Kaiser of the New World

Statshifting (58)

Well isn't that just beautiful?

His second skill upgrade so far was an extremely helpful one that came at the perfect time. Having Soul Sight upgrade meant he no longer needed a reflection to see his soul.

Or do I?

Quickly opening his status screen, Kai looked at the description of his newly upgraded skill to see did it change at all.

A soul is one's being, peering at one's soul could definitely be considered perverted. This is a passive type skill. Allows the user to perceive the souls of sentient beings. The difficulty of viewing the soul is based on the user current Mana pool. Grants the user a slight affinity to souls.

...

Damn it.

Looking at the first line, Kai couldn't help but feel hard done by. The line which used to say the skill could be considered perverted, now says could definitely be considered perverted. Kai only picked the skill that would help him grow his Soulcery repertoire, how can that be considered perverted?

Well... If you look at it like that...

Souls were the very essence of someone's being, a person would not be a person without a soul. So the skill is kind of like peeping on someone shower, but technically worse?

Not that Kai would do that, of course.

He would be much to scared to.

He would rather fight the invisible wendigo again than risk doing that.

Probably...

The only other thing that changed about the description was the addition of a new line at the very end. And it was this line that had Kai confused.

Grants the user a slight affinity to souls... What does that even mean?

A slight affinity to souls was about as ambiguous as it could possibly get. And Kai had dealt with a lot of ambiguous things so far since the white room.

Did it mean he could finally reach a breakthrough in Soulcery? Did it mean he would be able to statshift easier? Or did it even mean something completely different to do with a section of Soulcery so random Kai would never even discover it due to how useless it is?

Kai hoped it was the former and not the latter, but he wouldn't mind if it was his second thought either.

Still, an upgraded skill was an upgraded skill. This was the third rare skill in Kai's arsenal, along with Contract of Artemis and Nonchalance. The three skills which were the most useful were the highest rarity.

How fitting.

Closing his status screen, Kai happily welcomed the cold embrace of the waterfall he was still under.

If he was ever going to be able to properly achieve statshifting, it was now or never. The skill which was the catalyst of being able to statshift just upgraded after all.

Combined with the fact that he could be dead in less than a week, it really was the perfect time.

And probably the only time.

Closing his eyes, crossing his legs and taking a deep breath. Kai repeated the actions he had done multiple times in the last month and concentrated deeply on his soul.

Maybe it's because of forming a soul, maybe it's because of his new affinity, or maybe it's a mix of both, but finding his soul was much easier and a much more pleasant experience when compared to what he had to do before.