"As you already know, my strength came from the sun. That's why I can be said to be an accepter of the sun pathway." By saying this, I mean that there are more pathways to gaining strength aside from the sun.
"Just like mine, my strength came from the moon. So should I call myself a moon accepter? It's not a bad name, actually." Agreeing, Nai liked the name of the branch he would be founding.
"Sun and Moon, and then there are the Living Dead Accepters, those skeletons were saying. It looks like this extraordinary path has slowly taken shape since the day I met you." Garut gave a faint laugh as he said it to Nai.
"How can you be too rude to them, old man? Don't they have names? At least call them that instead of skeletons or monsters," Nai jokingly said, but indeed, one should at least respect others names, or else one will attract hatred from the others.
No one knows if their voice can reach them through many means. After all, a voice can travel with the wind. And since this is an extraordinary world, It wouldn't be too farfetched if they had the ability to hear what they were saying here right now while very far away.
"Uh, I'll do that next time." Just like that, the two rested for an hour before Garut left to take care of the village. At the same time, he is trying to see if he can devour the grass from the grass-hair monster to awaken an ability.
Although he was excited, Garut still knew how to be calm and enjoy the leisure of a peaceful life. If he was hasty in everything, things might not go as planned as they did back then. That's why, while walking, he was thinking.
As for what he was thinking, only he knows. But one thing is for certain: he lifted up his face as he met the morning sun. "The repopulation of the village must be speeded up."
However, saying that was the same as not saying anything. After all, who was he to control the number of his villagers, which suddenly multiplied the next day? All he can hope now is to encourage them to continue giving birth.
They had no need to worry about anything because of the miracle water's existence. It will always keep them safe and sound. Just like that, he returned to his house unimpeded and closed the wooden door.
It's time to try out the grass if they are the same as those that can be used by accepters. He actually hid one thing about the acceptors from Argar, though. And it's about how one can awaken an ability by devouring these extraordinary materials.
After all, if they became enemies in the future, wouldn't he was just making them more powerful? No matter who it was, the safety of oneself can be said to be the most prioritize in life and anyone would choose to hid something for that protection.
Garut sat down in a cross-legged position. He took out the stalk of gray-colored grass near his tribal necklace, which symbolizes the sun. In the next moment, he was stunned.
He immediately lowered the grass in his hand as he looked at the ceiling with closed eyes. "Damn, did I finally start to get senile?" He shook his head before lowering them.
Showing a sheepish smile with his old face, he has actually almost forgotten how to devour extraordinary materials because too much time has passed. "Ah, it must be because I only did it once; that's why I had almost forgotten how to do it."
With a stone knife in hand, he slashed a cut with his finger with a calm face before drops of blood flowed out, which dripped down to the grass on the ground in front of him.
With a puff, the grass turns into smoke like magic, then dances around him like some kind of ritual before getting attracted by an unknown power that came from the acceptance proof. With a swoosh, the smoke was sucked in like a funnel.
Since it was still daylight, his acceptance proof was absorbing the sunlight around him as it vibrated. Now, after the devouring process, nothing much has changed. He will only see that tonight if it continues to light up and vibrate.
...
At the same time. In that endless, foggy night.
The dark fog churned among the lands while bathing in the moonlight of the huge round moon above. A while later, the sounds of footsteps hitting the dry ground rang out.
Argar looked around him and said, "We're back. I did not expect this." Turning around, he waved his hand and had his sedan returned, but when he came back,
Bador and the other skeleton saw him shake his head. "Indeed, we can't go back. It looks like a coincidence." The former paused before he continued. "But one thing is for certain. The dark fog around us can act as a way to return back to the grassland."
"Yes, but we don't know where we might be sent by it," the skeleton said. Argar followed, "It's not that hard to guess, but since we have arrived near the village Garut has founded, then would that mean that we might appear near a human living place?"
"What Argar said has a high chance of being the case. However, another problem would be that we don't know when this dark fog will bring us there again, as we have no control over it," Bador calmly said.
The skeleton at the side climbs down from the neck of his mount before sitting on the dry, stony ground. Looking at the dim, rocky mountains surrounded by dark fog.
And then there are those monsters that camouflage on the ground. Not to mention the moon above looking so big that they even thought they might have some possibility of climbing it.
"I think we should stop our traveling now and focus on making our base?" Argar suggested, sending the message for Bador here.
Bador was silent for a while. Then he replied, "We should continue. We don't need to eat anyway. Why should we need a base? Let's just explore this place instead and also observe the puddle we came from."
The skeleton looked at Argar and Bador's exchanges, but he didn't want to hear anything from them this time. Instead, it was thinking about that verdant grassland.
"Ah, I miss home."
...
As the days passed, the situation in the village returned to normal. With Garut's experiment on the grasses, he brought Nai news of its success, showing that it can indeed be devoured.
"Have you tried devouring other things around you?" Since it was successful, Nai somehow blurted out what he wanted to know. While Garut answered, "I tried, but nothing happened."
"I see, thank you." After Garut left, Nai sat under the stairs with his clothes wet from the mini water falls. Looking at the bright sunlight above, he finally understood that not everything can be devoured by acceptance proof.
"So it only really devour those extraordinary materials from those bizarre monsters, huh?" Although his territory can fight those monsters with the miracle water as their foundation,
The lack of accepters that can wield those spears and axes while bathing in miracle water can be said to be only him and Garut's. "I still need time, huh. And this time, it looks like nothing bad will crawl up to my territory and disrupt me."
A while later, he left for the castle's temporary house. The water fairy was having fun with Acacia, who was knitting it a crown made of water vines that can bloom sky blue flowers.
"If only I had the ability to appraise anything." Nai neared Acacia and sat down beside her with his hands on her waist. "What are you doing?" she whispered beside her ears.
Acacia was somewhat nervous, but that's all. Although she was shy, that didn't mean that she was embarrassed. With how long they've been together. She had already grown used to Nai's antics and eccentricity.
It's just that, wherever they got together. Nai's hands would always turn restless and suddenly roam around, touching places that shouldn't be seen during the day. "I'm making the water fairy more beautiful."
"Hmm." Nai hummed; he was silent for a while. But when Acacia completed what she was doing, He said, "Your done right?" Acacia placed the vine ring with flowers on it on top of the water fairy, who took a liking to it as it started to play around.
"Yes." Then, Acacia suddenly fell into Nai's embrace as Nai lifted her up into a princess carry as they slowly moved towards the house bedroom. Acacia blushed as she knew where this was going to be.
Just like that, the days passed by while Nai did the usual activities he always did. Construction of his castle walls. Widening the moat. Diving to his underwater house And there's that working hard whenever he had time with Acacia.
In the end, a month after He received two news.