Chapter 154: The Yellow Sign - A Key to the Old One?!
This wasn't the first time that the world had trembled for Kai.
In fact, it had already happened twice before. The two times when he had devoured the tales of Cersei and Petyr, using the Song of History. It hadn't been a true trembling then, and it wasn't a true trembling now, as it was his perception of the world, his vision, and his very thoughts and senses that were trembling, giving the wrong impression of an inexplicable illusion.
The intensity of the two tremblings differed, though.
They differed so much that Kai was having a hard time keeping standing, a nauseating feeling churning the leftover wine in his stomach along with everything else.
Yet, the most noticeable difference between the two wasn't this intensity, but their sources.
With the Tales of Beedle the Bard, it could be the Skill, the Song of History, or it could be the Skill, Thousand Tales Parasite. Kai had failed to put his finger on the exact cause. Now, he not only knew what was the source but also why it was happening.
Inventory.
Kai's Inventory was rocking like a ship amid a thunderstorm.
He had always perceived his Inventory as a space, separated from the material world. With just a thought, he could see its contents, their images materializing in his mind like objects, giving the illusion that he could just reach out and touch them. When he did desire to hold them in his hand, these objects would come out of the Inventory by themselves. That's how the Inventory worked as known to the Contestants.
Something mysterious was happening within Kai's Inventory now. No. Something mysterious was happening to Kai's Inventory.
Kai felt as if his Inventory was a tunnel; a corridor with two doors at its ends.