Chapter 82

82 Chapter 82: The Shadow Ring

“Jeri, among your shadow abilities, you got something like a shadow Void or something? It’s like an empty dark place in the shadow.” Kevin asked.

“No, none that I know of. The only thing I know about my shadow is the ability to pass through walls and the shadow control.”

“How does the shadow control work?”

“I can use the shadow to do anything I want. I can shape a glove with it, and make dresses with it. It was so much fun when I first discovered it at age ten. It was at the time when I got the Triling I gave you.”

“I was so disappointed in myself back then that I couldn’t do anything even though I learned the shadow magic. I couldn’t raise a single shadow unless I read the words written in the shadow magic book. The words are a bit longer and weren’t as easy as using the Shadow freely like this.” Jeri said as she lifted Derek’s shadow above his feet. Shadow hands had come out from his shadow and had grabbed onto his legs, pulling him to the ground, totally unseeable by anyone.

“Wow, how did you do that?” Kevin clamored. He saw Jeri peering at her hands.

“I don’t know I just thought of making him sink into the ground and he did,” Jeri said.

“That’s it. If you want to use your other shadow skills, you have to think of them. Your shadows work when you think about it, it’s just like Lexa’s. She thought of creating a shadow portal and it was created with her thought.” Kevin concluded.

“So what you mean right now is that I should think about the shadow to access more skills. Does it works for you that way?” Jeri asked.

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“No, mine is a bit difficult. It only unlocks each time I obtain the Triling ring or I level up.”

“How about you try and wish on the ring I gave you? It’s a wishing ring anyway.” Jeri said.

He glanced at the ring that was on his index finger in his right hand.

A smile came on Kevin’s lips as he saw this information. So he had a shadow ring with him all this while. He had thought it was truly a wishing ring as Jeri said but he found out that it wasn’t true.

“Jeri, why do you think this ring is a wishing ring?” Kevin asked.

“Oh, that. I wanted to use the shadow skills independently without having to read the whole book passage of the shadow book, so I thought of wishing on the Triling ring. I was quite a little kid back then, so I believed in wishes back then.”

“Yeah, and you still believed it till now.” Kevin interrupted.

Jeri smiled amusingly and replied softly. “Yeah.”

“So, as I was saying, my wish was surprisingly granted at that moment. And I... I was able to use the shadow control. I realized that I could control shadows by raising mine and other people’s shadows, traveling through walls, create shadow domes. Those were all the skills available in the book and I have them all, not until when I discovered that there are other shadow skills that I’m yet to use.”

“So after my first wish was granted, I decided to wish on more things like having a Castle... We were living inside a wooden built house in the forest which I really hated. I wished on having a dragon as a pet... I read about it in stories, so don’t mind the young me. Dragons are not real.” Jeri smiled embarrassingly.

“They could be real, who knows?” Kevin said recalling that he was midway through getting 30 dragon Summoning rings. What happens if he finally gets the thirtieth ring, he might be able to summon dragons, which is awesome to Kevin.

“Unfortunately, none of the wishes were granted. So I thought that it might be a person wish granting ring. That’s why I said you should think deeply before you wish on the ring.” Jeri ended her explanation.

Kevin shook his head slightly, Jeri’s explanation was great. She did come up with something nice about the ring. But he couldn’t help but smile as he remembered that the ring wasn’t a wish ring but a shadow ring rather.

“Why are you laughing? Are you amused by little Jeri’s intelligence, huh?”

“Jeri, what if I tell you that little Jeri’s thought about the ring was wrong?”

“What do you mean? Elaborate.” Jeri requested.

“What if I tell you that this ring is not a wish ring but a shadow ring,” Kevin answered.

Jeri sighed softly, she turned her face to her right side and scoffed.

“Are you kidding me? But that ring granted my wish. How could you say it’s not a wish ring?” she argued.

“But the ring only granted you your shadow wish, not other things like the castle wish, or dragon wish,” he said.

“Oh, I guess I’m wrong after all. The owner of the ring is here, so he knows better.” Jeri chuckled to herself, trying to hide the fact that she was embarrassed. Not after telling Kevin about her childhood life.

Kevin could see that Jeri was blushing with embarrassment and could only muster a smile.

“Yeah.”

The shadow ring started disappearing from Kevin’s hands and Jeri happened to witness it.

“Why does the ring always disappear?” Jeri asked.

“I don’t know myself. I just activate its powers and it disappears.” He replied.

“How do you activate it? Is it that screen tab that appeared while we were in that strange white house?”

“Yeah, the system. It helped me activate it.” Kevin answered.

“Oh, I see. I can’t believe I’m a wife to a powerful person like you. Can you just imagine all these awesome things you have? Lots of people would die to be the Triling you are, they would want to have this system you have.”

“Thanks for the good words, my wife,” Kevin said, kissing Jeri on the forehead.

A light creature who saw them kissing suddenly called for everyone’s attention.

“Can you see them? They kissed just now.”

Kevin ignored them and instead checked on the system that was notifying him.

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The second chap is coming shortly