Chapter 603: The oldest view
Sofia shared her findings with Alith, who seemed a lot less worried about the entire thing than Sofia was.
The short woman shrugged, “I’m already from a different world anyway, what’s one more? I do find the lack of faces disturbing, though.”
Sofia looked very hard at Pareth’s face, trying to discern any kind of facial feature, but it was impossible to see more than a skin-colored blur. “Orator looks like this too,” she told Alith, “you get used to it.”
“Oh, you did say he looked like that… Think this place is related to him, then?”
“Perhaps… I would have preferred it if I got Aphenoreth’s skill, because Orator’s isn’t going to be usable until I kill scripture…”
“Hmm… I wonder if there’s a chance I could be able to use it? I no longer have the essence but my mana heart was made with it, so maybe?”
“I wouldn’t bet on it, but it’s not impossible. Either way, you, Pareth, Saria and Shaily are all also ‘marked ones’, so it wouldn’t surprise me if you started also getting Deep quests and stuff. No reason why I would be the only one.”
Alith nodded, “You and Shaily are the only ones with a direct blessing but yeah, I’ve kind of been expecting the Orator to show up again after my trial, honestly. I’ve even started leveling [Shenanigans] just in case you’re right and it’s really what’s been protecting you and Saria from his presence. I’d rather not die like that again.”
“He wasn’t super clear about it,” Sofia explained, “But then again he’s rarely very clear about anything. I’m relatively sure it is what he meant, though. I have more doubts about your ability to raise shenanigans, considering how upfront you tend to be about everything.”