Skendus walked through the city, in order to get to the Floating Pupil sect of illusion. The sect was very easy to find, sidering that the guards helped him locate it, so it took him less thay mio get there. Once he got there, he was beyond amazed!
Much like the name of the sect would ence, the building of the sect was in fact, a whole floating pupil! Well, it was a floating eyeball, to be exact, a very detailed depi of a rge eyeball.
Skendus stared the forty-meter wide eyeball down, and couldn't help w how much gold and mana it might have taken to build this pce. It henomenal building, truly unique!
“We've been told that there are sculpting mages iy, but this looks unreal, it's almost as if I'm in a fantasy nd.” He thought, and he also couldn't help calg. “It must have taken millions of mana points to build this, because I'm yet to see a stohat so vividly mimic the color of the blood vessels that our eyes have. Foodness sake, I wouldn’t be surprised if a hundred mages were issioo build this thing!”
There was no easy way to prehend what he was witnessing, he was baffled, but he didn’t e here to admire the architectural values of the sect's building, so he had to move oried to get into the sect, but of course, this eyeball didn't have a simple door that he could walk up to, it was simply a big, floating eyeball.
For that matter, he had to try and call an illusionist out here. “Hello, is ahere? Guard Master Zedim sent me here.”
Just as he said that, Skendus suddenly found himself in another pce. It took him a moment to realize that he was now in the eyeball itself, and this simple dispy of power mao impress him quite a bit!
“ing here may be the smartest decision that I’ve ever made. Well, it wasn’t my decision, but I'm still gd.” He muttered.
“It's about time you came here,” A Fal Goblied him, “Hello, I'm Notird the Third. We've sensed your presence ever since you've stepped foot in Valporovus.”
“That 't be right,” He awkwardly shook the other's hand, and then pointed out. “Why would you track me to begin with? I'm a nobody, and I never lived in an eyeball house like you folks.”
“Det humor is a rare trait,” Notird plimented, “But illusionists are even more rare, so we're aware of everyohat practices our beloved Ara Branch throughout Valporovus. Your presence has been aowledged, and you're very much wele in the Floating Pupil sect, should you wish to bee a member.”
“I'm already part of a sect…” He pointed out.
“Yes, we’ve already searched through your brain a few weeks ago. You're Skendus, and you're part of the Radiant One-eye sect. We respect that you're loyal, but you must uand that most of our library is limited to sect members.” Notird followed along.
Those terms were difficult to accept, and Skendus didn't pn on accepting them, because his loyalty lied on his roots, so he didn’t want to join a new sect. He was just a rat who got lucky enough to explore another universe, and he was very respectful of where he came from. With that said, he just bargaio study what the Guard Master had sent him here for, and Nreed.
The sect library was a short walk away, so he was led there, and was given a small book to read. The small book featured the three main offensive abilities that every illusionist should know, and although the pretext made these abilities seem difficult to learn, that was not the case. They were very basic, but they were beled as important, because abilities like these could help an illusionist survive for extensive periods of time, whi a sense hihat this sect had life figured out already. They knew how to survive, and therefore they dedicated the rest of their time in mana quality assion.
Skendus sat down on a chair, started reading the book, a his head down. He didn't pn on causing any trouble, not only because he appreciated the hospitality here, but also because he would easily get killed if he chose to upset the sect members. He couldn’t read through Notird's mind, as a start, which was a telltale sign that the tter had crossed the God's Punishment Realm of mana a long time ago!
“They sense every illusionist in Valporovus,” He thought, and was quite nervous. “They might as well have crossed whatever realm es after the God's Punishment realm.”
Anyway, as he browsed through the tents of the book, he started figuring out what the three main offeacks were. There were exactly twenty pages dedicated to each ability, and the tent within the book was very prehensive.
A page of the book, cited the following introdu. “The Blunderous Bolt ability is the first, and the most basic ability that a practig illusionist learn. With this ability in the caster's possession, one summon bolts that look like they're made out of iron, and the bolts be shot immediately against the caster’s target afterwards. If it takes a caster more than one sed to shoot a bolt, then they're yet to master this exceptionally basic ability. Although the bolts don't cause direct, physical damage, they still create the illusion of immense pain, equal to being shot with an actual crossbow bolt, and this illusion of pain often tends to paralyze the oppo. The average goblin withstand 20 Blunderous Bolts before they die from shock, and this effect varies on other creatures, rgely based on what abilities they possess.”
Skendus was amazed by this very basic ability, but he had never heard of it before! He could kill oppos through a heart attack as well, in his own ways, but the methods he used were far more eborate in parison, they required more time. The tter was why he was amazed that there was a more simple ability which could achieve a very simir result!
“If I could shoot twenty bolts per sed, it necessarily means that I could kill a goblin every sed, if I wao.” He plotted, and tio read through the first chapter of the book.
