Back to Prana, when he was sliding of the tunnel. His head was knocked upon a rock. Right now, he was unconscious following the tunnel underground.
'It had been two days since I was trapped in this dungeon. At first, I think that this floor was only in the middle floor between fourteenth to eighteenth. However, these two days, it proved me otherwise.
When I woke up for the first time, the first thing that I saw in this floor was water. I was glad that there was a lake in front of me, and beautifully I did not see any monster nearby. I healed myself with Dr. Blythe + SPs help, then walked to the nearby lake to get some water.
There was nothing wrong when I walked there, 'till I heard someone was singing. It was such melodious voice, nice to hear, and seemed ethereal. Yep, ethereal. In the depth of dungeon, an ethereal voice. Unconsciously, as I remembered I walked off from the shore and coming to the lake, to the voices; and then I felt a sting at legs, it seemed that there was something that sting me in the water. The pain brought my consciousness back, then I saw that more than half of my body already inside the water. I swam back to the shore, since I was afraid of the situation.
It was then, when I tried to swam back to the shore. The monsters were coming out from the water and chased after me. Fortunately, before long I gained foothold. I called my spear, and saw that the monsters were mermaids. They looked like a woman with a bluish white skin color, their eyes were completely white, adorned by green hair, and of course a fin in their lower body.
When I tried to identify them, the outcome was only their name, their level and ability was completely unknown for me. I was vigilantly fighting with them, but their strength, coordination, and field advantage really put a stress on me. I couldn't fight back at all, and just receive a beating, with scratch here and there.
I jumped back to the shore with difficulties. I was frustrated, after I was entering this city. It seemed like there was nothing I could do beside running. Even now, I was running from monsters.
From then on, I stayed far away from water. But other problems came up, there was a monster that lording the land. Its appearances were really scary, it had a dragon like appearances with a dark green color. It had a body of a long snake and four legs, and something like porcupine needles on his back. In conclusion, it resembled a traditional dragon.
Unfortunately, somehow this monster was kept chasing after me after he found me for the first time. I felt like it was toying with me, since from its level it should be able to kill me in one swoop, but it kept chasing after me and leave after finding another monster to bully, for example, once he was chasing me and I stumble to the nest of humanoid wolf, this monster would stop after me and rampaged through the humanoid wolf nest and I could conclude that he was eating them.
Yep, eating. In this floor, the monster could be eaten. It was different with the previous floor I had been, when they would turn into magic stones. That was my two days adventure in this plain'
Right now, Prana was seen running from the usual monster. He already destroyed many monster nests along the way, from humanoid wolf 'till the skull sheep monster. Right now, his objective was the lake, he was sure that there should be another monster powerhouse that could kept this dragon in check.
ROAARRR
The dragon sometimes also launching some needles on his back to Prana.
Prana kept dodging, running and screaming, with a snot and tears on his face. "WAAHHHH..."
He kept swearing at this world, and want to quickly get out from this world in his heart.
Right ahead, Prana already seen the lake. He kept running with full force, and circling the lake. Hopeful for the monster inside to be attracted to commotion.
After running for half a lap around the lake, Prana could hear that the dragon was stopping chasing after him. He turned around, to see the situation.
"Huff, huff. It really stopped." He exhaled and inhaled heavily. "From its stare, there should be something that will come out from the lake."
True to that, there was a swirling vortex in the center of the lake. Then, before the main actor came out, many mermaid and mermen also came out from the water.
"Grrhhaahh, Grrhhaahhh"
They kept shouting at the dragon, but the dragon just launched his needles on his back and pierce them all together.
The lake was instantly changed color, from the mermaid and merman blood and a green poison from the needles.
Then, BOOMM. The water was blasted upwards
GRAAHHH
"Keuh.." Prana was holding his ear, this piercing roar from the lake monster really uncomfortable to ear, it was too piercing.
Prana could see the monster clearly now, and he felt really fortunate that it was not his first monster when he was ambushed in the lake before.
It was a fish monster with a blackish purple body made of stone. Its body was four-meter-long, had twelve fins like organs, and a single eye on its forehead. In addition, strangely the fish could float in the air.
The dragon and the fish were kept roaring each other, it seemed that both of them really love bragging with their teeth and fangs, since with each roar they always showing their savage fangs.
"Nice, Nice, Fight with each other. So, I could explore this plain freely, and find the exit." Prana was intending to watching the powerhouse fight. However, five mermen were coming to him.
"Um, hello brother. Can you exempt me for this fight? I have been running before, and still tired. I need a rest" he talked to them as if they could converse with him.
Fortunately, the mermen did not know what he was talking about. If they knew, they should love to made this man 'rest' eternally. Since this man was the one who bring this calamity to their home.
"How about we sit by and watch the fight together?" Prana tried to persuade the mermen again while patting the tree next to him.
However, the mermen did not care about it. Five of them directly rushed toward him at their top speed.
"Tsk, what a rude fellow" He clicked his tongue as if he was dissatisfied with their respond. He grabbed his spear, and spin it. This time he could clearly saw his opponent movement. From their bodies, Prana knew that these mermen should be stronger than the mermaids. But in the span two days, he already felt that these mermen speed was slow compared to him.
He flicked his wrist, and the spear flew toward the nearest mermen.
*Splurt*
While Prana also following the spear behind, the spear pierced through one of the mermen.
When he arrived in front of the merman, he could see his unbelievable expression. As if asking how the spear was flying so fast.
Prana pulled out the spear, and began channeling his mana to the spear. The spear hummed, and releasing a bluish aura around it.
The four mermen who saw one of their brethren killed once again was furious. They brandished their weapon toward Prana, intending to split his body in half.
Prana did not blink faced with four weapons. The weapons used by the mermen was trident and spear. It was the same weapon he used. So, it was kind a ridiculous to see they wanted to kill him with these.
Prana made a half moon swing toward the incoming attacks. He precisely struck at the weak points of the weapons, where the weapon would be knocked back with greater strength to the wielder.
The mermen were shocked. The creature in front of them had a strength greater than theirs.
Furthermore, they also losing balance after losing their weapons.
After executing the half moon swing, Prana borrowed the momentum of the attack and twisting his body to made a full circle. In addition, he also added another burst of mana to his hands and legs while twisting. In which, this resulted in greater acceleration to his body.
He made a half moon swing again, and slashed the heads of the mermen.
*Splurt* *Thudx4*
"Huff, what a hassle" He knew that he was stronger now. After being chased by that dragon like snake, his physique was improved so much. Maybe, the pressure from the dragon like snake he bears was constantly tempering his body while he was running.
After he was fighting the mermen, finally the monsters began fighting. Prana quickly retreated to the safe area. He did not want to be an unlucky person, who get hit of a stray bullet.
While watching the fight, he concluded that those two really love biting each other.
The fish's fins were really deadly, while it was biting the dragon it also launched attacks by
using his fins. The fins moved like an agile snake; it pierced the dragon like snake scale.
Blood kept dripping from each part of their bodies, either from being bitten or from being
pierced by fins or by needles.
After the whole biting thing, both of them separated. Then, Prana could see that the dragon like snake injuries was slowly recovering, while the fish injuries seemed to become worse in second.
Prana could even see the flesh squirming around while a green fluid corroding to the flesh.
'It seems the poison halted the fish recovery and also corroding the flesh'
The fish was enraged feeling its state. It did not have the time to wary again. This was a life – death battle for it. Before, both of them just having a bout to test each other after a long while.
However, it seemed that the fish was underestimating the snake poison. After these years, the poison seemed became more potent.
It roared and the saliva flew everywhere. Its body began transforming to be more rock solid, and the water below the fish seemed to be alive. The water shrouded its fins, and transformed into a water sprout, and began spinning like a drill.
The dragon like snake also began to get serious, its scales began glimmering in green and if looked closely, there seemed that each scale had thorn decorating the surface. In addition, the surrounding of the dragon like snake also began condensing a green miasma.
'Crap, I should run somewhere. These two finally get serious'
Prana decided that he should prioritize his life first. Even though he wanted to fish in the
troubled water. The situation forbade him to linger around. He instantly ran several hundred meters away, and find the highest tree to keep a check on the battlefield.
Consecutive pillar of lights was appearing behind Prana. 'Shiet'
---
'These two really know to fight, huh. It has been two hours since the fight, but I can feel the fight will be concluded in another minutes, since the dragon managed to brought down the fish from the sky.'
Yeah, the two monsters already fight for two hours. In these two hours, the roaring and the
squealing were really unpleasant to the ears. Even though, Prana already one kilometer away, the sound still clear to his ears.
Another ten minutes passed by.
Finally, the sound of fighting ceased to exist.
'Time to loot' Prana jumped down, and directly rushed to the battlefield at his top speed.
---Whooshh---
The lake was destroyed, the water seemed to be evaporated. The forest was leveled by the two powerhouses. Furthermore, several gigantic rocks were lying around the battlefield. Moreover, the miasma also still lingered.
Prana who saw the miasma came to stop. He knew the miasma was poisonous.
'Total Concentration' he inhaled as much as clear air to his lung and held his breath.
When he was running to the miasma, his clothes were corroded, then his skin was next. He kept running while enduring the prickling sensation on his skin.
Fortunately, the miasma only lingering in the periphery of the fight. When he finally out of the miasma. He could see two large bodies was lying there.
[Peludaryous. Peak Lv. 7. Ability: Poison Needle, Tear, Ash Nova, Unknown]
The dragon like existence was devoid any life. The green fluid kept dripping from the mouth,
and the injuries its sustained.
[Grandious Voltimera. Early Lv. 8. Ability: Titan's Body, Ram, Dragon Tendrils, Unknown]
Meanwhile, the fish was still breathing its last breath. One of its eyes was hollow, eight of its fins were scattered around the battlefield with full of poisonous needles held them back in place. The bodies full of bitten wounds, even its abdomen was missing a chunk of its flesh.
Prana eyes was full of greed seeing the two powerhouses state. Since, in this place the monster did not transformed to magic stone. Thus, everything in their bodies might be treasure for him.
'System, could you process these two beasts' bodies?' he asked his system.
[…]
Not a single answer rang out from the system.
'Damn. Must I abandon them?' He was frustrated. He guessed that these two beasts would be useful for him. Especially their bones and fangs. It could make a great equipment or might be points for me.
[Please held their bodies to process]
The words directly appeared in his mind. 'So, the system could converse even without AI. But how I hold their bodies. They were freaking huge and long, y'know?'
Prana sat down grudgingly while thinking how to solve the problem. 'Hmmm…
mmmm….
Mmmm…?'
"Ah.. Lightning Manipulation. Maybe, I could make the thunder coil the body" he directly went to the dragon like snake and channel his lightning and manipulate it to become something that could coil the body.
[Let the system process the body?
Yes/No]
"Hahaha. Damn 'Yes" course" Prana directly confirmed his thought and the white of light
directly devoured the body.
After finished ending with the dragon, he walked to the fish. It was still breathing, but only a shallow breathing.
"As my thanks in getting rid the dragon, let me put you to rest quickly" He sounded so
convincing to the fish as if the fish was his best friend.
However, in his heart, he was rejoicing. Not only dragon, but also the fish ended in his pocket.
Prana instantly conjured his spear from the inventory. He intended to pierce the fish heart; however, he did not know where is it. In addition, the fish body sure it was hard for him to pierce. Therefore, he ought to pierce its head, especially in its brain.
Prana raised his spear high, and channeling his strength to pierce it.
*CRACK* The sound of something breaking ensued.
"…" Blink
"…" Blink
Prana kept blinking his two eyes. It felt like the thing happened was something like trick to his eyes right now.
Yep, the spear's blade was broken.
At first, his intention was only to get the last hit to the Vortimera. But, 'it seems that I still overstimating the thickness of this fish's skin'.
He sighed ruefully. His only decent weapon was gone.
Prana sat down near the Vortimera and glared at the fish hatefully. The glare was so piercing, not only as if he wanted to convey that the fish should die, but he also wanted the fish to live a little longer, and he could watched its suffering.
However, not long after Prana thought about it. The fish died.
Prana instantly coiled his lightning to the body, and transfered it to the system for convertion.
'Nice haul. But, it is even better if I could look my stat'
Ever since he was trapped in this place, he couldn't update his parameters. Even after training, running, and fighting. His stats still remained the same.
However, for Prana it did not make sense. 'System should be omnipotent right?' In addition, the Falna and Mana in this place was extremely thick. Thus, even after running for two days, his body was not tired at all.
[Convertion Success.
1. 27.500 System Points
2. Poisonous Throwing Dagger set (SSR)
3. Hassan's Cloak (Replica - SR)
4. Unidentified Stone Fragment ]
"Woah!! SSR item. It my first time owning something like this. Let's see. Let's see"
[Poisonous Throwing Dagger set (SSR)
Crafted using the bones, blood, fangs, and poison sack of Lv. 7 Beast, Peludaryous.
Abilities:
Passive: Finite amount of dagger could be launched. 95 Normal Dagger and 5 poison daggers allocated each day. Paralyzed, Illusion, Weaken, Dizziness, Bleed. Effectiveness vary depended on the user strength.
Active: Camouflage. Automatically hide the first shot.
Rune Inscription Slot: 1 ]
"Wow." He was amazed seeing the descriptions. This dagger set was very useful. Especially with the addition of camouflaging the first weapon.
Prana took out the dagger set from the inventory.
From its appearance, the daggers were holstened and attached to the belt. The holster was colored by a pitch black leather from the outside, and you could see several green lines decorated the holster.
Prana pull out one of the daggers. The length was only 15 centimeters at least. It was a simple dagger, if it wasn't from the green liquid dripping in the blade. The blade itself had several rigged and chipped. It seemed intentional. It was light as predicted, and easy to move between his fingers.
'How about the cloak?' He was excited wanna see what the next equipment property is.
[ Hassan's Cloak (SR - Replica)
Created by using the hide of the Peludaryous which boast about it's ability in camouflaging, and using Vortimera skin which added great defence to the user. ]
"Damn system. It seemed my class changed again, huh" With these equipment which boast the ability to camouflage and sneak attack. It would be the best if Prana became an assassin.
"Wait. Maybe I could use my lightning manipulation to make my own lightning spear, and wield it."
Prana directly tried condensing the lightning spear in his hands. However, the result was disappointing.
It was true, he could materialized it. But, the hardness was like a tofu.
'Jiaahh. One more thing to be trained'
He stand up, and walked away from the battlefield.
Along the way, he tried to identify the stone fragment. But the result need an approximately 3 hours to get.
"Hmm, quite a lot of point I have there. What should I buy with this point?"
Prana did not know what to buy. If he wanted to buy abilities, the skill slots already filled. Equipments? No need for now.
'Hmm, the system did not provide any combat techniques. What should I buy?'
'Shop > Filter > Points > SSR Rating' Prana clicked the system's interface to confirm his selection.
+ Abilities
- Dragon Slayer Magic...
- Ninjutsu....
- Gravity Magic...
- Five Elements Magic...
- Puppetery
- ...
+ Items
- None
+ Consumables
- Devil Fruit: Zoan
- Potions
- Occular Organs
'System, you are?' Prana kind of terrified seeing the last suggestion. It was a part of human body.
[Clarrifying: It's acquired in legal way. The creator only made the identical copies with 100% precision to the original]
"Ohhh" He accepted the information. "Let's see the occular organs"
+ Occular Organs
- Thermal Eyes .... 15.000 pts
- Charming Eyes ..... 17.500 pts
- Byakugan .... 25.500 pts
- Sharingan ... 35.000 pts
"Hoho. What a great deal"
Prana knew about Byakugan and Sharingan. Even though he wasn't a fan to Otaku culture. His childhood already being accompanied by that Manga 'NARUTO'.
Thus, basically he was intrigued by the system deal. For what he remembered, Byakugan was something like X-RAY vision with 350° angle and terrific precision. Meanwhile, Sharingan had many abilities that useful in a fight. Illusion, Bullet time, and Precision. Those were the basic use of Sharingan from what Prana remembered.
"Sharingan? or Byakugan?"
Sharingan was cooler right? But Byakugan also useful?
Prana was torn.
'It had been four days since I estranged to this place.
Two days ago, I witnessed the two powerhouses in this place died.
Later on, after I picked my loot. I tried to run around the place in hope finding the exit.
Even though, I said that I was running. I was also training my techniques and polish it.
Fortunately for me, I could cover the entire place in just two days running at my maximum speed. In addition, Unfortunately for me, there was no exit in this place'
Right now, Prana was lying on the grassland. He was tired after running around.
"Ahh, It seems I could only use my last resort to escape from this place. and hope that my system is really omnipotent"
Prana took out a round object.
[Smoke Bomb]
From its description, this object could eject him to leave the dungeon forcefully.
"Oh right, my points already enough to buy 'eyes'"
Prana decided to go with Sharingan. It was true that Byakugan also useful for scouting. But, Prana already had a radar that could cover 30 meters or more around him. In addition, from what he remembered in the manga, Byakugan's performance kind of lackluster before Sharingan.
Thus, "I want to buy it. Shop > Sharingan"
- Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (Requirement not met)
- Mangekyou Sharingan (Requirement not met)
- Uchiha Bloodline .... 70.000 pts
- Three-Tomoe Sharingan (Eyes) ..... 35.000
"Woah,Bloodline!! something like that exist? It could be transferred?" Prana exclaimed after seeing the categorization.
"But, Uchiha Bloodline was famous from its tragedy. It's like everyone who had the bloodline met with tragic and troublesome matters."
Hmmm...
'Should I save up again? But I don't want trouble. But, the power of this lineage was really great'
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"Get the Eyes for me"
In the end, Prana decided to get the Eyes only.
[Purchase complete.
Preparing the process. Please Wait..]
'For now let's get out from this place' Prana picked the round smoke bomb beside him. And like ninjas, he threw it down.
Boom
The smoke bomb exploded, and the smoke came out from it. The smoke engulfed Prana.
Prana who was gradually engulfed by the smoke, his body felt like it sucked to the ground.
FLOP
There was no trace of Prana in the grassland anymore.
----
In an instant he sucked to the ground, he felt like he was being pulled downward by the gravity.
[Preparation Complete. Transplantation will commence in 3. 2. 1.]
.
"Wait wait wait" Prana was panicked, the notification came abruptly.
Then, suddenly he felt that his Eyes was hot. It was like his eyes burning. His tears were gushing out like waterfall.
[Success.
The Transplantation was completed, gauze applied to host eyes. Kindly reminder, Don't remove the gauze for at least 2 hours. In addition, Host may open your Eyes after at least 6 hours]
The burning sensation in his Eyes subsides after the notification. However, right now a big problem appears.
'Where am I?' Prana was already standing in unknown place right now. It seemed that he was able to leave that place.
'Since I was ejected from the dungeon, I should be outside the tower of babel right? But, why I couldn't hear any boisterous humans' noise? Rather, It was awfully quite here'
Prana directly activate his radar and keep it active as he walked forward.
From what he got from the radar. He was in a forest, near a waterfall. There wasn't any monsters, and humans, only trees with radius 50 meters around him.
He kept walking forward and maintaining the radar.
Then, after 30 minutes walking forward. He detect a settlement, and it seemed to be human were there.
----
He walked to the settlement. There were at least 20 or so humans rest in here.
Three of them seemed to walking to him. Two of them was children, and a woman.
"Stop, who are you?" One of them shouted at Prana with a raspy voice.
'How?' he was confused. How could someone avoid his detection. He was sure there were only two children from their stature.
"Um. Hello. I am an adventurer who lost his way. You can call me Prana."
"What's your business here?" Once again a raspy voice.
"Could you tell me where am I?" Prana asked the question with a question.
"It is the Eighteenth Floor" This time a mature voice was answering.
Since, he knew who voices it. He smiled at her direction, and said "Oh. Thank you." Prana was still inside the dungeon right now.
"Uh, Is it possible for me to rest here for a while? I was so tired walking around constantly for these consecutive days."
This time one of the child answered me. "We welcome you. But, in doing so could you tell us about yourself and tell us the reason why you are lost?"
"Yeah, come in. There are meat and booze here"
Prana galdly accepted the offer and condition. Since, he did not feel any malicious intent for them. In addition, he could clearly heard their heartbeat. Theirs was rhythmly calm, and seemed did not have any hidden motives.
After getting permission, Prana walked to the nearest tree to rest. He walked as if everything was clear before him. He also avoided things and person alike, and this preculiarment drew many interest.
However, Prana did not pay any mind to this. He wanted to rest and check his status if possible. Then, he sat down and leaned to the tree.
From his 'radar', he could see that the folks in here seemed to be the support team. Some of them were cooking near the fire, some of them also seemed to deal with the weapon of this group.
'For now, I want to see my parameters first. Status'
+ NAME : Prana Takada
+ AGE : 17 years old
+ BLOODLINE : Pure Human
+ STR : 309 (H) -> 1376
+ AGI : 467 (G-) -> 1598
+ HP : 100% (Tired)
+ MANA : 100%
+ SKILLS :
-Passive: Lightning Manipulation (S+ Support/passive), Camouflage (C-Support/passive)
Active: Instant Strike (A-active), Backstab (C-Active), Dr. Blythe (SS-Support/Active), Defensive Blade (B-Active), Identify (D-Active),
Occular Power: Ongoing
Thunder Core: R
+ EQUIP : Poisonous Flying Dagger (SSR), Guardian Necklace (SR), Hassan's Cloak (SR)
+ POINT : 10 points.
+ INVENTORY: Stamina Potion x 2, 20.000 valis. ]
'Really? This is my status? Wow, it goes so high. I broke through to the Lv. 5 in just 4 days. Unscientific. Ridiculous.'
He did not believe it went this much, even though he was still grinning and drooling.
'Go away, logic. I am stronger now'
From his parameters, His speed, reaction already on par with an early Lv. 5 adventurer. Furthermore, with his new development on his techniques, it was possible for Prana to goes toe to toe with peak Lv. 5 adventurer in regard in his Agility alone.
He couldn't stop grinning. Even the folks near his resting place were going away seeing him grinning like a pervert while sleeping.
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Meanwhile in a certain tent.
Three person were sitting in a round table. Two of them were a male and had the stature as a child-like person. The other was a woman.
The first male was the captain of this expedition team. He had medium length scruffy blonde hair and blue eyes with a fair skin tone. He had a small body, but was a strong man. He is Finn Deimne, the captain in the Loki Familia. Finn had the appearance of a child despite being over 40 years old. He wore a yellow vest over a purple long-sleeved shirt and trousers.
The second male was a dwarf. He is Gareth Landrock. A top executive in Loki Familia. Gareth had brown eyes and long brown hair along with facial hair of the same color that was long enough to form a beard. He wore a battle cloth and boots, adding a horned helmet and armor onto it.
The last person was a beautiful elf. She wore a green outfit with yellow borders, a white cloak over it, a black belt, a yellow sash, black leggings, and long brown boots. She is Riveria Ljos Alf. A Vice-Captain in Loki Familia. She is a beautiful high elf with a jade eyes and hair.
"Gareth, Riveria, what do you think about our guest?" Finn opened the discussion.
Gareth, began to ponder deeply after hearing Finn question. He really didn't understand these question. He felt that there was nothing wrong or malicious with the guest.
"He is strange. This is the Eighteenth Floor. How could a blind man went so deep into the dungeon?" In the end he voiced his last uncertainty.
Riveria who heard Gareth nodded, she added "Actually, he could clearly perceived the outside world. From what I see before, many lightnings current was constantly released from his body in radius of 50 meters. This lightning might become his information agent."
Finn was satisfied with the explanation. "Un, that's right. However, what I mean was his name. He said it himself, his name was Prana."
"For what I remember, there seemed to be a notice in the guild that a non-affiliated adventurer with this name was missing 2 and half a month ago. The party concerned about him was Takemikazuki Familia. In addition, I also heard that Ishtar Familia also had conflict with this particular adventurer."
"Don't you feel its strange? He said he was tired after running and walking for consecutive days? Not weeks or months?"
Hearing Finn reasoning, Gareth and Riveria came to an understanding.
"It's really strange. Even though, dungeon doesn't have concept of day and night except this floor. We still could use something to mark the time." Gareth wondered.
"Finn, tonight you should gather the information from him." Riveria suggested.
Tonight, the group intended to party for the last day. Since, tomorrow they should went home and prepare for the tournament.
"Yeah" Finn agreed.
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When Prana woke up. It seemed that it was already dark.
He felt around the area, and found that the group was having a party and circling a bonfire.
He was slowly removing the gauze in his Eyes, when a timid female voice called him.
"Em. Em. Mister, our captain was calling you."
Prana observed the person who called him. It was a woman, and quite young from her stature.
"Un. You may lead the way, I can follow you" Prana walked as a normal person.
Lefiya was amazed seeing this blind mister walking normally without any support, even could follow her.