"Next stage: Monster Kill Count has reached a cumulative total of 1,000."
Gauss's brain hummed and buzzed like an overlocked machine.
Just as if rusty gears had been coated with lubricating oil and jammed strings had been recalibrated, his thinking and spirit constantly grew smoother.
His consciousness was lifted as if by a gentle yet powerful force, temporarily breaking free from the shackles of his physical shell to become a calm bystander.
He watched the changes in his own spirit, feeling the mental power in his brain and the magic within his body surging and fluctuating.
And then, after a while.
His consciousness finally fell back lightly into the depths of his body like a migratory bird returning to its nest.
He opened his eyes.
His pupils grew incomparably bright, and the mental power at the bottom of his eyes felt as though it was about to overflow. If an ordinary person were to meet his gaze right now, they would likely be burned by this sharpness that felt as real as a physical object.
"Intelligence: 9!"
The cold numbers appeared in his mind, yet they fell far short of describing the changes in his spiritual world.
In fact, the addition of a single point of intelligence brought about improvements on an all-encompassing scale.
First of all, his memory and logical abilities grew more outstanding, which helped him carry out all kinds of learning and spell model construction.
When he studied the Meditation Method in the dead of night two days ago, those obscure passages that had been shrouded like fog now appeared with incomparable clarity in his heart, and the bottlenecks that once troubled him suddenly opened up.
An unprecedented sense of enlightenment welled up spontaneously.
He held an inexplicable sense of confidence: as long as he found a