Chapter 1514: Getting serious
With his understanding of how the path system operated, Rain grasped the concept of pushing skills beyond their limits by forcing them to consume more energy. Just as he could wield skills even without physical equipment, he surmised that he could compel the path system to break its own boundaries, harnessing its power to greater effect.
In that moment of clarity, amidst the chaos of his suffering, Rain saw a path forward—a strategy to turn the tables on his enemy and unleash the full potential of his abilities. By manipulating the path system to his advantage, he could unlock new levels of power and resilience, turning Arel’s own tactics against her in a battle of wits and wills.
With this revelation burning bright in his mind, Rain steeled himself against the pain, channeling his newfound knowledge into a plan of action.
"How do I apply this to passive skills?" Rain thought. "I have some time since Lonos isn’t here, but I should hurry up with the experiments."
Arel didn’t have time to react to Rain’s thoughts either, so he soon found the answer to that question... It was easy, thanks to the information path. Passive skills worked by making the body adapt automatically to certain situations and experiences, so Rain... by using the Information path, he compressed all the experience of the skills and made it lose five hundred levels, but the effectiveness of the skill doubled...
"His resistance to fire is improving again... what is going on? Did the plan backfire somehow?"
As Lonos manipulated the flow of time within Rain’s mind, accelerating it to a staggering 86 thousand times its normal pace, Rain found himself thrust into a maelstrom of accelerated thoughts and sensations. In the span of a mere second in the outside world, he experienced an entire day’s worth of events, his consciousness racing forward at a dizzying pace.
For Rain, this temporal distortion was both a curse and a blessing. While it granted him an abundance of time to think and strategize, it also subjected him to an onslaught of intensified pain and mental exertion. Each passing moment felt like an eternity, with thoughts and perceptions colliding in a whirlwind of rapid-fire cognition.
Amidst this turbulence, Arel came to a realization. By granting Rain such an extended period for contemplation, she had inadvertently provided him with an opportunity to exploit his accelerated thought process to its fullest potential. In giving him ample time to strategize and adapt, she had unwittingly tipped the scales in his favor, empowering him to outmaneuver her with his newfound clarity and resolve.