ntal strain scales with simulation complexity and duration, with planetary-scale simulations or extrely long-term predictions requiring significant ntal resources.
This new capability represented a quantum leap in his ntal arsenal, offering possibilities that even his analytical mind had yet to fully comprehend. Though he had yet to test it yet, he instantly understood what the skill was all about. He guessed that it seed to originate from his ti side of his Space-ti talent. With this skill, he could do the simulations for new techniques more easily than before, this ant that he would be able to study new space and ti abilities easily. He thought to himself that he'd use it to simulate after he woke up to see if he could finally grasp the Ti Dominion skill he'd been trying to learn this whole ti.
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