Chapter 183: [ Class : Eyes of—] [@Thomasinho Golden Ticket Bonus - ]

Chapter 183: Chapter 183: [ Class : Eyes of—] [@Thomasinho Golden Ticket Bonus Chapter]

Alex opened the notifications of the class awakening that were still going on.

[ Class awakening initialized! ]

[ Class Awakening... ]

[ Class Awakening... ]

"So its already in the awakening process." Alex muttered as he read the notifications that his class awakening has initialized already.

The notifications continued.

[ Class Awakening... ]

[ Detected Interference... ]

"What? What the hell are you doing now?!" Alex felt his bloodline suddenly interfering with this class awakening, everything was going smoothly and now this?

[ Detected Interference... ]

"I swear, if this weakens my current state, I will crash out!" Alex was not about to accept a debuff.

He had just achieved his first legendary kill and he wanted to enjoy it for a while!

[ Detected Interference... ]

[ Evolving... ]

"Umm... actually, Keep Going!"

[ Evolving... ]

[ Evolving... ]

...

...

...

Alex felt something shift deep inside his blood.

The same heavy churning sensation from earlier returned, stronger this time.

It was no longer a distant process happening in the background.

It was happening now, right beneath his awareness.

He stood still over the spider’s corpse and waited, Amethyst Paradox still held loosely in one hand.

The ruined city around him remained quiet, and no new threats approached. During their final clash, he and the spider had destroyed most of the city, killing almost all the nearby monsters and eliminating the players in the area.

"Well, in a weird way, I guess you could say I’ve created art!"

[ Class Awakening Completed! ]

"Finally!"

[ Congratulations! Alexander Abyss! You have gained a class! ]

"Show me the class."

[ Class : Eyes Of Evolution ]

"Eyes? No new elemental class?"

"I was hoping to gain another element through this class awakening, but I guess I shouldn’t get too greedy."

"Besides, this class doesn’t sound half bad either."

"Let’s check its description." Alex focused on the class and willed the description to appear.

[ Class Description :

A progressive ocular system that evolves the user’s vision beyond the limits of common perception.

Reality itself changes under its gaze. ]

"Ocular system? So this tingling I’ve been feeling for a while... it was because of this?" Then Alex noticed another notification popping up.

[ You have gained a Class related skill! ]

"Oh, a new skill! It feels like the heavens are blessing me!" Alex muttered, looking up at the sky.

"Show me the skill."

The skill appeared in front of him immediately.

[ Skill : Eye of Flesh ]

"Eyes Of Flesh? What a weird name."

"Is it related to me being able to see through flesh or something?" Alex guessed.

"Let’s see it’s description..." Alex focused on the skill and willed the description to appear.

[ Skill Description :

The foundational eye that sharpens all five senses beyond ordinary limits.

The world unfolds under its gaze, revealing the flow of mana in living beings and lifeless objects alike.

Every current, every pulse of energy becomes clear and vivid, granting the user an acute and natural awareness of the mana around them. ]

As Alex read the description, he slowly realized that this was no normal vision enhancement.

’Eyes of Evolution...’

The name alone carried weight.

The description was short, but the implication behind it felt vast.

This was not a simple combat class built around a single technique.

It was something designed to grow with him, stage by stage.

He focused on the new skill.

"Then show me what you’ve got!"

"[ Eye of Flesh ]"

The moment the thought formed clearly, the skill activated on its own.

The change in his perception was immediate.

’Huh...?’

It felt as if someone had carefully removed a thick, invisible film from every sense at once.

His vision sharpened first.

Details that had been soft or distant became crisp and precise.

The cracks running through the ancient stones, the individual droplets of dark blood on the ground, the fine texture of the spider’s shattered chitin, everything stood out with unnatural clarity.

Even the faint particles of dust floating in the air became easy to track.

Then his hearing followed.

The distant wind moving through the broken towers resolved into separate currents.

The soft drip of residual blood from the corpse registered as distinct sounds.

Even the quiet settling of dust on stone reached him with surprising clarity.

Smell, taste, and touch rose together.

The metallic scent of the spider’s blood, the dry stone dust in the air, the residual heat still clinging to the broken street, all of it arrived with new intensity.

The air itself felt different against his skin.

And beneath all of that came the mana.

"T-this..." Alex’s breath caught for a fraction of a second.

The world opened.

He could see it!

"...is Mana?!" Alex was not just feeling it.

Mana was no longer an invisible force he could only sense through the pressure in his Mana Heart.

It had become visible in a way that felt completely natural, as if it had always been meant to be seen this way.

Thin currents moved through the air around him like gentle streams.

Alex was not sitting with his eyes closed to sense these currents of mana.

No, he was able to perceive them while standing right there, looking at his surroundings.

Stronger flows ran through the stone of the ruined city, following the old lines of the architecture.

Even the corpse of the Violet Chitin Mindlord still held fading traces of energy that slowly dispersed into the surroundings, like heat leaving a dying fire.

Inanimate objects carried mana as well.

The broken statues, the cracked towers, the dust itself, everything held its own quiet current.

Nothing was truly empty.

It was a bit overwhelming.

"But the range is still limited." Alex immediately noticed this.

The range was limited to the area immediately around him.

Beyond a certain distance the clarity faded into a softer haze.

But within that range, nothing remained hidden.

Alex stood in silence for several long seconds, simply taking it in.

’So this is the Eye of Flesh...’

It felt as if he had been moving through the world half-blind until this exact moment.

The five senses he had always relied on now operated at a level that made his previous perception feel dull and incomplete by comparison.

And the mana... the mana was simply there, clear and readable, as natural as the stones beneath his feet.

A quiet sense of wonder settled over him.

He turned his head slowly, watching the way energy moved through a collapsed archway nearby.

He could see where the flow was dense and where it thinned.

He could feel the difference between the residual mana of the dead spider and the older, quieter currents of the ancient city itself.

"It is Wonderful..."

The word formed without effort.

"Phew..."

Alex exhaled and let the new perception settle fully.

Adaptation was already working in the background, helping his mind adjust to the sudden flood of information so it would not become a burden or a distraction.

"Even my own body..." He looked down at his own hands.

Faint traces of mana moved beneath his skin, following the pathways he had always felt but never truly seen with this kind of clarity.

The difference was striking.

The Eye of Flesh did not grant him long-range vision or the ability to peer through distant walls.

What it gave him was far more valuable at his current stage: complete, acute awareness of everything within his immediate surroundings.

The world near him had become transparent in a way that felt almost intimate.

The clarity did not fade after the first few seconds.

It remained steady, as if the Eye of Flesh had always been meant to operate this way.

Alex tested it carefully, turning his attention from the corpse to the broken street, then to the nearest collapsed wall.

Everywhere he looked, the flow of mana remained visible and distinct.

"Someone with a large mana pool was in this area..." Alex muttered as he noticed the faint traces of it nearby.

He could even sense the faint traces left by the CBI official’s earlier extractions, thin residual currents that had not yet fully dispersed.

***

"What!? No way! He must be talking about something else, but there’s nothing else..." The CBI official couldn’t believe what the boy had just muttered.

A mere Awakened-ranked boy couldn’t possibly detect his presence, so what was he talking about?

In truth, the CBI official hadn’t even tried to hide his mana signature during the extraction.

There was no one among the participants strong enough to notice a thing, and Alex wouldn’t have noticed it either before.

But now, with his new class, things were entirely different.

***

The amount of information would have been disorienting without Adaptation working alongside the new skill.

Together, the two made the expanded perception feel natural rather than invasive.

Alex dismissed the system windows and rolled his shoulders once.

The new senses remained active, steady and clear.

The spider was dead.

His injuries were mostly closed.

His attributes had risen.

He had gained both a new element and an entirely new class.

And for the first time, he could see the flow of mana as clearly as he could see the stones beneath his feet.

He allowed himself one more quiet breath.

"Now that the spider is dealt with, I should move on and check what’s going on in the Proving."

Then he tightened his grip on Amethyst Paradox and turned his attention outward again.

’Hey Zara—’

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End of Chapter 183: [ Class : Eyes of—

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