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Chapter 661

Day 133 – Afternoon, Dungeon, 70F

Until now I had only stared helplessly at the countless tangled results of an overwhelming number of intertwined skill effects, fumbling with their hazy outlines, patching them together clumsily with trial and error, deceiving myself just enough to keep going. The result was collapse, skills mixing, clashing, bursting, raging out of control, and my body collapsing and breaking with them.

The all-one perspective seen from above, and the extreme realm sensed as bodily experience, allowed me to perceive and grasp those outlines that had always been vague and lost in the mix. It’s still purely sensory, with no real control, but being able to observe the present state and understand it is already progress. Even if it’s too late, even if I’m always reacting after the fact, if I can observe and comprehend it, I can at least accumulate it as experience, and that’s tremendous