Other sketches that Ki had drawn were small things that could provide easier lives for the people within the village or for people completing tasks at work or at home.
Sketches and measurements for a glass hourglasses with sand inside of different sizes for each set amount of time for the sand to fall to the bottom and lamp designs or other household goods that she had seen in her previous life were also shown to the families most loyal crafters and after they swore complete loyalty to the family they began research on the various products.
Ki also had a sketch of a waterwheel and windmill, pully systems and various drainage pipe designs to help in the village with grinding stones, blacksmithing, grinding grain, pumping water, and draining lowland areas and many more uses so she handed it over to Agnes to see if she could put together a team to research them in order to improve the village and how they have been living.
Although her sketches were somewhat vague, the idea and concept were enough for a talented craftsmen to get the general idea and figure out how to make it work.
In fact in the future there would be a craftsmen who would come forward and invent many useful tools and inventions within the next forty years that would drastically help many people overcome many great burdens and improve the lives and make many things easier for those of the general population that had to endure heavy lifting, encountering floods or disease because of their environments living conditions and even various means of rough repetitive work.
That person also helped to build a large catapult that was capable of killing many people at once or could help destroy a gate or walls but Ki withheld the design for now as it should not be exposed to the world yet as siege weapons were yet to be introduced to the world as most wars and battles were thought and settled by the strong experts who could easily climb the walls and open the doors from the inside so long as they did not have to fight someone of equal strength to them right from the beginning.
Most people failed to come up with these ideas because they already lived in the comfort of the capital and had enough strength to overcome various situations with strength alone but that did not mean that the other ninety percent were not struggling so although progress wasn't being made someone would eventually be born with enough creativity and vision that would one day help the less fortunate people within the world.
During that mans time of life he had given much to the world and many others continued to use what he had made and improve it over the years that Ki was alive so she got to witness some of the finished products that were developed by various forces.
Thanks to the villages restricted access over the last couple of years and their secluded place within the forest as they built up the walls around them they were able to begin developing new things and test them within the village without them being leaked out into the outside world.
However even if she could not yet research siege weapons because of its negative effects on the world that would change the flow of many wars, that did not stop Ki from drawing a sketch of a small catapult weapon or slingshot that can be used to fire small stones, small pouches or metal balls which can be used be those who did not like close combat but did not have the skills to master archery, spear throwing or using hidden weapons or the money to have something like a crossbow crafted for them.
Those that got the finished product were greatly pleased with how easy they were to use and the damage they could inflict if the right ammunition was used.
Even Ki, Evie, Leon, Miranda, Elizabeth, Adam and Agnes would keep one with them as they went out and practiced with it in their free time.
While Ki, Evie and Leon were used to close combat the others within the family did not have much experience so could only use their martial arts and contracts or sacrificial arts to help them avoid attacks, buy more time or run away so having an easy to use weapon was something that greatly helped them to survive or gain an advantage over an enemy.
Although Ki had her throwing knives and bow and arrow there were also times that may need such a weapon which was smaller and lighter to carry but would also be lethal to those targeted by it depending on what she shot out from it.
In fact small catapults or slingshots had long been invented and sometimes had been used by children or hunters on occasion but her design was more compact and was made of better materials so it had more lethality and was more durable than the wooden ones made from poor quality wood people usually used.
Adam had been practicing the sword or metal qi art that his son had been using for a long time but did not have much progress but thanks to the qi boosting pills effects he was able to boost his strength to a whole new level.
With the combination of peak martial artist strength when they use the qi within their bodies to help them fight and the contracts with their individual beasts both Elizabeth and Adam were growing much stronger along with their contract beasts who had also benefitted a lot during their growth.
The contract beasts of Leon, Elizabeth, Adam, Lumi, Rayleigh and those who belonged to the white wolf group had been showing signs of growing in strength as their masters or partners were continuing to improve themselves which proved Ki's previous theory that it wasn't only the human that benefitted from the contract.
As they improved their body and qi through hard training the contracted beast also experienced some of the effects through the contract.