The next morning Zeki rose before sunrise, had some purple juice and breakfast consisting Arctic Bull before setting off into the forest whilst recalling the conversation she just had with her teacher.
"Zeki, my disciple, today you are to travel east from the entrance of the forest, chop 5 logs and return, then travel along the same path again, however, just before you get to the lake, you will find that there are some trees without leaves.
Choose whichever tree, and begin chopping it until all which is left is a small stump; leave the wood behind.
From there, travel to the lake where you will find somewhat something different, hehehe.
Here, take this with you. It is a coat I bought the other day for you.
Before you ask, just take it with, a good reason will present itself.
Next, travel from the lake to the cliftop, upon reaching, just before, you will find that I left a stack of wood.
Chop ten, four pieces each like yesterday, return with the chopped wood to the lake, and chuck it in to the lake, also, don't ask why about that either.
Return to the tree you chopped down, and carry with you all that wood back home; in total, including the first, that should be two trips back to the shed.
Do not stray from the path I have set before you, and that's all, hehehe-"
Still thinking to herself, Zeki, that her teacher, really is an unusual individual.
Arriving at the stump in the east, just like yesterday, Zeki begins chopping.
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Chop
Chop
Chop
Swing
Swing
Chop
...
Returning to the shed with a sack containing the five logs chopped, Zeki makes her way up to the lake, northwest from the bend at the east.
Before reaching it, an ice cold wind brushes past her face, causing her to shiver, thus, without a second thought, Zeki retrieves the coat made of dark wool and wears it.
Sometime after, standing before a tree without leaves, she decides it to be the one to chop and proceeds doing so with the swing of an axe.
After having chopped down the almost 3m tall tree, arriving at the lake, to her surprise, the entire lake has frozen over, all 5km thereof.
Deciding that she should just focus on what it is she ought to do, Zeki, not too long after, finds herself before the cliftop by the shrine, staring at a stack of logs, hundreds of them, and, not to mention, unlike yesterday and the day before, the ground is covered in snow, and somewhere off in the distance a mooing cry reverberates through the air.
Choosing the 10 logs-
Swing
Chop
Swing
Chop
Considering the cold temperature, her pace can be said to be average.
"I never had to do such things in the palace..." Mumbling to herself, becoming somewhat lost in thought and not before long, all 10 logs have been chopped.
Packing the wood in the sack, then, at the frozen lake, she chucks it in, the wood, she has in the sack, to the lake.
On her way back, after retrieving the chopped up tree, she had noticed, for some time now, that the green light has a thin light blue colour added to it and perhaps that, the two colours are in fact in harmony.
Inhaling deeply, and at the same time moving forward before exiting the forest and then to the shed.
The following days, Zeki, as instructed by her teacher, proceeded the same as before and just with a little extra added every following day to her workload, slowly leading towards the day before the new moon.
That night, Serkzyl told her that he has some matters to attend to and that he hopes she watches over things while he is away.
The moon rose through the sky and just then a notification was received-
[Origin System notice:
1st Origin seal 100% released
{1st Circuit of Origin Magic, 1st 10 individual Forces, Spirit of Ancient Destruction}
9 Origin seals remaining
Prayer Link notice: Realm Increase
Priestess of Silence 1st realm
Abstinence 100
Battle Strength 200
Cultivation Speed 200
Defiant Nature 100
- increased to 2nd realm
Cultivation Technique Observed:
Abyss Book of Calamity Distortion (Silence of the priestess Vol 1)