Chapter 238: B3: C28: Wizard, Cultivator, Harrowing Mist Isles, First Contact 2
<Devourer of Secrets and Stories (Legendary): With aura and Willpower, your mind can feast on profiles, languages, qualities, memories, ancient knowledge, puzzles, complexities, themes, fables, and the dark depths of the Infinita Star System itself. This trait also comes with +25% to Willpower and a high dose of studious madness.>
Zarian and Para weren’t linked like they used to be. They couldn’t unravel into each other anymore.
That was okay.
Zarian’s aura-rich wizard madness and Para’s parasitic nature found a few workarounds, even if it meant the Parasite Cloak +3 drained a larger amount of aura and focus from Zarian for them to stay deeply connected.
The benefits were worth the drawbacks.
Gold notifications popped up around Zarian, telling him what he wanted to know as he swept his aura over the mist isles.
Spectral spiders plopped down onto the water’s surface as he summoned a few thousand of them and sent them exploring north, northwest, and west.
As they travelled into the unknown, each spider spun multiple webbed barriers and cast enchantments of protection on themselves that Hannah had taught them. That way, the curses had less of an effect on the little eight-legged and dance-happy explorers.
The spiders searched for the small things of interest such as lost treasures or cool lore-related stuff that Zarian might overlook. That left the wizard with sweeping broadly for major things of interest while he counteracted the informational defenses of the actor in the mist.