As soon as she went through the waterfall, the sight that greets her eyes totally blow her mind off.
Another world, underground. Mountains filled with lush greeneries. And the whole land seems never ending..
"I think I just found my second home..." Iiana was awestruck and breathless as she was taking in the beautiful and mysterious underground land in front of her. she began to mull how she could turn the place as a secret base. Another safe haven for her family. The great part about this world is that, this kind of place doesn't have land titles like back in the world.
"Now, where is that will o wisp?" She put her hand right on her forehead and look around. Sadly, not a trace of it can be seen. Iiana sighs. She decided to walk around the place.
"Might take me about two whole weeks to explore this place... I wonder why it's full of vegetation here. There is no sunlight... but oh! There are cloud over there. That's mean there's enough water and heat around here..hmm interesting."
Upon activating her appraisal skill, she was surprised to see a lot of high ranking herbs and fruits lying around undisturbed and put it all inside her spatial ring.
"What a treasure!" Iiana laugh gleefully. Maybe it was time for her to learn new skills. She need to learn apothecary. The medicine in this world kind of lacking and sadly only noble or rich people can acquire the help from healer.
She sat down and look down the snake.
"Do you mind? Can't you let go of my waist now?"
The snake ignored her completely and simply choose to close its eyes. Still there, and not budging at all. It was uncomfortable, to say the least. It reminded her of the feeling wearing protective maternity belly band though in this case, it is rather warmer than your normal one.
"Fine. Don't blame me if you get some blown out debris on you" the snake seems hell bent ignoring her completely and that made her huffed in dissatisfaction.
She open the menu box, where the inter-dimensional online shop located. And scrolled over the bookstores and found what she wanted. She purchased it easily with five blue spirit stones. It didn't bothered her to spend much since the haul from this place was enough to make her a rich madame. While purchasing it, she saw something that made her stopped and look at it long before a wide devilish grin appear on her face.
After purchasing few more, she began to read the books. This was her first time reading a book that was purchased from the inter-dimensional shop online, but if one to read the info from the bookstore, it is one time use. To control the market and keep it flowing, once the book read, it will instantly vanish. Those who get the most benefit from these are geniuses and people like her who only few steps back from that spot, couldn't hope to achieve such strong memory to memorised words by words.
She was the type who read and understand the core of it and implement it. Once upon a time, she was a student too. Memorising things is much easier to answers all the black and white examination test, but when it come to practicality.. not so much. She soon learned that though it maybe easier to memorise things, it is way better to understand and assimilate the knowledge into a proper practice.
Though right now, her head start to feel dizzy looking at a stream of words that she wasn't familiar with. She almost want to throw the book and give up but stopped.
"Hmmm..." she flipped through the contents of books slowly and began to feel the chill around her. She snapped her finger and few small fire orbs appear, warming her up. It was then the light from the fire made her notice something on the book's paper. A hidden writing that cast another shadow behind the inky words.
She rubs the paper and felt the different gloss on it. It escaped her notice earlier but this book was covered completely with wax. A puzzling book indeed and made her brain work twice than usual. She decided to test the stretch limit of her language & words blessing.
What she need right now was, to take out all the words from the book and filter it in its own respective group: the inky words and the hidden words.
She tried a lot of times, saying different command each time but to no avail. It was then she grew tired and angry that she slap the page on the book.
"Can't this words just, appear! I mean I want it to appear like a hologram-" it was then the whole book glow and then words by words flew out from the pages she touched and circle around her. She gasps as she saw that and the words zapped right in between of her eyebrows.
"Holy sh*t!" She fell backward as she felt a biting pinch on her forehead. What's more, it seems whatever knowledge that was hidden inside the book and all of it was currently sifting within her mind, blending in with her memories and present knowledge.
"Amazing! This is really awesome! I didn't know I can do that!" The whole book then disintegrate into nothingness and She knew then the trick behind reading the book. There are two ways of reading the books. Read it in normal way or literally take all the words into your head. Its like a house with two doors. One, is in front and one at the back. Though,gaining wisdom from the what she did is more beneficial than simply readingit.
Iiana tapped her head and grinned. She began preparing all things by purchasing few stuffs from the online shop and start her 'apothecary cultivation' in peace.
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She laid down on the moss carpet, breathing hard and sweating like a pig. She never knew making medicines was harder than running through a marathon. She manage to cultivate ten pills only, each only bear two pills per successful medicine refinement. It had a jade like colour that made her doubtful about her medicine skill making. Since from her former knowledge and experience, it should be brown or golden colour. It cannot be failed products, since if it fail, the ingredients from the cauldron would blow over your face. Just like how it had happened couple of time on her.
The first time was hard. Just when she tried to cleanse the ingredient and combine them, the whole thing explode right on her face, farting a black smoke on her whole body. The only good thing that came out from it was that,the snake cough black sooth and decided to slithered fifteen inches away from her. Ha!
The bad part about that was... yeah, she became human charcoal over and over again. She sigh.
"How long was it? About five hours maybe?" She look at the snake for a confirmation. Again the snake ignore her. That starting to irritate her.
"I don't know what your problem is, but you choose me as your master. If you don't like it, I guess you can find yourself a new master" She huffed, sat up and left the snake behind. It was cute when it was just an armband but not in that form.
She didn't bat her eyes seeing the snake didn't follow her. The snake just stay there,watching her retreating form.