I wake up from my night of bliss, beside my sleeping Tenka. I can ear Sal and Ami's whispering on the other side of the curtain.
I slowly get up, not disturbing the sleeping beauty. Then get to the other side and say good morning. Salaba blush heavy and respond.
(HO boy.... I should have known she would wake up during our "battle"...)
"Well... Sal, no need to be shy. We are now a family. Tenka love you very much too, which is rare."
She blush even more. Ammit just look at her not understanding much. She soon forget all of this, when I bring some breakfast. I then go to my beloved side.
To my surprise, she does not feel any pain at all. (Make sense with our regen It should not be much to heal). Her regen is not as good as mine, but after her evolution, she shine in my eyes. Twice the strength Beno exuded in our battle.
As for me I'm blocked at twice too for now. Of course my ability's changed since last time...
After a Cheerful morning, we all get to work. Ammit follow Salaba for food hunting and growing. More like she want to taste everything she can eat.
Tenka went to school the pup's.
As for me, I directly went to the smith. or what they tried to make it look like....
I make a hammer in front of Riley and Ruly, Then I hammer down the forge down in three good shots with it.
"When making metal work's, Never be afraid to start over. Better this then someone dying because of a bad weapon."
They don't speak English well yet as they are in the lower rank's. But I brought the two with red and we went and found many different metal's and rock's to help them in making the forge.
One by one I show them the law's of physic's and how to measure, weight, density, temperature, making a mold, all this while never lighting up the forge.
I gain a lot of common language skill too. Even if I thought myself smart to not needing it. I realize the other's in this world won't speak English.
Beside their boiling brain, I could see the eagerness to make their first weapon's. I thought the daggers are the simplest weapon to start with, and most used too. I want everybody to have a dagger.
I set them with soft metals first for practice. These metal's can easily be recycled and there is no hammering and tempering, as I call it journeyman skill which I'm not Even at yet. I'm lucky for my memories, in that case, I know all they need about metals or even minerals.
Their task is to make me ten daggers. Riley is in charge and Ruly assists. Meanwhile, I will go get us more materials.
I call Ammit back to help me with the skeleton she made for me. Well part of it, and I wish to complete it. After reluctantly eating a bunch of metal's, We concluded she can alter metals inside our stomach. By alter, I mean she can switch a metal density, grain orientation, alloy making.
The limit is she can't change it's nature, as an atom of iron will stay iron, but she can produce any type of steel easy. Of course Sam is not satisfied with this. The metal he got from Arianna would put steel to shame.
-3rd P.O.V-.
Although, it's good enough for my trainee's. So after a week of searching Red and I found a nice and deep cave. It should be easier to find what we need here.
We dive in there, pretty much unafraid. Both of us can see in the dark perfectly. Red use his nose do discern minerals he never smelled yet, or try to find something similar to my claws.
We reach a system of larger caves. This goes on for kilometers. I don't have Amy yet, and remembering this much seems like a pain, so we turn to leave.
Not even five steps after we come face to face with a giant brown snake with leopard dark green spots on it.
"Red you're up!"
Red-"The hell! you're up! I cant's even shift size in here!"
"My claws are to small to pierce its skin..."
(I wish I could have it as a pet...)
"Can you restrain it?"
Red-"How do you...."
The conversation get cut by a angry snake snapping his mouth at them. A foul breath pierce their nose.
(Red is in bad posture. This acrid smell seems lightly corrosive. Better keep my claws in until the best moment, or I'l end up poisoned.)
The snake slap at Red with his tail. It was a lot more prepared than us for this. I manage to get under its jaw and slice at its belly. It's blood splash on my cloths and destroy my coat in a few secs. lucky my body just flake some skin and the acid fall off me.
(This is new! "is that you Bes?")
Bes-("Yeah this cost pretty much nothing. Just don't go get an' arm cut of yet. Your lifespan is not long enough to regrow our super expensive limbs. By the way Ammit as been sending some vitality my way a bit. Try to eat the snake.")-
("I can't, when thing's are alive the energy in the system, If bigger then mine, stop the process.")
Bet-("Just beat him up until its half dead then. We need to test this out!")
Red Was way too distracted to avoid the slap and get sent flying in the dark.
"hahahahaha oups!"
While I avoid another slap, then the head crash in the ground, I jump on top of it and jam my claws in his neck.
Very bad Idea. I get smashed in the ceiling. My forearms are fine due to the metal but both upper arm's are broken and few ribs too. My lights also seem to almost go out. The impact dug my entire forearms in his neck. lucky he wont smash again because of that.
While my ear's are rigging, Ammit make her way inside my body and put back my bones in place. Within a few seconds, my bones are connected. She then sweeps inside my muscles and tendon. I can feel the strings of energy inside me untangling themselves where I'm healed.
I Can't use it, but I can feel the power blocked inside. Specially when she heal me.
("Thank you Ammit! This feel's good!")
But inside I almost cry. (An' other masochist way of training coming.)
The snake is unsure what to do as it can feel something on it's head, but the pain it inflicted on itself made it careful. Still it's pointless cause Red appear beside the gash I gave it's belly earlier and rip a chunk for his own.
(He seem pretty dirty but fine hehehe.)
"Hey keep it alive but obedient!"
We both beat it it down in a rumble until it's down. Of course, I just let myself get wiped to break my bones efficiently. The slap of it's tale is good enough to just crack my skull but not explode it...
I would not do the head if I did not have Ammit, but the first shot gave me enough confidence to let her modify my body, as she feel is right.
Every time she touch a conduit it's like a guitar string attached to my heart and brain get tugged and released in the right place.
She as to tell me to stop after a while, it's to much damage at once. I just let Red finish this up. After his first slap, He go awoken pretty badly. Now he's venting his rage a bit on the poor reptile.
Once the thing is immobilized, I go for the tail and start swallowing. The beast power is too weak to stop the compression and I swallow the giant snake like a noodle.
-BURRRRP!-
"Haaaaa."
I let out a moan as I feel like million's of ant's massage my body internally.
Ammit-("Papa The shell of the monster is just like metal.)-
("Can you use is it on my bone instead of the metal, just keep my arm's and leg's the way they are. I'm pretty happy with them.")
I go back to the village to gather every able body and beat the shit out of me every day for a month. Like a giant masochist.... I'm not thank you.
I don't even get myself tied up. I stand in the middle of a circle of woman eyes closed, They then bruise every spot on my skin with staffs first, then I made a bunch of Capacitors and a static gathering machine. Just a few straps of fur on a wheel. They use the static to sock me. And this machine produce a few sparks by seconds.
After a month or two, the training lost its efficacy, so I stopped and let Ammit make me an skeleton cover from the giant snake scales. They are light, flexible and resist corrosion. She as some left over for my growth too, a detail I almost forgot.
She only left my wrists, ankles and claws, clad in black metal. There is now three, one and a half foot long, claws on the hand's and five sharp metal toes and heel good for kicking. Having claws on the foot is very bad. Can you imagine walking with that... The claws shrink once they retract in my hands. the density of it is incredible. There is no danger of braking my wrists or hands anymore.
I also told her to make some training weight's, which took the entire loot we gathered at the forge. I had to send Berth with Riley and Ruly to get some more. Lots more!
By the way they finished their task while I was beaten. So when they came back I limp to go check their work. They both passed easily, so the next task is to make hard metal, starting with the red alloy I discovered, I called it Echatium. They are to make a set of different sizes anvil's, Hammer's, thong's, crucibles, etc. Then make weapons of all kinds. as for armors, I went with simple chain mails. Which is an art to make. you can't bend it, so you have to mold the rings already inside the other. A mail made from Echatium, charged with power, can block a high caliber rifle from earth.
Berth can easily replace red, when it comes to smell and finding what they need and bring back a few tons of materials each times. He's like our freighter hehe.
Now all I do everyday, is training Riley and fighting all the warriors at the same time, excepted Tenka and Sal because of the 4 ton's reducing my speed. They are just too fast for me with the weight's on. I have to be careful to never hit anyone with my limbs, or they would break. This helps me get a lot better at weapons handling.
I train everybody with a sword. I realized that sword practice is very versatile. It is easy to transfer the experience of swordplay in the other weapon's. Parry, slash, dodge, strike, stab, lunge, feint, sweep, block, advance, blade, guard, grip, hilt, handle, edge, pommel, pivot, retreat, stance, tip, and attack. Once those basic moves are learned, It can be transferred even to a scythe and with practice, the scythe style becomes clear by itself. Well, that is for sharp weapons. Blunt weapons are another style all together. I can't use them in training, it's way too dangerous for them.
On top of that we can add energy to the blows, which widen the choice of moves and difficulty as I as still no access to my power. I still beat them down every day tough. As long as Salaba or Tenka don't join in. Those two have been sparing all day while the little ones watch. That and the English lesson's. Nobody knows how to write common, so I have them start with English.
Tanka as the edge over Sal, but she put on weight I made for her, cause I was sorry for myself and Sal. Beside she can be faster, so why not...
Sal also has her own set of training weigh's, which is ten time the amount Tenka use and it don't even make her flinch. When she is serious, she can alter a field in one spar, creating potholes and broken trees, while Tenka is the opposite.
Our powers seeping in nature also change the ecosystem slowly. For example, the training field get's destroyed at least thrice a week. Every time we go, the vegetation grow stronger and the plants that survive multiply. Those plants absorb more energy than the other's and the cycle continues as we destroy them again.
Like this, our lives improve by small leap's everyday. The food problem has been solved by Berth and I, showing them how to accelerate growth. This causes the farmer's to have large pool's of energy just like berth. They can't do much with it, but they can heal! This makes some cheap healer's. I have them practice healing on their free time. If they don't know a bit of anatomy, they will leave scars or kill people in the worst case. Just the basics about skin, muscles, bones, organs, veins and nerves. At least they know how the differentiate these by color and shape...
We also found mountain's goats, which we captured and tamed. We came across many special animals, that Elnora purposely led to us. Like; two boars, one that look like rotten wood, mushrooms and tangled vines, called the green boar, the other looks like a huge rocky snail, The rock boar. Don't underestimate them, the rock boar as an heavy unbreakable charge and is tough and strong, the green one can use vegetation to attack. Pachy, the chubby teen, and Enta got them.
There is also the Whitemare which is a white female moose filled with power. She chose Iizuka the little genius as a master without a fuss.
(Sigh.. I wish mom did that for me back then...)
Akari got a big panther with red spots that she can ride on it and a small red snake, very poisonous.
Mily got pretty unlucky. She was the unruly Mily already, but now she got herself a wolverine and her soul fused very well with it, to the point that her personality got affected. Lucky, she bends her will to the strong. I managed to calm her down.
I felt bad for her, so I made her a weapon with Ammit help. I sacrifices a bit of my own metal since I didn't need that much for what I use it. She got claws just like mine, but outside her body, at least for now...The mechanism leave me perplex. How does wolverine pull them out? I also give her personal training everyday. Except that, she stay in her house, which I had her move beside us, since Tenka and I are like her parent's. Salaba is not strong enough yet, to prove how much Mily gained from her pet. In a fight, the two are fast, deadly and cunning.
Tema, Utata and Uli became the Shepherd's/farmers of the group. They tamed the goat's.
Riley and Ruly got a Big moose With enormous antlers. They tamed it together and gain the ability to speak mentally. This is very useful in the forge with all the noise. The moose act like a wise elder wile stepping on the bellow of the forge. I wonder if the forgemasters in the future will all do this kind of thing?
Rita the m.i.l.f., tamed a male peasant, and it became very "productive" In fact the whole coop got upgraded since she takes care of them. I don't know how she does it. Wink.
Her child's Luqui and Mito tamed wolf cubs.
Sati and sera have wolf cub's too.
Xeo and Tio Went for something smaller. They found two Marten or Sables and a crow each. More like Intel gatherers.
Nalia found a Big spider. She must have known its location for a long time. She became quite the warrior at her age and pretty. Then again, this world don't even have the same time span... You should have seen the people when she came back sitting on top of it. Hehehe. The girls don't seem to like spider's much even in this world, except for a few, Tenka included.
Except for the elders and Tali's baby, Zama, they all have an' animal bound to them.
By the way, Tali Ask for me to awaken her a while back, in fact her and here baby. For her, I accepted but the baby... She seemed determined so I did her, but in the end I'm waiting for Amy wake up for Zama.
There is not much difference between the warriors and Tali. To do it I used Tenka's energy since I could not use mine at the moment. She even helped me since I can't see much either. I'm stupid doing it just cause she asked...
In the end everything went well, but she is the same as my other jobs, which is vexing for me. She is just happy and don't hold back the hug's. Sigh...