Chapter 125 [Gift]

"Okay, that's done for now," I spoke as I looked at her status again.

[Name: Caroline Olivia Escarte

Race: Zombified Human (Grade-C)

Class: Archer

Description: An artist who learnt the ways of the painting and other related brush methods. She also excels in archery, guitar playing and similar activities that require concise precision.

Zombification: 62%*[Reach 100% to evolve into next Grade]

Cessation Energy: 234,130/234,130

Gift: Accelerated Vision*

Status: Healthy

Skills*

Strength: 142

Constitution: 204

Dexterity: 245

Intelligence:156

Wisdom:104

Charm: 152]

Her Stats got up again and, well, the increment wasn't as much as I was expecting. Though there were a few things that I did get to know while helping her up her power.

One was the amount of Cores required to up a Grade. There were a few things I found related to it.

It took a single higher-level Core to upgrade her from E to D. Simple. Then, to use a Core of the same Grade, that is, when she was D-Grade and absorbed a D Grade, the Zombification percent increased by 5 per per core. And in total, it took 20 D-Grade Cores to upgrade her to 99% Zombification.

Surprisingly, she couldn't absorb another D-Grade Core after that, no matter how much she tried. It was as if her energy was full. This made me think that maybe she needs to either  naturally absorb energy from the atmosphere to move up the Grade, or just another Higher Grade Core.

Giving her a C-Grade core immediately upped her Grade with the percentage reaching 2% of the next Grade. Subsequently getting about 5% per Core absorbed, in the end reaching 62% of C-Grade as I used up all the Cores I had collected from the Plant Laboratory.

While the first D-Grade Core took time to be absorbed, the rest were actually quite fast. With [Advanced Time Manipulation] it took about 4 hours in total to absorb all the Cores.

Other than that, there was one thing that caught my eyes in her status.

[Gift]

That was something new she gained as soon as she reached C-Grade. I haven't seen anything like that on either William or Alissa who were already C-Grade and above. Can understand Alissa's case a little but William? I don't know.

Focusing more on the [Gift]

[Gift: Accelerated Vision

The user can process visual information at an accelerated rate, at the speed that they can see things even when moving at high speed, making them unable to miss a thing, no matter how fast they go. They can see/process visual information within a very short time, see objects when they are moving fast, see things that may be otherwise too fast, allowing them to discern the sight with enough time to react to whatever caused it, etc.]

'Now that's a really overpowered ability… I wonder if it has any limitations though,' I thought before speaking to Caroline,

"Carol, can you do me a favor and try focusing on me? I will be going a bit too fast and I need you to keep your eyes on me, okay?"

Confused, she turned to me and nodded slowly before

'Damn!'

I almost freaked out, on the inside, as I saw her eyes turning completely black with a red dot in the center. There were tortuous red veins that were visible spreading from the center of her eyes and she looked a bit freaky, to be honest. Anyways…

[Temporal Deceleration!]

I activated my ability first and moved around. Her eyes moved left and right where I was moving. Good. Now next,

[Temporal Deceleration (Copy)!]

I moved again and once again she could see me easily moving left and right with her eyes following my body. Though her body was still frozen so she could only see up till her field of vision allowed her to do so.

After that, I deactivated my ability and asked her to do the same.

"Did you feel any discomfort of any sort?" I asked with a concerning look and she shook her head, saying,"nothing like that."

"Any loss of energy, or perhaps anything unusual?" I asked again and once again she answered,

"No. Everything was fine. It was as simple as moving and breathing, I guess?"

'No limitations, huh?' I thought as I observed her for a brief while, as I asked a couple of more questions. After confirming that everything was fine, I patted her head and kissed her on the lips a little before…

"Cough Cough!" I hear someone coughing behind.

"See! I told you they were doing ecchi stuff!" Alissa spoke like a detective who had caught someone red-handed.

"I came here because I found the energy suddenly rising a bit too high but I guess it was just you both getting hea… " Myla was speaking with a bit of glare but as she concentrated on Caroline her expression changed as she ran towards her and held her by her arms.

"You! What!" Myla spoke as she analyzed Caroline from top to bottom before looking at me as she asked,"what did you do? How come her power grew so much in just… just… 4 hours?"

There was disbelief in Myla's eyes as she checked on Caroline again and again. I sighed before speaking,"I had a few Cores, which I gave to Caroline. While you are a military person strong enough to take care of herself, Caroline, on the other hand, needs a bit of power to survive."

"No… even with the Cores… this is… freaking too fast…. And her energy signatures are perfectly fine too… " Myla spoke out as she looked at Caroline before turning to me.

Though before she can speak, Caroline spoke first,

"How was Alissa's training, Myla?"

Myla looked at Alissa with a complex expression before she looked at me. Then, after a few moments of silence, a bitter look came on her face as she looked at me.

Though that bitter look changed after a deep sigh before she smiled and spoke,"yeah. I found out a few interesting things. Some things that I wasn't expecting to see at all."