From Player To Npc

Chapter 218: Eye ritual

Shingi started telling Yawning Bird what materials he needed to get mixed and how much, and she was putting them in a big bowl. Some of them needed to be processed, like grinding them or mashing them, which she could make as she was an Alchemist, so she had the right Skills for the task.

They had all the materials mixed in the bowl, as in the end, they had a purple ink-like substance.

Shingi used MAJOR ILLUSION to make a magic circle on the floor and had Yawning Bird use the substance they just created to paint that one. His Illusion was exactly as he had it in his mind, and it was crucial to be painted like that, so since with his lack of sight, he could miss some points, he had Yawning Bird to do so, even if this didn't require and skill.

This was actually a Magic Circle that he had designed all by himself, and there should be nobody else who had designed a similar one. That was because this was a Magic Circle based on the Spirit Element.

It was meant to help the Spirit Element in the circle become easier for someone to control and strengthen it a bit. There were similar Magic Circles for the rest of the Elements, and fortunately, Ameanum had studied them in the past, so he could use this knowledge for this unknown element. With his current control over the Element, he was confident that it should work, at least to a degree.

The materials he chose for the substance to make the circle were actually parts of monsters that Shingi was certain that they had stronger Spirit Control. Even if none should be able to use it with no problem, other than the Fairies, Shingi knew a few were using them for some Skills that players weren't certain what empowered them, like VISUALIZATION.

Garry sat in a chair in the middle of the circle as the circle was complete and tied him up. The pain of getting one of his eyes should be too much, and they needed him to stay as still as possible.

They actually used a special enchanted item that looked like what someone in a mental hospital would wear so that he couldn't use their hands. It also covered half the head of the one who wore it, and when enabled, it adjusted to the body and became as hard as steel, making it impossible for the user to move.

He had to keep feeding it with mana, preferably of Earth Element, as it would have the strongest effect.

So he entered the circle, and he started feeding it with his Spirit Element.

He could detect that Yawning Bird seemed to pay extra attention to what he was doing, as she probably recognized that this was a self-designed Magic Circle. But he had told no one about the Spirit Element, at least not yet. He didn't ask her to leave, as even if she understood or learned what he was doing, he was trusting her to keep this secret.

He had used his Blessing to boost his INT, as this was too important to let anything from going wrong. It tempted him to use the cure for the Minor Spirit Madness, but he didn't yet, but he was ready to use it.

He still wasn't certain that his Mana Weakened State was because of Minor Spirit Madness, but everything showed it to be the case as both appeared simultaneously.

As the mana circle took little time to get fully active, and he could feel its effects. The Element's control could have increased for him to handle another Spirt mana sphere, bringing it to nine, but not perfectly. This was way more than he expected.

Then he started feeding Earth Mana to Garry's special restriction suit.

He had his special design on his clothes to be boosting Spirit Element, on the one hand, Light on the other, and had the design of the back to be of Earth Element. Light Element still had some healing properties, also lessening the pain, which Shingi would use to help Garry deal with the pain. Then, of course, he could use Spirit Mana instead, but he already was using quite a sizeable amount to keep the Magic Circle, and he needed to use it for keeping the eye 'undamaged' and connected it with him.

He started using the Light Mana on Garry's head and made it a little numb but not completely. Next, Shingi cast HASTE on himself as he needed to move as quickly as possible, and with the help of a special tool that had some similarities with a pair of tongs, he went for the eye.

He went for the left eye, and he quickly pulled it out and cut the nerve. Then he quickly put it in his empty left eyehole. He fed the eye with Spirit Mana during the whole progress, which he noticed wasn't resisting against it at all.

Garry didn't move an inch, but Shingi could tell that he was in enormous pain just from his heartbeat and some noises he made as the suit didn't even let him speak or scream.

He could fill the optic never of his to be connecting with the new eye with the help of the Spirit Element. However, the task seemed to be harder than he thought, and if he hadn't had the help of the Magic Circle or did the training in those past days, he was certain that he would have failed.

He cast MINOR REGENERATION at the new connection, which helped to make the task much less challenging. Fortunately, he had healed his eyelids already, as they didn't seem to be restricted to what his MINOR REGENERATION could fix.

It took close to half an hour for him to feel that the new nerve was complete.

So after a long time, he opened his left eyelid to try to see.

And it worked. He could actually see. Having only one eye had its problems, like with depth perception, but with his current Skills and experience, the disadvantages were handleable. He wasn't planning to take both Garry's eyes, even if he gave it willingly.

He focused on whatever Spirit Element he could spare to help heal Garry and lessen his pain. It didn't take long to reach that point, and Garry was free to move since he had stopped feeding the suit.

"So it worked. You even got back your power instead of mine." [Garry]

Shingi moved to a mirror hanging nearby to look at himself and his new eyes and noticed that it really was dark crimson instead of the expected green that Garry's special eyes were.

He tried enabling and disabling it as before, and it worked similarly as before. The transition was a bit faster but could be because he had only one eye.

He could feel the effects of his Minor Mana Regeneration once more, as since he had lost his eyes, he didn't have his CHA stat anymore, and without it, the Passive skill seemed to be disabled.

He could also feel that his control over the Spirit Element had increased a bit when he had his special eyes enabled, like when he had them on a restriction he didn't notice before was getting nullified.

'Could this be the Minor Spirit Madness effect outside the Tower?' [Shingi]

Since it didn't seem to affect anything else, he was confident of it to be the case. Even though in the Tower it affected him more than just his Spirit Element control, there was the factor of the Spirit voices in there that he didn't hear outside the Tower.

Either way, he could easily handle have his special eye active all the time as he could do it even before he got his class or learned about how it worked. Still, he had to learn more about it and its abilities, but he had the same one as before and didn't need to learn how Garry works.

He used FILTH EATER to erase the magic circle, especially since he had noticed that Yawning Bird was studying it intensely.

"I almost had it. Can you design its illusion once more? I think I can improve it." [Yawning Bird]

Shingi's senses were telling him she was one hundred percent was lying. She wasn't anywhere close to understanding it, but she wanted to learn what this was.

"Maybe some other time." [Shingi]

Even if he trusted her, Shingi wouldn't just tell everything to her. The less she knew, the better for both of them.

"Thank you once more for what you have done. You should rest for now."[Shingi]

And so Shingi, after he made sure that Garry was ok, he left the house.

He had put on his mask once more, as even if he had the eyelid of his missing eye, he wasn't keeping it close all the time and would disturb others. He could make some eyepatch to help him in this situation, which wouldn't be too difficult. But he was used to moving around without using his sight, and since the mask didn't have any eyeholes, he did so once more.

He returned to the gate to see if any of the King's Guards were there to have some small talk with them before going to the shop to work with Volig on their newest project.

Unfortunately, none of the two were there, even if it wasn't that long since he saw one. The normal guards told him a special message was delivered to them, and they had to go to the castle to report.

Shingi wondered why they went to the castle, as nobody was supposed to be there anymore since the King had moved out.

Since he couldn't speak with them, he went to ask Aneta if she knew anything. She was the mayor of the town, after all.

When he got to the town hall, he detected quite a few Blessed Ones' auras, which was normal, but all of them were outside the hall and none inside. They seemed to wait for something, and Shingi couldn't detect either Aneta or Karemon in the building.

He removed his mask to see and keep his right eye close and saw a note in the door, saying that the mayor was away and the town hall was closed until further notice.

Shingi was now even more curious, but he couldn't get to the castle. He probably could stealth his way in, but he would be in some serious trouble if he was caught.

In the end, he decided to play it safe and got to the shop. He could always ask Aneta later to ask what happened.