I close the book and go to sleep as I grow tired, I notice that Noctaru is also sleeping on the side of the bed. I just lie down on the surprisingly soft moss sheets and drift off to sleep.

“Wake up!” I hear an excited voice, clearly. I jolt awake alarmed at hearing a voice clearly while sleeping. I see Noctaru looking at me, puffed up in pride. I look around and see that the room is just like I left it yesterday night. I look out the window to see the time and see that the sun has already risen above the sea of leaves but it’s still morning. I look around a bit puzzled at where the voice came from. Then I hear it again, “Summoner! I learnt to talk through our link! Yeeeeh!” Noctaru started hopping around on the bed in celebration. I shake my head and notice that I don’t have the grogginess or the tiredness that I normally get after waking up.

Then I see one of the doors open and Emir come in. “So have you calmed down? You can talk to me about your problem a bit.” He asked almost a bit nervous. I shake my head, “No. I am good for now. I would like to get the last Skill built and make it so I can sense the energies here, because without that sense I can’t really practice the magic. And I want to do magic as the things I read about it make it sound easy to do, at least compared to my old world. And another weird thing I found is that the translator of the Achievement is working on one of the runic languages in the book. It makes the language seem like it’s just Genocy, my main language. I know because when I look or hear a different language I hear or see it differently but understand the meaning if I have a reference for comparison, but if it is new then it remains the same and doesn’t get translated.”

He quirks an eyebrow and smiles a little and asks, “Which one?”

“Neutral Nebuleus”, I replied.

“It is known that the {Mad Enchanter} was an Otherworlder. So this might just be his language. And also yours obviously. This will give you a heads up in enchanting if you pursue that field of magic. But let’s complete your 'Foundational Four'.” He says the final part with a chuckle. I nod my head and lie down to meditate.

I open my eyes to the sight of the shimmering fractal leaves waving flagging the wind. I try to think of how I could look from above, suddenly I find myself looking down at the prismatic tree. I shake my head and look for a place to build the Skill. I notice a small clearing near the coast of the sea. I try to will myself there. Then I find myself looking at the beach from amidst a sparse treeline. ‘Trippy’ I mutter. Then start to construct the Skill.

I concentrate on the images of organs and technological parts that can be used as sensors. I impart into it the concept of senses, Chimera, harmony. Then I see it form. A shrub like growth covered in eyes, tounges, small hairs, veins and wires. I then see the notification.

[Congratulations!! You have created the Skill {Sensory Amalgam}]

[You may choose one of your affinities as the aspect of choice]

I instantly choose Arcane for a way to perceive the magical energies.

[You have chosen (Arcane) as the aspect]

[You may choose one of these quirks—

• Natura

• Magic

• Link

• Mana

• Energies]

Now I had to think a little as there are four options that will likely give me a way to get a way to feel the energies. The first will likely only give me a sense of natural energy and the fourth one same but for mana. I don’t think that getting restricted to only one type would be great. So the other two it is. I look at them and then choose the last as it’s a clear but broad category that gives me what I just want.

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As I select it the blob of sensory parts shudder as multiple types of small gem-like things sprout up on it. They start to faintly shine. Then the roots come out of the ground. Both plug-in around the same spot. I see that one starts to pump the previous fluids into this Skill and the other one pumps out a thin stream of pale yellow liquid, as if someone dropped a bit of turmeric powder in milk. I get out of the core to test it out.

Even before I open my eyes I feel the world around me in a faint sense. I feel a slight blue gaseous energy permeate the surroundings, there is also a greenish energy sticking to the walls and ceiling of the room.

I open my eyes and see that everything has an overlay, it’s very faint and if I don’t try to focus on it, it slips my senses. It seems that I cannot sense the attunement-i mean affinities of the energies with this quirk. But at least I can sense these energies.

I look over to Emir who is again smiling creepily. “Now that you have completed the Skills you need to practice and level them up. Let’s go to the library then you can see what you might want to be.” I nod and get out of bed to go to the bathroom to do my morning routine. Just as I enter I notice that I don’t have to poop or pee. “Huh, that digestive system change did something,” I mutter. I then strip off the brown cotton tunic, sturdy pants and underwear that I was wearing, even the underwear is brown.

Then I go into the shower, yeah a real shower. I try to turn it on by twisting the knob. The water starts to fall down the head but I don’t see any holes, just small scribbles. Guess an enchanted showerhead! I feel the water wash over me and shiver. It’s ice cold! I try to see where the dial for the temperature is. I then notice a small piece of paper on the wall, written on it, “Use mana to change temperature.”

Fuck! I don’t really even know how to control mana. Let’s just try what I did with aether. I try to focus my new sense inside myself and find my mana pool. I find a shimmering sphere of prismatic gaseous substance around the domain core. I try to weave a thread of the substance and bring it out. I see a fat string not unlike a strand of wool slowly crawl out of there. I open my eyes and see it poking out of my chest, just as it came out it started fraying apart. I quickly sucked into my body. When inside my body I see that it isn’t degrading. I make it crawl through my shoulder then my biceps when suddenly I feel my insides moving a bit. Then I feel my mana flow better. I try to see what happened and see that the mana string is flowing through my blood vessels. When the string arrived at my fingertips I grabbed the knob and pushed the mana into it. I felt the enchantment ask for temperature. I tried to focus on the feeling of the temperature of the water that I usually shower in. Then the water started getting warmer and finally at just the right temperature!

After showering for some minutes I get out of there and wear the clothes that I stripped out of. They are more clean than when I first got them because of the cleaning spell Emir did.

After getting out of the bathroom I see Emir eyeing Noctaru curiously. I mentally connect with him and ask him what is going on.

“Summoner! You came out! Now let’s get away from this long ear! I don’t like how he looks at me.” He quickly flew up on my shoulder, he was a little heavier than before but not as much as I had thought he might be.

I look at Emir, glaring a bit, “What were you doing to Noctaru?” When I ask him that he looks a little surprised and embarrassed. “I am just looking at this fascinating familiar of yours. He is one of the most stable amalgams I have seen. And because of your blood, he might be one of the very rare amalgams who can assimilate new parts into their form!” As he kept talking he got more and more excited.

I just looked at him and said, “No, you cannot test on my familiar.” He just started laughing. “No I won’t just feed your familiar random things and see how it evolves nor am I going to cut it open to see what is inside of him. As I can see what is inside of him without cutting him just fine.”

I look at him incredibly but shrug. “So what now?”

“Now we are going to see what you can do! Be it in crafts or martial prowess.” He said cheerily. I nod my head and say, “Okay but I used to be an Enchanter in my old world so crafting I know about. Though I have to say I can fight I was never good at it, I preferred to get an upper hand over my enemies from my enchantments.”

He nods his head and says, “Ok! One cannot be good at everything, we all have flaws. I just need to see what you can do, so let’s go to the training grounds to see how you are with weapons!” Then he turns around and leaves the room. I shrug and follow behind him.