Chapter 86: Chaos Dragon Brain Matrix! The Aura of Origin and Mind Power clashing to create something new
Bzzt!
It was like a wire had short-circuited directly inside Caelus’s mind. His consciousness went entirely blank as a fundamental transformation began.
The raw power of the Chaos Dragon erupted. Instead of a slow mutation, the sheer force of it completely broke down his existing neural pathways, reducing his fragile human brain structure to its most basic biological components. As the profound aura of chaos seeped deep into his skull, a brand new architecture began to take root.
The raw biological matter rapidly condensed and reformed. Millions of new nerve cells generated in rapid succession, initially taking the shape of a normal human brain. However, as the draconic energy washed over the gray matter, the structure began to twist and fold into infinitely more complex geometric patterns. The tissue compressed, growing denser and vastly more efficient. Atop the newly formed neural branches, secondary and tertiary networks sprouted and intertwined, forging a crystalline matrix of pure processing power.
Boom!
In the outside world, Caelus’s figure began to distort slightly. Sylvia looked at him with a frown, and the next moment, his body rose into the air as a crushing mental pressure erupted from Caelus.
[Your mentality stats have increased exponentially.]
[Combat Score: 96.50 -> 100.50]
[You’ve successfully merged with the Brain Matrix.]
[Your brain power has achieved elevation. As a result, you’ve unlocked the hidden power of the mind: Mental Power.]
[New status unlocked.]
[Mind: 95/105]
[Your Dragon Heart is reacting to your Mind power.]
[Mind: 95/105 -> 185/185]
[You’ve unlocked the Trait: Telekinesis (Epic, 1-star)]
[You’ve unlocked the Trait: Mental Requiem (Rare, 1-star)]
[You’ve unlocked the Trait: Parallel Thought (Rare, 1-star)]
[You’ve unlocked the Trait: Thought Acceleration (Rare, 1-star)]
[Ding!]
[You have the Talent: Split Awareness and the Trait: Thought Acceleration.]
[Traits of a race and talents can be combined.]
[Combining Parallel Thought + Thought Acceleration + Split Awareness]
[Ding!]
[You’ve received the Trait: Parallel Calculation (Epic, 1-Star)]
[Chaos Dragon Brain Matrix (Mythical, 1-star): Passively grants immense resistance to all mind-control, illusions, and mental attacks. When activated, you can project a ’Chaos Spike’ directly into the mind of a target within 20 meters. Chaos Spike deals 50% of your combat score per spike. If a target is corrupted with the Chaos Spike debuff, you can give them a command that they will fulfill with a 100% certainty. All mind-related traits will only cost 40% of their actual cost.]
[Telekinesis (Epic, 1-star): Your mind’s power draws out into reality. Within a five-meter zone, you can manipulate or control anything. The strength of it is based on your combat score, and you can use an additional 50 Mind to increase the zone size.]
[Cost: 6 Mind per use.]
[Mental Requiem (Rare, 1-star): Create a sonic wave from your mind power to crush someone’s mind or cause soul death. Can be utilized for normal attacks as well.]
[Cost: 6 Mind per use.]
[Parallel Calculation (Epic, 1-Star): Your brain is overclocked to reach a higher threshold. You will naturally be able to split your consciousness into 10 and predict, calculate, and apply them all at once. The number of split consciousnesses can be increased using 5 Mind per consciousness.]
Caelus slowly opened his eyes. His body was still floating in the air.
This state had just used 10 Mind from him, but as long as he maintained it, he could stay in a flight state for a long while. That was what the Telekinesis trait excelled at; people could literally fly or shoot flying weapons.
Traits were not fundamentally any different from skills, just that it paired well with your race. Like the buff his Aspect gave to his mental traits.
At the same time, the Aura of Origin inside him was stirring, trying to connect with his mental power.
[Ding!]
[Your Aura and Mind power are clashing to create something new.]
[You’ve glimpsed at the Trait: Fighting Spirit (Mythical, 1-Star)]
"It’s that." Caelus had a look of understanding.
This was one of the abilities that was promised to him by his (Mythical)Aura Manifestation Art. To think it was connected to his mental power.
Maybe after all this, he should try to form his own fighting spirit.
They were extremely useful.
"Caelus, you are flying." Sylvia stared at him with a look of surprise.
"Yes. I’ve achieved transcendence. I’ve let go of my mortal desires and became the Buddha. Now I can fly." Caelus let out an exaggerated sigh and spoke. "Now I will go fly off into the higher world."
"What are you talking about?" Sylvia asked in a slightly confused manner.
"Nothing. Come. Let’s go back." Caelus said with a soft chuckle.
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"You both are back." Old man Welt and Rachel were in the office.
They both wore speechless expressions as they eyed Caelus and Sylvia.
"To think you would be Player 555 and Player 222." Old man Welt shook his head. "I underestimated you, Caelus, Miss Sylvia."
By now, all the beings that were invited into the Space League were back, except the two winners.
That could only mean one thing. This was Caelus and Sylvia!
The blood power Sylvia used during the fight with the female wolf further confirmed it.
"No wonder your combat score was so high." Old man Welt was full of enthusiasm. "This is exactly what I want to see in the current world’s youth."
"You both will one day become the pillars of the Solaris Kingdom." Old man Welt said with a smile.
"Also, starting from now, the world is going to change." Old man Welt changed the subject.
"Our world will undergo another awakening. The changes cannot be measured through normal means or even predicted."
"However, our world’s people will naturally start becoming stronger, and I believe we will be matched with the Middle Expanse soon in the foreseeable future."
"But before that, there are some things that I need to clarify to you both. How much do you know about dungeons?"
"Dungeons? Like the gates?" Sylvia and Caelus looked at each other and asked.
"Yes." Old man Welt nodded.
"That they are linked to the domain or something, and there are beasts spawning from there?"
"No." Old man Welt softly shook his head.
"That is unfortunately not the case."
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A/N: Sorry for the delay. I had a bad headache (Still have it). Took me some effort to write today. Also, do you think I make an auxiliary Chapter for the status window of Caelus? By the time we reach 200 Chapter or more, it will be half a Chapter long.