Surviving the Magic Academy With Just Intelligence Stats-Chapter 133: Skill Upgrade

In the secluded depths of the forest outside Lumina Crown, Maximilian walked alone beneath the dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy. The features he had worn as disguise—borrowed from the demon fragment—began to shift and contort. His skin rippled like disturbed water, bone structure realigning with audible creaks as his face gradually returned to its familiar form.

"I can never get used to this," he muttered, fingers tracing the contours of his face, reassuring himself that his true appearance had fully returned. He winced slightly at the lingering sensation—like pins and needles across his skin where the transformation had taken place.

The small demonic entity perched on his shoulder observed him with its singular, massive eye that blinked occasionally with an unnerving wetness. The creature's gaze held a strange intelligence as it studied its host.

"Was that really okay?" the demon inquired, its voice surprisingly delicate for such an otherworldly being.

"Was what okay?" Maximilian responded, though he already anticipated the creature's concern.

"About your daughter..." The demon's voice trailed off meaningfully.

Maximilian's expression hardened, the momentary tenderness evaporating from his features. "And who's fault do you think it is that I can't see my kids?" he challenged, the accusation hanging heavily between them.

The demon fell silent, its enormous eye blinking rapidly before darting away, unwilling to meet Maximilian's piercing gaze. After several moments of uncomfortable silence, it changed the subject.

"Where are we going now?" it asked, its tone deliberately lighter.

"No idea," Maximilian replied with casual indifference. "Let's just move east."

With that declaration, massive black wings erupted from his back, spreading wide with an audible snap. The feathers rustled in the forest breeze as he launched upward, powerful wingbeats carrying him above the treeline and into the vast open sky beyond.

…

When Ambrose saw the notification appear before him, a surge of excitement coursed through his being. Could it be? Was his hypothesis correct? Would the system finally show him the path forward? He wondered how it was going to do it, would it straight up ask him or would it unlock some sort of quest function. His anticipation built rapidly, only to deflate just as quickly when he read the actual notifications that followed.

[Ding!]

[The host has overcome their mental limits]

The stream of notifications continued to flow:

[Skill [Mathematician] has been upgraded]

Though not what he'd been hoping for, surprise still registered within him. His Mathematician skill ranked among his most valuable abilities, enhancing the mental faculties he relied upon most heavily. Even as he processed the notification, he could already sense the difference taking effect, his mind expanding in ways difficult to articulate. With practiced efficiency, he summoned the system interface to examine the upgraded skill:

[Mathematician](Unique) - A rare talent that has evolved to fundamentally reshape reality through the mind's incomprehensible processing capabilities. This transcendent mathematical insight allows the user to perceive, understand, and manipulate the underlying mathematical principles that govern existence itself. (Subskills: [Reality Simulation](SSS), [Rational Mind](SS), [Mental Fortress](SS), [Perfect Recall](SS), [Thought Acceleration](SS), [Parallel Processing](SS), [Time Perception](S))

Ambrose observed the descriptions of his enhanced abilities with genuine amazement. His Rational Mind skill had improved significantly, which sparked a subtle uneasiness within him. As the skill grew stronger, it was helpful to him but it became harder and harder for him to control it, at this rate, the skill might really take control of him.

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His other abilities had undergone considerable enhancement as well, with Thought Acceleration and Parallel Processing standing out as particularly noteworthy:

[Thought Acceleration](SS) - Transcends conventional mental speed, allowing the mind to operate at near-infinite speed. Mental processing accelerates by a factor of 10,000, enabling the user to experience milliseconds as hours of subjective thought time. In this state, the user can perform years of mental computation in seconds, analyze countless variables simultaneously, and consider every possible outcome of any decision instantly. This acceleration applies to all mental functions, granting seemingly precognitive reaction capabilities as the mind processes information far faster than events can unfold.

[Parallel Processing](SS) - Evolves to allow the mind to fragment into countless independent yet unified thought streams. The user can maintain hundreds of completely separate mental processes simultaneously, each operating at full capacity with total access to all mental resources. These processes can work cooperatively or independently on different tasks, effectively multiplying the user's mental capability by orders of magnitude. The mind becomes a vast network of interconnected yet independent thought engines, enabling simultaneous analysis of countless complex problems with no reduction in efficiency.

Even now, he was leveraging his enhanced Thought Acceleration to process information at extraordinary speeds while simultaneously employing Parallel Processing to maintain his conversation with Aurora. The goddess remained completely unaware of his mental gymnastics, as he executed these complex cognitive maneuvers with effortless precision.

Impressive as these upgraded abilities were, they paled in comparison to the entirely new skill that had manifested following the enhancement:

[Reality Simulation](SSS) - An extraordinary ability that allows the user to create perfect mental models of reality and run complex simulations within their mind. By leveraging their transcendent computational capabilities, the user can create detailed simulations of any scenario using observed variables and mathematical principles. These simulations can model complex systems with near-perfect accuracy, from combat encounters to economic markets to weather patterns. The user can run thousands of different simulation branches simultaneously, testing different variables and actions to predict outcomes with astonishing precision. The accuracy of these simulations depends on the quality of available data, with familiar scenarios reaching up to 99.8% accuracy. Most remarkably, these simulations can be run in subjective time measured in nanoseconds, allowing the user to explore countless potential futures before making a single move. The mental strain scales with simulation complexity and duration, with planetary-scale simulations or extremely long-term predictions requiring significant mental resources.

This new capability represented a quantum leap in his mental arsenal, offering possibilities that even his analytical mind had yet to fully comprehend. Though he had yet to test it yet, he instantly understood what the skill was all about. He guessed that it seemed to originate from his time side of his Space-time talent. With this skill, he could do the simulations for new techniques more easily than before, this meant that he would be able to study new space and time abilities easily. He thought to himself that he'd use it to simulate after he woke up to see if he could finally grasp the Time Dominion skill he'd been trying to learn this whole time.