Chapter 105 Blindsided (2/2)

She pressed soular piece of stone

”It's a Memory Amulet,” she explained ”It contains inforion Your Sense isn't strong enough to read it just yet, but in a feeeks, you'll be able to begin deciphering it Doing so will help you train your Sense, as well as teaching you the basics of herbalism I expect you to ive me some advice on how to train my Sense?”

No answer came, and after some moments, Arran realized that Snowcloud must have left He called out several more times, but there was no response

He sat down on the cave floor, then spent the next hour waiting, hoping that she would return Perhaps she would realize that her plan was coe her mind, and come back

But she didn't, and after a while, the truth finally began to sink in He was blind and alone, in the middle of the wilderness, and it would be ht filled hi he could do As he went over his options in his head, he realized none of thee the situation

After so various curses and insults — he began to examine the Memory Amulet As expected, he was unable to h he could feel that there was so inside

This was not his first tio, when he traveled with Master Zhao, he had taken another one fro techniques, but he had never gotten anything from it other than a hint of Essence As the years passed, he had all but forgotten about it

Now, he retrieved the aht did not prevent hian to study it once h he could still not read it, he found that the presence of Essence inside seemed much clearer than before And not just that — it was also clearer than the contents of Snowcloud's a it, but although he could tell there was so to read a book froave up and focused his attention on trying to Sense as around hiht he could feel a hint of Natural Essence in the area, it was far too weak to be useful

In the days that followed, he divided his ti to use his Sense toEssence

None of it seemed to achieve much, and after a week, he found himself in the same position he had started in — blind, helpless, and without any idea of how to change his situation The only difference he could sense was that a ithout bathing properly had left hi so water in his void bags, and he had used those to wash hi water — if Snowcloud did not return, heevery drop of it

He knew there was a creek about two hundred paces froht he should be able toable to see But then, the risk of getting lost in the wilderness was a serious one, especially in his current state

Deciding whether to risk it took him half an hour, but eventually, he made up hisit, andin a cave see the creek was easier than he expected Although he fell at least a dozen ti into trees, he could already hear the burble of the creek when he was halfway there, and finding it proved simple even if he fell several more times

When he arrived at the creek, he did not dare leave his void bags on its bed, knowing that finding theain if he lost theings in his robe, then held the bundle above his head as he bathed It was far fros would be a disaster

As he dressed hi blind and naked as he bathed, he had felt terrifyingly vulnerable That he had gotten through it unscathed felt like a s back to the cave, i back in the saht line

After a quarter hour, he knew he had gone the wrong way He should have reached the hill already, but instead, the land under his feet was still decidedly flat

Not allowing hi was far easier, and soon, he was back where he had started

A second attempt to find the cave did not farehis way back to the creek

He let out a deep sigh when he understood that he could not find his way back — not without risking getting truly lost Perhaps once his Sense improved it would be possible, but for now, his best option was to re

Here, he had plenty of water, and there was s Without shelter fro as it didn't rain it wouldn't be too bad

For three days, Arran stayed at the side of the creek It was perhaps slightly more unpleasant than the cave had been, but the cold was nothing he could not bear, and in either place, all he could see was darkness

He fell back into his routine of studying the a Essence Occasionally, he would take breaks to study the seal on his forbidden Really slow

On the third day, he had just begun purifying Essence when he suddenly Sensed a presence At once, he was alarerous

When he heard a lol, he kneas in trouble