Monday, Experimental School.

On the third floor of the research building, in the medical room dedicated to Kaiwen.

"Take a look at this first."

Dr. Kaiwen, still wearing her iconic white lab coat, showed little expression on her delicate face. Her long legs crossed as she reached out to hand a stack of documents to Lin Guang.

Lin Guang took the documents and saw a series of dizzying data and charts, each labeled with a theme.

[Talent Spirit Pattern Activity]

[Ether Activity Analysis Within the Body]

[Spiritual Form Chart]

He glanced through it roughly and realized what it was.

This was the data from his battle with Vishdair in the exchange match, collected by the wristbands that Dr. Kaiwen instructed them to wear before the match.

"You can take the document home to read carefully. It should not present any reading barrier for someone like you now."

"Let's discuss the conclusions first."

"I believe your talent is not as simple as I initially thought."

"From any point of view, your talent [Heart of Terra] does not seem like a simple Blue Talent, but rather more like an incompletely awakened Purple Talent."

Lin Guang listened and couldn't help but fall into thought, then he raised his head: "Is there a possibility of misjudgment?"

He understood that the strength he currently exhibited, which surpassed Blue Talent, should come from several core talents of the "system."

"Dr. Kaiwen, I think..."

He opened his mouth, attempting to deny and prevent Dr. Kaiwen from wasting time and effort on an incorrect hypothesis, but she interrupted him.

"It's not about the intensity; the key is the trait."

"Previously, the Meditation Pod collected a lot of your data, and I established your data model easily."

"By combining it with the new data collected from the battlefield that day, I finally confirmed a fact."

Dr. Kaiwen raised her eyebrows slightly, a trace of a different color flashing in her eyes, "Your talent [Heart of Terra] not only performs extremely stable in a training environment, but it is also the same in actual combat."

"The enhancements provided by your talent to your contractual partner, aside from the changes brought by level improvement, have remained unchanged regardless of the environment."

"For any grade of talent, this is a very abnormal situation, which you should be able to understand."

Lin Guang nodded, seemingly thoughtful.

According to mainstream thought.

The so-called talent or aptitude is actually a reflection of a person's soul, so if it originates from the heart, it should have some idealistic nature.

Therefore, the effect of talent will fluctuate.

When emotions are high and concentration is intense, it should be stronger; when emotions are low and there is no fighting spirit, its effect should be weakened.

Unless a person's character and concentration show almost no change, it is uncommon for talent blessings to be too stable.

Lin Guang, although peculiar, is certainly not an emotionless, unchanging wooden person, so such a situation seems quite strange.

Moreover, this situation should be unrelated to the Power of Whole Heart and Soul—because the Power of Whole Heart and Soul is not Mechanical Mind Power, it shouldn't affect Lin Guang's emotions and way of thinking.

Recently, he even felt that he was more easily excited.

Seeing Lin Guang appearing thoughtful, Kaiwen paused for a moment and then continued:

"No matter if your spiritual power is abundant or almost depleted, whether your emotions are high or calm, the fluctuation in the enhancement to your contractual partner is very small, which can even be categorized as a measurement error and treated as unchanged, constant."

"There is only one situation that can explain it, which is that your talent is actually self-limiting."

Lin Guang was taken aback.

Self-limiting?

"I suspect... it's still not fully awakened."

Kaiwen thought for a moment: "Let me give you a more modern example."

"You can think of your talent as a high-spec computer, but despite its high configuration, you've only been allowed to run Minesweeper and Solitaire."

"Undoubtedly, this doesn't utilize the computer's real performance, which is why the output is so stable."

"As a participant you should understand that talent, this kind of thing, might not be able to fully awaken; the reasons could be varied, underdevelopment, unsuitable environment, etc."

"Therefore, I believe your talent might still be not fully awakened for some reason."

"You spent half a year back then unable to determine what your talent's actual effect was, you should remember this."

Lin Guang widened his eyes slightly, making a gesture of listening intently.

Kaiwen tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, looking at Lin Guang: "Think carefully now, even to this day, can you truly confirm that your [Heart of Terra] has fully awakened?"

"My personal guess is, its current state is usable but far from complete liberation."

"..."

Lin Guang originally intended to persuade Dr. Kaiwen, but then he thought of the image of the [Heart of Terra] talent in the Sea of Spirit.

A broken dark golden heart.

...Broken?

It indeed seems suspicious.

Moreover, why would a normal Blue Talent inexplicably get stuck in the awakening phase for so long?

He then asked: "What specific possibilities do you see for this 'some reason'?"

"Simply put, because of injury or lacking some critical element, leading to your physical and mental status being unable to support the full activation of your talent."

Dr. Kaiwen paused and said, "I heard from Miaomiao that you don't remember things from your childhood."

Lin Guang was stunned for a moment. This is not exactly a secret, but he didn't expect that Miaomiao and Dr. Kaiwen had such a good relationship that even trivial matters like this could be shared—though Miaomiao's lively personality makes it not surprising to come up in conversation.

Dr. Kaiwen continued: "This feature is very likely due to self-protection-like self-limitation."

"The so-called self-protection of talent often arises from special circumstances, like forcibly activating the talent with overly intense emotions in an undeveloped physical or subpar spiritual power state, causing mental damage, hence the talent cannot exert full potential and must downgrade, self-limiting."

"...So that's it."

That is what he said, but Lin Guang's brows already slightly furrowed, the fog in his memory instead increased his doubts.

——What did the self of those years do to cause his talent to degenerate to the current Blue?

Seeing his expression, Dr. Kaiwen let out a slight sigh.

"I must regretfully tell you, I don't have a method to retrieve your memory or restore your talent level."'

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