From Player To Npc

Chapter 225: The missing requirement

He couldn't use his SCRY mode before after missing his eyes, and was too busy when he got one back. He had checked, though, and the option to use it was there.

He wanted to check on Annoue, but he needed to first use it for the other target he could Dormon.

He focused on his mode to activate it and then picked his target.

His sight started moving up through the floors at great speed, but he couldn't get many details through the trip about those floors. 

His sight reached the cell that he had seen Dormon being each time he had used his SCRY on him. No signs of anyone else in the other cells this time.

Shingi focused on his current form made by the Spell-like ability given by the System, and tried to reproduce what he did last time with Annoue. In addition, he focused on manipulating the surrounding Spirit Mana to change his current form and allow him to communicate with Dormon.

His ability to control this new Element had changed massively since his return to the Tower. He could still improve it much more, but currently, he could manipulate some, even in his current state. While in SCRY Mode, it had weakened his skills massively to be unusable, other than his PERCEPTION, which was weakened but still helpful.

As for his mana-related skill and mana control, it also had gotten weaker, but was still an option. He couldn't cast any spells, but could manipulate some of the surrounding Element at a degree, and Spirit was the one that was easier to find in the Tower, other than Air and Earth.

Shingi could feel changes in his form, but nowhere near what it felt last time when he could talk with Annoue. He wasn't sure what had triggered the change back then, but he was confident that the Spirit Element had to do with it.

He tried to whisper things now and then to see if he could get a reaction from Dormon, but there was none for a long time.

His SCRY could last for one hour currently, and half of that time passed, and he had no reaction from Dormon. He had noticed his body moving, and he was confident that Dormon was awake, but his movement seemed strange.

Shingi wasn't sure what it was and didn't have time to think about it.

He was close to the last ten minutes of his mode when Shingi noticed Dormon twitching at one of his whispers. Shingi waited a bit and whispered again.

Another twitch.

He waited once more, but this time for two minutes, and whispered once more. Then there was another twitch.

This was clearly a reaction to his whispers; otherwise, they would be some incredible timed coincidences.

"Hello, Dormon. I am the one that inherited your Legacy. "[Shingi]

Of course, by Legacy, Shingi referred to the True Class.

"I need your help. I seem to miss something to reach its next stage. Can you help? "[Shingi]

At that point, Shingi noticed Dormon's mouth moving as he let out some whispers that even he couldn't listen clearly. So he moved his form closer to hear more precise, but he could not understand what he said.

He could listen the words, but they were in a language he wasn't familiar with. It seemed to be four words that he kept slowly repeating.

Shingi tried to memorize them and asked for any other clue, but Dormon kept repeating those words.

The time of Shingi's SCRY was over, and he had returned to his body.

He had some new info but was uncertain how he could use it.

'There were four words, and my current requirements are four. Maybe each word is for one requirement? But what language was it? It sounded very ancient. '[Shingi]

Since it was Dormon, who was the Father of all Dragons, Shingi had thought of Dragonic. But he knew that language. Those words didn't translate to any of the word he knew.

Still, now that he thought about it, part of the words sounded to be Dragonic like, but something was different.

'Could it be its ancient form? '[Shingi]

Dragons existed for a long time, and their language, even if it wassn't used by many, it had changed through that passage of time. Shingi had heard about Ancient Dragonic, but only stories and rumors. Nobody he knew could speak it, not even the Gods he was on friendly terms with.

He repeated those words out loud to see maybe if it was a chant, but nothing happened no matter how many times he repeated them.

"What are you keep saying there? "[Syra]

Everybody else was currently busy training, or working, but Syra was free and was paying attention to Shingi currently.

Shingi explained to her about Dormon, and what he just learned, as well as what he thought all this meant.

"It could be something else, of course, but I will need to research more. "[Shingi]

"I see. So if those words are the requirements, can't you remove the ones you already have. I mean, even if you don't know the ancient form of that language, the similarities it has with the one you know may help you find which one is for the ones you have. "[Syra]

Shingi thought about it, and it had some chance of success.

He tried to think what the words in modern Dragonic were for MANA SENSE, MANA MANIPULATION, and VISUALIZATION. After some intense thinking, there were similarities with three of the words. MANA SENSE and MANA MANIPULATION were each two words each in the common language. Still, in other languages, they were one word, as also some Skills that were one word in Common were multiple words in other languages.

That let him with one word, which he was uncertain what it meant, but he now had some more clues.

He pulled out some paper and a pen and started writing down the differences between the ancient and modern versions of the three words. Of course, he was going by the way it sounded for the ancient form since Dormon couldn't write them down for him, but still, for Shingi, it wasn't an unpassable obstacle.

He had projects like that in the past. He had learned some of the game's languages, as some languages were versions of another one.

It's been a long time since he could work on a project of that kind, and he enjoyed the chance to do so. Of course, he could use his Blessing to increase his INT, but this was one of the times that he wanted to succeed by himself.

Hours passed and seemed to have gotten pretty late, as everyone else had brought themselves to sleep. Price and White Biscuit had returned but had nothing to report. They would rest for a few hours and then go back to check the members of the Dark Guild out there.

Shingi didn't stop working on that project of his, and since he didn't use any Skills or anything physical heavy activity, his SP was spent at a slow rate.

It had gotten pretty late, and his SP had gotten pretty low, making Shingi stop and catch some sleep.

He didn't enjoy pausing his project, but then he had an epiphany. He could continue working on it in his TRANCE ROOM.

He could use it again when he got his eye back, even if he had Minor Spirit Madness. He had used it a bit on his way here and noticed that it was somewhat different than before.

The room seemed to be somewhat blurry, and the mana harder to control than before, but it still gave him some benefits in training there. He was uncertain if it was because of Minor Spirit Madness or him having only one of his eyes. Since he got Minor Spirit Madness, he felt them weaker, and they were even weaker out of the Tower.

He was confident that those abilities had to do with the Spirit Element, but he was uncertain why he had access to them before having the ability to use this new Element.

He still had a lot to learn about it, but he was uncertain who to ask. Even Syra helped little about it, as she had mentioned that the Elements here felt different from her world.

Still, Shingi tried to get some of her lectures and use them to his advantage when he had the chance to do so.

He continued his research in the TRANCE ROOM as he visualized papers forms, there were getting filled with the information he needed at the time.

His VISUALIZATION was at Grandmaster Rank, making the limits of what he could do in the TRANCE ROOM to be close to nothing, and also he could multitask and make things faster than before. He was in complete control of the room, and could make new things, but all of them were close to illusions, but different since they weren't made using mana.

His progress was faster because of that, and he finally reached a breakthrough.

He was almost sure that he found the translation, but he rechecked many times since he was into big trouble, if it was true.

After many checks, the conclusive answer seemed to be the same.

He needed Dragon Blood.