Temporal Pearls

"I\'m sorry." She said. He shook his head but in shock, he looked at Seth as if he had seen a ghost, "What the fuck, aren\'t you dead?"

Seth did hear someone startled behind him but then he asked, "What do you mean dead? I\'m not. The explosion of that monster wasn\'t enough to kill the mighty me!"

Samsi relaxed and didn\'t ask more and as he was tired, he closed his eyes again, "I finally got that damn arrow! Anyway, here are your rewards!"

He sighed with pity and then objects came out from his yellow jacket and went toward the players. Those that held on till the end got their actual reward but those that didn\'t have something similar but inferior.

However, Samsi made three things float above his right hand. One was shaped like an Ostrich Egg and was glowing with yellow light. The other was a monocle. And the last was something like a scale.

"Zero, you are on your own, taming it," Samsi said to a player that have ruby coloured attire and the scale which Seth identify as Yellow Dragon Scale floated toward Zero

Then he looked at Seth, and shook his head, "you should have let me change it with something else! Nevertheless, you got the most abundant and common reward there is in Yellow City. Yellow Energy Core but the best grade possible"

He said as the Yellow Egg floated toward Seth and floated above his palm.

[You have obtained Chief Yellow Energy Core]

Becoming his Personal Arm, Seth infused his aura into it. There was some resistance but gradually it was seeping inside.

Samsi stared at Ash for a long time and said something gibberish. Ash was taken aback but raised his hand and said, "I come in peace and to make an alliance."

Samsi was sceptical but he just smiled and allowed the monocle to approach Ash. At that moment, his body began to become hazy but he held on.

"Don\'t forget about me. Samsi Rana, the great Yellow Bearer!" He said. At that moment the players were taken aback, Seth already feeling his heart clutching, \'is he going to die for real.\'

"Is there any way to save him!" Seth blurted out.

"It\'s too late!" Samsi said but what he said later calmed Seth down, "I will be forced to go back to my sanctuary and I don\'t know when I will be able to escape from there. So, I\'m not dying for real!"

"Oh, that is a relief!" Seth calmed down but then he thought and he sauntered toward him and raised his hand and slapped Samsi hard, on the cheeks.

Everyone was alarmed before some of them realized what happened. Samsi too smiled before he disappeared in a flash of light. And He dropped a glass shield with a running yellow inside.

But then, Seth was slapped too.

SLAP!

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Seth woke up on a bed, his head heavy and his ears still dumm. But gradually everything returned back to normal.

"I\'m sorry, I really didn\'t know what you did back there and that\'s why I slapped you. I thought it was an act of disrespect. Sorry!"

It was Fist that slapped Seth and now he was apologizing after he realized what really did happen. Seth has aided Samsi to activate his Aura in that slap. And the reason for the slap was Seth was in a hurry before Samsi disappeared.

"I can forgive you, only if you pay me!" Seth said with a frown.

"What do you want?" Fist said, but he was no longer smiling.

"Take me to your sanctuary!" Seth said with a smile.

"Haha, I told you it\'s not close. It\'s about 800 km from here and the path was ridden with Abhorrent, Monster and even Beasts!" Fist explained, "I will rather give you the Yellow Reward than take you there!"

Seth sighed and said okay, "here is what you gonna do to me. Gather the villagers, I\'m going to give them some gifts."

"That I could!" Fist said as he walked out. The players were there chatting, some checking their tools and some taking a nap.

"You help Samsi activate his aura!" Ash said.

"Yes. Come let me slap you too. If you want to activate it!" Without second thought Ash sprang to Seth and stood before him.

"Woah, you are really desperate for that aura thing!" One of the players commented.

"You won\'t understand!" Ash said.

Seth smiled and said, "I was in a hurry for Samsi, here we can just clap hands!"

Seth\'s understanding of Aura improved when he almost died. And this understanding was better than even control and manipulation. That allowed him to know exactly how to help others.

"It might not activate immediately but it will stimulate it and it will be up to you to activate. If you are lucky it will activate!" Seth explained. Ash doesn\'t care as long as he will activate now or in the future.

Aura touch.

Seth coated his hand with Aura and then looked at Ash with Aura Sight, he looked normal but Seth can see he was not normal.

Clap. The duo clapped their hands and Ash jolted for a moment. Under Seth Aura\'s sight, he can see that the guy will activate in just a few days or even today.

"You need sudden tension or strong external stimuli…." Seth explained and that was when Fist came back, "The village chief is arranging the villagers but he wants to know what the gift was!"

"Aura Activation!" Seth said. Fist was taken aback and asked, "For free?"

Seth nodded.

"I will be leaving with the Dragon, so I might help them now. Even you too, if you want!"

"So, we included, with no strings attached!" Rena stood and walked forward.

"Yep. We are in this together, Aura is very important in healing from injury, venom, and poison and even against pressures and other things. We need to be strong to survive the danger of this place or else we will die for real." Seth explained.

He really doesn\'t want anyone to die, the fear was ingrained in him. So, since he can help them have a slight advantage without him losing a thing, then he should. Besides, Aura Quest promised him a good title. Hopefully, it will be something useful.

Clap.

He clapped with Rena but then he remembered something, "What if another…"

"Don\'t worry! That has been fixed. There is a dome around us that prevents dragons or any life form from seeing, hearing or even feeling us from the outside. It\'s one of my abilities!" Juma explained.

Looking at her, she is still encased in a sphere and her aura filled it. Her protection was still on. He nodded at her as he sighed in relief.

Seth assumed the players would run to him wanting aura activation but the reality wasn\'t the case. They seem wary. One of them asked, "What do you get after helping people activate!"

"Feats. Is like saving people or feeding them. You get increased good feats in your status."

"You won\'t be able to control us, or enslave us!" He asked again.

"Nope. There will be no control or enslavement. If I want a slave I will use something else. But you give me an idea, I don\'t know if it is possible!"

The questioner came forward and clapped with Seth and he suddenly glowed, his hair floated as his attire brightened too...

"Calm yourself and take in the feeling. However, imagine a lever…" Seth explained slowly and helped him control the outflow. The player was shocked and then smiled gladly at Seth.

Seth received a notification he helped someone activate his aura. That was when the chief and his vice sauntered into the room. They greeted everyone and then asked why he was called

"Do you know what Aura is?" Seth asked. The chief said yes and that made Seth\'s work easier as he explained that he can help them activate it. The old man was reluctant but Seth explained that he will be healed from his aching legs and stiffened back.

The truth was, the way Seth spoke to the Old man was in a commanding tone. The reason for that was that the world was dangerous and people can be suspicious and wary for valid reasons and they may even reject him entirely.

But, the actual truth was in some situations people didn\'t have to agree or give consent because they didn\'t know what was good for them.