Now that that was taken care of, I could focus on my achievement page and the new things I've gained. The first things to test out would be the new ability. Ethereal sight was still something I wasn't 100% certain of, and it didn't seem to work consistently, but I guess I will just have to give it time to get used to it.

Energy armor I have gotten quite proficient at, and with my manipulation, it's basically a second armor that I can manipulate for any situation. I could even use it for attacks if things get too close, which I think would be a benefit against swarm-type monsters.

Lands heart was not what I expected it to be, and unfortunately, it didn't help me push my incredible connection to my own land even further. But what it did do was allow me to have a shadow of that connection even outside my land, making it incredibly useful for basically everything.

My map ability liked it the most because I was able to get extremely detailed feedback from the land outside our nation's borders; I just had to go there. I was also able to receive a lower-intensity boost, which at first glance might not be that strong, but having it constantly is quite nice, especially for energy regeneration.

Banner's presence was more difficult to test, but like everyone else is saying, I was the high general, so gathering a decent-sized force for testing wasn't too tough. What I was surprised about was that when winter arrived, our armies thought it was going to be a quiet season with less training and less need to make specialized equipment for the winter.

Three days of me yelling at the commanders and positioning troops into formations, and then running drills, made everyone understand the grave mistakes they had made. Other commanders, who usually didn't train with the regular solders, now learned the error of their ways.

Of course, all of this was a good opportunity for testing, and I have to say, I didn't expect this ability to work the way it did. It literally created ghostly banners for every unit in my army, and only my army could see those banners. We didn't have any official unit symbols, but they were quickly adapted from my ability's ghostly banners.

They also didn't give direct combat benefits, but what they did give was something even more important. It helped boost and keep the unit's morale, but it did it in a subtle way. It didn't affect the mind; it just did what banners used to do back on Earth. It signified that the unit was still capable of fighting, and just knowing that others around you are still fighting is incredibly helpful to keep you on task.

So, while this isn't an overpowered ability or something that will make battles incredibly easy, it is, however, something useful and helpful. In this world, at least when an army has a person like me with command capabilities, they don't usually use banners because they're not needed for communication.

But I’m glad I was able to see it to know how useful it actually is. I am even contemplating adding a banner system into our army, so we would have it even without my ability, but there's time to think about that.

Now that the army was sorted out and I was certain that they weren’t slacking anymore, I was able to get enough free time to continue with the things I have gained in my achievement page. The next easiest thing was to figure out were all the new traits that I have gotten.

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Multiple energy cores is an incredible trait, and I will still need to copy over all of the paths and new cores into my real body. But I want to wait and continue to observe how they function, so I can make sure that I do this correctly, as I will only have one chance and I’m pretty sure my trouble sense indicates that if I mess it up, I would die.

Temporal awareness is something that I have come to love. But I was already pretty good at telling the time on my farm inside the dungeon, and in a city, it’s more difficult, at least it used to be. I also believe that it will be quite helpful for crafting, especially when dealing with time-sensitive materials. It kind of feels like I’m back on Earth where a clock was always at hand.

Vitality overflow is something that has kept me going in the dungeon and has helped me recover a lot faster than I should have. I took quite a long time to meditate on it, but this trait isn’t as defined as, for example, temporal awareness. Its limits are fuzzy, but what it basically does is channel my excess vitality energy into restoring and boosting me.

Unseen Shadow isn't a very helpful trait for me because I'm not an assassin. That being said, it will most definitely help me sneak close to anyone I want and perhaps even help me hide my presence so I could once again surprise the army personnel under me.

This required immediate testing, and for the next four days, the army personnel who were working as guards learned to keep their eyes open while doing their jobs. It was quite a fun time, but focusing too much on what basically is a hobby wasn't a good idea.

The next trait, Harmonic Resonance, was something I didn't even have the faintest clue about, but a meditation session later, I had a better idea of what it was and started to test it out. What it turned out to be was one of the most flexible and powerful traits I have.

What was even more wonderful was that it worked incredibly well with one of my other traits, Kinetic Absorption. Kinetic energy is basically a wave of moving energy, and not the kind of energy abilities use. Harmonic Resonance allows me to manipulate those waves of energy, amplifying or de-amplifying them. Not to mention that it should work incredibly well with my new skill, Beginner Kinetic Energy, but it will require a lot of testing and training to make any use of it in a fight.

Pressure Resilience was something I will probably not be able to test, but a meditation session later, I had a good picture of what it does. It basically allows me to endure pressure a lot better, be that the puncture kind you could get from a sword or water pressure under dozens of meters of water. Another thing that made me a better fighter, even if only by a little. It did add some survivability in an environment I am ill-equipped to deal with, which I was glad about.

The last trait, reflective precision, is something that will require tens of years of practice but will help me achieve greater heights of mastery than I ever could by myself. My swordsmanship is the perfect way to explain it.

Currently, I'm still mastering the basics, but with this trait, I can basically program my muscle memory. This way, I can perform actions without thinking, like any master, and with enough time, I could get optimal actions for basically every move my opponents could make without even having to think about it. This will, however, require a stupid amount of training, but eventually, it should pay off incredibly well.

Now it was time for the skills. Beginner equipment bond is an interesting skill; it teaches you basically how to ritually bond equipment to yourself. Unfortunately, my skill level was too low to do it with my current equipment, so I started with a simple hammer to see what effect it would have. That helped me level it up, and I now understand how in the future this skill is supposed to work.

With every level-up, you receive a bit more information on how things are supposed to work, and I also got a small clip showing what this skill would allow me to do in the future; it looks incredibly exciting. It should make it so that using bonded equipment is even less taxing on my energy, and my own energy should slowly strengthen that item the more I use it.

Beginner kinetic energy is a completely different beast. The dungeon was correct; without its guidance, I would have never figured out that energy could be used like this. It was basically so foreign that if for your whole life, you knew that red-hot metal burns you, but now you learned that it can actually freeze as well.

Coming to terms with this fact will be difficult, and it actually made my brain hurt. It will be a really long process for me to gain any proficiency using energy this way, but I also think it's an incredible opportunity to push my energy manipulation even further. It also seems like I was correct, and my harmonic resonance and kinetic absorption seem to have some similarities with what this skill is teaching.