Chapter 67 - #66 Limit Removal! (2/2)
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Hearing her words, I frowned down and once again glanced at all paintings.
I turned around and started walking towards the exit.
”Hm? Are you giving up?” Even Mera was slightly surprised by how easily I refused.
”Heh, don't tell me that you have forgotten my words after those 5 years? ...I am absolute” I said with half-open eyes and slightly arrogant smirk.
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'?! This is the same aura from 5 years ago...*gulp*' Mera thought while warily watching Akashi.
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[Absolute Dominance - activated +60% to stats]
Now my intelligence should be high enough to notice any small details on those paintings. I can't maintain it for a long time since I practically forced myself into this state without fighting anyone, this must also be possible due to leveling my special class to Lvl 10.
I quickly started observing all paintings while completely ignoring the slightly shocked faces of four people in front of me.
After 10 seconds...
I can remember all of the paintings and in which order they go but...it will be much harder than I thought. If I want to find something, I must stop getting my thoughts interrupted by the outside world. Even just flickering flame of the torches in the other room was interrupting me to use my brain at 100 percent.
I chose to select a different approach and I slowly closed my eyes while relaxing my arms, letting them just hang next to my body like a jelly. I started thinking about complete emptiness and soon enough I felt as if my whole body was slowly spinning in place. One place I felt like I was upside down yet I couldn't even feel the ground under my legs so there was no guarantee that I was even upside down, I only felt nothingness around me.
When I finally opened my eyes, I was standing nowhere and only numerous paintings were in front of me together with 4 people that were together with me inside the room. I looked around but found nothing else except for a images of those people and then paintings. I started observing them more carefully this time. I spent a long time in this...nothingness but the images of people inside the room with my outside body changed only a bit.
I continued inspecting paintings and their similarities until I finally found answer and felt a small connection to those insects inside the paintings as if they were alive.
---Outside of Akashi's consciousness---
”What is he doing?” Gilberda asked Cassandra with a weird expression while glancing at Akashi who was standing still for more than 5 seconds without moving a muscle already.
”No idea...” Cassandra replied while shaking her head.
Mera and Babara only kept staring at Akashi with cautious eyes.
Suddenly, Akashi's lips parted a little bit and he slowly opened his eyes with enlarged vertical pupils and also a small almost nonexistent red spark escaped from them. He wasn't blinking at all and his eyes were fully focused.
”?! Is that-?!” Mera was immediately shocked when she noticed his focused eyes, as everyone else was.
”Limit removal!” Babara confirmed Mera's suspicion.
”I-Impossible, he wasn't raised here...How is it possible for him to do that?!” Gilberda exclaimed with a shocked expression and Cassandra was also speechless from seeing this since not everyone could learn that as she herself didn't learn it yet.
---Akashi's POV---
When I opened my eyes, I felt like I could do anything as long as I focus on that thing. I also felt a faint connection with those insects but this time, it wasn't from paintings.
I slowly extended my arms towards Mera as a gesture of inviting which puzzled everyone.
However, soon enough a few insects left from inside of her clothes to fly and land on my inviting hand.
”What?!” Mera was once again shocked by this since I controlled her own insects.
However, after 10 more seconds of controlling those insects, the effect of [Absolute Dominance] and other things wore off and they finally started listening to Mera's orders to return to her.
I was slightly tired and felt a little headache so I wanted to go rest a bit.
”Thanks for everything, I will go rest for a bit and absorb the knowledge I learned here.” I said with a smile towards Mera and then turned around, leaving the room.
---After Akashi left---
All 4 remained to stare at his slowly disappearing back with shocked expressions, Mera herself even had a slightly horrified expression while looking at Akashi.
”If he wouldn't have been born to the noble family, he would have definitely become part of Oarburgh. He was practically born to be one of us.” Babara said her honest thoughts aloud with a slightly disappointed expression and then started slowly leaving the room with her hands behind her back.
Mera only had a thoughtful expression after hearing Babara's words.