Chapter 218: Eye ritual (2/2)
”So it worked. You even got back your power instead of mine.” [Garry]
Shingi moved to a mirror hanging nearby to look at himself and his new eyes and noticed that it really was dark crimson instead of the expected green that Garry's special eyes were.
He tried enabling and disabling it as before, and it worked similarly as before. The transition was a bit faster but could be because he had only one eye.
He could feel the effects of his Minor Mana Regeneration once more, as since he had lost his eyes, he didn't have his CHA stat anymore, and without it, the Passive skill seemed to be disabled.
He could also feel that his control over the Spirit Element had increased a bit when he had his special eyes enabled, like when he had them on a restriction he didn't notice before was getting nullified.
'Could this be the Minor Spirit Madness effect outside the Tower?' [Shingi]
Since it didn't seem to affect anything else, he was confident of it to be the case. Even though in the Tower it affected him more than just his Spirit Element control, there was the factor of the Spirit voices in there that he didn't hear outside the Tower.
Either way, he could easily handle have his special eye active all the time as he could do it even before he got his class or learned about how it worked. Still, he had to learn more about it and its abilities, but he had the same one as before and didn't need to learn how Garry works.
He used FILTH EATER to erase the magic circle, especially since he had noticed that Yawning Bird was studying it intensely.
”I almost had it. Can you design its illusion once more? I think I can improve it.” [Yawning Bird]
Shingi's senses were telling him she was one hundred percent was lying. She wasn't anywhere close to understanding it, but she wanted to learn what this was.
”Maybe some other time.” [Shingi]
Even if he trusted her, Shingi wouldn't just tell everything to her. The less she knew, the better for both of them.
”Thank you once more for what you have done. You should rest for now.”[Shingi]
And so Shingi, after he made sure that Garry was ok, he left the house.
He had put on his mask once more, as even if he had the eyelid of his missing eye, he wasn't keeping it close all the time and would disturb others. He could make some eyepatch to help him in this situation, which wouldn't be too difficult. But he was used to moving around without using his sight, and since the mask didn't have any eyeholes, he did so once more.
He returned to the gate to see if any of the King's Guards were there to have some small talk with them before going to the shop to work with Volig on their newest project.
Unfortunately, none of the two were there, even if it wasn't that long since he saw one. The normal guards told him a special message was delivered to them, and they had to go to the castle to report.
Shingi wondered why they went to the castle, as nobody was supposed to be there anymore since the King had moved out.
Since he couldn't speak with them, he went to ask Aneta if she knew anything. She was the mayor of the town, after all.
When he got to the town hall, he detected quite a few Blessed Ones' auras, which was normal, but all of them were outside the hall and none inside. They seemed to wait for something, and Shingi couldn't detect either Aneta or Karemon in the building.
He removed his mask to see and keep his right eye close and saw a note in the door, saying that the mayor was away and the town hall was closed until further notice.
Shingi was now even more curious, but he couldn't get to the castle. He probably could stealth his way in, but he would be in some serious trouble if he was caught.
In the end, he decided to play it safe and got to the shop. He could always ask Aneta later to ask what happened.