It took time for Ash to overcome this sudden revelation that 50 years had passed. It was a little hard to swallow, as the number itself carried a strange weight when he thought about how casually those years had slipped through his fingers, but he still overcame it with surprising ease, as his mind had already grown accustomed to the abnormal flow of time inside his Soul Space.
He designated the state he had fallen into as the 'flow' state. Maybe? He was not completely sure about it himself, but it was the closest word he could find to describe the trance like cycle where his awareness faded, yet his will and purpose continued to function with frightening precision.
He then spent the next 10 days comprehending the glyph knowledge directly from those Golden Books, carefully absorbing the stabilized and refined understanding contained within them.
