redvbooks Chapter 184: Heavenly Comprehension
Chapter 184: Heavenly Comprehension
The three days came and went faster than they had any right to.
Damon spent every second of those three days inside his domain. He took no breaks as he worked through the ability, which had no business being as complicated as it was.
Luckily, his mana reserves were enormous now. He didn’t have to rush. He could sit inside a single thread for an hour if the thread required it, and as it happens, several of them did.
As the third day began to end, he was close enough to feel the remaining distance.
The last few threads came together faster, almost all at once they clicked into place with a sound that wasn’t quite audible, and wasn’t quite not audible. The threads locked into place with vibration he felt even without the corporeal body, and a notification rang in his head a second later.
[Your ability *Absolute Comprehension* has evolved!]
[Absolute Comprehension -> Heavenly Comprehension]
The ability activated on its own.
It was nothing like the previous Absolute Comprehension he used many times before.
Everything slowed.
It wasn’t physical, the time hadn’t stopped or slowed.
It was his perception of time that changed. It deepened in a way that was difficult to put into words.
A single glance at the frozen floor processed more information than a careful hour of study had before. He looked at the Black Knight across the chamber and read the construction of its existence in the time it took to complete a breath. He looked at his own hands and saw the mana running through them in real time, every current visible, every pattern legible.
For a little while, he simply stood there and took all that new information in.
Then he turned his attention to his status screen.
***
[Name: Damon]
[Level: 144]
[Race: Human]
[Class: Error-!]
[Attributes: System Breaker, Dark Evolution (Lord of Darkness)]
[Classes (8/∞): Lightning Mage, Lord of Darkness, Blood Berserker, Blacksmith, Sentinel, Barbarian, Soul Shooter, Overlord]
[Abilities: Black Ice Manipulation (Lord of Darkness), Domain of Darkness, Dark Legion, Corrosion (Lord of Darkness), Shadow Manipulation (Lord of Darkness), Heavenly Comprehension, Ravenous Bloodlust(Blood Berserker), Blood Berserker’s Fury(Blood Berserker), Furnace(Blacksmith), Verdict, Inspect, Relic Weaving(Blacksmith), Lightning Manipulation (Lightning Mage), Endless Ammo (Soul Shooter), Lifesteal (Barbarian), Unbroken Will (Barbarian), Aegis Veil (Sentinel), Eternal Bastion( Sentinel), World’s Authority(Overlord)]
[Talents: Abyssal Sword Art IV]
[Stats:
— Strength: 1339 (with [Void Edge] equipped)
— Dexterity: 1087
— Vitality: 1423
— Stamina: 1053
— Mana: 1032 ]
[Stat Points Available: 22]
***
The killing of two divine beasts had given him nearly 20 levels and index bonuses that pushed him far beyond anything that could be considered human.
He studied the numbers and changes for a short moment before dismissing the status screen and turning his gaze toward the Black Knight.
It stood where it always stood, kneeling at a slight angle, sword planted, the particular stillness of something that had been waiting since it was summoned and had never once found the waiting difficult.
The Black Knight could be considered his most useful companion, a being he could trust no matter what. But in the war against divine beasts, Damon found it difficult to find any use for a summon that would be killed in seconds.
The gap between its level, stats and abilities against theirs was simply too great.
With Heavenly Comprehension activated, the idea arrived the second his gaze landed on his summon, faster than any logic could’ve assembled it.
He crossed the domain floor and stopped in front of the Black Knight, placing his hand against the dark armour.
The connection to its core was immediate, a thread he could feel the moment his palm made contact, running from his intention into the construct’s foundation. He followed it inward and began to study.
The threads were simpler than his own. Some of the patterns were faintly familiar, but none were identical to his. Still, in his current state, reading them took no more than a glance.
And while previously he could expand or modify existing threads, now he was able to do something vastly different.
He took one long look at everything the Black Knight was made of and, without a hint of hesitation, he began to weave a completely new band of threads.
New patterns clicked into place as he weaved straight from his memory, copying from a source he knew better than almost anything else in this world, his status screen.
It took merely a couple more seconds before the blacksmith class locked into place.
Right now, Damon had an abundance of rift shards, the ones he collected across the dozen worlds he travelled during his journey back with Yuki.
With how hectic things have been lately, he had no time to make proper use of his blacksmith class, but now, with the ability to not just evolve but create, he gave his summon a new chance to be of service.
The Black Knight’s head lifted as if it already knew the command was coming.
Damon met its gaze while simultaneously reaching into his inventory and summoning all his rift shards at once.
Hundreds of them spread across the castle’s frozen floor.
"Make as many as you can," Damon said.
The Black Knight didn’t respond verbally. It simply inclined its head once, the acknowledgement of something that had received an instruction it understood and intended to follow, and turned its attention to the shards.
Damon watched it for a moment.
Then he turned away.
Lost in his weaving, he hadn’t even realised that three days had passed in the real world by now. But now, he had done everything he set out to.
Without wasting a single moment, he reached for his domain and called for the exit.
Immediately, the biting cold of his domain was replaced by the hot, dry air of the Dragon Clan territory.
The second Damon appeared, Yoru felt her shoulders stiffen.
His appearance hadn’t changed.
And yet, despite staring straight at him, she couldn’t sense the human she had seen just three days ago.
You..." she murmured, the word trailing off before she could finish it.
The frown on her face deepened. She looked at him the way she might look at something that had walked out of a rift wearing a familiar face, not someone she actually knew.
"What have you done?"