Chapter 2547

2547 - Burtonian Questions

"....!!" An oppressive feeling overwhelmed Shaddad when he saw the seals, forcing him to retreat a step back.

As for Robin, he continued looking toward his seals with a wide smile...

Breaking the isolating zones had given him three extremely valuable advantages... The first was that he had clashed with another Transcendent's momentum, and caught a glimpse of how different types of momentum collide.

The second was that his sense of Spacetime had advanced greatly after feeling the isolating zones expand when his momentum was released into the universe's composition. He felt he had finished the Fifth Level and there was nothing left to learn, and had his understanding of the Law of Truth been higher, he might have already entered the Sixth Level of Spacetime. But this was destined to be delayed a little.

The third was that he had become the center of attention and the axis of decision-making; his presence in the universe had become overwhelming, directly or indirectly, and his name and actions influenced what a person would eat for breakfast and on which side he would sleep in bed. All of this had happened because of a plan he had prepared with Theo earlier, even if it hadn't gone exactly as planned... This pushed the Master Law of Causality toward the Fourth Level.

That was all.

He had not gained any Breakthrough in any other Master Law.

However, he jumped from ten seals to 24 seals at once.

The process of acquiring the new seals was strange, but it also revealed something to Robin.

That day, after the upgrade was completed and Causality became Fourth Level, something happened that had no precedent in previous Breakthroughs.

Robin saw four new seals generate around the Causality symbol, compress and form, then establish a link with Robin's body.

Then something even stranger happened...

Robin's original ten seals appeared, multiplied and split until each one became two, and the ten turned into twenty.

With this, and very strangely, Robin felt that his ten seals had increased to 24 seals, and indeed all of them began transforming his cells and generating momentum within them—they were not merely shapes or rituals.

What happened had many explanations, and since he had no reference to read about it, nor anyone trustworthy to ask, he had no choice but to guess.

The first four seals were somewhat understandable, as they gathered around Causality, which had become Fourth Level, so it could be said that after becoming Transcendent, each new level he reached in one of the Laws would grant him a number of seals equal to that level's number.

That is, if he achieves a Breakthrough in Spacetime to the Sixth Level, he might gain six new seals!!

What happened afterward was somewhat strange—the doubling of the ten seals...

Is it normal for all seals to double with every Breakthrough? But if that were true, why didn't all fourteen seals double to become 28? Why only the original ten?

Thinking about it, the number ten itself didn't symbolize anything; those seals appeared after he became a Transcendent without any indications, but according to Helmor, this number distinguishes one Transcendent from another.

He said that most Transcendents receive one or two seals on the day of Transcendence, and that the highest number received by the most brilliant among them was six seals... This doesn't seem equivalent to the level of anything specific; they're just numbers.

Is it safe to say this is a reward for a young age? Or for the method of obtaining the opportunity of Transcendence? Or is it evidence of future potential?

If those original ten seals were to double every time he achieves a Breakthrough in a Master Law, they would undoubtedly define his future potential.

Once imagined, a Transcendent with one original seal, upon reaching the Sixth Level in a Master Law, would gain six seals of the law and one seal from the doubling of the original... while Robin, in the same scenario, would gain sixteen seals.

Seven... sixteen.

That was the difference between an ordinary Transcendent and another genius.

Of course, all of this was speculation, but Robin wished it were true... it would make his path toward more seals extremely smooth.

The truth would reveal itself in his next Breakthrough.

At that time, he would see how many seals would be doubled, or whether it had merely been a passing incident.

"Hmm?" Robin finally noticed Shaddad, who had stopped breathing. "What's wrong with you, man? They're just seals, take it easy."

"...." Shaddad cast a sidelong glance at Robin, then exhaled. "Can I leave?"

Today had been too heavy for him.

"Before you go..." Robin dismissed all the seals and the Causality symbol except for one, making it slightly larger and pointing toward its center. "What do you see here?"

He was pointing at the pattern expressing the number four above the eye.

"....." Shaddad narrowed his eyes slightly in focus. "I see scribbles that look important, but I don't understand them."

"What about this? How many knots do you see in this fabric?" Robin pointed toward the Spacetime symbol at the upper right of the seal, then slightly lower. "And how many broken teeth are in this gear?"

"..." The bear approached and began examining with a piercing eye. "I don't see any knots, nor do I see any broken teeth."

"...." Robin nodded. "Alright, you can leave now."

"Thank you!!" Shaddad turned and vanished, running off in an instant.

As for Robin, he returned to contemplating the seal...

An engraving symbolizing four—Shaddad could see it but couldn't understand it... Robin had understood it automatically from the first attempt, even though he didn't know this language, but it was clear that he alone could understand it, at least among the ignoramuses of B-14.

But why four specifically?

Then he began turning his attention to the rest of the symbols on the seal.

There was the Spacetime Cube, and on it were knots saying it was at the Fifth Level, and the Gear of Determinism had four broken teeth... How had Shaddad not seen them? Why was he alone able to see those details?

And also, very strangely, there was another eye at the top of the seal, one of the six symbols, different from the one in the middle... That eye had five eyelashes, meaning the Fifth Level.

Why is the eye symbol of the Fifth Level, while the eye in the middle of the seal has four written on it?!

"Ugh..." Robin shook his head and went back to drawing with Seraphim.