Temporal Pearls

\'It\'s time for me to act and entice these people into another exploration!\' Seth thought. But he didn\'t do anything but just stared at the red stick and its two rotating connections.

He was bound to attract attention. True, Samsi came and asked, "Still sulking. Here are healing pellets!"

Seth collected them but said, "My treasure pinpoints other locations but they are dangerous!"

Samsi stared at Seth before he said, "You can find other locations? Are you sure about that?"

Seth dismissed it with a nod. And that triggered a chain reaction which summoned another meeting.

"If we asked, can you take us back to Blood Ancient?" Zambia asked while Juma frowned more.

"Didn\'t you take the path can\'t you take yourself back?" Seth wondered. But they shook their heads and explained that they had already forgotten the way because the place had some mysterious effect on them. Unless they stumble upon it again by chance.

"Well," Seth raised his red stick close to his eyes and said, "treasure seeker can navigate that path for me. But I don\'t think I want to go back there!"

"Me neither. That place is alive and if care is not taken you will be devoured." Juma said with a bit of relief, seeing that Seth was with her on that matter.

But an argument erupted as one of the players claimed the place was safe and even wanted people to come there. In the end, Zambia said they aren\'t going there but rather to Yellow Room.

Samsi who has yellow attire jumped with happiness and concurred with the decision. He claimed that the place has so many treasures that he can help people find.

"My Sanctuary too has a lot of treasure, do you think you can find it?" The youngest among the players spoke. She looked like a 13-year-old girl.

There were three girls among them, Rena, Juma and this one Seth didn\'t remember her name.

"Ahm!" Seth tries to remember if he saw a strong aura on her that led somewhere but he didn\'t.

"I can make you a resident of Winter if you help me!"

Seth wasn\'t that interested at first but now he was. The others too seem interested. "Is your Sanctuary down there? And what about Great Blast Dragon, she will hunt you back, us since we may be going"

"She wasn\'t brought here by the dragon. She lost her way and couldn\'t know the way back. Besides this is a good opportunity, if you can find the sanctuary we all escape there, right?" Another player explained.

But Seth didn\'t fail to notice Zambia doesn\'t like that idea. "She can but none of us can, the dragon will find us and take us back!" He explained.

Seth nodded and walked around the meeting table and stood before her. The girl was really small, and Seth pity her. "Your name please!"

"You forgot? Blessing Winter!"

"Sorry, can you move back!" Seth said, she did, activating the Aura Trace, there was no trace on the ground. It was expected since this was not her home but this was her temporary residence and she should leave a trace.

The inhabitants of Vulcan Village all leave footprint traces even though Living Root isn\'t their home but just a temporary location where they reside.

\'What if I help her activate her aura, will she leave a trace?\' Seth didn\'t know but he had to try. Seth asked her to touch the red stick, and she did. He took it back then...

Aura Touch!

His hands were coated with a thin aura, he asked her to put her hand forward which she did. Touching her with his aura made him feel her power. She seemed to be able to tap into cold, as that was what she was given off

He then called Juma and they went out.

"Can she hear us from here? \'\' Seth asked. "Why do you want to know?" Juma was suspicious of what he was planning.

"I want to know something, only if you help me. Trust me, it wasn\'t anything bad!"

"What do you want?"

"I want you to scare her. Like putting her in a shock!"

"Wait, why? What are you planning?!"

"I can\'t tell you detailed but, since you are the strongest, she will take you seriously and also retaliate but that wasn\'t what I wanted, I wanted the shock in her!"

"For what reason!"

Seth didn\'t tell her the truth but convinced her that it was to help the girl find a way home. Which she obliged.

They came back to the room, the players stared at them suspiciously and Juma went to Winter and said, "Seth said you are a monster in disguise!"

"What?" All the players asked, including Seth himself but at the same time, Juma had her rapier and attacked the girl.

You can see the shock and fear on her face as she raised her hand and a cold air spread around her, freezing everything that came close but Juma was stronger, she shrugged that off and the blade went to her neck.

The girl froze as her eyes closed, waiting for her head to be cleaved. Her body kept releasing cold. But then she opened her eyes with tears and found the rapier very close to her neck.

She glanced at Seth and she found him surprised and smiling.

"Good, it\'s a success!"

Juma stepped back but she didn\'t see a thing. "You better be right!" She said.

Seth Aura Sight can see the girl emitting pale energy-like smoke from her body. And she was glaring at Seth with anger.

"Calm down, I just want to track your home that way. You know we think of home when we are in danger!"

"You better warn us next time, as we might have fought now and killed you!" Jimmy said.

Seth nodded and walked to Winter but now she doesn\'t seem interested in Seth helping her. "Calm down!" He activated Aura\'s Touch and asked her to give him her hand. She reluctantly did that.

As her aura was smoking away, Seth grabbed her wrist to feel them and see if he could help her as he said, "Feel that you can…" he didn\'t finish when he noticed that the aura wasn\'t smoking away and the girl just trembled uncontrollably.

"What are you doing?" She asked as she felt very cold.

"Think that you are taking it inside. To be with it and merge it!" Seth quickly said.

"Taking what?"

"What you are feeling!"

Ding!

[You are guiding Blessing Winter to control her Aura]

[Progress: 10%]

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"Listen!" The mighty speech took effect as she felt her mind registering and obeying Seth\'s order.

[You have affected Blessing Winter with Mighty speech. She is more likely to listen to you]

"You feel something is living you. Take control of it and make it yours to use!"

Her body shook more at the same time the girl\'s brown hair floated and began to change to white.

Ding!

[You are guiding Blessing Winter to control her Aura]

[Progress: 20%]

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"It\'s hard!" She said with difficulty.

"It\'s you, that thing is yours, so command it to be yourself again!" Seth said. Aura was a manifestation of what an object or a creature was.

Ding!

[You are guiding Blessing Winter to control her Aura]

[Progress: 30%]

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Her hair became snow white and floated in the air with no wind, not only that, cold seeped out of her body and froze everything around without affecting the players.

What Seth didn\'t know was that all the players had their weapons ready to strike him down, in fact, two players would have done that if not for Juma and Zambia stopping them.

Ding!

[You are guiding Blessing Winter to control her Aura]

[Progress: 70%]

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"It\'s hard. I can\'t do it!"

"Make it affect your attire and all your Personal Arms!" Seth said as he remembered that activating aura isn\'t just about the body but in the attire and the rest.

Her white attire flapped and glowed, the cold she was emitting seeped back into her and then her Artifact came out and rotated around her. The pain she seemed to be feeling was gone.

"Haha!" She laughed as her eyes closed with some relief.

Ding!

[You are guiding Blessing Winter to control her Aura]

[Progress: 100%]

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[Congratulation: You have helped Blessing Winter activate her Aura]

[You have gained her Trust. You can also see her mood true her aura]

"Great. I never knew I could do this!" Seth exclaimed. But the girl was still in euphoria, her head was looking up and her items floated around, as well as her white flowing attire glowed and flapped as if it was in the wind.

She gave an ethereal feeling while also making those weaker than her wary.