(19) Advanced Knowledge

"My knowledge doubled?!"

Kraton was dumbfounded, his Knowledge points had doubled without him knowing. Kraton immediately linked the instantaneous gain with the vial, however what made him confused was that it hardly felt any different. Yes, he could think more clearly now and do multiple calculations in his head without getting muddled between the floating numbers, however he didn't feel a surge in intelligence that he did before.

If this increase in Knowledge was within the same milestone, it would be somewhat understandable that he didn't feel anything, however Kraton had shot up from 128 Knowledge Points and passed the 200 point milestone. Furthermore, he had already got 25% of the Knowledge points needed to go from the 200 point milestone to the 400 point milestone, yet he still felt the same as before.

After a while of pondering to himself, Kraton still couldn't understand it, he then turned around and scanned the other bosses in his near vicinity. Spotting a rather kind looking six-armed humanoid behind him who had his eyes closed, Kraton decided introduce himself politely and ask him if he knew.

"Scuse me Six-army, do you have a moment my man?"

... The six-armed dude opened his eyes, but gave no response, but rather scanned Kraton from head to toe.

Thinking that he said something wrong, Kraton tried again.

"Umm, are you lass? If so I'm deeply sorry. You look like.. a handsome lass.."

The six-armed humanoid narrowed it's eyes, "I heard you the first time, and I'm a bloody bloke, do I look like miss to you?"

"Sorry Sir! I didn't realise, no offence sir, I just meant that you would look like a very handsome lass if you tried to." Kraton was flushed red in embaressment, he stuttered out his apology several times over, not wanting to get on someone's bad side.

"Sir, do you know how Knowledge works? Have you passed the 200 point milestone?" Kraton sounded desperate when the six-armed guy started to look angry.

"Of course I've passed that milestone, are you calling me a moron? Piss off before I kill you, you mongrel!"

Luckily for Kraton, he didn't need to move away as Hato had finished talking with Kim and had called out the next boss, who so happened to be the angry six-armed bloke.

"Cluck of Clodpole Canyon!"

Just when Kraton was about to turn back around, a young, but hoarse voice sounded out next to him. "Hey, Hairy Boss, (not you, I'm talking to the other guy), I overheard your question, what is it that you want to know about Knowledge? It is simple stuff so I'm rather shocked you don't know about milestones."

Kraton quickly faced the the owner of the voice beside him, for the most part, he looked like a human, or an Elf, however he seemed to be bathing in moonlight. His hair, skin and eyes all had a heavy tint of pale silver, his pupils were a a dark-silvery colour but he had no irises.

His face was mature and young, yet his voice and posture was reserved, much like an old man. This guy's ears were slightly pointed at the tip, but were curved backwards and when he scratched his ear subconsciously after Kraton was staring at it for a while, Kraton noticed that his hand had six fingers, yet it did not look strange at all, rather it fitted his figure perfectly.

"How should I address you, honourable being?" Rather not making the same mistake twice, Kraton asked before assuming anything.

"I am Psychi, a Moon Immortal of the Lunar Forest dungeon."

"I'm Kraton, a boss in the region of Florid Boulevard. I know the basicss of Knowledge and each milestone, however, just now I broke through the 200 point milestone, yet I did not feel any surge of knowledge or anything."

"You never have a huge surge of knowledge, just a noticeable leap, and only if you gain a huge chunk of points at once. Did you consume the level serum? If you did, then you probably would have felt a surge in knowledge," Psychi lowered his voice so that no-one else could hear what he was saying, "Wait, you didn't feel a surge? What level are you?"

"The vial got me to level 10."

"That's why then, after reaching level 10, you become specialised, you know that right? After becoming specialised, you still gain Core knowledge normally, however it seems to have less of an effect.

This is because your most of these knowledge points help to clear your mind, making it easier to think, multitask and calculate stuff. This also allows you to be more aware of all your surroundings at the same time.

However, to gain more knowledge that would give you a 'surge' as you called it, you have to work for it."

"Wait, what do you mean, I'm already working for it!"

"No you didn't. You drank a vial of level serum, therefore your knowledge points doubled, however all these points went to the more, um, subconscious part of knowledge, if you used the serum at level 8 or below, then it would help your 'surge' knowledge better, but at level 10, your Core Knowledge is split up between subconscious and advanced. Most things you did before, such as killing human players, will add to your subconscious knowledge, to gain more advanced knowledge, you need to analyse the movement, tactics and strategies in depth to a point where you can predict every movement and outcome, bear in mind that this is still different to development knowledge."

"I don't get it"

*Facepalm* "What is your Knowledge points at?"

"256"

"Just remember what I said, as soon as you get to 400, it will become much clearer."

Kraton was staring blanky at Psychi, after listening to his explanation, he was much more confused than before, however he could make out a few points of what Psychi said, mainly that he's too dumb right now.

"Here, show me your data rock" Psychi sounded depressed, he wasted all his breath and Kraton still didn't understand.

Kraton placed his palm on the floor and the usual rectangular area appeared. Psychi hardly read through Kraton's data and immediately pressed two of his fingers at the bottom, moving it in a pattern.

"There, when you get back to your dungeon or place of residence, contact me through your data rock."

"How do I do that?"

*Facepalm* Psychi then took the liberty of explaining how to communicate and various other features of the data rock that Kraton had no idea of before. During this time, Kim had returned and had overheard most of their conversation, making her roll in laughter at Kraton's stupidity.

"Oh, I never knew this slab of rock could have these features, thanks Psy! Kim, do you want to connect your rock too?"

"Growl"

"She said she already had, and that you're an idiot."

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