FIVE DAYS LATER
Orion sat on his bed and closed his eyes.
Five days and five nights. That's how long he'd been absorbing knowledge.
The library space had become familiar. He'd go in, mentally request topics, grab books, let the information pour into his enhanced memory. Then come back to his room and actually study what he'd downloaded.
It wasn't instant learning. Each book dumped raw data into his brain like copying files to a hard drive. Perfect storage, complete recall. But he still had to read through it all mentally, understand the concepts, make the connections.
His enhanced brain made it faster. A lot faster. Things that should've taken weeks to understand clicked into place in minutes and hours.
Software development. Algorithms. AI architecture. Data compression. Cryptography. Advanced Mathematics. Programming paradigms. Every piece of software knowledge below Type II civilization level now sat organized in his enhanced memory.
He'd mastered it all.
