Immortality.
It is said to be the combination of eternal life, an indestructible body, and an undying soul.
Time has lost its meaning for those who have already obtained it. Distance became the measure of time instead.
"Immortality—I can reach immortality in this world. This is a magical world, just like how the miracle water can return me to my youth, heal my injuries, cure sickness, and so on. There should" "...wait."
Just now, Nai seems to have recalled something. His eyes widening as he promptly feels his heart palpitations.
"Return me to my youth...what?!" Nai jumped up from his slashing posture as he immediately ran towards the pond with an incredulous expression amidst his deep, well-like eyes.
It can return me to my youth!
This miracle water is more miraculous than he initially thought! Nai was so surprised, as well as exhilarated. "Wouldn't this mean I had access to the first chapter of immortality? I can have eternal life!"
Forever young.
As long as he bathes and drinks daily from the pond water. He can retain his youth and live forever! "T-this... it's already been beside me all along."
His eyes flashed with more determination than ever. "Although it isn't a hundred percent proven, as long as the chances are high, I will defend this place with all my life!"
The miraculous water is his strategic resource! As well as his life! Those who steal it from him are telling him to die.
"The Agah Village must not find out about this. Or they would surely fight me to death."
Although he feared death, now that he had found the miracle water of his dreams, How could he leave it behind?
Reinforced the Viridescent Castle!
That's right, put walls around the pond and defend it from prying eyes! The pond's water comes from rain and some underground springs below.
The land should have some kind of wonder earth formation that attracts luck and fortune, or there may be some kind of mineral underground that gave the pond water its properties.
No matter what, he had work to do.
With that said, he immediately took the two water buffalo outside the walls to eat grass. Then he started making bricks—more and larger bricks!
Not just to build walls around the pond but also to increase the height of his walls. The towers must be raised a few more meters.
The entrance and exit must be closed for now, with only a little meter-sized hole to pass through in and out. It will be closed by a boulder he found long ago while he was widening the pond.
Just like that, time passed as he worked day and night. Because he was doing it more efficiently, his physical training didn't get left behind.
"If something happens other than being cured by those at the Agah Village, I hope it won't be the thing I dreaded to happened."
Nai only hoped that those who drank the miracle water wouldn't suddenly turn back to their youth.
If not, then this trouble won't be a small matter anymore.
Nai sighed. It all started because of that freaking ability to see the future. He didn't really know if it was a good or bad thing to come into contact with Garut Co.
A man's wealth is his sin. Nai knows that very well.
"Tsk." Though he was thinking of all of that, his hands and feet didn't stop at all. He had been working hard all day.
The miracle water pond has already been surrounded by walls that are four meters high.
He didn't even leave an entrance, as he thought that with his physical fitness, he could go in and out through climbing walls.
The walls around his castle were also strengthened, adding another meter to their height. The watchtower was also heightened by another two meters.
Arrows, though crude, can already be used. He naturally can't make another wall further away because of the huge area being covered. So he focused more on himself and his already-standing Viridescent Castle.
Of course, he didn't forget to train with his spear, axe, archery, and stick fighting. Although he didn't know any fighting styles, his imagination and practice would create them for him.
Time passed.
Nai was busy with his training. The sky above him started to darken. Dark clouds are gathering. Even the wind started getting colder as it thought moist.
He stopped what he was doing as he looked up above. A raindrop hit him on the face. "Rain."
Bang!
Thunder rumbled from the distance. Even from afar, Nai felt the tremor of the earth as well as the vibration in the air. "I'll continue this inside, then."
Padah! Padah!
By the time he returned to his shelter The downpour has already started. Just looking at the darkened surroundings outside, Nai knew that "it would be a long one.".
So, after looking outside, He sat down in a meditation position, then closed his eyes as he calmed his breathing.
Out of the body.
Peace of the mind
Only when one is calm can one observe the miniscule.
The world revolves around the sun, not the other way around.
The moon is the spy who governs all things from the dark sky.
Twinkling stars, like the measuring symbol of how many living things the world has seen.
The land, the sea, and the vacuum all start with oxygen.
It is air, gas, and a breath of life that carry the aura of creation.
Nai opened his clear and confused eyes. Why did he suddenly think of that? Enlightenment? No, it clearly is not.
The sounds of the rain hitting the vast grassland continued to ring in his ears even as he meditated.
He tried to analyze it with his rational thoughts.
out of the body.
Peace of the mind
Does it mean senses? communication between a human and his surroundings. Knowing things but seeing truth, a mind's eye.
"I see, my subconsciousness is telling me to develop my sixth sense." But how can he do that? Honing his sixth sense— the spiritual mind.
He crawled and laid down on his bed as he closed his eyes and followed what his heart wanted.
Calm the mind and let it wander around.
The mind is stuck by an invisible wall, unable to see what the world outside is. It was only when danger knocked that the mind would react and inform the consciousness to be wary for any misfortune to arrive.
"I see. I think I understand. This is a magical feeling, a strange wonder, to think there is more color in the darkness than I would know."
It was indescribable—the feeling of floating in the air, undeterred by gravity and fear.
Nai murmured in his heart, as he was currently in a strange state he hadn't thought would exist before.
Have I entered enlightenment? If so, then where am I?
Lost in the feeling of floating. He even forgot to sense the directions in this seemingly constructed place.
He lost it; he can't wake up.
However, he wasn't afraid, and he didn't want to leave this state. Dark, but also seems to contain colors.
A transparent wall that seems to bar him entry to see the color on the other side.
He felt like he had a hand in this place, and he was currently touching that transparent wall. He had the feeling that it was smooth and hard, but at the same time, it could be broken like glass.
There was chaos in his senses when he was deducing the right answer for his question. "This."
He tried to calm his mind and his heart. The thought that there was no noise around him seems to be just an illusion. It was actually noisy, but it started lessening.
The world revolves around the sun, not the other way around. Does that mean gravity, heat, or brightness? Nah, it's the source.
He is the source in this dark place. The eyes that saw through And the one that attracts what is outside.
A dim flash of light appeared. In his eyes, the walls crumbled and turned into transparent dust. There was a long, transparent crystal telescope suddenly in his hand.
The moon is the spy who governs all things from the dark sky. He murmured.
With a wave, the telescope immediately enlarged and showed him something far away.
The Moon.
It was so big and clearly defined in such fine details that he thought he could just hug it with his arms.
Twinkling stars, like the measuring symbol of how many living things the world has seen. The land, the sea, and the vacuum all start with oxygen.
It was as though sentences rang clear on something. A moonlight-like mist pervaded around the moon like some kind of aurora.
It is air, gas, or a breath of life that carries the aura of someone in higher definition. When he remembered this sentence.
The world around him broke apart.
And he returned to reality. With open eyes, he saw the ceiling as well as heard the rain. "What was that just now?"