Chapter 127: The Premise of a New Technique
The aftermath of his duel with Ayaka had left Nero restless.
Yet, it wasn't the fight itself that gnawed at him.
It was something deeper, an idea, a concept lingering on the edge of his consciousness, just out of reach.
Sitting alone in his quarters at Zen and Mu's house, he stared at the dim glow of a paper lantern, his fingers idly tracing patterns on the wooden floor.
His mind replayed Ayaka's words: "I'd need to be able to look left and right at the same time." It had been a simple observation, yet it refused to leave his thoughts.
That phrase had given him the spark, but now he needed to define his research path.
He had to know: had this ever been attempted before?
Had anyone ever truly succeeded in making such a construct, akin to an extension of oneself, not just in movement but in thought?
He had no interest in following a doomed experiment.
He needed to see the full scope of what had been done before.
His research took him back to Mu and Zen's stories, about how they had to push beyond traditional spellcasting to survive.