Cosmic Gaze

*See through the veil of the universe.*

## Summary

Cosmic Gaze is a peak-quality support/investigation skill that Zac was awarded in the Tower of Eternity for passing the Fifth Floor. The skill allows one to view attuned energies in the environment and other people, including their skills. The skill can be overwhelmed by dense or higher grade energies. It can be countered by some skills. The skill has to be activated to use but its effect is passive so its use does not alert others like Inquisitive Eye did.

## Skill Slot Location

**Both Eyes**

He wasn’t surprised to learn that the skill he had just gained was ocular, as the pain he had just felt in his eyes was all too familiar. **Book 5, Page 46**

## Skill Window

[Cosmic Gaze – See through the veil of the universe. Upgradeable.] **Book 5, Page 46**

## Origin

*Zac chose this skill as his reward for completing the fifth floor of the Tower of Eternity.*

* [Fifth Floor Complete. Upgrading Title.]
* [Choose Reward: Offensive Skill, Defensive Skill, Support Skill. NOTE: All skills will have 80% compatibility or higher.]
* Eventually, Zac chose to go with a Support Skill.
* **Book 5, Page 44-45**

*This skill replaced Inquisitive Eye.*

* The flavor text was a bit similar to his old skill, **[Inquisitive Eye]**, though it felt a lot more impressive to see through the veil of the universe than to see through their secrets. **Book 5, Page 46**

## Synergy

* It **[*Primal Polyglot*]** would help Zac with everything from deducing arrays to spotting hidden dangers, and it seemed like a skill that could go hand in hand with his **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 6, Page 596**
* Zac had already figured out the solution to this trick, though, so he activated [**Cosmic Gaze]** and **[Hatchetman’s Spirit]**, which immediately allowed him to spot the trio. **Book 6, Page 686**
* Not only that, he just evolved his Tree-based Dao and was inside a forest, which made his senses extremely keen. Zac noticed there was a spot with weaker attunement a few hundred to a thousand meters behind him. **Book 8, Page 335**

## F-Grade Early Proficiency

* The world suddenly changed, and the dour landscape turned into a vibrant tapestry that shimmered in silver, blue, and white. Zac almost fell down from the rapid change in his surroundings, and it felt just like when he had been drowning in Origin Dao from the Dao Funnel. **Book 5, Page 47**
* But thanks to **[Cosmic Gaze]**, he could see that a cold blue light was slowly seeping out of the hill in a few spots, and after he cleared the area, he saw that the lights emerged from a couple of cracks. **Book 5, Page 48**
* The skill wasn’t some sort of universal key, though, and Zac quickly realized that the lights he saw through **[Cosmic Gaze]** were attuned energies, and most energies simply weren’t attuned. But attunement was related to the Dao, which helped give him an early warning when someone infused a skill with their Daos. **Book 5, Page 48**
* More importantly, he realized that no one noticed when he used the skill on them, which was an issue that had essentially made his old ocular skill useless. **Book 5, Page 48**

## F-Grade Middle Proficiency

* Was it because **[Cosmic Gaze]** was still stuck at Early proficiency? No matter how much he strained his eyes, he hadn’t been able to see the attunement of any of the skills Void’s Disciple used, only the destruction they caused. Zac suddenly felt a pop as the strain on his eyes lessened, and hazy energies appeared around Void’s Disciple the next moment. Zac felt a surge of confidence as he realized that his ocular skill had actually evolved mid-battle. Had he finally found the key to upgrading this skill: spotting invisible energies? **Book 6, Page 442**

## F-Grade Late Proficiency

* No textual Information. Passed during the three-year time skip after the slaying of Void's Disciple and the end of the Technocrat Mystic Realm.

## F-Grade Peak Proficiency

* Unless someone could hide from his Peak-mastery **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 8, Page 107**
* Part of it was thanks to his Peak-mastery **[Cosmic Gaze]**. Each improvement to the skill brought the same benefit: greater detail to his energy vision. By the time it reached Peak mastery, it captured even the weakest hint of attunement. **Book 8, Page 355**

## Upgrading

* Unfortunately, problems cropped up when he attempted to evolve **[Cosmic Gaze]**. Its fractal wasn’t too complicated on the surface, but contained a few unique patterns that weren’t present in his class skills. This had created some hidden connections and unexpected dependencies that made the skill far more complicated to upgrade than Zac expected. He'd been forced to perform one patchwork after another as the skill fractal became unstable, and the result was **[Piercing Gaze]**, which Zac estimated was a High-quality sibling to **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 8, Page 367**
* Even **[Cosmic Gaze]** had been upgraded to E-grade on his Draugr form, though he still hadn’t managed to improve **[Piercing Gaze]** in his human form to match. **Book 8, Page 490**

### **Piercing Gaze**

[E] Piercing Gaze - Proficiency: Early. Unravel their secrets. Upgradeable. **Book 8, Page 365**

* A High-quality E-grade investigative skill was still pretty much equivalent to his old skill at Peak mastery. **Book 8, Page 367**
* He had already gained some experience in this regard inside the Orom World, with his human side having reforged **[Piercing Gaze]** into **[Cosmic Gaze]** already. **Chapter 855**

## E-Grade Early Proficiency

* *No textual distinctions. Just continues to work when dealing with higher grade energies and against higher grade skills than it could before.*

## E-Grade Middle/Late Proficiency

* *No textual Information. Passed during time-skips before visiting Perennial Vastness.*

## E-Grade Peak Proficiency

* By this point, almost all of his skills were already pushed to E-grade Peak Mastery, **Chapter 978**
* *No other textual information.*

## Commentary

* The skill was also connected to his pathways, and it was a great fit, which was a step up from the disconnected fractals that had simply hovered in his eyes before. **Book 5, Page 46**
* His new skill proved extremely helpful over the following levels, as various secrets that would have passed him right by were displayed as clear as day from his magical vision. **Book 5, Page 48**
* The new skill only elevated Zac from a bumbling idiot to a somewhat capable adventurer thanks to showing him a larger picture of the truth, but it was just a small aid in the end. **Book 5, Page 52**
* The man’s attuned energies had completely blended in with the surroundings, rendering **[Cosmic Gaze]** useless. **Book 5, Page 180**
* He indicated for the Valkyries to stay outside as he entered, and he quickly spotted where the two were recuperating with the help of **[Cosmic Gaze**]. **Book 5, Page 458**
* His vision was completely obscured by the extremely dense poison, but he could still spot death-attuned hotspots when activating **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 5, Page 597**
* They were pretty minute, though, and he probably wouldn’t have noticed them without **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 5, Page 607**
* But a laugh echoed across the halls as a robed figure emerged from the darkness, and a glance with **[Cosmic Gaze]** confirmed that this was the real Lich King. **Book 5, Page 608**
* Zac activated **[Cosmic Gaze]** to see if any suspicious energy movements surrounded the Nexus Hub, but the pillar itself drowned out any potential clues. **Book 6, Page 131**
* It might be hard to spot them with his normal sight, but the roots were almost lit up like beacons to his **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 6, Page 380**
* Zac guessed that it was connected to the massive lake, but he couldn’t be certain, as the intense attuned energies that rose from that pond almost blinded him when using **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 6, Page 543**
* His **[Cosmic Gaze]** could clearly sense that there seemed to be some connection between the robot and the sea of lava surrounding them, which steadily supplied it with a stream of power. **Book 6, Page 556**
* He might as well have skipped using the skill, as Zac could see his outline perfectly with the help of **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 6, Page 695**
* It allowed Zac to focus on the task at hand, and he rushed forward, aiming straight for the most energy-dense spot according to **[Cosmic Gaze]** since the previous attacks had turned any visibility to zero. **Book 7, Page 266**
* Four glistening crystals appeared above the ramparts, and Zac was almost blinded by **[Cosmic Gaze]** after seeing how much energy they contained. **Book 8, Page 167**
* He pushed **[Cosmic Gaze]** to the limit and he found a clue mid-clash. **Chapter 774**
* And the varied visions had suddenly been replaced by dense shimmering clouds that somehow stopped even **[Cosmic Gaze]** from working more than a few meters. **Chapter 869**
* His **[Cosmic Gaze]** was continuously running, and Uzu's every attempt at activating skills was met with a near-death experience that forced him to abort and respond. **Chapter 879**
* It was almost impossible to see in the darkness, and even **[Cosmic Gaze]** was suppressed. **Chapter 881**
* Zac desperately looked for clues, and his eyes lit up when he suddenly saw something upon activating **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Chapter 900**
* Zac's battle-honed instincts told him in no uncertain terms someone was close, but not even **[Cosmic Gaze]** could expose their whereabouts. In other words, an assassin [*Ogras!!*]. **Chapter 900**
* He couldn't sense anything off in the atmosphere, but Zac wasn't too sensitive to small shifts in energy. If his **[Cosmic Gaze]** couldn't see it, it might as well not exist to him. **Chapter 906**
* The static explosion was over 200 meters across, and its chaotic nature rendered **[Cosmic Gaze]** useless. **Chapter 923**
* A ball of water had become the final layer of defense against Zac's approach, its corruption so dense that Zac was forced to deactivate **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Chapter 926**