Mari was now busy with her learning packet, she seemed intent on learning what she was just given, how diligent. My attention now falls on Kavo, our medical child. He finished the task I tasked him with and gained the skill [Medical Botany{F}]

Thanks to that, in the last 10 years I was gone he managed to make a lot of contributions to the village, he is well-liked in the community as his Medicare helped a lot of people and the most helped ones are the hunters.

The hunters have been hunting in the forest and sometimes accidents happen, a wound or a bite would present itself to Kavo, and thanks to Medicare and Medical botany none had perished due to infection or blood loss.

I observed Kavo for the day, he seems to be doing well with his own set of herbs in his little garden. This garden had a lot of different herbs that Kavo had gathered in the past 10 years.

Some are for headaches, colds, indigestion etc. Kavo's Medicare and Medical Botany has reached rank E+. Not as high as Mari's Mathematicians but unlike Mari's Kavo needed resources the village lacked, so the fact that Kavo still managed to rank it up on his own is already amazing.

I checked what else he needed, and it seems the only thing he is lacking are ingredients, if not a better way to deal with sickness and health, herbs aren't the only things used in medicine, some animal parts too, though some of them are hoaxed some of them are used in medicine.

If Kavo couldn't get his materials then could I?

I checked if I could create a panel with the function of acting as a store, and to my surprise, it worked. This revelation made me realise that I could support these people even better.

I started planning how my store would go, a system store huh? Soul Energy is the power I needed, if I ever gave them a [Store Panel] then I need a proper economic system running within it, it might start small but it's better than nothing.

But before I went through the whole plan I made another Aiden, I named her Zoe.

"Cr—"

"I prefer being called, Father."

I had to repeat the process, well whatever, I tasked Zoe with reminding me of things and being the administrator of things in the Mortal Dimension while I'm gone, she would be the one deciding things.

She had my decision-making, I imparted that part of me to her, I need her to make wise decisions as I'm going to depart to the Abyss dimension once again.

Since I have claimed territory and made a Domain, I don't have to put up another portal to open up so I can cross locations.

Kavo needed materials to better his craft of medicine, and Kasha needed something to write on. My goal today is to embark on a journey in the abyss to make papers and find herbs.

Since in the Abyss, I could touch things, unlike the Mortal realm I would be able to think with my own hands. I still have 7,000 SE to spare. I plan to be done in a few days. But of course, I left with a lot of quests for everyone.

For a lot of quests, I'm not going to give any time limit since I don't want them to be rushed. After that, I went to the Abyss.

It was still the same, I went out and things haven't changed much, in fact, it only seems like minutes have passed ever since I left.

I needed paper, first I needed pulps, I went to the logs and branches that had been left over after my fight with the snake. I wanted to do it fast before the sun set so I shredded the branches with my power.

I don't mind using SE for now since it's better if work has been done earlier than just saving SE altogether. Herbs and some medicinal parts of animals, now that I think of it, didn't I take a liver from the snake I fought?

I went to the stack of snake meat I stored in a makeshift storage made out of… wide leaves. I opened it up and took out the chopped-up pieces of livers. How much of this to make it a material?

Well, I should probably make the [Store panel] now and store all of this in there, now while I’m at it, I'm going to make [Storage] as well for my personal use.

Since I could customise these panels I give people I decided to make it much neater, the store icon is that of a shopping cart and the quest is that of an open scroll.

The store panel is the same as any online shopping app, it has a picture of the item, the name and the price. I'm unsure whether I add stats like in RPG games but decided not to. Instead of stats I just added the effect of the item in the user, like a 1+ in intellect if equipped, etc.

And the most important as well is a sell option, when they sell to me the whole thing will turn into immaterial and will give me all the SE it has. All the offering that was given to my name has the material and soul energy separated, only giving me the soul energy. But when it comes to this, the material and the energy are given to me.

When someone decides to sell in the [Store Panel] it would give them 60% of the SE while I take the 40%, is it extortion? Nah, a Berry is 3SE if they receive 1.8 and I receive 1.2 they still have a lot compared to me. Though it would appear as [C] instead of SE.

Anyways, the majority of the offerings I received for years are animals, all those converted surpassed hundreds of SE.

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***

Everyone in the village is surprised. Each one of them had at least a single task, and one by one they started getting into work. However, the three people that Hadro gave a quest to are quite confused.

"A red… orange rock?"

"Why us?"

"Maybe there's a hidden meaning?"

There was a moment of silence, trying to understand such intentions. However, with all their brain power such intentions are never uncovered, for, after all, they are questioning the intentions of a god.

In the end, the three stopped trying and prepared to embark, since coloured stones were needed they decided to go to the south, where the Red Mountain lay. As its name suggests, it is a red-coloured mountain, however, the red colouration is from the dirt itself, not some stones.

But the idea of finding a red-teal rock in the mountain is a high probability to these three, they went there with dried meat and dried fruits as sustenance.

Ready to finish their tasks.

Back at the Foreline village, Lazarus woke up with a yawn, he stretched before getting up, since his task was to keep an eye on the villagers he might as well help them.

Lazarus walked around the village, already determined to help around. Eyes would sometimes fall on Lazarus, it's a bit uncomfortable and also the fact that he appeared in a flashy way will certainly make him a celebrity.

Once he got to the mud house of the Chief he called out his name. "Chief Kal! I have something to talk about!" It was the morning so he lowered his voice.

"Lazarus? What, is there something I could help you with?" Kal looked at Lazarus with eyes half closed.

"I plan to work, Father allowed me to. So where do I find something to work on?"

"Hmm… are you sure?"

"Yes!" Lazarus answered brightly. "I can't just do nothing."

"Hmm…" Kal thought for a moment, he has yet to find a significant problem that is plaguing the village. "Oh, how bout helping Flake from his Yak farm?"

"Oh? What trouble does he have?"

"It's the Yak fur, as I explained, they grew a foot long after 3 months, thanks to this storing it is easy, however, the mould is a problem."

"Ah! So I just need to find a way for the mould to stop?"

"Pretty much."

Kal stretched his body for a while before he led Lazarus to Flake. Flake is one of the Yak farmers, their meat and fur being the ones being farmed the most. However, the harvest of meat is only when the Yak is 4 years old. It takes 2 years for it to mature, and 2 more to build up its fat and nutrients to be suitable for consumption.

"Hello, Chief. And the son of God."

"Haha, just call me Lazarus." Lazarus let out a laugh.

"Is that allowed?" Flake nervously spoke.

"Why wouldn't it be?"

Flake nodded, if it wouldn't label him in a bad eye to their god patron then he wouldn't mind calling Lazarus by name, but doing it still garnered some hesitation and worry.

"Well, then. Lazarus, why come here?"

"He's here because he wanted to do something," Kal interjected. "A job for himself."

"Oh! Then yes, today is a good day for that. Since you wanted to do something, how about going to Haime?"

"The Weaver?" asked Lazarus.

"Yes, he needed someone's help on weaving, since he is only one of the few who knows how to weave with the Yak fur."

"Sure. I can do that much."

"that would be helpful, oh and Lazarus, you haven't eaten Yak meat before haven't you?"

The arrival of the migrating tribe introduced the village to salt, since the marshland is not that far from the sea they went there to take some of the seawater and dry it once they got back to their village.

Though salt isn't that common the tribe does what they can since they're reconnected to the marshland village where they get the salt from, it's only that once a few months they get this product so trade between the village still happens.

Back at the Yak farm, the meat of yak becomes juicy once cooked with salt, the juices that are being taken out by the salt being absorbed by the fat of the yak is something akin to popularized cuisine.

"No, not yet."

"Then look forward to tomorrow," Flake said with a smile.

Lazarus nodded before they embarked towards the so-called Weaver.

***

I managed to make a functional Store system, the panel allows selling and buying. The best part of this is that I could recreate items with pure SE.

If there is no Snake meat, I could recreate the snake meat with SE. Since the snake meat is only a pork chop in size it's not that much SE, for example, a juvenile deer gives a hundred SE(Mortal realm) the snake meat would only cost 30 SE. Since size matters when it comes to SE consumption.

Since it's that way it's not so hard to correct the value of items I have in hand, however, the only bottleneck for this idea is that I cannot recreate items I have not received yet. If a villager wants to buy spice but I haven't encountered spice yet I cannot replicate it with SE, which is concerning.

Anyhow, I went to the forest with the idea of taking as many plants in my hands, the moment I absorbed the SE contained by them the information about the material got absorbed by me.

I at least circled my territory to make sure I hadn't missed anything yet. I kept a low profile as much as I could since my purpose here was to grab as many herbs as I could.

Though that doesn't stop the possibility of animals coming in contact, I had to shoot rocks at them, it was a great deterrent. No matter, I achieved my goal of gathering herbs, some of their names, something I never knew existed.

Nonetheless, it feels like an adventure, though I have to rush back, a day here is a year back in the mortal realm. Since a day is a single year I always check on the sun since it falling means I need to go back. I don't want to hide again from the creatures of the night.

Those ten days I stayed without proper shelter were a nightmare.

I walked down a steep clearing, holding onto some trees as I descended. One thing I saw though is a peculiar plant. I checked if I have it already but no, it doesn't come up on my storage or my store.

Grabbing the thing and pulling it up, my excitement almost made me fall down the steep clearing. It's potato! It's a freaking potato! The most staple food the world has ever known!

I quickly placed it in my storage. It was so handy having dimensional storage, though it was so expensive, apparently completely erasing time but keeping space just for 1 cubic meter of storage is enough to warrant 5,000 SE. It's worth it though.

I kept descending the steep terrain till I was on stable ground. Here I found a small patch of a pond. I ignored it and moved on, noticing my surroundings were vastly different.

I know where my territory is since my energy is imbued in it, it feels like I have some unseen tether on my neck, I know where it was at all times. After weighing if it was worth it to continue or not I shrugged and kept going.

Here there are new plants, though not that many. I collected some of it. Some trees with fruits, I have no idea if they're safe so I cracked one open and left it for animals to eat. If they get eaten then it's safe, if not it isn't.

Nonetheless, I kept things and kept them in my storage and made them available to my store. I need proper logistics, ugh. Well, no matter, I still have about 2,000 SE, it's something I have to hold dear.

As I traversed the continuously getting wetter terrain I decided to just grab what I could and dip out. I know a wet forest might lead to a river infested with crocodiles or alligators, what the hell are the differences?!

In the end, I have to climb the steep clearing once again, it's a bit of a challenge since here I can't fly without using a single SE, but anyway, I'm having a fun time myself. It's an adventure, how could I not?

As I traversed the steep clearing I almost lost footing, but thanks to a nearby tree I managed to regain my balance. Once I got on top I continued walking back, I have a lot of items on me and I hope they're useful.

As I was traversing the forest to its uneven footing, I found myself tripping on a root. I grunted and looked at the thing I tripped on. It has a red beady fruit sitting on top of its smooth long leaves.

"What the…"

I pulled it out and the whole thing came out. Ginseng. It's ginseng. I almost gagged that this thing has a lot of worth back on earth and here I just discovered it by accident?

Hah, funny. I kept it, it has actual medical properties and a lot at that, so keeping it for now since it's very valuable. I might sell it in the store or use it for other purposes.

Walking along the entire forest till I reached my little abode, I settled down for a while, a few minutes to rest here might be something I needed.