"You're back," Zara said when Nox returned to the break world. She had been absentmindedly watching everything from the side.
"Yeah," Nox responded, feeling the familiar rush of wind. It took a bit of time for him to adapt to Earth's gravity. Despite spending only a few hours in the astral, to Nox, it felt as if a decade had passed by in the blink of an eye.
Pushing all irrelevant thoughts aside, he focused his gaze on the screens flickering in his retina, the boons brought by the evolution causing a smirk to creep up to his lips.
On those screens was a list of rewards.
...
[New Skills Unlocked]:
❖ Astral Ward (Active): Creates a protective field that absorbs a portion of incoming damage and redirects it as energy-based counterattacks.
❖ Celestial Pulse (Active): Emits a pulse of cosmic energy that disrupts enemy movements and weakens their defenses.
❖ Starpiercer (Active): Condenses cosmic energy into a focused lance, capable of bypassing most magical and physical defenses.
