-243- Outside System Skill

Mind's Eye.

It's a different type of superhuman perception from Heaven's Eye.

Heaven's Eye transforms magic into ripples, analyzing and seeing through the surrounding area, as if overlooking from the sky, providing feedback on the existence of all matter to the user.

Mind's Eye, on the other hand, is distinct from Heaven's Eye. It doesn't analyze the surroundings or peek into the area, but it can perceive all phenomena in great detail.

Breathing.

Heartbeat.

Cell movement.

Nerve signals.

Similar microscopic world phenomena can be observed with Mind's Eye. With this ability, the movements of enemies will be fully understood, and even one's own vulnerabilities can be recognized and corrected.

This results in individuals possessing Mind's Eye being able to efficiently evade enemy attacks, see through enemy movements, identify weaknesses, and correct their own vulnerabilities. Even if Rozen isn't skilled at body control, he can still narrowly dodge attacks with minimal movement, follow the trajectory seen by his Mind's Eye, unleash the strongest sword techniques, hit enemy weak points, and trigger critical hits, killing Little Nepenthes in one hit.

This is the final stage of a Magus, and it's the most powerful technique.

No.

Rather than a technique, it's more like a state. It doesn't require consuming mana; it only needs a mind capable of perceiving everything.

The reason it's considered the highest tier for Magus is due to its all-encompassing perception.

"As long as one possesses the sensation of recognizing their own shortcomings, they can manipulate their magical energy with precision, achieving complete control and efficiency in magical usage.

This makes spellcasting smoother and faster. Moreover, even a puppet user can instantly perceive the scale and specifications of magic circuits within an automaton. They can master the puppet's magic and capabilities to the fullest."

It's evident how crucial and effective this technique is for Magus.

Without mincing words, once Rozen fully masters Mind's Eye, his power will increase significantly.

At that time, Rozen can perfectly control his magical energy, release magic with near perfection, conserve magical energy to the maximum while boosting magical power to the limit.

If in the past Rozen could summon hundreds of familiars with his magical energy, now he can summon thousands or even ten thousands with the same or even less magical energy.

Furthermore, this sensation greatly aids in learning magic. Once Rozen masters Mind's Eye, his progress will accelerate significantly.

Not to mention, this sense is beneficial for manipulating familiars as well.

"With Mind's Eye, I can enhance a familiar's power with less magical energy, beneficial for commanding, correcting false actions, discern enemy movements, and make use of techniques like Telekinesis, Spirit Vision, Rigid Body, Magic Defense, Heaven's Eye, and Magic Resilience more smoothly and logically, thereby boosting their effectiveness."

It's clear that this technique truly deserves to be the final stage of a Magus, the pinnacle of magical mastery.

The issue is,

"The difficulty of completely mastering it is beyond ordinary."

Rozen sighed inwardly.

Despite his recent display of prowess, Rozen hasn't fully mastered the ability of Mind's Eye.

"Even though it doesn't require magical energy, I can't just use it at will. I need to spend time concentrating, adjust my mindset to absolute calm and objectivity before I can see the microscopic world and perceive all phenomena."

In other words, Rozen's current use of Mind's Eye is not complete. It requires time to get into the right state and comes with a possibility of failure.

That's why Rozen wants to hone his skill in this world.

"After extensive combat experience, accumulating knowledge, attaining a calm mindset, and maintaining constant concentration, can I finally master Mind's Eye?"

Rozen had this optimistic plan.

By collecting powerful familiars in this world and utilizing the almost limitless supply of monsters to practice his skills, Rozen's anticipation and affection for this game world grew immensely. He had been fascinated by it since the beta testing period.

But now,

"Kayaba Akihiko."

Rozen muttered that name.

Now, Rozen had another goal in this world.

That was to conquer this game entirely.

By then, Rozen's skills would surely be more refined, he would possess stronger familiars, and he could extract the maximum benefits from Kayaba Akihiko's meticulously crafted world.

"Just you wait."

Rozen was resolute.

Just at that moment,

"Wu!"

The cry of the Rainbow Flower Butterfly awakened Rozen, who had been lost in his own thoughts, snapping him back to reality.

And with this awakening, Rozen was immediately taken aback.

"Stare..."

Kirito had appeared beside Rozen at some point, staring intently at him from an extremely close distance.

"What... What are you doing?"

Rozen said with a stiff face.

In response, Kirito uttered two words.

"Teach me."

Kirito fixed his gaze on Rozen and said with an earnest and determined tone.

"What happened earlier definitely wasn't a coincidence, but some kind of Outside System Skill, right?"

The so-called Outside System Skill referred to player-created skills, not system-designated abilities. These were game skills that players discovered, learned, and mastered through their own exploration.

For example, the technique Rozen trained for fourteen days and Kirito trained for nearly ten days to enhance sword skill power was an example of a Outside System Skill. It didn't belong to the game world's predefined abilities; it could be discovered, learned, and mastered through players' own exploration.

While Kirito didn't understand what had transpired, he certainly recognized that Rozen's recent performance was far from ordinary. It was undoubtedly some kind of While Kirito didn't understand what had transpired, he certainly recognized that Rozen's recent performance was far from ordinary. It was undoubtedly some kind of Outside System Skill.

And that was indeed the case.

The technique called Mind's Eye was certainly not a system skill; it was a player's own skill.

"Well, I guess teaching you wouldn't hurt."

Rozen scratched his cheek.

As mentioned before, unlike other techniques, this skill didn't require magical energy consumption. Even an average person could potentially reach this level of perception, comprehending all things.

Therefore, Rozen could teach this skill to Kirito.

Of course,

"It's not easy to achieve, though. I haven't completely mastered it myself."

Rozen added.

"It's fine. Just teach me."

Kirito's enthusiasm remained unwavering.

At this moment, the gaming addict fully displayed the fervor of an online enthusiast.

Rozen shook his head slightly.

"Although if it were me, I would have done the same thing."

With that, Rozen began explaining the technique to Kirito.