With all the materials needed Festus wasted no time in making the 'empath' potion.
After a few minutes a bright orange liquid was in a cup before him. This was a beyonder potion, something he would not have expected to see just a week before. Festus had to take a few minutes to calm himself down before he reached out for the potion and downed it.
As the potion made its way down his down his gullet he felt a warm feeling slowly spread through his body until each and every one of the cells were wrapped in a warm current.
His situation did not last long as his body began to heat up, he felt as though he had been dropped into a sea of flames. He mind was assaulted by the flames as well, but compared to what he went through when he first arrived in this world, this much pain was nothing.
As he fought through the pain to accept the power he could feel the ravings which were always distant rushing towards him once more. They intended to take advantage of this moment to devour him, his sephirot arrived just in time to protect him once more allowing Festus the respite to perform his cogitation. After a few more seconds, Festus was now this worlds first 'empath'.
With his advancement, the ravings which had attempted to interfere with his advancement were once again sent all the way back to were they once were. No upon focusing on it, Festus was delighted to find out they seemed even further away. His plan was a success. Festus leaped back to his feet and performed a little celebration.
His celebration went on for a few minutes before Festus decided to review the abilities his potion had provided him. Glancing in the mirror Festus saw his body was giving off a bright orange glow, something he was able to interpret as him being excited confirming he had truly gained beyonder abilities.
The 'empath' potion provided a number of abilities, namely; a relatively strong spirit vision, emotional sense, which allowed his eyes to see the emotion one was experiencing. He also possessed the ability to produce a calming aura which made anyone under effects calm as well as gain positive feelings about him. The ability also came with the very useful danger sense ability and finally an enhanced memory.
Festus' joy was cut short however once his danger sense kicked in, paying attention to it he realized it was faint. Festus immediately realized his danger sense was reacting to the ravings which were waiting for the opportunity to devour him. Eyes closed to focus, Festus set his action for activating and deactivating his spirit vison as right index and ring finger alone tapping his palm twice.
Having settled that, Festus turned to the materials needed for the spectator potion when his danger sense kicked in. "Hm, it seems I need to focus on the empath potion first before I attempt to ingest the 'spectator' potion. Though I'm pretty confident I don't need to fully digest the potion before."
"Hehe, just you wait soon I'll have that spectator potion and become closer to advancing to sequence 8"
Festus cleaned up the apparatus used to brew the potion before heading back downstairs to run the store, after all money is very important to a beyonder.
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Festus gave a bright smile to customer who gave off a bright yellow glow, which he instinctively knew represented happiness. Another satisfied customer.
Festus, like a child with a new toy had spent the entirety of yesterday reading the emotions of each and every person who walked into his shop. The constant use of his abilities had of course led to his exhaustion, after waking today however he realized a glaring issue. Due to the constant danger he was in he had been entirely focused on obtaining his potion ingredients as well as his advancement.
Now he was a beyonder and soon he would take in the 'spectator' potion, but he did not know what to do after that.
Just because he could resist the ravings did not mean he was safe, he had only three months before 'The Fool' arrived. Once he did the plot would begin, with dangers popping up at each and every corner.
There was no way he could remain a mere sequence 9, he had to come up with his acting principles quick, he also had to come up with a plan for what he was going to do in this world after all just surviving was not living.
Thinking about it further, Festus decided to first focus on coming up with principles to act by. Klein was able to digest his potion by acting as a seer in the divination club, did that mean he had to do something similar, based on what he knew about empaths there wasn't exactly a guild or job... hmm wait a counselor.
Yeah that was not a bad idea but who was gong to hire a counselor without any professional experience. *sigh* Nothing is ever easy.
The bell at the door rung again as a man and a woman, a couple maybe? walked into his flower shop. Festus activated his ability and observed their emotions, the two had smiles on their faces, and showed various signs that would make a casual observer believe that they had a strong relationship.
With his eyes however, Festus was able to discern the truth; the woman had little love for the man which seemed to be fading at a rapid pace, her trust for the man was completely absent and anger was fluctuating with waring colors of optimism and caution.
With all this bare, Festus could hazard a guess that the woman probably loved the man at some point but had found something out about the man which was causing that love to fade. Although with the waring optimism and caution, she either hoped she was wrong or was thinking of given the guy a second chance.
Having made this observation Festus shifted the gaze to the man and what he saw made his tsk. The man had no love for the woman with his body given of colors of strong lust and greed as well an even more smug color of confidence, with how overwhelming it was, it might as well just be arrogance.
With his observation done, he looked to the young woman with a look of pity. Once the two arrived at his counter to pay for the flowers they had chosen, Festus gave a Calla Lily to the lady. She first looked at the flower with confusion, before looking back at Festus with disbelief.
As he watched the two leave, Festus wondered if she truly understood his message. He got his answers when he felt the partial digestion of his potion. He was now aware of two things, that the lady understood his message and most importantly the acting method for his potion. *sigh* It seems he truly was going to have to become a counsellor.