Temporal Pearls

Chapter 244: Harvesting Aura From Dragons

Seth stood before the three First Painting Canvas Replicas he acquired with a smile and then he stored them away. That was a reword when he finished the paintings but he was so out of place that he went out, sadly, he met with Black Tamer that dragged him away.

He looked at the new serial Quest that appeared.

[Serial Quest]

Copy First Painting 100,000 times.

[Reward]

~Glean the secret of the painting!

~First Painting Canvas Replica (F)!

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"First Painting Canvas Replica (F)?

Nothing much changed but he now can get (F) rank Canvas Replica instead of (F-).

Seth was smiling ear to ear because (F-) on its own was great but he got (F). An amazing idea came to him but before that, he decided to just watch the whole Secrets of Painting at once.

Ten minutes later Seth came out, his body a bit hazy and his eyes blank. He has become colour-blind and has zero emotions.

The subsequent secret wasn't about the Queen but about her palace that seemed to have been made using sketches alone. There was no colour but rather masterful art by pencil or to be precise black ink.

Seth's mind was engrossed to the point of obsession to understand the meaning and the possibility of creating a painting that seemed to house a world but in doing so, his Mental Power was consumed and his Emotion were also consumed.

In another way, what he saw became alive and vibrant. Some sketches of plants and flowers even began to have colours and scents on their own.

Hours later Seth recovered with a newfound understanding. All he saw from the secret was what he had copied but rather his mind now easily assembled them in order. The reword made use of his mental power to bring them to life. That was his newfound conjecture now.

However he also now has such a new skill.

Motion Picture Skill.

By underlying sketches, in a special order, he can make that sketch move. Seth can do that but not to the level of this skill. With the skill, he can make it move and any onlooker will find it moving, regardless of their vintage point.

"I'm sure that the skill will get stronger when I finish (F) and even push it to (F+). Perhaps I will get a new skill at (E-)"

Seth surmised.

Well, Seth has many things to do, so he put that aside and went to his other activities.

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"Retina, you have to be understanding, if we don't find a suitable location you will have to choose Vela Cave or Temra Canyon or agree to be Living Roots residents. And there is even a Silent Veil village." Seth grumbled as he walked out from Living Roots.

It has been many days now and it was time for him to travel to Rena's sanctuary in search of Papermaking skills. He had used up the remaining 70,000 papers and he was dying to test the quality of the new (F) rank Canvas.

Usually, he moved around as Grade 1 or 2 but now since it was a long journey and he wanted to scare away most Abhorrent Monsters he stayed at Grade 3. His cloak has a silver moon colour which serves as camouflage under the moon.

His hand held a compass that was a bit cleaner than before. It was rusty when he first got it, now it seemed like a polished iron and induced a sense of direction.

[Iron Compass]

~Level 23

~Category: Script Device

~Owner: Seth Enoch

~Use: Direction

[Description: A growth-type device that showed the direction of the fake village]

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As long as Seth has the general direction he wants to go then the Compass will guide him by fixing his minor errors. Also if he had a map or met someone that knew the place the compass guide became better.

Not to mention it rang an alert when dragons were nearby. Just as he was wondering when will the Compass grade up to 2 since it has passed 20 levels, the compass produces another pointer that has a dragon head and shows another direction.

Seth ran and jumped into a crevice and released his Grade 3 Aura to scare away an abhorrent monster hiding there. The dragon passed but Seth stayed down for some time.

He checked his scribe book and watched as the quill wrote.

[I was just wondering when my Compass would grade up when my compass showed me a dragon was approaching. It seemed green in colour and moved very fast like most dragons. Its pressure indicated that it was a baby dragon but I don't want to mess with it, I want to reach Rena Sanctuary and obtain Paper making ability. Can I defeat it or what?

I now looked down to see how my scribe was doing but I'm amazed as it wrote all my adventures. I love this skill]

Seth smirked before he looked up, the dragon had come searching for someone. Seth observed it well. Its shape, size, colour, and the pressure it gave out.

All that observation was being scribed down in the book. Then the dragon flew away.

Seth came out after he noticed the compass's new pointer was gone. He took some steps when a new notification alerted him.

"Damn!" Seth cursed.

Seth stared at what happened and that time Mantle Chain broke but the dragon blood chain was there already.

"Hmmm. dragon curse. Interesting!" Ssth focused on his scribing as if nothing happened.

However, Green Thorn Dragon was surprised and scared now that he was feeling the aura of Grade 5 coming from his hunter. With his dragon Eyes, he can see a Halo around the person that pulses with life. That halo told him, he can't defeat this guy with ease.

"I defeated you!" Seth said casually. "Give up!"

The dragon just opened its mouth and released a low growl that had the power of Dragon Roar, to its dismay, the sound vanished and did not impact the human.

"Very underwhelming roar. But effective to surprise attacks!" Seth commented as he looked at his book.

The dragon's body expanded a bit and released a heavy dragon aura. If it has not used one time Dragon Breath it would have activated Dragon Might but alas it was futile.

"Hmm. This can't be called Dragon Might." Seth commented before he looked at the dragon and said, "Your action from now will impact the rest of your race. Tell me your name and I will let you go and also show mercy to all other dragons I will meet from now on. If not, I will let my imagination go wild!"

There was silence, dragons are stubborn, prideful, and they will never bow to a mere human. They will rather die than do that.

"I know you still have something that can make you escape but you are biding your time for others to come!" Seth said. "I will ask you two more times. What is your name?"

There was silence again, under Aura Sight, Seth could see the dragon's aura was changing, it was going to do something.

"Last time, what was your name?" Seth asked. Now whatever the dragon was doing has reached its peak but waiting to see what Seth will do.

"Okay, now I have a reason to counter other dragon curses with your action. Since you could have saved everyone from my particular action but you didn't. I was actually praying you didn't because that will be no fun"

During that time Seth Womb tried to come out three times but he stopped it. The three dragons in Womb have a bad feeling about Seth's threat.

Green Thorn Dragon's body trembled and almost released the skill he was making when Seth pointed at its head but its dragon eyes showed that the human wasn't casting any skill.

Few dragons can see an aura, so when Seth projected his aura toward the dragon it was oblivious. The projected aura touched the dragon and seth will it to cause the dragon aura to shake.

At first, nothing happened but then the dragon felt something amiss and it immediately activated the skill it was holding.

Its body quickly morphed into an elongated thorny vine with slender dragon limbs and a dragon head. The wings were leafy with thorns.

"Wow, I got another skill!" Seth commented before he fell to his knees and screamed.

~I need to attack, no, I need to run~

The dragon thought but it was like its body had frozen even though it escaped dragon blood chains.

~What is happening~

The human recovered, his body a bit red and his eyes almost popping. No doubt he has suffered painful sessions but there was a smile on his face. The halo around him also pulsed better than before

"Why is it whenever I defeat a dragon I get to bask in a spark of fire that is so painful but after that, I felt better. This time even my halo level up" Seth commented.

"Well, so this is your other form. Let me describe that in detail. Hmm. This form can't be detained with chains. Sadly, I messed with your aura, so you are in an internal prison!" Seth mumbled before he went back to the book...

~It makes my aura jumbled off and because of that, I can't move. Who is this human? He said anytime he defeats a dragon he faces a painful spark, is this human a dragon hunter? Impossible, no dragon hunter can live for long in Gawee!~

"You are weaker now, but faster and easy to hide!" Seth commented. After some deliberation, Seth then said, "Shall we begin now!"

The dragon was confused as he saw the human arranged tools in front of it, and then a white large paper was spread on one of the tools, a board.

The human smiled as he used a thin thorn to sketch something invisible before he put the thorn away and looked at the dragon, it felt a chill down its spine.

The human walked toward it and raised his hand, cracked his fingers and grabbed the dragon's head but didn't hold the head and pulled.

There was some straining, and the human face was serious as if dragging something before he slammed at the white surface.

The human smiled as if he accomplished something great. He brought another tool, a chair, and sat on it.

The Dragon was confused about what happened as it found itself fine. But then the human stood and said, "I'm already having customers. Good. Please excuse me!"

The Green Thorn Dragon heard another dragon coming their way and now the arrogant human was going that way. Some moments later, a dragon roared and the battle sound came then silent.

But then it noticed something, on one part of the white paper, its image was forming. Dragons have a good sense of how powerful they were and so it felt weakened by very small merging. As time went on, it felt the image forming was becoming vivid so also its presence while it was weakening.

It focused and sensed the true danger, and that was it might gradually lose its life like this but it can't.

"Aha, look how handsome you are!" The voice of the human came to the dragon's ears. He was the same with no injury, behind him was floating red and something fell from it.

A brown-scaled dragon that has no limbs, only wings. It was unconscious with a bleeding mouth.

"I will take your blood too, you know I like studying dragons!" Seth said with a smile. Before he commenced to do that, though, it was harder to cut the dragon.

Just like the first one, the second one obtained a sketch and it began to appear beside the first one.

~Who are you?~

The dragon asked and the human looked at him with surprise. "I thought you didn't speak. But I'm working now, wait till I finish, okay love!"

Seth's carefree attitude infuriated the dragon but also scared him. How can the human defeat two dragons with ease at the same time?

"Ah, this portion of the canvas is saturated, congratulations. Your image will be immortalized!"

~Are you going to kill me? My ancestor's curse will affect everyone connected to you if you do not have permission to kill us, dragon~