Chapter 63: Chapter 52: Arcadian Language

Buying clothes wasn't that bad, actually, tho it did take a while as the clothes weren't that good looking, mostly mainly because I had to choose something that would allow me to shapeshift into other forms and that was at least fire resistant. I tried to ask for a cloth that was fire immune, but was laughed in my face by the vendors who said that there wasn't fire immune materials as the, and I quote, "theoretical fire Immunity skill is just a dream in the mages minds as the highest achievable skill was [Fire Resistance] Lv. 10". I don't even need to say that I kept my mouth shut about having two Immunity skills. The clothes themselves were bought in the pet section of the shop as it was the only place where we could buy something close to what I needed. I must say… It felt humiliating having to choose clothes that people would normally buy for their dogs, and I didn't even want to look at the employees on their faces as every time I looked their faces were filled with such self obsession that the only thing lacking was them telling me that being a pet was my rightful place. Needless to say that if Jana and the others weren't there to distract me by asking what I thought about the clothes I would totally punch them in their face with my full strength.

I ended up with a set of plain dark blue shirts and black shorts. I wouldn't use it much as it was only temporary until I had found someone that didn't make me want to puke just by thinking about the faces. It wasn't exactly comfortable, but it wasn't uncomfortable either, it's somewhere in between. I guess it makes sense as the shop we visited was intended for low income guild members and it was Eugeo and the others who paid for it.

We left the Guild Society building, which looked more like a shopping center than an office building that I imagined when I first heard the term. For some weird reason, when I left the building I felt like passing through a screen of water, just like when I entered the first time. I used the opportunity to ask about it.

"Hey, just a question. What is the thing you feel when you pass through the door?" I asked.

"What do you mean?" Eleno asked me back.

"When you pass through the door, there's like a wall made of energy or something, isn't it?" I asked again.

"Ermmm. No? There's nothing of the sort on it. Do you guys feel anything when passing through?" Eleno asked his team members, but all of them answered no. Even Jana said she didn't feel it either. Just what is that thing?

We walked over the city at a leisure pace, and I took the chance to observe the differences in culture from Earth to this world. The major one is the clear use of magic in everything. Buildings filled with magic on their walls and glasses that I can only begin to see thanks to [Magicule Detection] skill, street lights shining with a warm light from a crystal on top of a magical formation. If one disregards the extreme medieval theme going around, it would actually pass as a modern city made with magic instead of electricity and technology.

As we walked in the main road at dark, I began to feel something weird deep inside me. It was a strange feeling that was extremely hard to put into words, but if I had to try it would be something akin to "fate is converging"... I know… it's a stupid phrase directly from any cultivation novel you can find on the internet, but it was the perfectly phrase to describe the feeling that was building up deep in myself. 

As I was about to say something to the others, a weird light began flashing my eyes, making me stumble against a light pole.

"Hey, is everything alright? Do you need to sit down?" Jana asked me, worry begging to show in her face.

"Yeah, just some light shone in my eyes for a moment" I said, but the flashing continued.

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I didn't ask them if they couldn't see it, because it was obvious that they couldn't. The light was a color I don't know the name of and literally never saw, meaning that my unique biology was allowing me to see it, although badly as it was extremely blurry light.

"Actually, let me stay here for a moment" I said, but apparently my words weren't the best choice of words as she looked more worried now.

I began to concentrate on my eyes and tried to partially deactivate [True Mimic] on them. I knew I could, because I had already done so when I inadvertently shifted half of my body on that wagon with Amity. Of course, changing half my body was easier than changing just my two eyeballs. 

As the skill partially deactivated, I felt the region around my eyeballs shift together with my eyes and I immediately knew why more than just my eyes shifted as I felt them grow bigger and anatomically disproportionate from my head.

"Wow, that's a disturbing sight" Eugeo said as they noticed that me and Jana had stopped and came back to see what's happening.

If I had been able to see myself from another perspective, I would comment on how I looked like an anime character with the big draconic eyes. At least my idea was right and I could clearly see the light flashing quickly and almost rhythmically.

What is this? I thought as I activated [Appraisal] and [Knowledge Library] twice, with one instance being fed the results of [Appraisal] directly.

[ Electromagnetic radiation on the microwave spectrum modulated for information carrier on the Arcadian Standard Communication Frequency band. Downloading language… ]

[ Communication being sent by electromagnetic signals using arcadian Standard Military Grade Encryption. Downloading interpreter and encryption code… ]

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