Chapter 2539

2539 - Compensation

"You're compensating me?!" Shaddad felt a tremor throughout his entire body. "No... I don't want it!!"

He already felt unworthy of being Robin's disciple. Previously, he had spent hundreds of thousands of years at Dawn Light Academy conducting experiments on students with an extremely meager budget, trying to advance along a closed path that millions before him had attempted and failed.

The moment Robin appeared, he gave him several out-of-the-box solutions, then helped him correct his previous mistakes... That alone was enough to make him his teacher regardless of age, regardless of whether he had even accepted him as a disciple or not!

But that wasn't all—he had given him Master Laws to examine the moment he accepted him as a disciple! Then he gave him an entire research city working in his service, producing whatever he conceived, and gave him a research budget exceeding the Academy's entire budget in the past!

These debts were priceless...

Handing him the Fifth Path to do with as he pleased? That was merely the beginning of the word "thank you," merely the foundation of what he must complete to feel he had done something in return for all those privileges!

And all of this is just from looking at the amount of support he had received alone... And recently he had learned that his teacher was supposed to be the strongest person in the universe? Just sitting with him had become burdensome, and it had begun to seem like a privilege!

"What do you mean you don't want it? Have you gone mad?!" Robin raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Can you give me a mission or something like that?" Shaddad spoke quickly. "Please, I don't want any rewards—I've taken far too much already!"

"Do you think I'm going to give you a few billion Pearls as pocket money or marry you off to a cute little bear?" Robin shouted at him.

"And would anything small ever come from you?" Shaddad waved both his hands. "I'm afraid the debt weighing on my shoulders will crush me once I receive this reward..." Then he looked down for a moment before turning back to smile at Robin strangely. "Why don't you tell me about that blood radiance and consider it a reward?"

"A strange bear." Robin leaned his back against his seat, raising one eyebrow. "Fine, let's have a little chat—perhaps your tiny brain will open up a bit and you'll accept your reward."

Robin spread his arms slightly, revealing more of the blood radiance on his clothes and the glowing focal point in the center of his forehead. "This is Transcendent momentum."

"Momentum…" Shaddad raised his wide eyes. "The same power you used to break the Buffer Zones? It's… not as familiar as the Golden one."

"Well, you could say it makes you feel uneasy and threatened." Robin chuckled. "You probably would have fled if you hadn't seen Theo standing here with me, right? Haha." Then he leaned back against his seat. "Actually, yes—this is borrowed momentum. Like the Golden one, its properties have nothing to do with me personally, but I can use both whenever I want without effort and without cost."

Then he continued, "The Golden Momentum gives me a causal boost, and I've grown accustomed to it and injected it into the Unbound among my followers, so you can consider it my primary one for now." He smiled. "As for this one, it gives me an affinity for Master Identity."

"Identity?" Shaddad flinched. "You possess Master Identity as well?!"

"I wish!" Robin waved his hand. "I researched its properties individually and read ancient manuscripts I paid a great deal for to people who possessed it. Then Jabba brought me the complete First Level of the Law, with its interpretation and engravings arranged neatly as I taught him, but I couldn't understand a thing."

"You?" Shaddad was astonished. "You, and there's something before you that you don't understand?"

"Imagine?" Robin objected. "I've become just like you guys when it comes to Identity. The book is right in front of me, but the letters fight with one another and the engravings flee from before my eyes like snakes... Whoever said that Truth and Identity are incompatible knew what he was talking about."

"Truth and Identity cannot coexist in one person?" Shaddad nodded a few times. "That's why Brother Jabba lost the Eye of Truth before he acquired the Master Law of Identity... He says he can't even remember how he used to use the Eyes of Truth now."

Robin nodded. This was indeed strange, and not merely an example—someone like the Cosmic Elder possessed the Eye of Truth, and the Eye remained with him even after he reached Balance. Master Laws can be combined as long as the person is capable of it!

"So this Aura...?" Shaddad pointed at the blood momentum again.

"It's the momentum of a person who uses Identity, and when I activate it, I feel somewhat closer to the Master Identity... How do I explain this to you?" Robin looked up slightly. "Imagine you're absolutely terrible at a certain sport, but suddenly you get the chance to watch a professional in that sport practice it every single day, every minute. As long as you keep your eyes open, you observe more hidden details and feel like you could do the same... Do you understand what I mean?"

"Is that what you feel when you activate the Blood Momentum?" Shaddad pointed at him again.

"Yes," Robin nodded. "Whenever I let it run for a few days and go back to reading Jabba's book, I find I can understand a few extra lines." Then he shrugged. "The way I see it, it's a matter of time. I'm feeling out Identity in a somewhat cheaty way, but it's guaranteed, and excellent ideas for using Identity come to me throughout the activation period... If only I possessed it, I'd undoubtedly try a handful of them!"

"That's amazing..." Shaddad nodded several times. "Luck exists, but it goes to those who seize it, and you deserve some luck after everything you've endured and everything you've researched, Master."

"Good boy, now take your lucky reward." Then he extended his hand and pushed a metal tablet bearing a golden Aura toward Shaddad.

"...." Shaddad picked up the tablet hesitantly, holding it with both hands... holding it with intense curiosity, while at the same time his expressions were conflicted and resistant to being rewarded for something he considered a return of a favor!

"Begin the examination." Robin pointed at the tablet.

"...Understood." Shaddad looked toward the tablet and sent his Soul sense into it, and his expressions were those of someone about to explode with enthusiasm but restraining himself.

But he immediately opened his mouth wide and shouted, "E... engravings of the Law of Truth?!"