Chapter 1976 Nascent System of Thought
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Rui evaded three dozen dark ravens in the sky.
"CAWK CAWK CAWK!" The angry birds hawked at him as they surged forward with their talons poised to tear him to shreds.
Yet, much to their surprise, the talons never reached him.
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They passed right through him.
They passed through him as though he was an empty image.
Rui stood in place with closed eyes as he relaxed his body. Each time a raven approached him, he would evade their strike at the final moment but would feint toward his original position, making it seem like he was there the entire time. Simultaneously, he would misdirect them to said feint, causing them to completely ignore his dodge and believe that he had been standing there the entire time.
The creatures never stood a chance at seeing through his illusion. Yet, he wasn't doing this just to flex.
It was a good exercise because it required an extremely high level of precision and accuracy when it came to his timing and placement.
His SOUL and predictive models needed to be immaculate. His feinting and misdirection needed to coincide within microseconds of each other.
It was a great workout to train his finesse.
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Once he got the hang of it, though, he was on a roll; nothing could stop him.
"Show-off," Kane muttered as he faced two dark ravens by himself. "Ok now, think...should I enter stealth mode or agility mode?"
He tried out a sequence of thoughts, which was his first prototypical system of thought. 'These guys are kinda fast.' He squinted, trying to think. 'They certainly don't look heavy or anything like that. Also, their wings are freaking huge and they can do some incredible maneuvering with them.'
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Within his eyes stirred an endless void.
A single remark escaped him.
"My data collection on your species is complete, so..." His eyes darkened.
"Heavenly Convergence."
At that moment, heaven and earth converged on the hapless ravens.
BOOM!!!
They never stood a chance, dying on the spot.
Not because Rui's raw power was extraordinarily great, no.
It was because he applied it in the most antithetical manner possible to produce the most devastating effect.
The Tree of Life had long shown him that his Heavenly Convergence was actually the most suited domain out of all environments possible to taking the ravens down.
They never stood a chance at taking him down in the first place.
He glanced at Kane, who had promptly used Void Step to quickly cut down on the two ravens, bringing them death by a thousand cuts.
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"Huff...Huff..." He panted heavily, sheathing his blades.
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"Well done, your nascent system of thought was not ineffective." His tone lightened up as a soft smile cracked at the very edge of his mouth.
"Hah," Kane snorted. "Not ineffective, that's rich."
"It's where everybody starts," Rui replied. "Including me."