I looked through the recent chapters and felt deeply baffled.
First.
The protagonist's public image had always been that of a genius.
Geniuses had their own way of doing things. When ordinary Mystic Adepts spent three days fishing and two days drying their nets, they were idiots. When a genius did it, it became an anecdote.
Let me give a real-life example.
When I was in high school, one of the top students in the advanced class finished his final exam and used his scratch paper to calculate the shooting trajectory in a game. He later scored just over 700 on the college entrance exam and became the province's top science student.
If an ordinary student did that, he'd be a damn fool. But when that guy did it, the teachers talked about it with great relish.
This really happened. I didn't make it up.
If I'm lying, may lightning strike me dead!
Back to this book.
When the protagonist was a Warrior, he comprehended imprints casually. But after arriving at the Profound Palace, he suddenly began sitting there honestly for an entire day at a time, going from a genius to an ordinary nobody? That would be what failed to fit this book's characterization.
*Second.
The issue of how long it took to comprehend the Myriad Trees Imprint.
Just compare it to his time as a Warrior.
Back when he comprehended a "rune imprint," he was also fishing for three days and drying nets for two, yet he comprehended it in just a few days.
By the time he was a Mystic Adept, he spent over a month comprehending it. Combined with the assistance of his Mystic Body, he comprehended something from the Second Order Profound Imprint Inheritance Stone Sculpture.
As long as the Mystic Supervisor looked into the