In the black synchronization space,
One-Punch Morien wearing training clothes walked out from the deep black while yawning.
Today was the third day after he joined the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist dojo, and it was Sunday.
He planned to go take the hero qualification exam in three hours, so he simply synchronized a wave before the exam, farmed some experience, and updated his system.
In three days, he as a "Melee Scholar" had successfully learned ninety percent of the moves and could execute the fist techniques very smoothly.
However, the effect was far worse than Bang's.
This also confirmed Morien's guess: aside from "martial arts," at least half of Bang's strength came from his "faith" in martial arts.
There was no light at all in this space, and Morien himself did not emit light, but the Moriens could see each other.
Soon, One-Punch Morien saw two of himself chatting.
One-Punch Morien immediately recognized through the special connection that they were respectively Mysteries Morien and Star Rail Morien.
"You really are a resident guest." One-Punch Morien walked up and reached out a hand to Star Rail Morien. "You're here every time I enter."
This was his first time entering the synchronization space since the very beginning one.
But he had the memories of his other selves, so he was very clear that whoever entered this space could almost see Star Rail Morien in the first instance.
"What the heck else can I even do then." Star Rail Morien complained and high-fived One-Punch Morien.
"It looks like we're still not strong enough." Morien suddenly had a moment of brain freeze, then spoke while sorting out the extra memories flooding his head. "If we could grow strong enough in the future that a single word or action could change the entire universe, the Stellaron Hunters would have long since come looking for us."
"Or perhaps in the timeline Elio knows, ignoring us completely leads to the best future." Star Rail Morien shrugged.
"It's also possible they went to influence others." Mysteries Morien placed a hand on One-Punch Morien's shoulder, completing his synchronization. "Oh, you helped me summarize a set of acting guidelines."
At this time, One-Punch Morien had also sorted out Star Rail Morien's memories, unable to stop himself from complaining.
"This is completely a knowledge zip archive for you."
Star Rail Morien's memories were completely a knowledge zip archive.
"Since I've got nothing better to do anyway." Star Rail Morien spread his hands.
During this period, he had completely extracted all the zip archives sent by the Hidden Sage and understood the knowledge within them.
When thoroughly immersing one's spirit into knowledge, time actually passed very quickly.
Relying on his super-strong physique, Star Rail Morien did not eat or sleep, and spent a week thoroughly parsing all the information the Hidden Sage had stuffed into his brain during the previous two Knowledge Pursuers.
Although ninety percent of it consisted of meaningless knowledge like "postpartum care for sows" and "one hundred ways to eat Desi Pie," the remaining knowledge was still quite useful.
The Hidden Sage's dissemination of knowledge was actually not thrown around randomly.
During the Mystery Pryer stage, He would throw some things related to Ritual Magic, and during the Melee Scholar stage, He would throw some things related to combat skills.
It was just that He always felt it wasn't enough, and would casually throw in a bit extra.
He also liked to make associations.
If you exercise your body, you have to eat, right?
Then add some cooking, add some animal husbandry.
To stir-fry dishes, you have to use a pot, right?
Add some pot-making technology, add some blacksmithing technology, add some mining technology...
Continuous association, continuous associative association.
And then more and more was dropped.
But the foundation of it was definitely something the Beyonder himself could use.
It was good stuff.
"This is great." Mysteries Morien patted One-Punch Morien's shoulder. "The two of you are helping me digest things a bit at a time—one is constantly doing research as an 'acting Melee Scholar,' and the other is learning combat through combat."
"Now I'm really a carried lazy dog."
"Mm, indeed." One-Punch Morien nodded.
"At least try to be modest!"
"What is there to be modest about?" One-Punch Morien narrowed his eyes and looked at Mysteries Morien. "Talk about what you've even done over this half month yourself."
About half a month had passed on Mysteries Morien's side, and aside from recently joining a Divination Club in an attempt to run into Klein by chance, he had basically done nothing.
"What can I do then?" Mysteries Morien asked right self-righteously. "I can't exactly run onto the street and beat up innocent passersby."
"I'm not playing GTA here, turning into a five-star good citizen really might get me wiped out by the Nighthawks, Mandated Punishers, and Machinery Hivemind."
Although he barely possessed the combat power of a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer now, it was still far from enough in the Mysteries World.
At least for the present, he had no interest in being a fugitive.
He had just paid a year's rent.
The synchronization space shook once more, and someone else entered.
"Oh, you've come too." Mysteries Morien looked toward Jujutsu Morien.
He opened his arms, making a hugging posture.
"Come, let me see what surprises you can bring me this time."
That side was in the Shibuya Incident, where "brains were truly being beaten out" in the literal sense.
Jujutsu Morien hugged him, synchronized the installation package sent by Star Rail Morien, and his brain likewise froze for a fraction of a second.
"Damn, I feel like my potion digested a small section further." Mysteries Morien said.
That fight with Toji had likewise digested a portion of the potion for the Moriens.
This was a fight that "discarded all Beyonder powers and relied purely on melee combat," and even sparked a Black Flash.
Now Mysteries Morien really had become a carried lazy dog.
PS: I argued with people in the author group today. Those interested can check out this chapter's author's note.
Those who want to see the first-hand scene of the argument can also join the group and read the chat logs.
The group link is in the synopsis.