Understanding the Trait

Anna stood at the clearing of the villa's garden with determined eyes, she wore the same outfit as she did during the hunt. Suddenly, her eyes turned golden and golden threads started to materialise near her hands.

[Thread weaving]

Anna grabbed one of the threads and tried to break it, however no matter how much force she used the threads didn't break. Soon, she took out one of her short swords and tried to cut it, however it didn't do anything.

Anna then tied the thread to her short sword's handle and threw it with full force. The short sword whistled through the air but soon it stopped and fell down, Anna walked towards it and picked up the short sword.

"It's about 50 meters, I can control the threads without much issue in 10 meters but it gets progressively harder to control with more distance and stops completely at 50 meters." Anna concluded.

Anna then warped two poles with her threads and created a net, she then threw a round object at the net with full force, the object flew towards the net and stopped as soon as it touched the net.

Anna picked up the object and looked at it.

"It can absorb the shock but it is not sharp unless I flow my star essence in it and it takes too much star essence." Anna concluded again.

Anna then moved towards a bunch of rocks and started to wrap the threads around them. She then commanded the threads to lift the rocks. She easily lifted 40 kg which started to become progressively harder with more weight.

"I can lift 60 kg with minimal star essence, however after that it takes too much star essence." Anna concluded once again.

She returned to her daily training area and recalled everything she had understood and learned about her thread weaving sub-skill.

"50 meters, can lift 60 kg, sharp when star essence is flowed in it." Anna nodded to herself as she did so.

Anna then closed her eyes and turned into her soul body form… She flew out of her physical body and tried to activate thread weaving much to her surprise, however it didn't work.

'makes sense, after all i can't interfere with the physical world with my soul body.' Anna thought as she continued to fly away from her body. Suddenly, she felt a blockage before her which had stopped her from moving any far from this.

'It's the same distance as the threads.' Anna concluded in her mind.

Soon, she flew inside the villa and looked at one of the maids, her eyes glowed golden.

[Eyes of Divination]

 She then looked at the black thread coming out of the maid's body and as soon as she did so, an image of an apple appeared in her mind.

'What was that?' Anna thought as she was confused with the event that just took place.

She then flew around the villa and looked at multiple servants, some showed her an image of a comfy bed, some showed her a dagger, a vial, etc

Anna didn't know what was happening so she tried to look for a few more servants. However suddenly she felt a pull on her soul body and she returned to her physical body.

Her breathing was ragged and she was sweating profusely.

"I used all of my star essence." Anna said as she took big gulps of air. 

"It takes more star essence when I use my main-skill in the soul body." Anna said and nodded to herself.

She moved towards the white wood bench placed near the canopy of flowers and sat on it. Trying to regain her energy.

A few minutes later, she felt warmth in her heart. Her body warmed up and all of the exhaustion went out of the window.

Anna shook her head and continued to sit on the bench.

"I have faster regeneration than the midnighters of the same awakened rank." Anna sighed as she closed her eyes.

Her trait was too versatile for her to come up with ways to use it more effectively and with more efficiency.

A thought suddenly blossomed in her mind. Anna stood up from the bench and summoned the threads. Soon, she commanded the threads to wrap around her body like serpents and formed a golden outfit which fit her perfectly.

Anna then tried to stab herself with the short sword and just as she had expected the attack was blocked easily. However the outfit soon came undone and Anna fell back on the bench huffing for air.

"Using the thread as armour does wonders but I have to continuously control the threads so they don't come undone. Which is too exhausting." Anna spoke as she breathed heavily.

Soon, many ideas started to pop up in her mind but she was too exhausted to try them. She just closed her eyes and rested her head on the bench.

***

"The night seer…" Damien spoke as he looked at the raven sitting in front of him.

The raven turned its head towards Damien as it spoke

"So you do remember me after all, little Damien." a soothing and calm voice left the raven's mouth.

"You should stop calling me that." Damien said, his tone calm and detached.

"You still hate me huh…" The night seer replied as the raven looked away from Damien.

"I do not." Damien said

"Well, it's better to be hated a little than to be forgotten completely." The night seer continued.

"Why have you come here? I am pretty sure that I had rejected your request to meet me." Damien said in an indifferent tone.

"That girl… I wish to take her as my disciple." The night seer answered without hiding anything.

"It can't happen."

"You know that I am the best teacher she could get, yes?" 

"It doesn't matter. You won't have her, Night seer." Damien said, his voice much colder than before. 

"I will leave that decision to her." The night seer said as she turned towards a specific direction.

Soon, the raven shook its head and started to fly out of the window.

"Caw…Caw…"

Its caws could be heard as it flew away towards the moon hung up in the sky, never-changing, never-moving.

Damien clenched his fists in anger, he thought of that hateful woman who called herself The night seer but couldn't even help him find out about the plot behind his father's death.