Within the darkness Nyx, goes to observe the shadow strings once again. Pulling the mana and miasma off of the shadow string, she notices how the strings still flows straight even without these two. Following along the route she notices the disruption of the shadow string further along.
This slight disruption in the shadow string, causes all the shadow strings around it to become tangled up. Looking at this big ball of shadow strings, Nyx thinks, 'perhaps i should use all three to locate information coming from outside of these shadows.'
Slowly perceiving the mana and miasma she notices how each one pulls the string towards it while repelling the string away from the other one. Finding this curious, she pulls a bit of mana and miasma close to each other.
As the miasma hits this small piece of mana, the mana corrodes away. With a frowl of her eyes, she brings a bit of mana to the miasma. Noticing that the mana purifies the miasma away, she scratches her head.
Taking a though she goes to use both the mana and miasma around her. Doing so and having the two energies collide into each other, she finds it strange the way that it isn't disturbing the shadows as bad as just taking the mana and misma off of it.
Outside of the shadows, Xod raises his eyebrows, 'She is already figuring out how to hide her presence. This is impressive. Didn't expect her to come across this before how to listen to things outside of the shadows. I didn't figure out how to hide my presence for months. Yet here she is figuring it out day one. But did she just take in her aura or not?'
Stepping out of the shadows she says, "Master Xod I seem to be having a hard time understanding how to hear things that aren't within the realm. Maybe you could provide a hint."
"Yuna-meirim, you have already hidden your presence with in the shadows. How you've come across a method for that before the method to hear things outside of it amazes me," he replies.
"So the last thing I did let me hide my presence. How about you come in and see what I do, then you can say how will it actually works," she smiles underneath the mask.
Nodding his head, he follows her into the shadows. Keeping his eyes on her, he sees a slight fluctuation in the shadow strings before she is gone. As she moves he doesn't see any fluctuations of the shadow strings.
Shocked he thinks, 'Did she figure out how to hide the aura through mana and miasma alone? Let's check.' Looking at where she was he sees a small void of mana and miasma. With a shocked expression he goes to locate other voids of mana and miasma.
Carefully looking, he barely notices the voids of mana and miasma left by her. With shock going through him, he has a hard time keeping up with the voids of mana and miasma. Till eventually he reaches out and grabs her arm.
"So how did I do master?" Nyx sweetly smiles under her mask.
Looking at her Xod says, "You have one flaw with the method, can you figure it out?"
Taking a second to think she reflects on how she first discovered the technique and says, "There is a small void left behind when the mana and miasma collide with each other. I have an idea in order to fix that."
Not sure what she means by that, he takes a step back and watches as she pulls in a little bit more mana and miasma towards her. As she does the same things as before, she vanishes from his sight. Looking for small voids of mana and miasma, he doesn't seem to find any. Then he looks around him.
Around him is a mysterious lack of mana and miasma. Laughing he understands what she had gone to do. As he goes to look for her, he notices that the mana is constantly flowing in the one direction with the shadow strings, yet the miasma is flowing the opposite direction.
Looking around he is unable to see why the mana and miasma are flowing in different directions. From behind him Nyx taps his shoulder. Turning around he shakes his head. Looking at her, he says, "I don't know how you manage to hide from senses for a short period of time. However let me show you how I do so."
Nodding her head, she pays attention to the mana and miasma around him. Seeing no obvious change besides the path they are flowing she thinks, 'He must be using the shadow strings to hide the aura instead. However it leaves an outline of his silhouette.'
Looking at the silhouette left behind she shakes her head. Using her method she disappears from sight. Paying attention to his outline, she follows him. Looking around he tries to locate her. However the mana and miasma are in disarray flowing in two different directions for some strange reason. Unable to figure out how that is happening he is unable to locate her.
Poking his shoulder she moves once more. Feeling it he shakes his head, "I see you've already figured out the weakness of this technique. But even yours must have one."
"You are correct, however I am unable to find it myself. For my magical knowledge is extremely limited. One day I will be able to figure out the weakness," she jumps back.
"I thought you were there. Clearly you know where I will try to go hit," he reappears.
"Well my sister is a battle maniac. Have to learn a thing or two to keep up with such a person," Nyx laughs.
Laughing with her, he shakes his head, "Well you still have to learn how to hear things that are said outside of these shadows. Now to get back to learning that important skill."