Healing System

'Still nothing.'

...I fail to understand how you are having trouble with such a simple skill—just use your eyes.

'That's exactly what I've been doing for the last 30 minutes,' Michael shot back before staring upwards.

He had tried flying earlier, but it seemed he couldn't leave the area. Each time, he was brought back to the start.

Walking out of it was also not an option—it felt like some sort of loop. Even after walking a few kilometers outward, he found himself in the same position he was in at the very start.

There was also the issue of him not being able to see anyone around him. Both Hu Rong and Gu Wan were elsewhere, probably also in some kind of array.

So far, he was struggling to understand what the system wanted from him.

Eyes of The Healer was a simple skill. It only took a bit of focus, and he could see what others could not.

However, he could not see what the system was talking about, no matter how much he tried messing around with mana by sending it toward his eyes.

Be it inner or outer, it was all the same. Frankly, he was starting to lose hope.

'Should I just use Heavenly Judgement?' he thought with a sigh. It seemed like his best course of action at the moment.

Why take the easy way out? I was serious when I said this is the perfect training for you.

'But I'm not making any progress.'

You are. Just think outside the box for a bit—I'm sure you'll get it soon.

Michael grumbled and proceeded to try again. And again... and again.

He kept trying until it became nighttime, and he could not see anything at all anymore.

Thankfully, he could use his affinity to light everything up, and that's exactly what he did, plopping down onto a levitating sword, sitting atop it.

'What am I doing wrong?'

He had tried everything he could think of—pulsating the mana in his eyes in an attempt to give him a small burst of extra sight—but that did not do anything aside from making him go blind temporarily.

Michael was starting to get really tempted to just blast the whole array to bits with his Divine Judgement skill.

Hours upon hours of trying—zero progress. It was really disheartening, to the point where he just wanted to go to sleep.

However, upon closing his eyes, he felt a wave of mana traveling from them to the rest of his body, momentarily enhancing all of his senses.

'Hmm?' Michael noticed this and immediately shot up, opening his eyes wide.

'Did I... is that what you meant by looking outside the box?'

Maybe. Try it out, the system remarked, and he immediately replicated the process.

Covering his eyes in inner mana while, at the same time, enveloping the rest of his body, he could finally feel a difference.

His eyes were already able to spot hidden details, but now it seemed as though nothing was able to escape his sight.

It was almost like everything was combined into one, and the result of those sensations was a whole different world.

A world of black and white. Looking down, he could even see his own blood and internal organs. Looking to the side, a trace of blue mana flowed like a river.

And most importantly, a massive blue pillar of mana right beside him.

Michael stared at it for a moment before turning to the left, spotting another pillar, and then another one even further away.

There were nine of them in total, and if his hunch was correct, then if he destroyed them, the array would fall.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He stretched out his hands and placed them on the pillar. In the very next moment, it began dissipating straight into his arm.

Michael looked on with his brow raised as, all of a sudden, the array shook. However, that did not last long since, in just a few seconds, it stabilized once again.

But the effects were clearly present. The flowing blue mana from earlier seemed less stable, its appearance morphing a little as it moved through the air.

He was not planning on staying here long. Therefore, he quickly dashed to each pillar and placed his hand on it.

Like before, the array shook and came back to normal. However, each time it happened, the shaking was much more intense than the last.

As he reached the final one and was about to place his hands on it, Michael noticed a strange sight in the sky.

It looked like a face. However, it had no shape and was simply blending into the clouds.

As his gaze locked onto the face, it suddenly disappeared, and the barrier shook once more.

The problem was, he had not yet placed his hand on the last pillar.

'System... what the fuck was that?' Michael asked, weariness clear in his tone.

A watcher of the world. Don't mind him. He can't interfere with anyone unless they threaten to destroy the balance... As for why it was watching you—it might have grown curious about you.

Hearing that it was essentially protecting the world raised a question. 'How strong is it?'

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I don't know—I never saw it up close. Pretty hard to judge. But since it can run away at the speed that it does, I would assume somewhere between Tier 17 and 18, perhaps. Really hard to tell.

'Jeez... wait, how strong were you in your prime then?'

That's a secret. You'll see in the trials eventually—no need to rush things.

'I see.' Michael nodded. He still felt a bit off about the whole situation, especially since a being like that was watching him.

Why would it be watching him? Curiosity seemed like a far stretch.

Who knows? No one does—not even the primordials. The watchers simply always existed before everything came to be. I don't even think God created them.

He shrugged it off and placed his hand on the final pillar. Immediately, it traveled into his arm, and with an extremely intense shaking of the ground, the surroundings began to shift.

That was until, finally, his Eyes of The Healer wore off, revealing a worried-looking Hu Rong staring directly at him.

"Master Mujin? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine?" Michael replied with a tilt of his head before asking, "How did you escape so fast?"

"Escape what?" Gu Wan suddenly spoke up from the side, his look a bit impatient as he continued, "You suddenly stopped and didn't say anything. If you wanted to take a shit, you could have just gone to the side."

"...My bad."

'System... do arrays affect time as well?'

Not that one...

Michael's head began hurting at this sudden turn of events. The array had shaken the moment he saw that white, faceless being. Perhaps he was the cause of it all?

But it was a bit hard to tell. Therefore, he put those thoughts in the back of his mind for now, instead focusing on the present.

He waved the two off and proceeded to start slowly jogging, making sure his group was right behind him.

The city was not far away, and from the looks of it, none of them were tired, so they would reach it very soon.

However, as he was gaining momentum, a sudden blue flash of light appeared before him, causing his eyes to widen.

Huh...? This is the wrong one?

[Skill Unveiled - Eyes of The Healer -> Eyes of The Great Sage]

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