67 Secrets (2/2)

To show Umbra what he meant he focused a tiny amount of the Almighty element into his palm enough to form a pea sized sphere but this was enough. Right away Umbra was able to feel it the pressure emanating from the small amount of energy, she couldn't even imagine how Sagar was able to use it with ease as just from feeling it she could feel her body becoming sluggish.

Putting away the energy Sagar continued, ”I was able to figure out how to use this whenever I was younger simply by chance. Luckily for me I had a strong body then as well otherwise I would almost be incapable of using it. Please keep this a secret for now, only a few people know about it, I was going to tell you and the others eventually so it doesn't hurt to tell you now. It would be terrible if others found out about and try to force me to teach them how to use it especially when I'm not that strong at the moment.”

While Umbra was taking in that Sagar trusted her enough to tell her this she also caught something else he said, ”You would have told us regardless, huh? I wonder if I should even share my secret with you since it seems to be a waste anyway.”, she told Sagar this in an almost smug manner.

Sagar would've felt like falling to the ground hearing Umbra's statement but he was already on the ground. Seeing that Sagar lookedlike he at a bug, Umbra let out a hard laugh which she didn't have to hide because of Sagar's barrier. To comfort him a little Umbra tried to stop laughing to tell him, ”I'm joking, I'm joking, why'd you take that so seriously.”, she could hardly contain herself trying to finish her sentence.

Letting out a sigh Sagar responded while rubbing the back of his head, ”Fine, are you going to stop laughing now and tell me you're secret.”

”Of course, of course. First let me ask you if you know about the fact that sometimes someone is born with a unique trait?”

Nodding his head, Sagar figured that she would start talking about the royal family. Right now only those in the royal family had the unique trait on being able to shape shift into whatever creature they desired. There was also shape shifting magic that one would be able to learn using a variety of elements, say for example like the water mage from the investigation squad that Sagar fought. He was able to shape shift his water to create perfect illusions of his comrades and he might have been capable of more if Sagar feel it necessary to wipe him out quickly. The thing that made made the royal families shape shifting different is that depending on what creature they turn into they could also develop the creatures unique characteristics. Say if they were to turn into a slime, at that point they would capable of taking reduced physical damage just like a slime, of course they also develop the drawbacks that the creature has as well.

There was a limit to this as a toddler from the royal family wouldn't be able to turn into a dragon or something right off the bat. They not only have to train with their trait but they also must become more powerful themselves. Another draw back is that they also must learn about the creature they want to turn into in detail and also must have seen the creature at least once. It's a big draw back but if they were able to fill in the requirements they would be able to turn into a dragon like mentioned before. It was also because of this requirement that the royal family likes turning into griffins as they had many books on them along with their own keep where most of their own griffins are located at.

Seeing that Sagar knew what it was Umbra continued, ”Well, you see, I actually didn't develop this trait, instead you could said that the unique trait mutated whenever I was born.”

Sagar had never heard of such an instance occurring or at least it wasn't recorded in anything that he's read so far, but he didn't interrupt Umbra. ” Now instead of being able to shape shift, I have an the ability to learn unique magic with ease. All I have to know is the properties of the element and it's name,which then allows me to use it to a high degree almost like I had been learning it my entire life. When I was younger I couldn't really control the trait but when I was able to get a handle on it, it worsened my vision having me to wear these glasses.”

As she was saying this she took off her glasses allowing Sagar to get a good look at her ashy colored eyes. It was only in a instant of blinking but Umbra's iris turned from the ashy color to a full spectrum of colors lapping around her pupil.