After hearing Jake's questions, Jay thought for a bit about it.
It did seem a bit interesting, although he knew what shadows were, he wanted to think a bit more, perhaps he was aiming to surpass the knowledge that he had gained in science class.
"Shadows are the dark region formed when an object blocks sunlight or any light...", was what he said.
"Of course, the form only in the presence of light..."
"Also, it is formed by opaque and translucent objects."
"Transparent objects do not form shadows...", was what he said.
According to Jay, transparent things such as air didn't form shadows which were indeed true!
Whatever he said was correct but those were something that he read and learned from the textbooks. He basically didn't think anything on his own.
"You are right and wrong at the same time...", Jake concluded after hearing all that.
"Huh?"
Jay was wrong?
He was shocked when he heard that, well, according to him, he said everything correct, but it seemed like Jake wasn't satisfied with something.
'I knew it...'
'He wanted to hear something different...'
'Everyone would know such basic knowledge...', Jay frowned while thinking this.
"Indeed, shadows are dark regions, and you were right about that..."
"But after that whatever you said were nothing more than some nerdy stuff which you learned up..."
"By no means are they correct.", was what Jake said.
So was he saying that all the scientists that had discovered or concluded this were fools? Or perhaps they had concluded wrong?
"Shadows are present for everything in this world..."
"There is nothing in the world that doesn't have a shadow..."
"Even a luminous body or a transparent body would have a shadow!"
Jay thought that whatever Jake said sounded way too crazy.
'How can a luminous body have a shadow when it is the one producing light?', Jay asked himself.
"Listen, shadows are present all the time, however, we can only see it during the daytime in the presence of a light source!"
"Even air, which is considered to be transparent, produces shadow..."
"But it's just not visible because the atoms or molecules are so small and wide apart!", was what Jake said.
Jay understood the meaning behind that, what Jake meant that the shadow existed but was not visible, that was the only difference.
"But, how is that related to what I asked?", Jay asked.
"Well, the skill which you used..."
"It lets you see through all illusions or abnormalities..."
"Which means...", Jake paused after saying only this much probably because Jay had already understood what he meant.
"Which means that I can see the invisible too?", Jay continued and said that.
"Yes...", he nodded.
Their conversation was halted there. Jay now was determined to dive inside the lake.
'So that's the pearl...', he took a look at the lake and almost instantly found out the pearl on a bush-like plant of something in the blood which was pretty weird.
Regardless, he jumped right into the water right after activating the stealth.
'Ding'
[ You have used the skill Stealth ]
[ Your presence... ]
Thanks to that he was able to pass right near the huge fish-like monsters. Of course, they would be stronger because they lived in higher-density substances like blood!
He swam to the bottommost part of the lake. For a lake, it was unusually deep!
It took him around a minute to reach the bottom part and all this time he had been holding his breath.
Well, he had no problem in doing so. Had it been any normal human, then he or she would have had a hard time dealing with the oxygen supply.
Of course, Jay was a hunter and a high level at that too so it wasn't much of a thing for him.
Regardless, he turned his head to track the place where he had seen the pearl earlier. His eyes weren't hurt at all since the black smoke which looked like an aura protected it.
His ears were completely exposed to the blood though and without a doubt, some even entered his ears probably because the external pressure was greater than internal pressure.
Thanks to his sturdy body, he was fine while facing the heaviness of the pressure.
He turned his head towards the right and finally found the bushes which had the pearl. They seemed a bit creepy because of which Jay hesitated to approach them.
They had thorns on them too and on seeing them, no one would dare to approach them, at least if the person had a sane mind that is.
Regardless, he had to get the pearl to make the essence, and thus he swam towards it.
'Hmm, that plant isn't a monster is it?', he asked himself before getting too close.
'Ding'
[ Blood Lake Creeper ]
[ -> A Creeper like a plant that drains the blood to grow ]
[ -> Highly sensitive to external stimulus ]
[ -> Weakness: Water ]
The system notification suddenly popped up just when he started to stare at the plant intensely.
"Huh?"
"It's highly sensitive?", he asked himself.
"And its weakness is water?", no wonder the plant survived where there was blood.
Well, for the plant, it was the ideal surrounding. However, the blood did have water in it mixed so how was the plant able to survive that?
It remained a mystery, well, the thought never crossed Jay's mind in the first place. All he had to do was take the pearl which seemed to be resting on top of it.
Fortunately enough, he swam and finally reached the plant. Then he slowly tried to lean and bit and take the pearl when suddenly his lung started to give in to the pressure.
Well, his body wanted him to breathe as soon as poss Blr because the muscles weren't getting any oxygen at all and even if they were getting, it was very very less!
He moved his right hand forward and grabbed the pearl, or rather pearls, there were two of them and he grabbed both.
'Ding'
[ You have deactivated the skill Stealth ]
[ Your presence will no longer be hidden ]
[ Your... ]
It was possible because he deactivated the stealth, but right after he did that, many monsters turned and started to swim towards him.
But right after gaining the pearls, he used the skill almost instantly by forcing himself and his mind.
'Ding'
[ Yiu have used the skill Stealth ]
[ Your... ]
He didn't see though, cause his hands were numb.
He swam back with all his power and in just a blink of an eye, he reached the top!
'Huff huff'
He was panting heavily and was trying to inhale as much as possible right after reaching the surface.
He then swam back to the land and then walked towards Jake while deactivated the skill.
"I got it...", was what he said.
"Good now let's go for the next thing...", Jake said in a low voice.
"Next thing?", Jay was satisfied with getting one of the four things,
Whatever, that didn't mean that he could stop. He still had tons of things to do and for that, he required three more items.
Right after saying that, Jake formed a whole new portal on seeing which Jay was surprised and puzzled.
"But..."
"Didn't you say that we would get two of the four things here?", Jay asked.
"Ya, I said, what about it?", Jake asked as if he had said nothing wrong.
"Then, shouldn't we find another thing here?"
"The only thing that I've found till now is blood pearl...", Jay said with a big of confusion.
"Huh?"
Now Jake was surprised when he heard that.
"You got only one thing?", he asked to confirm it.
"Yes...", Nay nodded his head.
"But I sense two of the Blood items with you..."
So that was how Jake was able to confirm that he had two items, it was probably because he sensed the pearls, basically, he had two of them and that was what led to the confusion.
Jay hadn't realized that and when he opened his hand, he found two of them.
"Sigh, that's why...", Jake sighed.
However right after that, he asked Jay, "But didn't you find the Blood Grass?"
Jay didn't spit anything like that and thus shook his head while saying, "No, all I did was find this on a Creeper and nothing else..."
"Creeper?", Jake was surprised when Jay used that term.
After Jay explained what it was, Jake raised his voice to the fullest and said, "That is the second item!"
"What!?", that surprised Jay completely.
"That Creeper is the second item?", Jay asked to re-confirm if he had heard it right.
"Yes!"
"The Blood Lake Creeper is also called the Blood Grass or Blood plant because that is the only plant capable of growing in Blood!", Jake explained.
Right after hearing that, Jay threw the pearls into his inventory and jumped in the lake again to get the creepers.
'Ding'
[ You have used the skill Stealth ]
[ Your presence... ]
"..."
To be continued...