Stargate City

"Aaaaaah.... Ouch!" Stella screamed as she got thrown out of the spatial tear with tremendous force. She was thrown into a stone wall of a house.

She regretted having a curious mind even more. Traveling through an unstable spatial tunnel wasn't a fun experience, to say the least. She could feel her entire body trying to break itself apart from different and abrupt gravitational pulls.

Her whole body shivered remembering the sensation. 'At least I tested out the effects of [Indestructible Body]. But I definitely need to get basic mastery over space. I can't let this happen again. This is too terrifying.'

However, she wasn't discouraged by a bit. She was very good at being stubborn.

'Where am I now? Wait, I can hear people! Finally!' Stella got really excited about the prospect of actually seeing a person after being in a ghost town.

She ran towards the sound. After passing a turn in the alleyway, she could finally see a market filled with lots of people.

She excitedly went towards a food stall that looked like it had the best food.

"Hello, miss! Can you recommend what's the best item here? All of them look quite tasty." Stella came close to the stall and asked the girl attending the stall.

"Huh, who is it?" the stall girl looked around but couldn't find anyone.

"Me! I'm down here." Stella pouted. She didn't like to admit it, but she was indeed quite short.

The stall girl looked down to find a strange little girl looking at her. She was stunned when she looked at her properly. The little girl was extremely beautiful with enchanting emerald eyes. Her silver-white hair was extremely unique. She didn't see anyone with silver-white hair before.

"So cute!!" the stall girl couldn't help but blurt it out.

"Um.... Miss? Are you alright? Can you hear me?" Stella was flabbergasted by the stall girl who was looking at her with stars twinkling in her eyes.

"...."

"...."

"My apologies, I was lost in thought. What was it again? Oh right, the food I would personally recommend is the meat skewers. They're the most popular. And they're quite tasty too. 5 copper coins per skewers please." the stall girl finally got out of her stupor and thought 'She might be a girl from a noble household. But what is she doing here all alone? Did she sneak out?' she was filled with questions but ultimately kept it to herself.

"Copper... coins? But I don't have any coins." Stella was reminded that she didn't possess any of this world's currency yet.

"I see, that's unfortunate. Here, take one, you don't have to pay" the stall girl realized she indeed sneaked out of her house.

"Really? I don't have to pay? Why?" Stella was puzzled.

"You don't have to pay, I'm giving you one as a gift. But you should go back to your house now. Don't sneak away and run around alone anymore okay? It's dangerous. Bad people might take you away." the stall girl reminded Stella.

Stella was more puzzled now. 'Does she think I sneaked out of my house? Probably.' "Thank you. You're a nice person. I'll give you back 5 copper coins when I get them." Stella replied.

However, the stall girl couldn't hold back her curiosity towards this adorable little girl anymore, "Can I know your name? I'm Lynette." the stall girl tried to know her name before she left.

"I'm Stella. Nice to meet you."

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Stella walked through the market and started eating the skewer. 'Hmm, something feels off with this food. Something's missing. It tastes somewhat okay but feels bland and soulless. It's nowhere as good as the taste of the food in my memories. So this is the problem that was mentioned in the note. All foods prepared by others will be hard for me to eat... This is indeed troublesome.'

Stella could eat the skewer, but it didn't give her any satisfaction from eating.

She realized all the delicacy she saw would taste rubbish to her. 'Now that I remember, I never actually ate food prepared by someone else other than that person, so I never even realized.'

She was in a bad mood. 'Guess I need to learn how to cook myself. Maybe cooking by myself would be a bit better? With my [Ultimate Talent] ability I should be able to learn cooking pretty easily.'

Stella kept exploring the city and kept using her [Gaze of ######] ability to see people's information. She could see quite a good amount of information with it.

She could see someone's true and false names, their age, their affiliation towards her.

She already used this ability on Lynette when they were talking.

[Name: Lynette

Age: 13

Affiliation: Friendly]

As she kept using [Gaze of ######] more and more, a notice entered her consciousness from the ability

[Gaze of ###### has reached basic mastery. Now it is possible to see people's detailed intent toward yourself. It is possible to judge a person's existence value and see a basic overview of their abilities and skills.

Gain the next threshold in mastery over this ability to unlock people's detailed life history, secrets, and full details over their abilities and skills.]

Stella stopped in her tracks just by reading the information sent to the consciousness. 'So I could see so many things without any mastery in [Gaze of ######]? Now that I have basic mastery, I can see so much more. This ability is too mysterious. My consciousness starts fading whenever I try to read its name.

She used [Gaze of ######] on a random person in front of her

[Name: Jacob

Existence Points/EP: 3100

Age: 37 - Soul Cycle: 18

Abilities:

• Enhanced Muscles (F):

<Ability details not available yet>

Skills:

• Woodcutting (D):

<Skill details not available yet>

Intent:

• Friendliness: 14%

• Hostility: -

• Love: -

• Lust: -

• Kindness: 13%

• Possessiveness: 7% ]

Stella took in a deep breath. And calmed herself down.

She was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information available. Existence Points, Soul Cycle, and Intent was a pretty new concept to her. So she slowly looked at each of the information in her consciousness again.

'Existence Points seems to be a numerical value of a person's strength. Is 3100 high or low?'

She used [Gaze of #####] on surrounding peoples again. The EP was usually between 2000-4000 for normal people. The guards patrolling the area usually had EP values between 7000-13000.

'So for normal people, it's usually around 3000, and these guards are around 10000 in EP value. What's my Existence Point then?'

She used [Gaze of ######] to get her value but was disappointed. It returned with some kind of permission error.

'Soul cycle seems to be the amount of time a person died and reincarnated, I can't see this value of myself either.

But what is up with the Intent value of that guy? A possessive value? At least there's no value on the worst one. Unlike the dozen creeps eyeing me with lust. What is wrong with people???'

Stella was disgusted.

She quickly left the area as she was attracting too much attention.

She found a much more quiet and empty area of the market and looked around the stalls.

After a while, she got bored and decided to look for buildings good architectural designs instead. As she was heading towards the big cathedral seen from afar, she decided to see Lynette's information again.

[Name: Lynette

EP: 47,000

Age: 13 - Soul Cycle: 1

Abilities:

• Faith of Worship (A)

• Protection of the Divine (S)

• Sweet Tooth (C)

• Fate's Chosen (S)

Advanced Authority:

• Holy Magic (S) (Light Sub-Authority):

Divine Healing, Blessing Creation

Skills:

• Mopping and Sweeping (C)

• Professional Slacker (A)

Intent:

• Friendliness: 37%

• Hostility: -

• Love: -

• Lust: -

• Kindness: 55%

• Possessiveness: 89% ]

'What the heck??'