Temporal Pearls

The eerie sensation left him and grasped something. Oftentimes it wasn't the strongest or the most violent that was the most dangerous but the unassuming with weird quirks.

He didn't know how the dandelion came to form but must have been as a result of something that evolved to survive the explosion and the rest of the monsters.

The dragon's attack didn't even reach it and they have zero resistance to dandelions.

As for the plant, they are smarter and have a better sense of evolution. The small living roots didn't take control but merged with the others, one of the plants then evolved a trait that can tame the dandelion.

They transformed into a weak flower with four petals. It can be stumped on and passed without knowing, nevertheless, it was the only possible counter to the dandelion.

It wasn't even a counter but rather a symbiote compatible. The flower has things the dandelion wants and the plant gets to grow as well as they merge.

Seth would have become a food to the skill, if he wasn't careful.

He sighed and closed his eyes and then stared at the sun above until his vision dimmed by the sunlight. Then he focused on the skill page

It was a shallow river, beneath it was a hollow place where a flower was growing. The flower has the four different coloured petals and also the merging dandelion on top.

The eerie feeling returned and Seth shifted to the next page immediately.

He sighed and said, "I'm super stupid!" After some time he added, "If I hadn't been a Grade 5 Human and had luck I would have died now!" he added.

He looked at the other skills and stared at the Round Ball Protection skill which he used to call Cocoon. He hid inside when an attack came.

This should have been his second created skill. It wasn't about the hardest or the simplest but the most useful.

The red stream is the first then the protection cocoon. The rest can follow. But he went and looked for simplicity.

This time after he rested, he focused.

After an hour of studying he sighed with sweat and a smile. "Damn mathematics!" he cursed.

The skill was also unique. It has two parts, the calculation parts and the practical part.

With numerous smaller ingredients and drops of different liquid; some blood, some sap and some just a fluid from somewhere, he needs to calculate a position and also their function in the Math Set Matrix of the chart of the Skill formation.

Seth brought an empty book and began to calculate them. High Intelligence and Savant were high time active but even toward sunset he didn't come close to finishing.

The damn things were connected, he has used each other to clarify every single one and if he was wrong at one point he is wrong at all of them.

With soothing water, some ration and little rest, he spent 8 days trying with failures and success.

The dragon eye was as patient as a stone as he kept watching. Seth even began to be afraid that it was waiting for him to walk out.

And lastly, he finished. Then he went around plucking auras from the ingredients and placing them on the page in the order required.

Finishing that, the main ingredient floated and rotated before they merged into White milk liquid and dropped on the page.

[Congratulations]

[You have create Myriad Wheel Shield]

[Your pioneer title value have advance to C- Rank]

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He smiled because the skill pushed the title from (D+) to (C-) Rank.

Red Stream gave him (F) Rank value, Three Fold World Fence advanced it to (E+) rank Value and Beholder World advanced it to (D+) rank value.

Seth didn't expect the title to be pushed to (C-) rank value. But he knew it would be harder from now on.

He leaned back and wanted to test the skill all but he won't. The giant eye scared him, he should finish everything. Hoping it isn't malevolent.

The next was cushion skill. He used it to soften his fall and resist air pressure when he was hurled away. Seth thought he used it once against Temra when she blasted him away.

Each of the skills he created was unique. This one entailed him to weave a very soft cushion using special threads to form the wrapper and then meticulously arranged the soft feathers and wool inside.

There should be zero error merging.

26 hours later.

"Fuck yeah!" he shouted.

Seth was stark naked, his body covered with peckings and injuries. His eyes red shot as he sweat both blood and sweat.

The cushion became intangible and faded into the book. It was now floating on a shallow stream, it's water resistant. Seth felt like laying on it.

[Congratulations]

[You have created Lord Cushion]

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Despite there was no increase in pioneer rank Seth felt that it moved by half.

The cushion making was annoying. Each of the soft feathers was from a different small annoying bird. And once he misplaced one, an illusory bird will peck him.

So also if he misplaced a chunk of wool, a bleat from either cattle, sheep or goat will ram his ears.

Heck, they make his ear bleed many times.

***

"Where do you think he is?" Gunpowder asked Eda. The woman smiled, "Maybe he left!"

"No. My tracking skill tells me he is close by."

"We have been looking for days now. Maybe you are mistaken!" she said. But then they all looked at the woman floating before them. There was this smile on her face as she stared at the Red Dragon Court.

They searched the court many times but no one was there. They stood and searched again.

"Maybe the court will swallow him. Dream Fortune doesn't lie!" Gunpowder said.

"Haha. That impossible, high rank being doesn't kill lower life forms. Especially the prideful dragon unless they are degenerate." Eda said.

They didn't know just meters away from them was a glass dome and Seth was inside grappling with an annoying skill creation.

Among all the six skills, seven including Red Stream, Bind has the most numerous items to be used.

The annoying part was that he had to calculate just like what he did in making Myriad Wheel Shield and also craft just like Lord Cushion , then he had to merge them just like Great Bind.

"It was just a normal bind but this hurdle!" Seth cursed.

The above methods weren't the only problem but his Exertion point was reducing every blessed second. Thankfully he activated Battle Might and now he has 100,000 exertion points. So, he has nothing to worry about.

But the reason for the exertion drop was the damn skill was taking his aura and also a piece of him.

Seth was already lean but now he was becoming leaner.

The first action was to calculate everything and find their position. Thanks to having the experience, he was able to do it fast. He finished that in 4 days instead of 8.

Then he plucked their aura and arranged them according to the calculation. This sucked in his vitality and made him continuously thinner.

Finishing that, the skill activated and a projection of a multilayer device came out from the skill page.

Well, he knew it was multilayer after he constructed one layer after another.

Some of the main items served as bolt and screw, and many other mechanical tools and instruments. But that was just one layer. The next layer was of different types of glue, then a different type of ropes, Then different types of curved needles and many more.

The moment he finishes with a layer, another will pop up. Even though all he had to do was to trace it, he has made sure not to make it collapse.

Twenty five days later, he got the damn alert. Seth falls down exhausted, panting and he falls asleep.

The moment he closed his eyes, 30 minutes later he felt he had recovered. He was laying on a soft cloud and the sky was a beautiful blue sky. Different birds were chirping and flying around.

[Congratulation]

[You have created Safe House]

[Your pioneer title value have become C rank]

He raised his hand and a small bird landed on it and pecked him gently, before it flew away.

Seth smiled before he frowned, the red eye just tainted the serene location. He has to wake up.

Seth opened his eyes and he was on an illusory cushion. "Hehe. It's worth it!" Seth said.

The eye looked like it was enjoying the show and Seth spotted the most smug look he could muster before he looked at the other skill.

Remaining only Whip Skill. So he concentrated on it. Hours later and nodded, "Now we are talking!"

Seth pulled out the ingredients required and suddenly the dragon eye glowed yellow and one of the ingredients was encased in red.

It's as if all this time, it was waiting for that thing to appear. Seth's heart skipped a beat and pulled out the description of the thing.

[Mummy Remain]

[Remains of an unknown ancient creature sealed in a tomb. It has the capability to make animal and human develop dull claws that can cut through steel]