Chapter 146: B2: C46: Time Chamber 1
Zarian was on hands and knees in front of the shining moat, his shoulders squeezed between two large mushroom caps. He was trying to see how much he’d changed with his own eyes first, but the water glowed with a bright pearly light.
It was an unsuitable replacement for a mirror.
His dear teacher, Empress Ruvaria, daintily skipped from mushroom cap to mushroom cap. She took a seat on a cap beside him, stretched out one leg, and tapped the shining water’s surface with her foot.
She turned a patch of it solid and mirror-like.
Sweeping her bountiful hair behind her, she leaned down next to him while balanced on her seat, like some nymph of the mushroom wilds. She smiled warmly as they both looked at their reflections.
Zarian’s attention was on himself first, his amazement growing. He had little stars in his black, void-like eyes. The same shone from under his dark skin.
That was a stunning sight for him, but Para looked even more otherworldly as she shifted back from being a battle kilt to her true form as the Parasite Cloak +2, blooming like a flower from his back.
She already had a unique light show effect because she could partially scale with Mysticism. Prior to Aura Mastery, she looked like the red edge of the void as stars dimmed and fell into her hungering maw.
Now she shone even more like she had engorged herself on countless nebulae clouds of starry red, orange, and dark yellow colors, which were all trapped within her parasitic limbs and ragged cloak strands. The many stars and cosmic clouds were her prisoners, her toys, her delicious meals. None could escape her all-devouring form as Zarian’s greatest fashion apparel.