The familiar place, the familiar figure, the familiar moment of claiming a reward—Marco stood deep within the eastern forest, his heart filled with anticipation.
This mission reward would bring him a true, fundamental improvement.
Of course, that was on the condition that he drew a Gold Cloth.
If he drew a skill instead, it wouldn't be bad either—but compared to a Gold Cloth, it would still feel a little lacking.
[Claim mission reward?]
The system window popped up. Marco didn't hesitate much.
Before coming here, he had already bathed, lit incense, and gone through every superstitious ritual he could think of.
Now it all came down to this last moment.
"Claim reward!"
The instant Marco made his choice, the familiar special effects exploded before his eyes.
Bzzzz!!!
A powerful magical aura burst outward.
Dazzling golden light blanketed the earth, and a pillar of magic shot straight into the clouds, illuminating the dark night sky.
A terrifying shockwave swept out in every direction, forcing this patch of forest—which had already been ravaged countless times—to endure yet another impact.
The stars overhead were all stirred into motion. Magnolia once again became as bright as day!
But by now, everyone was used to it.
There was no need to think about it.
This was definitely their lord again—that Duke of Rose, the Star Rose God—making another scene.
In any case, it was never dangerous, so many people simply treated it as a kind of spectacle.
For outside visitors, it was even more of a rare experience.
Some people wanted to see something like this and never got the chance.
Bzz!
Under the radiance of the stars, magical starlight poured down and gathered toward Marco, continuously merging into his body and changing his constitution.
The countless stars in the sky gradually dimmed, until only one of the twelve zodiac constellations still shone brightly.
In the heavens, the remaining stars formed a vivid constellation map—two fish, their tails linked by a long chain of stars, swimming flexibly through the night sky.
[Congratulations! Pisces Gold Cloth unlocked!]
A message appeared on the system panel.
Along with a flash of golden light, the symbol of Pisces—two fish swimming in opposite directions—appeared.
"Pisces Gold Cloth, huh?"
Seeing that Cloth, Marco felt a wave of emotion.
To him, this was a Gold Cloth with tremendous commemorative meaning.
After all, the thing that had first made Marco famous—first made him truly stand out—had been the Royal Demon Rose.
Ever since then, people had talked about it endlessly, and his image had become deeply bound to roses.
There was no helping it.
Back when Marco had still been young, he had nearly taken down Jose Porla, one of the Ten Wizard Saints, with a single rose.
That was an experience that could only be called legendary—especially since even Marco himself hadn't expected it at the time.
Jose Porla's casual "epic lung inhale" back then had turned him into a joke in one breath.
Though the man himself had long since disappeared from public view, his legend still lived on.
Whenever people told Marco's story, Jose was inevitably mentioned as the clown of the tale.
Still, as Marco and Laxus became more and more famous, Jose Porla's reputation gradually improved as well.
After all, he had once fought Marco and Laxus alone as one of the Ten Wizard Saints. He certainly had real strength—he had just run into the wrong opponents.
Now that Marco had obtained the Pisces Gold Cloth, and combined it with the Royal Demon Rose skill he had unlocked before, his titles of Rose Star God and Rose Duke had truly become well deserved.
His roses would now reveal even greater power.
But at this moment, Marco had no spare attention to focus on the Pisces Gold Cloth, because his body was undergoing a tremendous transformation.
Bzzzz!!!
A vast quantity of stellar magic poured into Marco's body, washing through him again and again, fusing into every cell, flowing into his magic source, completely transforming his body and merging the power systems of two different worlds.
Marco opened his eyes and entered an inward state of perception.
He looked at the brilliant magic source inside him, shining like a cosmic river of stars.
He watched the stellar magic from inside and outside his body continuously flow into it.
And he had a premonition—this magic source, this chaotic galaxy, was about to explode.
Boom!!!
The facts proved Marco's intuition was completely correct.
A faint yet immense roar spread through Marco's body, and that once-chaotic magic source exploded open.
This was not destruction.
It was rebirth.
That starry galaxy, once a mass of chaos, burst apart into an even broader and more boundless universe.
This newborn Cosmo was now completely different from the magic source he had before. It was already an entirely different power system.
But as the product of fused powers, it still retained the functions of a magic source—and in fact, those functions were now far stronger than before.
On that point alone, this enhancement was already worth it.
Not to mention that the birth of this Cosmo brought far more than just that.
This was a true Cosmo.
"A Sixth-Sense Cosmo."
Marco felt the power brought by this Cosmo and found it dazzling in its sheer scope.
The abilities granted by the Sixth Sense were simply too many.
Although the Sixth Sense was only the entry level for a Saint, the gap between one Sixth Sense user and another could be greater than the gap between a human and a dog.
In terms of speed alone, the Sixth Sense covered everything from the speed of sound to sub-light speed.
The weakest among them wouldn't even be able to block a single finger from the strongest.
The so-called "Sixth Sense" was, in essence, a spiritual perception that surpassed the five human senses—sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
This power, awakened from the depths of the human brain, was already almost equivalent to magic itself.
Telekinesis, clairvoyance, teleportation, telepathy, moving objects through the air, weather control, precognition, visualization, healing, and countless other abilities all flooded into Marco's mind at once.
Fortunately, Marco was experienced enough not to be overwhelmed.
When using the Aries Gold Cloth, he had already basically mastered all of these abilities, so he adapted to these "psychic powers" very quickly, and his proficiency started out remarkably high.
These psychic powers could only be considered a byproduct.
As the Sixth Sense grew stronger, the number of superhuman abilities a Saint could wield would also keep increasing.
Once their life level gradually approached that of a Seventh Sense powerhouse, they could even possess thousands upon thousands of such abilities.
In other words, the Gold Saints basically all mastered these abilities.
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