Dimensional Descent

His father's silver dictionary responded with the grading system only seen in the Cataclysm Zone, but it had still concluded that there was no relation? Leonel frowned for a moment before he remembered something. This silver dictionary was known for being a tricky mistress, unless he asked a hyper specific question, it tended to skirt the issue.

But when he thought about it, it made sense. At least, it made more sense to him now than it ever had before.

The silver dictionary probably didn't store answers like a huge database would. Rather, if Leonel was correct, it deduced answers on the spot. The scanning function Leonel had taken advantage of to understand the missions of Zones wasn't just an auxiliary function, it was the foundational function of the silver dictionary.

The only stored information within the silver dictionary were the voice messages and video messages left behind by his father that would either help him complete certain training modules, or activate when he asked a particular brand of question.

When Leonel had first reached this conclusion, he was in complete awe. This made the silver dictionary countless fold more complex than he had originally given it credit for. It was like it was built with a foundational understanding of the world, and then could deduce everything based on this foundational information... almost as though it was a kernel of the universe itself.

Knowing all of this, Leonel made his question more specific.

"These two items seem to have been forged using very similar techniques and their inner components resemble one another, why is that?"

To his surprise, though, Leonel didn't receive the answer he was expecting even after all of this.

[Ping][These two treasures do seem to be built upon the same principles, but they are a product of Convergent Evolution. They are very similar, but entirely unrelated]

shock in Leonel's heart was even greater upon hearing this. The implications were almost too much to accept, he couldn't help

eventually becoming two novel species of their own. Of course, it didn't have to be as exaggerated as that, it could also be as simple as polar bears gaining white fur while black

species, unrelated to one another, gaining the same or very similar traits in order to combat the very same environmental factors.

the Cataclysm Zone called their own. In that case, his father hadn't necessarily been to the Cataclysm

couldn't even begin to comprehend them, they were on an entirely different

of Crafting is this?" Leonel

attempting to minimize

silver dictionary continued to ramble, but the most important part was

part of the difficulty of forming a Life Grade Blueprint. To have so many moving parts be of one mind and body was a tall

these inner mechanisms reminded

the wheel itself. Instead, watch makers took pride in making so-called in-house movements that were increasingly more complex and yet served just a single purpose: to move a second hand at a set

but they were ultimately all following the

at once. He wondered... did his father gain inspiration for this form of Crafting

was an old leather watch with an

shocking reality awakened Leonel and he felt enlightened, and yet confused at the same time. He realized that this level of Crafting was still impossibly far beyond him, there was simply nothing that he could do to

dictionary away after asking it all the questions he wanted