While Asur was wondering what to do about his current situation in the village, at the chief’s home, the young woman who was placed to watch over Asur was there talking to the chief. Since she was placed there she could obviously come to tell him what she found out.
His current face was one of intense shock as the women described his actions, especially when he was training. Be it his accuracy or his strength, it was immensely shocking that it was his ‘base’ strength.
The seer sat with her eyes closed but her lips slightly lifted into one of a smile. Her ability to see through one had obviously not diminished one bit and she could clearly see that Asur was a person with great power.
Getting a confirmation was obviously gratifying but it also brought a headache as her son did not accept it before storming off.
“I wonder what is going on with that boy?” the chief said sighing.
“Tell him to beware his own arrogance.” the seer said.
Her husband’s face turned serious at once when she took the effort to say this. He felt pained that the boy was being consumed by his own pride. As the chief and a father, he hoped to see Baal become a strong leader but his pride made him ignore the general studies and his arrogance and forceful ways makes the chief reluctant to allow him to even lead a hunting party.
Baal only hunts with the War chief because he still listens to him or he goes alone so that he does not show off.
“How do i even go about doing that?” he said.
“Teach this newcomer our language. His evolution was incredibly great, take my language stones and someone patient enough to teach him.” the seer said and stood before pulling out a set of stones with many symbols which were the basic alphabet of the tribe.
There were a little over a dozen or two symbols which made up all the words of their language. In written form, these symbols formed a complete character which made a word similar to asian language.
The reason for this is the ‘mystic’ part of the world, these symbols, when used by the correct person such as the seer, can contain hidden meanings which can be used to pass on special messages or even visions which one cannot explain through words. Even if she wrote a phrase and ten people read it, if one of them could see the true meaning hidden in the blessing the seer obtained, they would know the true meaning of the words.
The reason why she had someone teach Asur with ‘her’ language stones is because these are blessed and would help those who learn the language rapidly imprint the language. If they were smart enough, they would pick up the language at a much faster pace. A normal child can learn the written language within a few months but if they were very smart and used these blessed stones, the could learn within a week.
“You are already familiar with him so take these stones and teach him.” the chief said to the young woman.
“Yes chief, i shall go right now!” She said and received the stones with great care. She bowed to the chief and seer before heading to Asur’s home. To get to use the Seer’s personal language stones, even the young woman was excited because despite being an adult already, she also had some trouble with her language. She could at most teach someone the speaking part of the language. Using the language stones, she could hopefully also benefit from this.
The young woman quickly ran back to the room and found him sitting with a frown. When she walked in he looked up confused.
She walked over and placed the stones that made him raise his brow but he let her work. The stones were not small stones with a letter each, they were a set of tablets, they were obviously very light for any adult so calling them simple stones wasn’t wrong.
She put them in order of one to five.
She sat down right next to him facing the front.
He was completely confused but she pointed to the first symbol which had a strange shimmer. “@” she said.
She pointed to the next and said a different sound.
He was confused but when she saw he was confused she thought a moment and looked at the stones. She pointed slowly to several stones making a sound and then took a stone knife and a small rock nearby and drew each symbol in the form of a character. She showed him, one by one each symbol was drawn in order to form a character. “Adsila.” She said.
Asur watched the whole process and began to figure out what was going on but confirmed it by pointing at the character and then at her and repeating the word.
She smiled brightly and nodded and pointed at herself repeating the word signifying it was her name she then pointed at him. Her curious eyes were nearly shining as she waited.
He smiled faintly, “Asur.” He replied.
“A-sur…” She mumbled before looking taking a stone and mumbling the name trying to make out the sounds and frowned.
“So it is, these probably hold the alphabet of the tribe’s language.” he said and looked at the tablets with some excitement.
This excitement inadvertently activates that energy in his blood and suddenly his eyes shine momentarily and sharpen before improving. At once the tablets shined a bright light under his gaze which blinds him but he felt a head splitting pain and heard Adsila’s cries.
After a moment, the pain began to subside and a very large amount of information began to flow into his mind. The basic letters, each and every sound from them were firmly imprinted into his mind, then he began to see countless copies of these symbols which began to match up with copies of all the other types of symbols.
It began to release the voice of a woman saying all the words at once overwhelming him yet strangely the words fixated in his mind. His brain was much better compared to Adsila so besides a headache he handled it well but she was holding her head.
When Asur’s eyes flashed, the tablets released the blessing throughout the room. If there were more people, they would have been affected just as much as he was and would learn everything in the stones.
She rolled around for a short while as she learned her language and they both soon calmed down as the pain faded.
Asur looked at the exhausted young woman and felt guilty because he felt he did something wrong which caused her pain. The new language was still fresh in his mind and the english words were quickly translated. “Are you okay?!” he asked her in her native tongue.
Adsila, who was still dazed, heard his voice speaking her tongue fluently, felt amazed by the seer’s power.
She groaned and sat up before looking at him, “You understand my words now?” she asked.
Asur nodded and looked at the tablets, “What are those?” he asked.
“They are the tribe seer’s blessed Language stones. She has blessed it with her special abilities so that those who are capable can learn the true meaning behind their letters. These teach our language like you saw. Even I learned things I didn't know about our language.” She said.
“So… there are things like this.” He mumbled in english out of habit. He looked at the confused girl and smiled wryly, “Your name is Adsila right?” he asked.
“Mn!” she nodded excited that he understood her when she was still teaching him. “You called yourself… A-asar…” she tried to say it.
“It’s Asur.” he said and symbols in their language appeared and translated his name into their language by the sound.
He took her knife and drew the symbols which appeared.
“Ah so that is how it is!” she said and smiled. “We should return these stones to the Seer, also the chief will probably want to meet you now that you can speak our language. I think he expected you to take a few days. I wonder how he will be when he finds out you learned everything already.” She said, a hint of childishness was visible in her eyes.
Asur found her to be quite interesting. He stood up and stretched his hand to help her. She gladly took it and when she did, the gatekey appeared over her hand.
Asur took a quick look at was shocked when he saw her good karma skyrocketing and stopping at 35,000. The bad karma was at around 12,000.
This ability was quite interesting but he didn’t mind it. He let go of her hand when she was standing and he actually thought of something and suddenly the gatekey changed to show his numbers. His karma was around over 300 on both.
It accumulated slowly except during extremely important changes in their life. Thinking about it, Adsila meeting him could have been a huge changing point for her and it made him quite curious about it.
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She stacked the tablets and was excited to see the expressions of others.
Asur actually found it cute and interesting because a large number of the people he saw when he was exploring were quite stone faced. It made him even more sure that his thought of this group as an aboriginal tribe was similar to the groups from earth.
Adsila lead Asur to the chief’s room and when they arrived she told the guards, “We want to see the chief.” She said.
They let her through along with Asur after informing him the two were there.
When they walked into the room where the Seer sat and the chief stood on the side, Adsila walked forward and bowed before putting the tablets down, “We thank the seer for her guidance.” she said.
“You return them within minutes of taking them?” He frowned.
“They have both learned our tongue.” The seer said.
“She is correct chief.” Adsila said.
“WHAT!?” he shouted and looked at the young man, “You understand our words!” he asked.
“I can, those stones suddenly released a blinding light before the entire language flooded my mind.” He said fluently in their language.
The seer smiled, yet another confirmation of Asur’s prowess.
She took a stone and a small knife before carving on the flat stone. She showed them the tablet, “Can you please tell us who you are and your origins?” She asked.
“My name is Asur Linstar, i came from a world called earth and i came from a gate around this area.” He replied. “Why doesn’t she talk?” He asked.
“The seer has a unique body. She is empowered by the power of our race god whom gave her specially enhanced senses. Her spoken words also release this power which drains her energy to much but all words she speaks can only hold truth.” The chief said.
“I see.” He said shocked but since he heard this world had a special energy he wasn’t exactly surprised.
“Where is the gate of evolution?” She asked through another stone.
“Is it important to know?” He asked.
“Very, the gate is a source of manpower as well as the way to the next realm, it doesn’t matter if it’s the gate you came from, any gate can lead you up after you obtain the minimal required karma to ascend.” she replied through another stone.
“I see, well the gate is… how do you measure distance?” he asked.
“It doesn’t matter.” the chief replied.
“Alright… if you head towards the south east, there will be a giant mountain with a cave where the gate is located inside.” he said.
“Do you plan to remain with our tribe?” the seer asked.
“If you will accept me, though I had some things to complain about when i simply walked around.” He said.
The chief frowned but nodded for him to speak.
“Well first, why are the warriors eating raw meat?” he said his most concerning question.
“In this world, as you can see, there is a black fog which our bodies absorb to grow stronger. This energy is absorbed directly into our blood as we eat which feeds our bodies but with training we can also control and use this energy. We refer to it as bloodline power, we call our bloodline the Deva and so we are a Deva Tribe but we are a race known as the Asura. There are three main tribes of Asura, the Deva, we possess and alignment to the good, the Raksha are a demon tribe more firmly aligned with the darker side and the Yaksha which are the most neutral and attuned with nature.” The Seer explained.
“Hmm, so it’s a race similar to the Hindu gods.” Asur thought.
“I have examined your body and your bloodline closely resembles the Deva tribe. You lean turns the path of good over evil.” the seer said on another stone.
He nodded because he had much more good karma compared to the almost equal bad karma. “That is correct. Though I don't consider myself a good person personally.” he said.
“As it should be for this is the neutral realm. The realm where good and bad karma is balanced.” The Seer replied.
“Anyway, back to why we eat raw meat. Roasting the meat of our prey causes the stored power within the meat to dissipate making the food useless for us. We grow through eating our prey because as we eat, the bloodline power is absorbed into our bodies and fuse with the food broken down by our bodies and feeds our bodies to grow.” the chief said.
“That is roasting? Have you never tried other types of cooking forms?” he asked.
“Other types?” they all looked at each other.
“I mean, you can cook it in water, dry it, smoke it? Have you never done this? I had expected people coming from the lower realms to have much more knowledge. Also, i am curious why i see no blacksmiths and metal work?” he said.
“Food wise, we have little to work with for cooking, our environment doesn’t permit us many fires since we live in caves. If we light them up we will soon die from the smoke. We light our homes with those little bugs.” he said pointing at the lamps. Inside the lamp was a bright glowing light which shines like a tiny sun. Even if one looked into the light they would not see the body of the light’s source.
“I see.” Asur said frowning.
“As for metal, this world has no metal.” he said.
“Huh?” Asur muttered as he heard this.
The seer sighed and knit her brows together as she quickly wrote down a proper explanation. “It is as he says, although the earth has minerals spread far and wide allowing bountiful forests, this world does not form mineral deposits.” she explained.
“How is that even possible?” he asked.
The seer shook her head showing she did not know.
Asur rubbed his head as he thought about how horrible this situation was. At that moment he looked around and saw clothing was made of leather but the armor of the chief consisted of a few extra strange pieces..
The chief followed Asur’s eyes and he chuckled, “Although metal does not exist, the plants of this world are, as she said, bountiful. Weather it is fruits or tree bark, there are many unique harvests which can be used in special ways. It is said that the world was built like this to distance the mortal mind from the things once depended upon which lead humanity to become weak.” the chief said.
“Huh, you said humans.” he said.
“Yes, the 1st layer connected to the world possess only humans and beast. There are no other sentient race, it has been proven many eons ago. We both were also humans before we came up during our youth.” He said.
“I see. I don’t have anything else to ask.” he said.
“Great, i have something to ask you though.” He said and pointing at Adsila, “She said you could lift the stone meant for a hunting captain and you can always hit the center of all the training targets.” He said.
“I don’t know about the stone thing but i can hit the center. I could probably do it even better if the bow quality wasn’t so bad.” He replied.
The chief’s brow twitched while the seer chuckled and covered her lips making the chief look at her.
He turned back slowly, “Those bows are actually some of the good ones.” he said.
“Those were good!” Asur said shocked and felt pity for the village he was in.
Those three words burned the chief badly but there was sadly no professional carpenter in or fletcher in the village. It was still a young village so they lacked in many fields.
“Can you make bows?” the seer asked.
“I can, my world was an immensely advanced one but because of this, although I am only 23 years of age, there was a special type of technology which let me live for over 100 years already and i learned quite a few trades. Carpentry and bow making is one of them.” He said.
The seer smiled brightly as she heard this, the destiny of the tribe was indeed going to change with this. As long as he taught the tribe a few of these trades, they would rapidly develop beyond what they could make now.
If Baal was here to hear this, he would have understood what the ‘changes’ Asur could make to the village was that didn’t need him to be the leader.
“Can you fight?” The chief asked.
“Yes, i learned quite a few fighting styles depending on the weapons but seeing your tribe focuses on arrow and spear, I can still teach a little bit. Maybe unarmed combat but that would be a bit more broad since there are many styles.” He said.
“This is great.” The seer spoke out loud, unable to contain herself. “Please give him a proper home near the center of the village and give him a workplace he wants.” she said.
The chief reluctantly nodded since his wife had spoken, it simply meant she saw his good nature and could trust him. “I will see to finding a proper home for him, one with a larger space as well.” he said.
The seer smiled and looked at him before opening her eyes and looked right into his eyes. The dark eyes and the silver eyes connected their gazes causing a strange feeling to spread through Asur as if he was completely seen through but nonetheless, he accepted what came to him.
A little more talk about what he knew and could teach he was then lead to the room he had at the start while a new they went to find an empty one or to dig out a new one. As for his work station, it would be in the wide village center. A small carpenter space was built, though in a very shabby manner, with wood and vine along with stone carved tables and such were all made. The stone tools for wood carving were provided.
On the way out, though, Asur stumbled on something and when he picked it up, he found it was a fang before he could return it, Adsila grabbed his hand and lead him away.
He was left alone in his room making him sigh as he looked at the fang. It was as large as a dagger and sharp with a faint glint.
He looked at it and turned it around a few times. He knocked it around a bit and was shocked by the hardness. “As expected of evolved animals, their bones are incredible.” He said and held it up close to the light. He stared at it for a short while before frowning. He pulled his face a bit closer and unconsciously, once more, his bloodline power flooded his eyes making his view zoom in on a small spot.
It was like a magnifying glass pulling his vision closer and drew his vision to the surface of the fang. Under the light, his hand just slightly turned and the fang just slightly turned and the light flashed.
This made his eyes widened. “Bones don’t shine, not like this!” He exclaimed.
His vision returned to normal and his head hurt a bit but he knew what he saw, looking with normal vision, he realized the fang had a faint reflection of light much higher compared to a simple calcium formed bone.
His interest was extremely peaked but he paused a bit before looking at the gatekey. His karma, both good and bad, had begun to fluctuate. His lips split into a wide grin as he saw this scene. He knew he had stumbled upon a very big revolutionary thing here.
“I definitely can’t call this bone sculpting anymore, if it turns out to be true, I wonder if I will invent bone forging.” he said happily but decided to go about this slowly he needed to do many tests and he needed proper tools to work these and without metal he would need to use stone tools to start out from. It would require an intense amount of work to build a firm enough foundation to develop this kind of thing.
He put the fang down and decided to finish the fruits in the basket and get some rest because it was late already. He would start by making a name for himself as a bow maker first and then expand his field of influence. Once he has fully adapted to his improved body, he would start hunting for himself.
He fell asleep while thinking of what he could do but he didn’t imagine how bad the equipment situation of the tribe was. Only when he saw it would he have to rethink many things.