Nova floated in the void, the residual shimmer of discharged impurities drifting away like a slowly dispersing nebula. The spatial cracks created by his purge were gradually healing, reality stitching itself back together with the patient indifference of a universe that had seen worse.
He turned his attention inward and examined his transformed self with his newly amplified Celestial Cognizance.
The difference was immediate and total.
My comprehension ability has been amplified 100,000 times, he thought. The concept barely captured the magnitude. What took hours to understand before now took fractions of a second. Principles that would have required years of dedicated study resolved into transparent simplicity the moment his awareness touched them.
His consciousness expanded outward experimentally, touching the fabric of space around him.
What he perceived made his previous understanding look like a child's drawing of a map.
