Am I so easy to read now?
Adyr kept a faint smile on his face, calm enough to fool anyone watching, yet inside he felt a sharp mix of surprise and interest.
The way Dalin described him, like she could see behind the mask on his face, was sothing he hadn't expected.
He was changing; that much was obvious. He could feel it in the small slips, the tiny delays, and the monts where his acting used to be flawless and effortless. He was not as adept as before at hiding his real self under a mask. He could not keep up the sa performance like he used to.
Still, he believed he could make up for that loss with the new bloodline ability he had gained.
Nihil: What weight has existence before the heir of nothingness? There is no eye that has the power to see you, and no mind has the capacity to contain you.
Absence: A formless form that none can describe or define, a nothingness beyond the reach of fate and destiny.
He read the description again. From what he understood, it should be passively helping him conceal himself from others' observations too, like a thin layer that softened the sharp edges people normally noticed first.
Did I misunderstand it?
The doubt had barely ford when his gaze caught on sothing in front of him.
Dalin's face suddenly changed. Her eyes slowly widened, and her eyebrows lifted slightly, like she was staring into empty space right in front of her, reading sothing only she could see.
"You got a system ssage?" Adyr chuckled, reading it from her expression.
From her attitude and reaction, it was clear it wasn't a simple talent
recognition from the system. It was sothing else, sothing that hit her too suddenly to hide.
"My Appraisal talent... it's..." Dalin's shocked expression beca even clearer as she turned her eyes from the empty space in front of her to Adyr. "It turned into a bloodline talent."
"Oh?" Adyr responded, letting his surprise show. "Congratulations."
"Thank you." The words ca out stiff, almost clipped. His reaction felt too small compared to what was happening inside her chest.
Her gaining a bloodline talent should have been sothing huge, but Adyr only said congratulations. He didn't even ask what it was. That got on her nerves a little.
She said what it was anyway when she realized the question wouldn't co naturally. "The talent's na is Omnisight, and its ability is Gaze."
Her shocked expression shifted slightly as her brows drew together. "I can't understand what this ability ans based on the description. I think I need to register it to see what it really is."
She didn't look like she cared about saying the nas out loud like this. Even she couldn't understand what those nas implied, let alone the STF mbers around them listening nearby, who weren't even Practitioners.
But when Adyr heard it, he understood exactly what it was.
She awakened Omnisight from Apprisal talent? What does that an? The thought passed through his mind.
It was the sa talent Adyr awakened long ago, but he awakened it from Observer talent, so the 2 talents were different in na.
But when he thought about it, he found the common point. Both talents had
the sa key parts: observation and assessnt.
Adyr also checked the bloodline talent's description in his mind.
Omnisight: You see beyond the veil of ti, where fate unfolds and secrets chi, wielding sight that bends the infinite line.
Gaze: An eternal vision that pierces the veil of ti, revealing hidden strengths and fatal flaws alike, empowering the bearer to command destiny's path before it even unfolds.
Dalin's awakening of this bloodline talent simply by observing and assessing Adyr's potential proved that the sa bloodline talents could also be awakened through different approaches.
Adyr then inquired, allowing his curiosity to fully surface. "Is there anything in the description, or anywhere, saying it's a Genesis talent?"
He wanted to be certain it was exactly the sa talent as his.
Dalin shook her head. "No. Why? Do you know what this talent is?"
Upon hearing the question, Adyr did not respond imdiately. He asked one of the STF mbers for a pen and paper, then handed them to Dalin. "Write the descriptions here."
Dalin nodded. She understood why he wanted her to write it down instead of saying it out loud, because the description was sothing they should keep secret, even from human soldiers.
After she wrote it down, Adyr took it and read everything. It was exactly the sa as his own Omnisight talent and Gaze ability; only the part about it being Genesis was missing.
He gave the paper back to Dalin.
As soon as Dalin took the paper back, it suddenly started to burn in her hands. The paper curled and vanished so fast it left not even ashes behind.
"So?" she asked.
She had already realized Adyr definitely knew sothing about the bloodline talent. Now she was starting to strongly suspect that he had the talent himself. "It's an excellent and useful talent, but before registering it, make sure your sense stat is high enough to endure the burden it will bring you. It should be at least 600," Adyr said, recalling his first experience with the ability.
Gaze was sothing that, the mont you registered it, would beco active, splitting your vision into panels and constantly showing the next 10 seconds in a loop in front of your eyes, like reality repeating in short, unforgiving fragnts.
To endure and adapt to that nonstop intake to the brain, one had to raise the [Sense] so the brain could handle and process the information effectively as it kept coming, without a switch to turn it off.
Adyr had used his [Resilience] stat to endure the burden before, since it was a stat that strengthened soone both physically and ntally. But knowing Dalin only had [Sense] and [Physique] as her stats, investing in [Sense] was the better option.
"Thank you," Dalin said, looking genuinely glad both because of the tip and because she was able to awaken her talent with his help.
600 was quite a high number for her right now, especially since she invested mainly in [Physique]. However, now that she had gained a bloodline talent, she was confident that she would continue training her talents to earn new stat points with increased motivation.
Especially as the first one among the others to awaken a bloodline talent, she now had a card in her hand to face Selina and show off.
"Don't forget to share your experience with the others. It may help them
awaken theirs as well," Adyr said as he stood up from the seat, feeling the hoverjet starting to slow down, a sign that they had reached their destination. Then he waited for the side door to open before unfolding his wings and jumping down. He glided toward the huge, massive black, coffin-like building rising into the sky below.
Dalin walked near the door and watched his descending figure. Her crimson hair rippled in the wind rushing through the open doorway.
Then she let out a heavy sigh. "Again, he left behind sothing mind-blowing
and left like it was nothing"
Her eyes had already lost the excitent and shock from before. Now they only looked filled with pity.
This was exactly the reason she deducted 1 point from his potential: she feared
that although Adyr had many qualities, he lacked sothing more crucial than
anything else.
In Dalin's eyes, Adyr appeared empty, lacking an understanding of what he needed to feel fulfilled.
It was as if he wanted to live but had no idea how, desperately clinging to anything that might prove he was more than just a body that simply existed.
Adyr landed on the wide rooftop of the headquarters under the watch of many
STF soldiers standing guard.
Seeing him, everyone took a step back at his new appearance. Thankfully, he ca with a hoverjet, and his familiar black-and-white wings were proof of who he was, helping them recognize him.
As he walked to the elevators, he gave a small smile and a nod, returning the salutes from the n and won stationed there.
Then he asked one of the soldiers standing guard near the elevator where he
could find Henry. After getting the answer, he entered the elevator and went down to the floor where the office was.
He walked the long corridor with calm steps, returning every salute with the
sa nod and a small smile, until he reached the door of a large office. Then he pushed it open without knocking.
Inside, 2 n greeted him. One was Henry Bates, and the other was Rhys Graves. Both were standing, looking already aware that he was coming. "You will be the reason one day I die from a heart attack, Henry said, taking in Adyr's new look with a heavy breath as he dropped into the soft chair, like he was exhausted.
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