bookpower Chapter 23 - 23
Chapter 23 - 23
(Still in 3rd person vision!)
Juri without further ado opened the chest, where in moments the glow that surrounded her, as well as the fanciful sound disappeared, then she saw the things inside.
Two items in all!
What caught Juri's attention was a book, her eyes sparkled and she picked it up.
[Skill Book - Flaming Palm(Magic)]
"What is written?" - Gabriela asks, not understanding the writing on the cover.
"It says it's a book that has a magic called [Flaming Palm]!" - Said Juri smiling happily, as it will help her immensely!
Gabriela was surprised, so she asked to take a look, full of curiosity, Juri handed it to her, also curious to see if anything would happen.
So Gabriela stood with the book in hand, before she started blinking in surprise, then calmed down and said. - "Apparently I can... consume the book to learn what is written... what a strange feeling!"
Juri was surprised at her saying this, so excitedly she asked how exactly and soon understood.
Gabriela explained to her that by touching the book, she received the information that she was not properly connected to this Dimension and that the knowledge in the book is in a special language.
In order to have access to its contents, she would need to sacrifice the book in order to understand future books of the same language.
In other words, the book would be consumed for her to discover a new language, but the existing knowledge itself will be wasted.
"I understand, but I already know the language due to my connection, I want to!" - Said Juri without hesitation, eyes shining with intensity.
Gabriela handed him the book, no need to fight anyway.
Smiling, Juri left it in Inventory for now and looked at the last item, which was a small purse.
'Is it?'- Juri wondered having an idea of what it is.
But upon picking it up, he was disappointed.
[Potions Bag(Small)]
Description: When opened, it will randomly deliver 5 basic potions, small chance of a more advanced one!
Juri was sad, but soon opened the pouch and the next instant 5 items appeared in his Inventory.
"That bag contained some of the Elixirs, let me see their effects first." - Said Juri taking out the 5 potions.
3 HP Potions, 1 Poison Resistance Potion and 1 MP Potion!
"Those 3 in red color, are Healing Potions, from what you're saying, it's low quality, I think it's pretty much the Death Element Healing Rituals with an average Negative Energy expenditure." - Said Juri analyzing.
It recovers 50 HP the instant it is taken, as well as it will recover 5 HP per second for 30 seconds, in all it will recover 200 HP!
Gabriela listened carefully and asked about the others.
"It says it is a potion that increases resistance to all kinds of poison by 50% for 30 minutes!
This one here is similar to the Healing Potion, only instead of healing wounds, it recovers Magic Energy, the energy you use to use whatever is in that book." - Said Juri which Gabriela understood.
"I think you better keep 1 of the Healing Potions in case of emergency, I'll keep the other 2 in my storage since we don't know the resistance of those things." - Said Juri passing the potion to Gabriela, who nodded took it and looked at it for a while.
She was quite curious about it.
"Would you like to test one? I think we will find a lot of them over time, as far as I know, there are chances of monsters dropping these potions, just like the snake dropped the bandana, so if you want to test the effect to see if it can be trusted, now is the time!" - Said Juri, which Gabriela didn't hesitate to pull up her shirt sleeve and immediately pull out a machete!
She then made a deep cut on her arm, her expression twisting just a little in pain.
Next she with her mouth took the lid off the potion, then poured it into the wound.
Juri wanted to say something, but left it quiet and just let Gabriela watch as the wound magically healed.
The feeling is very different from receiving a Healing Ritual, as the affected area ages faster for healing.
In other words, it feels the pain more intensely, pain that it would feel during the healing process, until it closes up.
In the case of the potion, she felt no pain, in fact the pain stopped in moments, she felt a numbness as if it were an anesthetic.
"Is that... can all monsters drop that?" - Gabriela asked seriously.
"The chances are low, only mutants and very powerful ones have such chances, weaker animals, the chances are extremely low or almost zero!" - Juri said.
Gabriela nodded, having several plans in her mind, then said. - "When will you explain everything to Mr. Pietro?"
"Well, I wanted to do some basic re
Gabriela curious began to ask how this worked, what did Juri sacrifice for this power, how much did she sacrifice?
If it was just a tiny bit of Sanity, Gabriela won't see a problem, but if she sacrificed a lot of Sanity for the ability to generate flames in her palm, she's going to talk a lot, because it's a very useless thing!
"Sacrifice? I sacrificed nothing!" - Said Juri in surprise at Gabriela talking so much.
"Nothing? You acquired the ability to generate flames and you sacrificed nothing?" - Gabriela asked shocked.
"Gabriela my beautiful, Magic Energy is different from Negative Energy... if I were to put it in simple terms, Magic Energy is something that exists in all human beings, I can sense that you have a pretty significant amount, it's just that it's stagnant and stationary!
But the focus is that the Magical Energy, is something less volatile and potentially being like Nature, since it exists everywhere... it's hard to explain because I don't know much either, only recently I started to progress in the area, but understand that the Magical Energy is like a school subject, that you study to understand, at most you will sacrifice time, in some cases money!
As for Negative Energy, this is something that is not from our world, but from another world, the Paranormal Entities are from another world, so why would they support us without anything in return? That is why they receive sacrifice, since they have no reason to support us willingly!
Not Magic Energy, it's already here, we can only blame our ancestors for not noticing it, potentially due to the existence of Negative Energy, where it was much easier to sacrifice things for powers, than to spend a lifetime studying and potentially achieve nothing!"
Gabriela hearing this, widened her eyes and found herself contemplative, amazed at such a revelation.
"How do you use Magic Energy?" - Gabriela asked seriously.
"Like I said, I'm still learning, but I could only feel it through Meditation, but I think I can help you feel it faster, do you want to try?" - Asked Juri curious, as even the [Flaming Palm] being forced on her mind gave her some hints and ideas.
Gabriela agreed, if it's a way to get stronger, who is she to complain?