His mouth dry, Xia Lun looked at the Information Panel with anticipation.
[Knowledge 3: Any individual with three points of Knowledge could perceive the truth beneath the world's surface and influence it. By any measure, they had transcended their shackles and could leave their own unique mark on reality through action.] [Through Knowledge, you may choose one dimension—past, present, or future—as the direction of your influence. Your abilities will differ according to the "observation cross-section" you chose for Knowledge 2.] [You have chosen "Knowledge 2: Present." The special ability corresponding to "Knowledge 3: Present" is...]
Without warning, a mass of garbled text slammed into Xia Lun's vision!
The characters about to appear unraveled into writhing threads, like a ball of yarn pulled apart. The panel itself began to shudder and break down. Its existing text dissolved and burst into patches of crimson static!
From the pile of odds and ends, the Evil Flesh Codex On the Secrets of the Silver Mirror shrieked and snapped its covers shut, not daring to look Xia Lun's way.
Xia Lun did not panic. He simply watched the disintegrating Information Panel.
He had already passed the most dangerous test and chosen "Knowledge 3: Present." This anomaly was only the aftershock. It was nothing to worry about.
Sure enough, as he focused, the trembling of the text and panel gradually subsided. He raised his right hand and lightly touched the illusory panel. The broken information slowly knitted itself back together, revealing a line of warped text barely legible through the distortion.
["Negation": (extensive garbled text)... erase completely... (extensive garbled text); vanish forever... weakness struck, instant death... (extensive garbled text)... your physical attacks can counter all kinds of Echoes... 0/0, critical error.]
Xia Lun touched the text again and focused harder. At once,