Soon, the word spread around the village, how a god blessed Kasha and her newfound system and her new skill.
Meanwhile, I try to make sense of the abyss info I have. It entailed God's degree of power, the laws of the world(Universal laws which are thermodynamics, the Law of conservation etc), system mechanics etc.
I also learned that I was supposed to have a hundred soul energy but that was ripped to pieces the moment I got shredded by the other gods. A lot of it was used to make me whole again.
Soul energy is very versatile, it can do a lot of things. From making intangible objects tangible, making beings, and even reviving someone from the dead(wow) but most importantly, to bless people.
According to Abyssal info, the system is an entity, but it isn't sapient or sentient, the best way it is described is an armour stand from a famous game about cubes with the end goal of killing a dragon from another dimension. Just a tool for us gods, but considered an entity by the world.
I wanted to test things but I seem to have no more SE. Since it's come down to that I decided to explore a bit more.
There's also this [Godly Domain] that was entailed in the abyssal info. I can create a land there separate from other dimensions and I could have my followers' and worshipers' souls come here once they die. The abyssal info also entails that there is hell, like the actual hell I think of, it's out of the jurisdiction of gods to touch hell since it doesn't belong to this world but plays a part in it.
[Godly Domain] also has perks, like, that's where all the offerings would go if my followers decided to offer something on an altar.
I decided to open my Godly domain
[100 Soul Energy is required to open Godly Domain]
Fuck.
"Sister! The quest probably means this!" Kasha showed a bunch of lettering on a clay tablet. It has 24 letters, not characters as each letter is required to spell a word.
"Oh… what… what does this one mean?" Shaka pointed at a letter.
"That's an S! It makes the sound sss! Like a snake! sss!"
"Oh… it's also the first letter of your name!" Kasha proudly said so.
Shaka just smiled at her sister, she had seen her do everything on her behalf to finish the quest. I made the quest so a few people could become literate, and since Kasha is a child she might show those to her friends.
And I was right for the most part, she only gets involved with Mari, and Kavo is always out on the hunt for herbs and fruits. Some children help their parents before they get to play.
"Mari, what is this?"
"That's 6! Since it has 6 dots it's six!"
I also am annoyed by the fact that I don't have much soul energy, I tried to reconvert the clothes I have back to soul energy but it didn't allow me to, or rather, the conversion sucks. 3 SE for the clothes reconverted back will just be 1.2 SE. That's not worth it.
"Wow! Can numbers be spelt with letters?" Kasha asked curiously.
"Maybe."
Kasha tried to spell six on the lettering system she made but it was too long compared to Mari's 6 dots.
"Yeah, it's too long."
Mari's numbering system consists of simple dots and lines, a dot is 1 and a line is 3. And beyond 10 is labelled with an O, like 100 is an O. A 1000 is OO. 1001 is O•.
I'm so concerned about her numbering system since in the long run this will be used. I looked at the meagre clothing I have, a god should hold their modesty and dignity with value.
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I sighed and converted them back to a pitiful amount of 1.2 SE. And I blessed Mari with a skill, named [Mathematician F]. It's F because of the description.
[Mathematician F]
The user is bestowed with a simple numerical system. From 1-0 and the knowledge of the arrangement. Reduces mental calculation time.
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The knowledge of arrangement is the chronological order of 1 to 10 up to thousands. Reducing mental calculation time just means Mari would think faster when numbers are involved.
The initial reaction of Mari is quite cute, she jumped up when she saw that she was blessed with the system. And started running around telling her mom first.
The fact another child gets blessed with an awakened system gives them joy. But the skill that I blessed Mari with still makes them confused.
That same day, they made an altar made of mud and some wooden totems. I chuckled at their efforts but what made me happier was a system prompt.
[Altar has been made in your name. SE production +0.01]
Oh, it ramped up the production huh? It's probably because of Mari and Kasha. I wanted to get all the scouted potentials to be blessed but I have to wait for now.
Mari's mother placed an offering, it was a pile of berries she had collected during the day, and it was all good quality. Once it was placed the berries disappeared into motes of orange light.
[Offering received. Convert to ES?]
There are about 23 pieces of berries so I converted 3 to become my Soul Energy.
[3 Dark Berry converted to ES, 0.03SE+]
That's about how much I'll generate for a year, nice. So if these people keep offering me something then I could get more SE, but I won't get my hopes up, I have time on my side.
I messed with the skill creation for a little bit and asked myself a question, can I like… have my clock?
[1st Year]
Nice.
I continued and waited for possible things to be noteworthy. Nothing happened as a few months have passed.
I have a total of 0.82SE, the berries kept coming and Mari's mother is not the only one offering. Once I hit 1SE I probably would give it to Shaka because she is good at trapping.
I also looked at Mari and Kasha's systems, the ones they had before I gave them an awakened one.
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Name: Kasha
Species: Human
God patron: Hadro
Titles: [The first to be Blessed.]
~0~0~0~
Str: 3
Agi: 2
Int: 5
Spirit: 3
Luck: 3
Skills:
[Lexicon F]
[Gatherer F]
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Simple at its finest, and first to be blessed? I checked the title and it was because of me.
[First to be Blessed]
You're the first to be blessed by Hadro, the God of particles. Skills used will have a 5% boost effect along with Hadro's blessings.
Oh. It's not like she was the first to be blessed out of all things, she was just the first to be blessed by me.
After a few weeks passed I finally converted enough fruits and occasional herbs to 1 SE. Since the village is financially troubled I decided to make sure they are fully self-sufficient.
I scouted earlier and one of my findings included a woman in her thirties, named Farza. She has the collective knowledge of fruit and vegetables that she encountered in the forest, she has tried multiple times to grow them near the comforts of her home but they all couldn't bear fruit before she could harvest one single fruit.
It's probably because the plant isn't in any competition with other plants, I have seen this before I got here. In my previous world, my aunt had a garden, and she sometimes would give a snippet of information when she was gardening.
She told me that for a plant to bear fruit, one should stress it. A single tomato plant in a pot would have no worries getting resources, but a tomato plant placed in a forest would that's why they would bear so many fruits.
I decided to give this woman a skill instead. A simple one she could use.
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Farza was looking at a singular plant she was taking care of, she thought it would bear fruit this time but nothing happened. She dug this Berry sapling out of its roots carefully before it bore fruit in the forest.
She carefully placed it down near her home and tried to bear fruit on her own. It's a commendable act since it would make life in the village easier.
She had tried these little experiments for years, and the frustration she felt when the effort she gave bore no fruit. She was about to give up when a blessing fell upon her.
[Hadro has blessed you with a skill!]
[Accept Y/N]
She was shocked, the god that had been blessing the children in the village had given her a blessing??
She did not understand why the children exactly nor could she understand what a god would do at all but since she was blessed with a skill how could she not accept?
She mentally said yes and a system prompt came up.
[You have obtained the skill: [Botany F]]
[Botany F]
Could appraise any plant life, knowledge of plant life is easily digested and plant life problems could be easily identified.
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Farza immediately went into a state of meditation. She was given simplified knowledge about plants, she now understood why the berries don't bore fruit!
Farza realised that there are multitudes of factors, like how much sun a plant would get but most importantly is the soil it inhabits. One thing that Farza finally realised is that the plant she is trying to fruit is that it needs to be around similar plants.
With her epiphany, Farza realized what to do, she placed multiple plants in the same ground and waited, checking the winds if would help the berry flower but would not fruit. It frustrated her so much.
It took a while, the winds brushed past many, and the hunters hunted small animals and shared them with the village mostly given to the children since they needed them most. Farza watched as a few months later, the berry started boring fruit.
"I did it!"
She yelled in joy, the berry sapling she planted started producing fruits, although tiny. She caught the attention of a few people, and when they were about to ask what was wrong with Farza they saw the fruits on the Berry.
Farza then explained how she was blessed by the gods. This made more people believe in my name.
[Followers increased, SE production 0.09+]
Now I can create 0.09 SE per year, nice.