Nick just became even more intelligent.
That was it.
It was as simple as that.
But it was just as effective as it was simple.
The Manipulation Lines of Nick's abilities no longer looked as complex to him as in the past.
This meant his ability to create his own abilities also shot through the roof.
Nick only needed a couple of minutes to improve his mind-reading ability even more, and together with his improved intelligence, its base effectiveness also increased.
'I can read the minds of Early Protectors with this,' he thought.
In essence, Nick now had two mind-reading abilities.
The first one could be used on Early Protectors and weaker without warning them.
The second one could be used on basically anyone, but the target needed to be surrounded by darkness and to be affected by the Nightmare.
Sadly, this meant that it didn't work on Specters.