"Acacia, from time to time. When I visit the Creek Village. You can come with me and teach the other women how to knit. I remember the way your coats were made; it seemed quite crude and uneven. How do you all even do that?"
Stepping down the stairs, Acacia was clearly excited to hear how she was going to have some free time in the village to teach knitting with the other women in the village.
Answered, "I don't know at all. The seamstress in our village doesn't like others to know how she makes clothes.".
"Oh." Nai's response was lackluster. It doesn't really matter to him. He was just casually asking what other methods of making clothes were currently in existence.
The reason was nothing other than spreading other methods of being a tailor. Although the farm is working steadily, The number of workers is just too few.
Nai needed the villagers to work hard. There's the problem of childbirth too; there's no nurse in this world, so he can only opt for assisting their success via the help of the pond's water.
The men would usually feed the livestock and patrol the surrounding areas. While women would take care of the crops or at home.
"Fruits such as carrots, ginger, and other kinds of ingredients and fruits plus vegetables here are still uncultivated by people."
"With my layman knowledge of this place, I'm afraid I won't even be able to recognize anything aside from potatoes underground."
"Time; I need time on my side."
Meeting up with Garut, Nai took out ten unadorned white rings and told him what to do. "I don't know what will happen for those who aren't accepters and have had their blood stained by these slime rings."
"I hope you will be careful. It's another route to our future as an accepter." Saying that, he left with Acacia after giving other orders to the others.
Garut's hand tightened tightly, feeling the rings in his hand. He felt the long-lost excitement in his old but strong heart. "How many years has it been?"
Tears gushed out of his eyes as he turned around and left. Eager to return to his mudstone house to devour the rings immediately.
"Where is Father going to?"
"Grandpa seems to have just walked away with a smiling face, though I seem to have seen a glimpse that he was also crying at the same time."
"Son, grandpa might just be happy."
"Mmmmn."
...
Devour is what Nai called the process of absorbing the extraordinary materials he called slime rings.
Devour has three steps: the first is using the blood to refine them to a smoke-like form, the acceptance proof that would suck the smoke, and the digestion process that would take days to digest.
Once the devour phenomenon has completed its digesting, the accepter has a hundred percent chance to awaken another ability or grow further in body capabilities.
Lifespan might also grow, but this one is not yet clear or proven.
After the battle, Nai and Acacia returned home and locked the door before falling asleep in each other's embrace.
As for any thoughts that someone might sneak in to scoop water in his pond? Fat dreams! Nai had made sure to lay many traps along the way to inform him of any immediate dangers.
Not to mention his heightened senses caused by the awakening of his spiritual mind and increase in human body limits if someone really did try to sneak in. He will immediately notice that.
The next day. When the sun had just raised its first ray of the day. Nai's eye opened after his biological clock reminded him.
He left the bed after giving Acacia a fondle on her chest. "Grow bigger, okay?" Looking at Acacia's sleeping face, Nai bent down and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
When he came out of the house, Nai breathed in the morning's chilly air. "Goodmorning." Stepping onto the pond, he drank some water to moisten his throat before washing his face with its coolness.
"Now, I'm truly awake. Should I start cooking now? Nah, I'll just leave it to her." With that, he stepped on the stairs leading upward. When he reached the castle's foundation, he saw Garut sitting on the other side, seemingly waiting for him.
"Just in time." Nai walked forward before sitting beside him. "How is it? "Felt any difference?"
Garut opened his eyes, his right hand holding on to his shining tribal necklace that seemed to reflect the light of the sun, his acceptance proof.
Looking at the beautiful young horizon, he said, "It's as you said, it never stopped emitting light or vibrating even at night. I had a hunch that I would awaken something not far from now."
"Can't you see it with your ability?" Nai asked, and Garut shook his head as he explained. "My ability isn't that powerful at all. It only activates when someone dies near me in the far future."
Nai raised an eyebrow. "Is that the reason you didn't foresee the herds attack and the slime invasion before?"
Garut nodded. There's no need to lie, as there's nothing that he would lose. Instead, he gained something, which is why he was happy to oblige.
Nai was speechless. "That's some ability you have there. It even has a kink." Knowing that, the ability to foresee the future has a big limit.
He wondered what his limitations were.
My current known abilities are inner sight and land step. As for the others, I can't be sure of them. Most of my abilities stem from when my spiritual mind awakens.
The land step should have also stemmed from it. I just don't know what will happen after the extraordinary materials from rhinos are completely digested.
Garut looked at Nai's acceptance proof— the moon's blessing, or so he called it. "What should I do?"
"Listen to me then."
"Alright."
Nai then instilled the foundation of the Accepter's Path to Garut via his mouth and his understanding.
"So we are in Hundred Years State right now, and what stage am I?" I don't know how to count the number of years, you know. I've never even heard of the word 'year' yet.
Nai didn't mind. "Alright, since it will be too hard in that way. I'll just divide it into early, middle, late, and peak stages."
"That's easy to remember." Garut commented. "So what stage am I at?"
Nai thought for a bit before he said, "Perhaps at the late-stage hundred-year state? You're old already, so you might be nearing peak stage too. I don't know; we can just find it out later."
"And you?"
"Me? I might have skipped them directly. Maybe at the late stage too? Anyway, I haven't felt any kind of limit that hinders my progress yet." Nai did indeed feel no blockades in his growth over the years.
In just three to four years, he had grown stronger than Garut, who had lived longer than him. "Maybe I'm special?"
Or it might be that the pond water and the breathing exercise have auxiliary effects that speed up my progress. Of course, that's a guess, but most of the time He believes them to be true.
Not even bothering to check if he was right. After all, wouldn't he find it in the future?
"How many days?" Nai asked.
Garut thought for a while before he answered, albeit not surely, "Eight to nine, maybe ten days?".
"Hmm." A few seconds later, Nai said "Did you find out what's special about those rhinos? "From which part did you find those materials?"
This is important, as it will give Nai the light to look for those extraordinary materials aside from killing those slimes, which he can't find where they came from.
"On the soles of their feet." There's only one on every rhino, so to find those objects, one can only search all their feet. Also, the feet bones were very heavy; it's the only thing that was like that of a big rock."
After Garut left, Nai stayed in his position for a long time. "The rhinos might not be normal animals anymore. Should I call them Ground Shaking Rhinos from now on? Above animals, can they be called beast?"
He had already devoured the piles of material he got from them. Should he also continue with the new-found slime rings? "That might be dangerous. "I better not court death on my own."
"I have time; I can wait." So he decided he'd devour the slime rings next time. For now, he should return to work. The completion of his castle will give him more security in the future.
Naturally, the walls that will start to be built around the periphery of the territory will also be of great help in their overall security.
"But I still lack knowledge about my own people. I prefer not to count on outsiders. That would leave me with no choice but to wait for my descendants to be born." Nai wryly laughed.
"16–20 years, I can wait."