Cyberpunk: Ultimate Cyborg System-Chapter 507: Perfect.

Dante didn't need an evaluation. Just by looking at the muscular man, he could tell that his threat level had risen significantly. Upping his guard, he accelerated his perception to the limit, waiting for the moment his opponent would attack. When that moment came, Dante was still taken off guard.

A crimson fist came flying at his face, and he moved to evade it right away. It wasn't anything he couldn't deal with, but he was still momentarily stunned. A loud boom shook the arena and its metallic cage, and violent wind blasted Dante as he moved to distance himself from the giant.

Riot didn't let up, following with a kick Dante chose to evade. Despite successfully doing so, Dante still felt as if a wall had slammed into him, and only once his back hit the cage did he realize he had been blasted by a powerful gust.

"C'mon! What's got you so shaken!" Riot sneered. "You weren't going all out, right!!?"

As he continued to evade the crimson fists and resist the wind blasts, Dante tried to resolve the confusion filling his mind. His perception was pushed to the max. The world around him should feel as if it were frozen still—as if time had stopped—yet the muscular man was moving at normal speed, completely unaffected. He was speaking normally, too.

Of course, Dante wasn't truly slowing or stopping time. The enhanced perception and reflexes granted by the A-grade Overmind Cortical Interface Module and Neural Response Enhancer simply allow him to process the information around him much, much faster, giving the illusion of time slowing. Riot appearing to move at normal speeds meant that, in truth, he was moving at the same speed the implants were processing data. In other words, he was moving at several times the speed of sound.

'How is he… how is he able to talk!!?'

Dante didn't get the chance to ponder the question as Riot continued raining attacks on him. His frustration grew fast, and soon enough, he was no longer satisfied with just evading.

[Dante, try engaging that.]

'What do-' Dante jumped over a low kick as he understood what his resident AI meant. 'This isn't really the time to test it…'

[There is no better time. We can make adjustments based on the data collected in this fight.]

Dodging another one of Riot's wide swings, Dante considered the suggestion and then made his decision. Letting the wind blast carry him away, he braced himself for what was to come and gave a specific mental command. Right away, the world around him changed entirely.

The sensation was a little difficult to describe. Dante saw two things at the same time—the normal world he was used to seeing with his own eyes, and a second, entirely different world. To call it a different world might be wrong, since it was still the same world. What made it so different was that Dante was somehow aware of everything inside it, down to the number of atoms.

He could tell what materials everything was made of. He could tell the type of energy and how much of it everything contained. He could perceive his body in its entirety, down to each and every cell, and the same went for Riot's.

Time seemed to slow even further. A filter fell over Dante's perception, and suddenly things went back to normal. His hands moved to direct Riot's massive fist away from him, and though some of the force was still absorbed by his body, he was mostly unharmed. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

A shadow fell over Riot's expression, but his grin returned the next second. He threw several attacks, but Dante parried each of them with perfected ease, almost as if he was aware of where everything was and where everything would be.

[I have minimized the amount of data and filtered out unnecessary details.] Volcan said. [What do you think?]

'Perfect!'

A wide grin pulled on the corners of Dante's mouth, and in just a few moves, he went back to having all the advantage. None of Riots attacks took off, let alone connect. He stopped everything before the giant even threw it at him, and that showed in the way Riot's grin gradually vanished.

Dante could see it all. Every move his opponent was making, every place an attack was coming from. He could see the signals traveling through his nerves, and the very instant his muscles tensed before something moved. He could even see the neurons firing signals in the giant's brain, and going by the bright storm currently raging, Dante could tell that Riot was panicking.

"What… the hell…"

The way Dante was moving made it seem as if he was a master toying with a disciple who got too full of himself. The difference in skill couldn't be more apparent, but Dante proved that wrong when he went on to launch his own attacks.

Volcan's sensory input was supposed to give Dante back the sense of touch he continues to lose with each body part he replaced. The way it works is by taking some of the data captured by Volcan's sensors and translating them into signals that would then be fed to his nervous system. When Dante first heard that explanation, his first thought was why stop there?

It took a lot of testing and fine-tuning, but they finally arrived at it—a method to merge Volcan's sensors with Dante senses. It allowed Dante to be constantly aware of everything within a certain range of him. Even with his eyes closed and his ears plugged, he could see and hear everything just fine. He could even feel the touch of things without making any physical contact.

The amount of data collected by Volcan's sensors was astronomical, and the first time Dante got a glimpse of it, his mind was instantly overwhelmed, causing him to pass out. However, now that the appropriate filters had been created, Dante could finally make use of them, and the results surpassed his imagination.

He decided to call it Absolute Awareness Mode. When it is active, nothing could escape his notice, and nothing could take him by surprise.