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Chapter 23: Be As One

“That’s some overpowered stat gaining from those weapons!” I exclaimed. Emi mirrored similar sentiments.

“Yeah but those weapons were only for the first who completed the cave,” Angil explained, “People afterwards would get decent equipment if they actually found the cave but you guys got a special reward as the first ones to discover and complete it.”

“Is what you used to change the Status Tag magic?” I wondered, perhaps this was the person to teach us about the magic that can be used.

“Yeah I’m a mage by profession who took up blacksmithing and jewelry making as side hobb-.”

“Could you teach us how to use our special talents?” Emi interjected rather excitedly.

“Sure, I won’t teach you magic per se but rather how to utilize and understand this special talent’s basic principle.”

“Great that would be so so helpful!” Emi replied.

Angil he took us out of the cellar to a nearby river outside his inhabitance and then he proceeded,

“You have to calm your core down. Be able aware of both yourself and the things around you,” he instructed us to sit down cross legged and basically if I were to compare it to my previous life, meditation.

“Breath in and out, take the same amount of time for each. Pay special attention about the surroundings around you. The sounds, the smells, everything.” He while we were sitting down meditating had positioned himself in front of us and followed his own instructions.

“Feel the wind as it blows through you, the sounds of the insects in the river, the smells of nature.”

I concentrated trying to be aware of both the world around me and inside myself. It was a rather hard task to get right. I had always been more of a person who focused on task, that being reading in my past life, but this exercise was forcing me to take a wider view of the world. The world around me as a whole, I had never realized how vibrant and full of life this world was.

I tried stretching my senses to the extreme taking in as much of the world as I could. As my eyes were closed I almost tried to imagine the world around me through my other senses. Stretching them to their utter limits in exchange for a better understanding of the world. I felt a flash-

I was suddenly transported mind away from my body which I could now see meditating along with Emi who seemed to be rather struggling but nevertheless trying. It was always a comforting feeling being around Emi who tried so hard and persevered. Perhaps that was one of the reasons I had arrived at this point in this new life. Without Emi I wouldn’t have found Angil, Without Emi I wouldn’t have bought the ring. Without Emi I wouldn’t have survived the cave. Hell without Emi I would not be here.

Anyway I had to push that out of my mind as I seemed to be floating around. I saw Angil’s spirit actually peeking around away from his body. He spotted me and floated up. What surprised me was that his spirit was not in the guise of his normal body’s image but rather a modified one which seemed to have taken some cues from a bird, with the feathered body and ah the fierce eyes of the Eagle. Perhaps he was an eagle?

I looked at my own body in the reflection of the river and saw that even myself was not my own human image but rather one that was some sort of reptilian inspired version of myself. I noticed that I could see far more straight ahead than I could as a human but my peripheral vision had been altered. My vision also seemed to be dyed heavily blue. My whole body took on a rougher leathery like feel to it and my nails had become more clawlike. It was a weird feeling being a reptile but nonetheless an interesting one.

“Welcome to the Magic World.” Angil spoke.

I peered around and for some reason everything around me seemed to have something like the Aurora Boreas being. The energy flowed out an in from one being to the next, animals and plants alike. Even my own body had a reservoir filled with this ethereal energy. It was amazing, the different living beings seemed so vibrant even the ground itself had specks of the same energy around. It was breathtaking.

“Ah I see your companion is starting to also feel it too.”

I looked at Emi and saw the beginning of her spirit freeing herself from her body. It was rather interesting seeing her struggle with it but still persevere through. Focusing more and more on the world around.

She finally broke free of her earthly constraints and glided around. She was seemed to have a horn on her head and pale white skin which immediately gave me the impression of a unicorn in the fairy tales. All majestic and proud.

“Welcome Emi to the Magic World.”

I could see she was rather shocked that an eaglesque human was talking to her and I tried to clear up the confusion.

“I’m the reptilian human and Angil is the eagle-like human. You should have a look at yourself too. Try looking through the water!”

She glided through the air to the river. I heard a sudden sound of shock as she discovered herself changed too.

“I’m a horned horse now! Whaaaaaaat?”

“Yeah I can definitely understand being part some sort of reptile will take some getting used to.”

“These are your spirit animals merged with your own bodies that embody your true selves.”

“Do you know what they mean? I asked curious for the reason I was a part reptile.

“No one knows except the person himself. Even the person can only guess why he was given the animal.”

“This is so amazing!” Emi exclaimed.

“Its so psychedelic seeing the world like this.”

“You guys are ready for the next step to truly understand your Special Talent.”

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