Chapter 177: Self-Investment
While his Spartans plunged into the Chronos War, Richard remained in his private office, a serene stillness enveloping him. He hovered effortlessly in the center of the room, his form radiating a faint, silvery aura.
This wasn’t merely a display of his burgeoning psionic abilities, but an active manifestation of his multi-layered mindscape. Within this mental construct, he was meditating at an 1:10 time compression rate. An hour in the real world equated to ten hours within the depths of his consciousness. His new technique being layering 10 mindspaces, which in normal means should magnify to 10 layers deeper time compression, it should have been 1:10,000,000,000, as he expected but the system was smart to remodify it to 1:100, meaning each layer he add, only goes +10 time compression but, each hour spent amplifying the subtle, yet potent, energies of his Anu heritage.
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He had constructed ten distinct layers within this mindscape, each a complex tapestry of thought and energy manipulation. For every five minutes of real-world meditation, he gained a miniscule 0.001 PSY point, a trickle that, when amplified by the accelerated time, became a torrent. After three hours of this intensive, 10-layered mindscape meditation, he had spent a total of three hundred virtual hours in profound focus, earning a substantial +3.6 PSY. This was a crucial gain, for the system shop did not sell PSY as a direct attribute.
He slowly descended, his bare feet touching the polished floor with a faint, almost silent brush. He sighed, a soft exhalation of contentment. The mental fatigue was almost imperceptible, a mere echo of the immense processing he had just undergone.
He opened his personal status screen, the holographic interface shimmering into existence before him.
[ PROFILE STATUS ]
Name: Richard Santamo
Race: Anu
Path-Awakening: Anu 1st Grade Psi-Warrior
Age: 24
Weight: 213 lbs