"You will leave tomorrow? shouldn't you stay here for a few days? why are you leaving so soon?" the will in his mind spoke.

"I'm going back to my birthplace, it seems there is something there that I need." Nameless revealed.

"I know what you're thinking but that still won't work in a single day, most of the energy has dissipated. Yes, there perhaps is still there a specific energy that only your body can absorb but still, you won't be able to absorb it just by itself, you would need another source of energy to fuel its absorption."

"What? what do I use then?"

"You will have to rely on beast cores or tree cores to fuel the process of absorption since that is the only widely available energy after the beast tide."

"I see, then I will stay here for a few days."

Nameless moved to the nearest mushroom miniman before picking him.

"Ahh, let me go you monster!"

"Tell your old man that I will stay be staying here for a few days."

"No! I won't allow a monster like you to deceive ancestor!"

"Ahh I wonder how mushroom minimen taste like, I heard they had a very unique taste." Nameless said as he opened his mouth.

"Ahh! No! I will tell him! I swear I will tell him so let me go!"

"If you don't, I will just eat you, don't forget that." Nameless said before he put him down and watched him escape towards the wall.

He had scared him so he would relate the information faster.

The wall that was slightly far away had hundreds of holes, the walls on the sides also had hundreds of holes from bottom to top, it seemed the mushroom minimen built their colony beyond these walls.

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The walls were also bioluminiscent, small minerals at their surface shone with blueish and greenish light shone.

Mushroom minimen entered and left rapidly.

They looked way smaller to Nameless when he was in the Keiya transformation, now they appeared slightly bigger compared to his figure.

"Do the mushroom caps on their head allow them to photosynthesize energy from the bioluminescent light?"

"That's right, it is one of their survival mechanisms, even if they ran out of nutrition, they can still survive and live with photosynthesis alone, but for a proper diet, they need worms and plants. They can eat basically anything that moves or is a plant as long it fits in their mouths."

"I see."

Nameless thought for a bit before he turned to the new purple robe that he was adorned with, it looked very realistic as if it was normal clothing, it also allowed him great comfort.

"Can you make the robe black? I don't like this purple colour."

"I will try."

Nameless watched as his clothing slowly turned purpleish black.

"Well done, it looks great."

"I heard you will be staying for a few days." the mushroom minimen appeared and said while caressing his beard.

"I need some beast cores." he responded.

"I see, I can go with you if you want, I might not look like it but I can easily defeat rank 4 beasts, I can even hold a rank 5 beasts for a few breaths although I can only help you in the periphary of this cave, it will also help prevent any future beasts from intruding."

He continued : "Sigh, age is really catching up with me. in my youth, even rank 5 beasts were no match for me but I will soon be in my nineties, my strength has already began decreasing rapidly." he sighed while caressing his beard.

"You are approaching your nineties?! you can live that long?" Nameless spoke bewildered.

"Why are you so suprised human? we, variant humans can live as much as human beings meaning a good a hundred years."

'That's even more impressive than I thought. In my previous world, even though the lifespan was nearly 70 years in developed countries, the body would start aging after one's thirties becoming weaker and weaker as the body aged, becoming rusty, heavy and prone to all sorts of illnesses further reducing the quality of life and lifespan.'

"So you are near your nineties, how are you gonna survive then? do you have no choice but to die?" Nameless asked.

"Sigh, I will have to pass the lifespan tribulation or obtain a lifespan anima, if I fail I can only attempt a holy pilgrimage to the Holy tree, otherwise I would just die." the old miniman spoke.

"Lifespan tribulation? Lifespan anima? Holy tree? What do you mean?" Nameless was bewildered.

"Grandpa, the banquet is ready!" a purple mushroom minimen female appeared calling for the old minimen.

"Oh I see, I'm coming. I'm sorry young man, I will have to join my granddaughter. I will explain everything you want to know later." the old minimen then turned and left.