Everything locked into place.
The pain vanished.
Yoo knelt down drenched with blood, breathing hard—gasp-gasp-gasp—lungs burning, vision swimming, but changed.
He could feel the new abilities integrating:
His combat instincts had sharpened exponentially, where before he'd needed seconds to analyze opponent patterns, now it happened instantly, strange muscle memory for weapons he'd never trained with suddenly existed in his nervous system.
And most importantly—
He could manifest armor.
Not physical armor, conceptual armor, the ability to project defensive frameworks that operated on the same principles as the Guardian's shell.
[INTEGRATION-COMPLETE]
[ABILITIES-ACQUIRED:]
- ADAPTIVE COMBAT INSTINCT (AUTOMATIC PATTERN RECOGNITION)
- OMNI-WEAPON MASTERY (PROFICIENT WITH ALL WEAPON TYPES)
- CONCEPTUAL ARMOR MANIFESTATION (DEFENSE SCALES TO THREAT LEVEL)
[HUMANITY-COST: 5%]
[CURRENT-HUMANITY: 57%]
