Time passed.
Lucien became harder to predict.
The change was not obvious when someone watched him train casually.
He still looked like Lucien.
He still preferred efficient solutions.
He did not begin throwing random abilities around simply for the sake of being confusing.
Unpredictability without purpose was just incompetence wearing interesting clothing.
Instead, Lucien built more routes toward the same objective.
If an enemy shut down the first, he could move into the second without losing momentum.
If that response was anticipated, another combination was already available.
His Laws stopped competing for attention and began supporting one another more naturally.
Skills filled the spaces between them.
Magic widened his options.
Living Creation connected things that had never been designed to work together.
And somewhere beneath all of it remained the drops he had not yet revealed.
Those were still his sharpest surprises.
He intended to keep them that way.
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