Primal Polyglot

*To comprehend the Language of the Dao is to comprehend the universe.*

## Summary

Primal Polyglot is one of the fourteen "top-quality" E-Grade skills available on the second floor of the Towers of Myriad Dao; an ancillary skill. This was the second skill Zac chose to take after he defeated the Second Floor Guardian to open the second floor of the Dao Repository. It is a superior E-Grade alternate to the F-Grade skill **[Book of Babel]**. The skill allows one natural understanding of Dao-Based language, along with the normal property of such skills in bypassing language barriers. The skill's proficiency cannot be increased.

It has synergy with other skills such as Cosmic Gaze that allow one to see the underlying nature of the Universe.

## Acquisition

* The second one that Zac learned was **[Primal Polyglot]**, a skill that was a superior E-grade alternative to **[Book of Babel]**. **Book 6, Page 595**

## Skill Window

[Primal Polyglot – Proficiency: -. To comprehend the Language of the Dao is to comprehend the universe.] **Book 6, Page 596**

## Proficiency

* **[Primal Polyglot]** provided the same feature of breaking down language barriers, but it went one step further. It provided the user with an almost instinctual understanding of “Dao-based” language, according to the description. This applied to a lot of things, most notably inscriptions, formations, and even pathways. The skill wouldn’t allow him to understand any fractal he saw at a glance, but it would help him get a sense of what he was dealing with based on the fundamental characteristics of the fractal. The same went for inscriptions and even some written languages. It would help Zac with everything from deducing arrays to spotting hidden dangers, and it seemed like a skill that could go hand in hand with his **[Cosmic Gaze]**. **Book 6, Page 595**
* The translation function worked passively just like the **[Book of Babel]**, but the active interpretation of the Dao-based language needed an infusion of Cosmic Energy. He had tried using it a few times before as they’d traveled through the endless tunnels, but it appeared as though the skill didn’t really help with Technocrat materials. **Book 6, Page 677**

## Commentary

* Zac had already learned that multiple skills had similar functions as **[Book of Babel]**, but the better ones provided additional benefits as well. **Book 6, Page 595**
* Zac hoped that this skill would not only help him catch up with cultivators who had properly learned to decipher fractals and pathways since they were young, but perhaps even bridge some of the gaps of having no Dao Affinities. **Book 6, Page 596**
* Intuition fueled by **[Primal Polyglot**] told Zac that it wasn’t an upgrade, but neither was it a devolution. **Book 6, Page 656**
* In its place was an extremely dense fractal, and trying to understand it with **[Primal Polyglot]** could only provide him with one hint. It was a curse, one aimed at the girl herself. **Book 6, Page 700**
* The exhaustion resulted in mistake after mistake, forcing him to redraw the same fractals over and over before they were correct. **[Primal Polyglot]** did help a bit, giving him an instinctual sense of how fractals should look to work. **Book 7, Page 35**
* Zac couldn’t sense any Dao from the wounds, though, no matter if he used **[Cosmic Gaze]** or **[Primal Polyglot]** for clues. **Book 7, Page 359**
* feeling. It was a curse, an extremely sinister one according to **[Primal Polyglot]**. **Book 7, Page 392**
* The inscriptions were based on the script of the Apostate of Order, but trying to decipher it felt like looking at some proto-language on earth rather than the letters he was used to. **[Primal Polyglot]** and his accumulated experience still helped him somewhat understand their functions though, mostly because they weren’t that complicated. **Book 9, Page 38**
* Many were complex patterns that made Zac think of Skill Fractals, and **[Primal Polyglot]** indicated that these shapes were somehow related to Soul Cultivation. **Book 9, Page 61**
* His **[Primal Polyglot]** was utterly incapable of making heads or tails of the unfamiliar scripts or the proto-fractals that made up its inner workings. **Chapter 1,013**