Chapter 71
Kyon had studied electrical insulation. He was going to focus on the technique of movements and mastering the basic category of all the elements.
He recalled that the element is considered impure if it's hard to master, and the harder, the more impure. But at the same time, it is more powerful in some sense. And since he is the master of all the elements, it is beneficial for him to study something complex, like heat / cold with complexity 3, and ideally darkness / light with complexity 5.
It's quite convenient when a single touch sends blows of current discharge. Besides, there's scope for a variety of techniques and tricks. Kyon wondered what the most complex attributes were capable of?
Kyon decided to master the darkness as the next element. It sounds dangerous, and its properties are too mysterious. The darkness is the very embodiment of evil, and evil always symbolizes unbridled power, which leads to submission. Therefore, he began with the neural connections responsible for the darkness. He will decipher the element and make it his new "hand."
Many hours had pa.s.sed. It was about six o'clock in the evening. His development went on.
The bright day had turned to a nasty one unnaturally quickly. The dense, gray clouds covered the clear sky. It never started raining, but everyone could feel the air filled with energy. It happens during a thunderstorm when the lightning subsides for a while.
Kyоn frowned slightly. After mastering the pure power and ether, it seemed to him that he'd learn any other element within minutes, as he understood the principle of decoding knowledge. However, the element of darkness was too mysterious. He'd released it from the key again and again. He'd changed the shape of the channel in different ways. All the same, it kept behaving chaotically and incomprehensibly, arousing gloomy feelings in him. The remaining layers of dead skin on his face made the young man like an ugly maniac.
Suddenly a bright thought flashed in his head. He tested it, and… There it was, his first lead! He found out what a small fragment of neural connections meant. It remained only to grow his tree of correct conclusions from the already existing seeds of guesswork!
The clouds over his head had darkened even more. The wind didn't look dangerous, but it gave a nasty s.h.i.+ver. All the Stones decided that they should not go for a walk today. That didn't look good.
Kyon's eyes sparkled. The chain reaction was running. Synergy was about to recognize the element!
*snap*
The characteristic sound in his heart gave Kyon a sign that from now on, the basic category of the darkness element was entirely under his control. He had mastered it.
*BANG*
The guy had hardly managed to raise his hands in triumph, as a dazzling lightning shot from the sky. It hit the barrier of the mansion, created a tear in it and entered the enlightened guy directly in the head. Knowledge is power, after all.
Everything went white. A sharp, stabbing pain struck his body, like a hand of justice, and threw him a few meters away. His head was steaming. The guy seemed dead. His heart was not beating, his mind refused to work. He didn't breathe.
Synergy worked regardless of the state of the host. It restarted the heart at once and brought the user back to consciousness. Numerous brain hemorrhages were immediately stopped. Many vessels in his arms had burst. A burn pattern stretched from his feet to the waist.
{What… the heck…}
The lightning that struck him was several times stronger than the usual one. If there was no barrier over the mansion, only smoldering coals would be left of him.
One thing was clear: he had to recover right away. With a lot of effort, he took out another tube of ointment and put it on his leg, face and poured some in his ears...
The mansion guards arrived. They were checking the area in case of an invasion. When they saw the guy, they both looked at each other, exchanged a few phrases, and left. Burnt dead servants were not their concern. n.o.body needs additional worries.
Two hours later, the seemingly lifeless guy opened his watery eyes. He had stabilized all the injuries caused by the lightning and even managed to sit up. His thoughts were frantically searching for answers. He considered yesterday's flash a coincidence, but today's was definitely not. The weather turned nasty within minutes, and the electricity was too powerful. Besides, it struck him right in the head. It was fundamentally different from a natural phenomenon: the energy didn't come from the ground, but from above; otherwise there would be no use of the barrier, and he'd be torn to shreds.
All that together looked like heaven itself wasn't in favor of mediocrities mastering more elements than their potential allowed them. What was so bad in bending lots of elements? He could only imagine his enemies' reaction when he revealed all nine elements. If only he'd master them. But it seemed that the heavens didn't approve of his dreams.
{Am I so incompetent that in any other situation, I couldn't have mastered the second element? a.s.suming that the element could be acquired only through enlightenment, but I'd never found it... As for Synergy, it doesn't need luck, fate or approval of any higher powers. Heaven clearly did not like it. Right?} - the former ruler of humankind had come with such an insane idea for the first time in his life. Imagine, heaven has a mind of its own! That's absurd. But he did not see another explanation. The world itself, like its laws, seemed very mysterious. The local energy had an internal memory.
{Does it mean that if I try to master the 4th element, even more terrible lightning will strike me and tear me apart? f.u.c.k...} - the guy cursed angrily to himself. He wasn't meant to get infinitely talented, was he? No, he did not want to give up.
Kyon caught himself thinking that he didn't know a thing about the world he was living in. What if he might do something that would finally destroy him? The library! He urgently needs to study that hidden library and find out everything that should know. Many things might become more evident. At the same time, he'd understand how to develop further and which unique body to choose.
Another two hours later, Kyon stood up, half-dead, and walked back to his room. Late at night, neither the servants nor the maids scurried about. There would be no extra witnesses to his miserable waddling to the chambers.
Punished by the heavens, the poor fellow slept for about 20 hours. The whole day had been erased from his life because of his need to restore the internal injuries from the lightning strike. But something pleasant happened. His Synergy had finally completed upgrading his eyes.
What benefits did it give to him?
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* The blind spot, inherent in each person, was fixed, which means, the defect of the inverted retina was eliminated.
* The sensitivity of the side view was increased. His pupil seemed to be everywhere. The owner of Synergy has enough of the computational power for image processing.
*The night vision was added, the a.n.a.logue of the cat's one, but without illumination in the dark.
* The range of reception of electromagnetic waves was widened to infrared and ultraviolet.
*The lensing effect was added, of decent binoculars and ordinary microscope.
*Pigment glands were created: now he could change the color of his iris in a couple of seconds.
*Among other things, it was possible to repair any eye injury quickly.
Now his eyesight had become so sharp that he could see a needle hundreds of meters away in the dark of the night. And the sensitivity was so high that he began to distinguish not only tones but many thousands of shades.
The quality of vision and perception had increased, mainly due to the inverted retina.
All people have their eye inverted. The light goes through many tissues till it finally reaches the photoreceptors cells, upside down. Animals like octopus and squid have no such thing. Their vision, respectively, is much better and more sensitive than that of people.
Kyon went to the window and looked around. It was like he opened his eyes for the first time in that world. He was no blind chicken now. His new vision was an indisputable advantage in battle. He could easily see the sudden attack in the blind zone, the spread of poisonous gas, aircraft, and other possible enemy tricks.
His Synergy had nothing in at the moment, it was time to give it a new task. Kyon resolutely took on modernizing his hearing, that is, his ears.
The guy stretched his back and left his room. Now he was in great shape. His face had already recovered, his cute appearance restored. He tore off his dead skin, like a dried rind from a tangerine. The burns on his leg almost healed. Repairing the damage to the brain and nerves wasn't a problem at all, because his nervous system had been modernized. Without that, even wonderful Synergy would not have saved him.
And yet, he was shaking with pent-up anger. The "gift" from heaven was unexpected and very unpleasant. Anyone else in his place would have died. Was it a failure, or did any higher bans really exist? It was time to find it out. He left his room and went straight to the storeroom, where he headed for the hidden library.
The guy was so eager to find out the reasons for what had happened that he completely discarded the thought of experimenting with the elements of darkness. He still had time for that.
Kyon approached the Social Science" section. All he needed was to leaf through the book. It got imprinted in his mind unmistakably, then absorbed by Synergy and sorted out in mind.
Sometime later, the guy got hungry. He hadn't eaten all day and now needed a good meal. He called Juno and gave her an order to tell the servants to bring him dinner to the "secret" library. There was nothing secret about it. He could get knowledge from books in any other library, and yet, it was hidden behind a special mechanism. However, anyone could find it with usual scanning.
He could hear someone go quietly downstairs.
Kyon put down the book. Was Anna so impressed by her defeat the day before yesterday that she decided to visit him herself? Maybe, she wanted a rematch.
But when Kyon turned around, he saw, to his utter bewilderment, Dinah, a tall, slim maid who radiated the a.s.sa.s.sin's chilling aura, so familiar to him. Her s.e.xy, relaxed gait could charm any man. When added to that, a charming face and cold gaze of bewitching gray eyes... How could he stop staring at her in the most intrusive way?..