Noah's eyes opened.
Nothing around him had changed, but the way he perceived everything did.
It wasn't overwhelming, and it wasn't something that disrupted his senses, but it was clear that something within him had shifted.
The mana in the air felt the same, yet at the same time, it didn't. He no longer needed his Nexus Eye to focus on it to understand its flow. That understanding came naturally.
He even believed that he could bend the mana around him to now sustain his spells.
His breathing remained steady as he stood there, allowing himself a moment to adjust, but even without moving, he could already feel the difference within his body.
His mana moved more smoothly, not because there was a sudden increase in its quantity, but because there was less resistance in how it flowed through him.
His control followed that same change, requiring less effort to maintain.
That efficiency didn't stop at simply reducing the effort needed to use his abilities.
