Chapter 85 Ayodhya
The elder paused, his sharp eyes narrowing as he scrutinized the young man and said "Though, I must admit, there is something… different about you since I last saw you at the tournament. Your aura is perfectly concealed, tightly bound. But the space around you feels heavy. Almost as if reality itself is bending slightly to accommodate your presence."
Karn maintained his stoic expression, though internally, his guard went up. Chanakya's perception was terrifyingly sharp. The Primordial Shakti resting within Karn's newly formed Primordial Node was an origin force that dictated the laws of creation and destruction. Even suppressed by his Celestial Thunder, it possessed a conceptual weight that high-tier experts could instinctively feel.
"I had a breakthrough during a recent mission at the Vyom Frontier," Karn replied smoothly, offering a half-truth. "I encountered a situation that forced me to push past my previous limits."
