From large animals to small animals can be commanded with the tail behind some of the people in the settlement from what he had seen. So, now he's only thinking about how to gain this tail. Which may provide him with a good ability to understand many animals and their abilities.

But he didn't if it was possible, so he spent the time thinking about this problem while looking at the villagers and sometimes hunting sea animals to fill up his energy bar. The next day, John looked at the people who were all behaving against their daily routine as they all gathered in the largest wooden building in the settlement. Most of them are people with gills and normal people without any mutation while some of them are people with tails, almost all the population of the settlement gathered here.

John also focused his attention on the large building probably the gathering hall and listened carefully while looking at the mouths to see if he could recognize some words and learn their language with his ability. But it's not possible he knows, as he isn't an extraordinary genius in his past life nor does he have any remarkable talents for memorization in this life to learn a language in a few years without anyone's teaching.

But he didn't stop trying to learn and understand their language even in this situation. It's very crucial to have different solutions.

In the massive building in the settlement, the twenty elders looked at the people present, and one of the elders Samuel said loudly "The council decided to hold a ceremony to increase the population of tailed people. What do you all think about it."

Upon hearing the word ceremony most of the older people showed a sad expression on their faces. While most young people and middle-aged people showed doubtful expressions on their faces.

Suddenly from the crowd, one of the women in her twenties with a child on her hips wearing animal skin clothes that covered most of her body parts while showcasing her well-developed body asked in a doubtful voice "Elder Samuel, what is this ceremony that you talk about? Can you explain it in detail? As I don't know anything about it."

The Elder Samuel nodded his head at the young woman and explained in a sacred tone "The ceremony is the process of converting normal people into extraordinary people with supernatural abilities. This method is said to have been invented by one of the divine beings from the royal family. Only with the people of supernatural abilities humanity can survive in this world and thrive."

Then the Elder took a deep breath to organize his thoughts and explained slowly "The advantage of the ceremony is that we can fuse any known animal bloodline and gain their well-known characteristics, possessing abilities of other species. But the disadvantage I that the success rate is very low and the success rate is according to the compability of the humans with the chosen bloodline. So there's a very high risk of death."

Elder Samuel looked at all the people and said with a deep voice "Since the population of the tailed people is declining and the need for the tailed people is very necessary for many daily activities of the settlement. So we decided to hold the ceremony to increase the population of tailed people. So, I hope you all support our decision by thinking about the survival of the people."

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Then Elder Samuel remained silent, as he gave enough time to the younger generation, to digest the information that they just acquired.

In the meantime, the elder without any mutation came forward and explained to the crowd with a gentle smile on his face "What Elder Samuel said is true, but that's for a normal people. Nobody here in the settlement is pure human. You all are descendants of people with mutation. So, you all have their genes in your body and the risk of death is very low, at the same time the chances of becoming extraordinary people are very high. So, you all can choose the ceremony with confidence."

Hearing this Elder's explanation, everybody including the remaining elders showed a surprised expression on their faces. The Elder Samuel looked at that elder and asked in a low voice "Is what you said true Henry?"

Other elders also looked at Henry for an explanation. As they don't know about this thing. Elder Henry looked at his companions and said with a confident expression on his face "It's true I have been looking at this issue for a long time by researching the books from the ancestors and comparing them with what's happening in the settlement. I came to this conclusion."

The crowd is chatting with each other and exchanging what they understand with each other. While people who understand what Elder Henry explained to those who don't understand.

The other elders showed ashamed expressions on their faces upon realizing that they were not as knowledgeable as their companion in the knowledge of the ceremony. But they all lived for a long time. So, they hide their inner feelings, as every one of them is a very knowledgeable person in a certain field.

That is one of the prerequisites for becoming an Elder. The crowd also calmed down after a few minutes and the woman who questioned elder Samuel said to him in a respectful voice "Elder, I am fine with this ceremony and willing to participate."

The woman showed a determined expression on her face, as she wished to have the same abilities as her friends from a very young age. Even if they didn't treat her differently because she's different from them. In some situations, they all would have no choice but to do most things with their ability.

At that time she couldn't participate in those activities even if she wanted to. So she decided to give the ceremony a chance to see if there was a possibility of awakening an ability. Both of her parents also have gills and only she's a different person in her family. So there's a high chance for her to be able to awaken some ability.

With her as a beginning, one by one people began to express their opinions.

"Elder, I am also okay with this ceremony. But I don't want my children to participate."

"Me too, Elder. I am also ok.. "

The people who were okay with the ceremony expressed their opinions and some of them even talked about some of their concerns. The first one to reject the ceremony also appeared.

"Elder I don't want to participate in this ceremony. I am not against the initiation of the ceremony. As our family has been normal people for generations and I don't want to risk, with such a high chance of failure."

Along with this first rejection. Many more people rejected participating in this ceremony with most of them being normal people who have all been normal people for generations. None of them are against the ceremony. All of them were okay with the ceremony, so the elders decided to finalize the decision.

Elder Samuel looked at the crowd and said loudly "Since all of you are okay with the initiation of the ceremony. The ceremony will begin ten days later and the people who wish to participate can leave their names on the list in the gathering hall. That's all for today, you all can return."