Temporal Pearls

"Okay,"

Seth wasn't upset, that only motivated him more. So he stored it. But then another quest popped up.

[Quest 2]

~Copy the First Painting 100,000 times.

[Reward]

~Glean the secret of the painting!

~First Painting Canvas Replica (F-)!

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"Hmm. More canvas. Fine, I have an unlimited supply of papers!" Seth grinned. But he kept all that and walked out, he went directly to where he had met with Luana's skeleton. That was where the first crater was. But he was forced to hide as he saw dragons surveying the place.

The moment they left, he went there.

Even the soil of the place has been removed and now it has been dug deeper. With no way to dig for anything, he just went to the wall of the crater and then used red liquid and painted her, it didn't elicit any reaction.

"It has to be a sanctuary!" Seth realized. He was just desperate to paint her as he did the other dragons. So he brought out the Script Marker and activated Luana Aspecto but nothing happened. He looked up, it was daylight, so waited till night and the moon was shining, and he repeated the same thing but nothing happened, so he turned and left.

The obsession has returned so he went into painting First Painting with a more insane obsession.

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He woke up with a taste of satisfaction on his tongue but not enough sanity to think clearly. He went to Vera Village, the people bowed to him and then he just slammed at the sculpture which increased its bearing, he collected his Soothing Gourd. He then went to Vela Sanctuary and did the same to her paintings.

The craving reduced and he came back home. This time he found he had a problem. To truly utilize the aura infusion he needs to be able to grab aura.

And that means I should finish that quest. Seth sat and checked the little cub, it was fine and sleeping. He then checked the dragon and each one complained about what he was doing to them. They feel bad anytime Seth has the womb extract their aura.

He ignored them and then made the womb extract Vela's aura. Her aura felt a moving wind, slippery but also strong. He activated an aura touch which coated his hand with aura. And the moment the womb seeped out the windy slippery aura and touched it. He contained it and then used Moon Stigma to enhance his aura and hand then pressed.

Thanks to the fact, the aura was pure from the womb, it has fewer impurities and so forcing it to condense was a bit easy. But no matter what, it can't become solid. But when he went out under the moon, he activated the full power of the Moon Stigma.

[Quest]

[Solid Aura is hard to make and very hard to maintain.]

~Condensed 9 more Solid Aura!

<Progress: 1/9>

[Reward]

~Aura Grab

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"Haha, the great moon" Seth was pleased. Under the moon, the stigma absorbed energy. He brought his Crop Essence Core to recharge.

He pulled out Vera's aura too and then repeated the same thing. After an hour a hard solid oval shaped metallic looking aura was formed

He pulled Temra's aura but he had to endure because it was very hot and it took longer to condense. He could have asked for Luana but he has no idea where the damn dimension is.

[Quest]

[Solid Aura is hard to make and very hard to maintain.]

~Condensed 9 more Solid Aura!

<Progress: 3/9>

[Reward]

~Aura Grab

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Seth nodded and rested before he went out and hunted a deer in the forest. And took the blood. Using red manipulation he removed the actual blood and left the aura. Then he repeatedly did the same thing. However he met with a problem, it was not as pure as the aura he got from the womb.

As such, he repeated what he had done in the past and that squeezing more impurities till he reached his limits of control but still no progress. But then he remembered something.

He used both his palms, he focused his mental power and Stone will before he pressed down with more force control. After pushing so hard, he felt resistance as if he was trying to crush a hard stone with bare hands but he pushed ahead with the hope of removing the impurities to the side and having the aura confined.

Click!

His palm closed and felt a slight weight on his palm. He opened his hand and found a crystalline flat substance, inside it was a hairline white liquid.

[Quest]

[Solid Aura is hard to make and very hard to maintain.]

~Condensed 9 more Solid Aura!

<Progress: 4/9>

F2F[Reward]

~Aura Grab

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"Interesting," Seth was amazed, he did know for sure that without the moon above and Moon Stigma, he can't make this.

[Deer Aura Goblet]

The crystalline substance was the impurities that encased the actual aura inside.

Seth waited for an hour to be able to activate his aura before he activated Aura Touch. His hand by touching the Goblet touched the Deer Aura inside and Seth perceived its nature and size as if it was alive.

Using Aura Sight he saw that the hairline aura inside the goblet was actually shaped like deer in a way.

"So, what does this do?" Seth wondered. He felt a sense of accomplishment more than when he condensed the dragon's aura from the womb that was on the table now.

He put it aside and went for another hunt but didn't find any animals. His experimental Abhorrent monster was having a rest too. Until it wakes up, then the forest won't provide more animals.

"Where is Little Cub when I want her!" But then he shook his head, with the antler and this young abhorrent monster things will be complicated

For that reason, he searched for his always one animal that the forest always left out. Until he found a huge buffalo with many scars on its body. From the distance Seth knew to kill it he would have to fight hard. The buffalo has beast force.

Seth ran back and cut branches of trees that were red and gathered many red fruits. He sat down and began making more aura goblets. The last one he made, felt so easy and he seemed to have grasped how to do it with no Moon Stigma.

"Smoothing ability!" Seth called as he saw the Antler grazing nearby, "with him close by, everything seemed to go smooth including understanding things"

It was the antler that facilitated his understanding. She came and entered her pen, where Seth always filled a barrel of water. She regurgitated what she ate and then dropped the droppings. And he gathered them with his deep obsession.

[Quest]

[Solid Aura is hard to make and very hard to maintain.]

~Condensed 9 more Solid Aura!

<Progress: 9/9>

[Reward]

~Aura Grab

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[Congratulations, you have gained the Aura Grab skill.]

[Aura Grab]

[You can now touch and grab Aura from anything that is alive or has been alive and manipulate it to a certain extent]

"Hmm"

Seth closed his eyes and called Aura Tome. The surrounding aura was pushed away and then a giant book appeared. It automatically opened his skills.

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"Skill obtained has a ranking of stat but the one I develop doesn't. Not only that, they have drawbacks. I thought it would change over time." Seth commented before he looked at the definition of Grab and Touch.

"Grab is an upgraded version of touch"

[New Quest]

[All Aura are elusive but one is more elusive than the other. Living auras are aggressive and illusive, Non-living auras are mostly docile and more illusive.]

~Grab 100 Aura from living things and influence them.

~Grab 100 Aura from non-living things and Influence them

[Reward]

~Aura Rigidity

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"Okay!"

Seth looked at the moon and the Stigma on his hand. He drained a bit of the stigma energy stored and he returned to normal with his skill reset and aura.

He then looked at the remaining fruits and branches he had, with aura sight he saw them then he called out.

"Aura Touch!"

He feel the aura with his palm and even affect it a little, and then he called,

"Aura Grab!"

The aura coating his hand reduced but became more intricate and outlined his palm well. Then he can feel the aura as if he was touching a coated skin. It's as if he was pinching his or someone's skin.

It felt like a thick liquid that flowed as he squeezed more. And he continues to squeeze to feel it more. And since Antler and the moon were there he perceived things otherwise would have taken him days.

Soon, he realized that his aura was slowly seeping into the branch so also the leaf's aura seeping into him. In the end, his coated aura became a bit reddish. And when he dropped the branch, the reddish dissipated quickly.

"As I squeeze it more we are exchanging aura. Just like touching anything with a normal palm." Seth understood and it was then he realized that aura rigidity was meant to make his aura hard to taint.

He took the fruit and squashed it, then used red to remove the substances before he held the aura. With aura grab making Goblet's aura became simple because he can direct the aura to move deeper and then the pressed will make the remnant impurities crystalline.

He then drags the antler with him to smooth things while he groped and moulded the aura of many trees around the village.

At the same time, he kept making Aura Goblets of leaves and stems but they are all partially red. It will take time if he wanted non-red specimens to remove big impurities.

If it was a yellow mango, it would take him some time to remove the mango from the aura and then purify the aura. Since he can't control yellow.

When he was exhausted he rested or used Moon Stigma to recover. As he came back to the mansion, with many aura goblets he checked the quests.

[Quest]

[All Aura are elusive but one is more elusive than the other. Living auras are aggressive and illusive, Non-living auras are mostly docile and more illusive.]

~Grab 100 Aura from living things and influence them.

<Progress: 30/100>

~Grab 100 Aura from non-living things and Influence them

<Progress: 0/100>

[Reward]

~Aura Rigidity

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Seth frowned but then he understood, he had focused on red things and also red plants. As with so many similar things, it was considered to be repetition.

He came to a simple house and used Aura Touch, and then Aura Grab to touch the plank wood that made the house of the town. He felt the aura coating it.

[Congratulation]

~Aura Touch C

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It was C- but now improved to C. That was an improvement as he now can feel more things about what he touched. Seth then went around touching the non-living thing but the moment he used Aura Grab, everything slipped off and he couldn't even touch them properly.

Maybe it was the effect of the antler but he realized that for him to grab an aura from a non-living he needs to have his aura touch to be at least B-.

With that in mind, he set another task, and that was grabbing anything from living things but no longer living.

Things like dried meat, dried leaves, skin, nails of animals, and furs of animals. Until the sun was up.

[Congratulations]

~Aura Touch (C+)

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It became more vivid as he can now feel some impurities in the aura of an object even though it was very faint. He slumped on his chair with a smile on his face.

Aura testing used a lot of energy and for that reason, it reduced his obsession.

But he felt that he was not tired at all. He pushed his aura out and found it severely tainted with so many different auras. Some of them were from some plants that have the effect of poison and some were energetic.