Behind Skylar as he walks towards Shallbell is Seri' vaika walking towards the pyramid structure that has transformed back into the earlier golden object.
"Young lord, why did you not infuse your vessel with energy?"
"Hmm.." Skylar zoned out when he heard Shallbell's question. A finger on his lip, head raised and eyes dilated, he process her question.
"Are we suppose to that? I thought it was testing our fundamentals."
Skylar got closer to Shallbell. Then she leads the way as they return to where Helen is.
"Young lord, your energy intelligence is part of your fundamentals... We were also testing it. Don't you know?"
"I didn't know. But i passed right." Skylar replied, and his eyes on her swaying hips shifts to her eight pairs of golden wings.
Don't archangels have like seven wings in fiction. Is she a level beyond them...
"Young lord, your constitution is one of the best i have seen so far among your kind." Shallbell broke his thought.
"Really!"
"Do you have some kind of special trait?"
Her voice twittering, Seri' vaika has she caught up with them chimed in.
"Yes young lord, what's your trait."
Shallbell asked as they reach Helen's location where the sun lounger Skylar was reclining in is.
"I don't understand my trait. But it says something like baby beast or something in my status window."
Skylar answered as he picked up the glass tablet with golden edges.
"Seri, do you have any idea what is it."
plopping on to the sun lounger and catching Seri' vaika unaware, he pulled one of her arms along, which as a result made her fall onto his chest, snug on it.
"Sky tyrant do you want to turn into star particles!?!"
Seri' vaika threatened, her twittering voice betrays the frown on her face.
Meanwhile Shallbell who acts like she didn't see a thing took her spot beside Skylar, and replied his earlier question as she also ignores Seri vaika like Skylar is doing:
"Young lord, your trait should be a fundamental boost to your constitution. And considering the baby attached to its name, we can conclude it should be an evolvable trait."
"Sky tyrant!" Her white face turning golden gradually, Seri' vaika screams as she tries to free herself from Skylar's hold.
"..." Skylar's eyes were on Seri' vaika as she watches is wide grin that is implying 'Struggle all you can there is no way out. You just enjoy it.' He continues to hold firmly to her very soft and supple body with one arm on her slim waist and his other hand holding the glass tablet.
Seri' vaika will wiggle, nod his chest, push at his arm and even bite him. But Skylar firm grip still persists.
"May you burn in hell." Seri' vaika after her futile attempt to wrestle her figure out of Skylar's grip glared at him with her face that has turned golden- flushed, and with an expression trying to be tough and fierce but not really. Then she spit on him and her figure vanished alongside her presence, finally escaping Skylar's clutch.
"She ran away." Not particulatly surprised by her action, Skylar put his hand that was holding her close to his nose and sniffed it. "Hmm so fragrant... She smells like that golden fruit..."
"Pervert bastard!"
Skylar shrugged after Seri' vaika's voice that was projected from far away reached him.
"My eyes are on you seri seri."
In reply, he projected his voice in the direction her voice came from. But a snigger from beside him, behind Helen in particular, mocking him, drew his attention.
"Idiot, there is no way you can catch me if i don't want you to."
Seri' vaika whom he found out to be the source of the snigger crossed her eyes at him as he watches her keenly.
She is clearly very similar... But, If i am ever going to solve this mystery i will need in-depth knowledge of how this simulation works, more importantly how energy interacts with matter.
After giving her a brief look, Skylar turned his face from her, not giving her a response, and shifted his attention to the tablet in his hand.
I should focus on my business here. But this glass pad thing is kind of very advanced...
Skylar looked over his shoulder at Shallbell who remains standing at his other side.
"Shallbell, how do i use this."
"Young lord, its the other side." Shallbell bend over, the silhouette and heaviness of her huge unbound chest beneath her garment upon him and spilling over the top edge of the sun lounger as she helped him bring up the tablet. "We press here, click this and next... Hmm... wait, young lord."
Woah!!! She is really really very huge... And her smell (Sniffing) His head raised and looking at her; Skylar sniffs the air, inhaling her scent while her finger dances on the screen of the tablet- invoking different ancient symbols on it.
Then shortly after, her eyes went from the tablet to Skylar who is still fascinated by her enormous size and smell.
"Young lord, do you understand ancient writing?"
"Yes, kind off. I can read it."
Regaining his composure, Skylar met her eyes before he finally settled them on the characters on the tablet.
On the tablet, his finger went to one of the symbols and he tapped it.
"This one here means, language change."
Shallbell, upon seeing this withdrew, her figure posture straightening as she watches an array of symbols display on the tablet in response to Skylar's tap.
"Hmm..." Skylar's finger scrolling the tablet lands on one of this symbols and he taps it. "Yes, this one."
Helen at the side glanced at Shallbell who replied her with a knowing look after they both saw the characters on the screen turned into symbols they know Skylar is more familiar with. And at the same time Seri' vaika who appears not to be a tiny bit surprised by this unlike the two sighed before her figure vanished.
...
Yes this is what i have been looking for.
After several clicking and tapping, the screen now displays an array of different ships like a shopping app would do. The info of the ship and prices were attached to their 3D pictures which he could rotate and magnify.
Which one should i buy first.
His eyes were glued to the screen. He was totally immersed as he scrolled through the list of the various vessels and vehicles made carved wood and crystal glasses the screen displays.
"Shallbell, how are all this thing different? What's exactly a hover and a rover?"
"Young lord, tap that blue symbol on the top right corner."
Shallbell replied. And as she instructed, Skylar tapped the symbol and a list of information appeared on the screen.
[General classification: Vehicle Mini vessels Vessels]
[Functional Classification: Transport ship Cargo ship Cruise/Leisure ship Battle ship War ship ... ]
[Speed Classification: Subsonic Sonic Supersonic]
[Specie/Size Classification: 10/10sc 100/10sc 1000/10sc .... 10 000/20sc ... ]
[Engine: Hover Rover ]
"Young lord, as you can see, hover is a type of engine, and it is generally a combination of a thruster and suspensor... And rover unlike hover that can ascend more than a million miles above the earth is an engine that can only function very close to the ground..."
"Is it because it interacts with the earth electromagnetic wave?"
Skylar glanced at Shallbell as he interrupts her, and in response she nodded at him in acknowledgement.
"Yes young lord, it technically glides on EM wave, and since EM is stronger at region closer to the ground, most of this engines are designed to function in those region because of efficiency and to save energy."
"What's is the different between ships and vessels?"
"Idiot, they mean the same thing."
Seri' vaika whom have reappeared at one point chimed in. But Skylar nonetheless disregard her and instead turn to look at Shallbell inquiringly
"Yes young lord, and some peope also call vehicles ships."
"Hmm... I see." Skylar return his focus to the screen, scrolling as he still disregard Seri' vaika who has been glaring at him as she lean on the top edge of the sun lounger Helen is reclining in.
"Shallbell, what's with this specie and size thing." He asked, with his eyes on the screen.
"Young lord. That has to do with the size of a vehicle or vessel relative to the size of the specie it was designed for... A hundred to ten sc mini ship on average, can hold hundred kinds of a specie with a height not more than ten meters..."
"So you are saying if its twenty thousand to twenty sc, it can hold twenty thousand humans that are twenty meters tall."
"Yes, young lord." Shallbell nodded.
"Shallbell, but why are there ships like that here if none of us players are this tall." Smiling Skylar glanced at Shallbell.
"Idiot, some of you inferior specie are even more than forty mita tall... You shouldn't jump into conclusion when you don't have your data. Idiot." Seri' vaika chimed in, speaking ironically in a manner like she is lecturing gently.
"Shallbell is that true?"
Skylar disregarded her but not her words as he turned to look at Shallbell who nodded in reply.
"Yes young lord. A lot of your kinds in the simulation are giants according to your folk lore. And this is either because of a trait or the manifestation of certain hidden codes in their life sequence."
"Is it not because you people make it that way?" Skylar confused and skeptical frowned.
"Every player and user vessel is a perfect copy of their origin vessel." This time Helen answered before Shallbell could, and she did as she opened her eyes.
"Origin vessel is your real body in the pod." She added enlightening Skylar who has turned to look at her.