I took a side street to talk somewhere with a bit more privacy. "let's think it over. Would the sect protect me if...scratch that, maybe for the elements but no one would give up a lead on immortality, I can never expose the black books."
"mhm don't expose that, the first thing that came to my mind was there immortal power, I wouldn't even know what rumors a massive sect like wrapped wings would know of."
"What about just getting a regular tattoo of a different color? Crap no, I'd just end up healing to fast..."
With a pensive look Kara took a pause after hearing my idea." Actually, there's a lot of fakes out their Alder, people wanting to fake some ability to get recognition. People failing sects entrance tests and getting their cultivation crippled for cheating, it happens all the time. Wrapped wings has open enrollment monthly because of the low number of disciples and therefor can have more individualized testing, and with the less private nature of the sect we don't get as many."
"Even if that's the case I probably can't even get a tattoo, seems like they can see through it anyway"
"Just how perverse is this regeneration anyway? Tattoos done with qi infused inks can last thousands of years. I don't feal much different aside form not getting tired out as easily as before?"
Under Karas disapproving gaze I bit my thumb, a drop of blood pooled, then another, and then no more, withing 3 seconds my thumb scabbed over. 2 seconds after that a small red line was all that remained. Kara held my hand and gently licked my thumb, leaving nothing remaining aside from some saliva.
Kara playfully grabbed me and shook a bit.
"Alder, were going to talk about everything you can do…I can't handle constantly being this shocked you know! --- You definitely can't get a tattoo like that, even if the ink stays underneath your skin how could you possibly explain that damn ungodly healing!"
"ok-ok, lets spend all these next four days talking, if we even manage to start the trip today that is"
"Good! I want to hear everything about you, got it? She demanded before trying the same experiment on herself; however, it went differently.
Instead of five seconds it took almost fifty! Ten times longer than my own!
"What the heck? Why don't you have the regeneration, did something go wrong?" 'Why is this happening? I thought we shared the bloodline?'
"hm? What do you mean honey? There's no way I can heal that fast without even using qi, I was just seeing how fast it went on its own, were you not…" At this point Kara realized that Alder wasn't using qi either and fully gave up using any kind of logic to define his potential abilities.
"Then whys it so much slower than mine…"
I spent some time filling Kara in with everything the book gave me information wise, as well some other pertinent information, I also made a mental note to write some of this down, just enough to help jog my memory without giving away what it means, don't want any bs to happen if I get searched.
"Now that I think about it, me holding the source mutation might explain the bloodline powers being weaker in you…but if that's the case why wasn't anything mentioned about it in the description?"
"You said it yourself; he died creating it, right?"
"But that means the mutation didn't come out how he intended? Your right, that's probably it, I just hate thinking it might not have worked…" looking in my arms at the small black-haired fairy. 'She does have my immortality, right? Yeah, she should if she has the recovery ability, even if it's watered down a bit.'
"with the description written how it is, different strengths of regeneration between the host and partners dose make sense. It reminds me of a vampire's powers honestly, those turned are weaker and if you kill the host they all perish, hell even eons might be like a vampiric charm to some extent…was he modeling the powers after one?"
"Alder what's a vampire? you think it has something to do with these powers?"
"hmm wait, don't you have demons here? Do vampires not exist here?"
"What! Are there still true pureblood demons on earth? Ever since the holy war the church started forever ago, they've long been thought to be extinct, the closest living relatives we have are the half breeds or demi humans"
"I see, no I've just heard stories kara, and possibly Kyrillus who was alive forever ago used their powers as a guide when creating the books. It's just a speculation thou, no use overthinking it"
"Haaa so much to take in all at once! And we still need to figure out a way to cover up or hide your abilities."
'Fuck, still have to solve this…how long do we have before the carriage leaves? A half hour most likely, probably won't be make it out today'
"what elements do they test for exactly. How many if there not testing for other rare elements?"
"fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, light, dark, illusion. They don't test for other rare elements and only test for subcategories like shadow and poison in other sect that specialize in dual element or special techniques, but if you show an affinity with all they'll definitely test you further"
"so eight elements…what color tattoo would I even need to fake that?"
"Orange might not even cut it… you'd need more than one…, but that's a good thing"
"Might stand out just a tad bit less if I could use three reds or something?"
Pulling my arm Kara said excitedly. " exactly and I just thought of something! Why can't it just be a glyph? The wing on my right shoulder is my sect identification tattoo."
Kara pulled my hand to rest over her right shoulder, continuing. " They give them to us disciples by using a wand with spatial runes engraved on it to pass a layer of qi under the skin thus engraving runes. No ink, no external damage, many small runes make up the image. They use it for identification and tracking within the sect to some extent. Maybe its overkill but if we could find a rune master to make up a set of wands for you, we could avoid that issue entirely…why didn't I think of it before?"