Chapter 938 - 459: True Future Sight

Moreover, due to the peculiar power residing within his body, this transformation proved far more intense and unique than it would under normal circumstances. That trace of special power seemed to grant him a form of higher-dimensional authority. This authority was so vast that his current level of strength was entirely incapable of digesting it. He could only exert his utmost effort to absorb and dismantle a minuscule fraction of its capability.

This limitation seemed to act as a safeguard. If fully unleashed, the overwhelming surge would likely cause his current self—which was merely a narrow conduit—to burst in an instant. Even though he was already considered a transcendent Extraordinary Combat Power in the eyes of many, before this power, he was scarcely different from an ordinary creature. Had his Intelligence Attribute not broken through to twenty-one points—barely meeting the baseline required to shoulder the tiniest fraction of this capability—he would have gained absolutely nothing, even with the special power deep within him initiating this enlightenment.

Soon, his consciousness began to blur into a trance.

Past memories unfurled before his eyes like a painted scroll. Every single detail, no matter how trivial, materialized within his mind. Every conversation he had ever heard—whether spoken by him, spoken to him, or merely the idle chatter of unrelated passersby—rang with crystal clarity. It felt as if these moments were happening in the present; even the expressions and movements of the speakers were vividly reproduced.

Every past battle began to replay as well. His mind raced violently, rapidly identifying numerous flaws in his former performances. And it wasn’t just his own flaws. He could even put himself in his opponents’ shoes, weighing the strength of both sides to reverse-engineer how they should have reacted to him. From there, he would revert to his own perspective to conduct the next layer of deduction.

He cycled through this process endlessly, much like an AI model from his past life running autonomous training simulations. Because he could observe and absorb such an immense volume of sample details, his seemingly brief two-plus years in the Otherworld formed a database far richer than the centuries of life memories of ordinary individuals. Moreover, he could base infinite deductions upon this existing data, constantly iterating upon it.

His brain shifted into overdrive.

At a certain moment, he felt as though he had brushed against a hidden threshold. The dense database continuously deduced and deepened, seemingly branching out into an even more unfathomable Domain. This was the ability to deduce a definitive future by rooting itself in the past and synthesizing the present.

Within this dimension, all futures were, in fact, predictable. Every offensive maneuver was accompanied by a telegraphing prelude, and the same held true for defense. If a prediction was wrong, it simply meant the sample size was too small and the computational effort too shallow. Naturally, a normal biological creature could never achieve this. The higher the tier of a lifeform, the more actions it could execute in a single instant, making it far harder to predict than weaker beings.

But the key factor was that Gauss’s unique ability had merged with a tiny fragment of the newly unleashed special power.

"Future Sight!" This perfectly fitting name suddenly popped into Gauss’s mind.

Indeed, his new ability was not as simple as mere mental deduction; it also involved the mighty force of time. As long as he activated the ability, he could predict all highly probable movements of an enemy within the next few seconds. Several future silhouettes of his opponent would overlap before his very eyes. This allowed him to know the enemy’s next course of action a step before they even took it.

One could not underestimate the value of a mere few seconds. In battles at his current level of strength, that window was enough to effortlessly kill an enemy several times over. No matter the era, any power capable of touching upon the realm of time was always supreme.

When facing enemies stronger than himself, he could activate this ability to isolate the single possibility that led to victory or escape. All unfavorable probabilities would be filtered out, ultimately steering reality toward a future beneficial to him, adapting seamlessly to the enemy’s choices. Of course, this ability was not omnipotent. The more powerful the opponent, the more possibilities they could spawn, which exponentially increased the difficulty of pinpointing the most advantageous future among their myriad potential actions.

After all, there were always situations that vastly exceeded the scope of what any ability could control.