Chapter 639: Suspicion
Streams of knowledge flowed into Nameless Death.
Techniques, truths, foundational structures of the Sacred Treasure.
It all poured in, shaping his understanding with such clarity that it almost hurt.
When the last fragment of the Abyss Mirror dissolved into knowledge, the core of it vanished.
The Sacred Treasure itself returned to Zarek’s possession.
Nameless Death exhaled slowly.
His body hadn’t moved, but his mind felt like it had run a thousand battles.
Cole clapped him lightly on the back.
“Alright, that’s one favor done. Freebie officially used up.”
“So that was the freebie you mentioned?”
“Yep.” Cole grinned. “I never expected you to burn it this fast, though. Then again, you used it for a perfect opportunity. It’s almost as if you aimed for all of this.”
“…?”
“There is no point in acting clueless, you know,” Cole chuckled. “I can see that you were trusting in me saving you from Zarek in case things went south.”
Nameless Death’s gaze changed, no longer looking clueless.
There wasn’t any point in lying anymore.
“I didn’t know what the freebie was,” he admitted. “But even if it had turned out to be something else… knowing you, you would’ve saved me anyway. And then said the freebie was used.”
Cole looked at him for a second. Then he laughed.
“Smart guy,” he said. “No wonder you keep annoying people way out of your pay grade.”
Nameless Death let out a tired breath.
“It’s not like I go out of my way to do that.”
“Sure, sure,” Cole said, clearly not believing a word. “Well, you survived your first real brush with a Supreme’s anger. That’s something.”
Nameless Death wasn’t happy about that.
The way the Supreme of Shadows easily accepted Cole’s deal after threatening to kill Nameless Death at all cost felt…. wrong.
It was almost as if this was what Supreme of Shadows wanted.
As if Shadow Supreme had been planning for this moment all along.
’I am overthinking it.’
Nameless Death must’ve gotten Abyss Mirror from a Shadow Trial.
Then, right now, he met Zagreus in his Shadow Trial.
The situation with Zagreus’ Shadow Trial was forcing him to create his own Path as fast as possible.
And due to that, he devoured Path of Achievement.
That led him to meet Cole, and gaining his favor.
And now, that favor that transferred from Nameless Death to Shadow Supreme.
Why did this happen?
Because Nameless Death was devouring the treasure given to him by the Shadow Supreme.
’Supreme of Shadows was involved in all situations.’
’Did he do manipulate everything so that he could get a favor from Cole?’
Nameless Death recalled what Cole had said when he met Shadow Supreme right now.
“You shouldn’t do things so brazenly reckless.”
Did it mean that Cole already knew all of this was happening due to Shadow Supreme’s planning, and that angered Cole?
’No, there is no way Shadow Supreme can plan that far ahead.’
’I’m just overthinking things.’
After all, why would Shadow Supreme need the favor of Cole?
Was there something that even Shadow Supreme could not do by himself?
…
Nameless Death returned to the forge.
The world outside the Shadow Realm felt distant, like a dream he was slowly waking from.
The air here was heavier, warmer, and the ever-burning embers of the forge buzzed gently in the background.
It wasn’t silence, but it was the closest thing to peace he could find right now.
He took a slow breath.
His mind was still in chaos.
No matter how much he tried to ignore it, the fact that Shadow Supreme might be planning something big left him with many questions.
But none of that mattered right now.
He looked around at the tools, the stone platforms, the shelves packed with ores and refined parts he’d made before.
Slowly, his focus returned to the present.
He needed to deal with one thing at a time.
“The ability of Abyss Mirror…” he muttered. “To think it was just an application of Resonance.”
He sat down on one of the reinforced steel benches near the center and called up the stored knowledge Zarek had granted him.
A string of thought fragments floated to the surface of his mind—techniques, formulas, structure matrices.
None of them were complicated on their own.
But when combined, they formed something terrifyingly efficient.
Abyss Mirror functioned by resonating with external phenomena (techniques).
Upon contact, whatever technique it was, the mirror aligned its internal structure to match with the external source.
’Resonance was the key all along.’
As the contact was made with techniques, Abyss Mirror absorbed information.
This was shown through the percentage increase: 0% to 100%
Once the copy percentage reached 100%, the Mirror had copied the technique completely.
The user could now use the re-constructed technique.
That was its true function.
“This ability is already good. But even more surprising was how it strengthened techniques.”
That part had puzzled him the most.
During his earlier battles, he had always treated Abyss Mirror’s ranking-up effect as a mysterious built-in function.
It would upgrade a technique once it hit 200% mastery, but no one—not even himself—had understood how.
Now he did.
“It’s actually similar to how I use multi-fold enchantments during Core Creation,” he muttered.
After Abyss Mirror completed a 100% replica of a technique, it marked it internally as Technique No. 1.
Once the resonance with the same phenomenon continued beyond that point, it didn’t simply refine the first technique.
Instead, it started building a second copy in parallel—Technique No. 2—in a separate space.
Once the second reached full maturity, Abyss Mirror used resonance again.
This time, between the two techniques (Technique No. 1 and Technique No. 2).
The techniques would be fused.
The result was exponential amplification.
Not an evolution, not a variation, but a direct rank-up of the original technique.
Nameless Death leaned back slightly, processing it all.
“This is the same as using multiple cores with the same technique and activating them at once,” he said. “Except I don’t use resonance. I was just brute forcing it.”
Resonance was useful.
With just fusion of two techniques, it would lead to rank up.
Nameless Death’s fusion needed several techniques of same kind to have a similar rank-up effect.
“If I use Resonance with my Core Creation….”
The result would be terrifying.
But even more terrifying was Shadow Supreme.
“Seems a lot of Shadow Supreme’s abilities revolve around resonance,” he thought. “It means he can throw punches above his weight limit.”
That was going to be a problem.
Nameless Death stood and walked over to the side platform.
The material shelf auto-sorted itself as he approached, revealing metals of various ranks, essences he’d forged over the past decades he had spent in the Site, while being trained by the demon in the art of forging
He paused, hand resting on the edge of the shelf.
’Shadow Supreme isn’t trustable.’
’There is chance I might have to face him in the future.’
That was simply overreaching.
He wasn’t even invincible among Stage 5, yet he was talking about facing a Supreme.
Yet, that was the truth.
He needed to prepare for the future.
“I need a countermeasure. Something that can interfere with or deconstruct resonance-based techniques.”
He didn’t know if such a thing existed yet. But he would have to find or create it.
Later.
For now, he had another task.
He turned back to the main forge and exhaled.
“I should start building my Path.”
He had everything he needed.
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