[Hadro would like to bless you with a skill.]

[Accept? Y/N]

Arkum mentally said yes instantly as the panel appeared that it only blinked out. His reality again faced him with a challenge, the survival of his friend.

The back of his friend who had stabbed a wolf, the wolf who took the opportunity to attack as his back is facing towards him.

[Skill [Thrust F] obtained!]

He immediately used the skill, his lacklustre spear was only a stick with a pointed edge, blazed with energy, he raised his arm, it was filled with power as he moved with one swift motion.

[Thrust F] was activated, and his spear blazed through the wind, it whistled dangerously as it approached the skull of the wolf. Finding a point where it would collide as the wolf was moving forward.

The spear found purchase at the crevice of the wolf's skull. Digging in like a shovel and piercing like a knife. It dug its way through with enough force to pierce to the other side.

The spear stuck out to the wolf, like a pole on dirt, the wolf slumped immediately as Arkum landed from his leap.

"Arkum!"

Arkum picked up the thrown spear, its sharpness gone and went along with Shavik in suppressing the other wolf. The wolf whose jaw was injured wasn't able to put up a fight.

Its composition of a dungeon monster was enough to put itself in danger, facing the two men out of instinct it did not relent. It raised its two paws with a pair of claws.

Overextending and swinging, only to hit nothing but the air, Shavik and Arkum already know how to keep their distance when it comes to prey and overextending when the enemy has a spear is not a good thing.

With both their spears ready to stab, the wolf messed up its position and got both spears embedded in its chest, one pierced on the surface level.

The other pierced through its chest, cutting off an important piece to its survival, cutting off a major artery it started bleeding profusely.

Arkum and Shavik's blood was running, adrenaline in their veins, and their hands were shaking, when the wolf went limp the trembling became even greater and all the excitement caught up to their bodies.

"We… we did it!"

The two hunters celebrated, but such a feeling is momentary, they were in the forest, and it would only take a moment till another predator smells and follows the blood.

The two hunters started packing the hunt, including the deer who had bled to death. They took two animals in and started dragging them, using some vines as a makeshift rope.

When they went back to the village, with monsters and a deer in tow they were shocked.

***

I used 1SE to create the quest for Shavik and another 1SE for Arkum's [Thrust F]

All I have left is 7SE. I'm always curious if I make one rank [E] skill and the amount a single hunt amount of SE would give me. I watched as Shavik placed the deer on the altar.

[Convert Yellow-Tailed Deer to SE?]

I mentally said yes.

[Yellow-Tailed Deer converted]

[101SE+]

Holy Moly! A single deer gave me that much! And this deer is a juvenile as well. I wonder how much an Adult would give?

I shook my head, with this much SE I could build that [Godly Domain], and a single [D] rank skill or 10 rank [E] skills. Well, what a good catch, nice one Shavik.

Shavik had his skill after completing his quest of offering his hunt. He started to wonder what [Hunter Instinct] was. It's a small package.

Higher situational awareness, tracking trace knowledge, and danger awareness for predators. Also, he won't get lost no matter how far he goes. This might sound OP on paper but in reality, it's very basic.

Because it was nerfed, it was nerfed to its former description. What I originally placed was [Situational map], [Highlighted tracks], and [Danger ping], like, Shavik will actually get pinned when there's a predator and what predator it is.

But I have typed it as [F] rank so it lowered its effects. Nonetheless, it was a good skill and skills could be ranked up by quests or just repeatedly using it.

I started thinking about what I should do again with my SE. I shouldn't use it for skills above [F], I need to solidify the village's comfort first.

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Since they don't have enough clothing and the next season would be winter, it would be extremely cold. I didn't want to find out how they survived so I scouted the village.

None, I found none who could be given a skill related to clothing. I scoured the Abyss Info I have and I am glad I could. I could give someone an epiphany or a vision.

Why not give someone that, I could just have someone who could spin some spools… fuck, this village is primitive.

I sighed, I went to the villagers who were butchering the three wolves they caught. I'm curious, it seems one of the villagers has become my follower without even being blessed.

Thanks to that I could look at their status.

Name: Sahik

Species:Human

God patron: Hadro

Titles:

~0~0~0~

Str: 7

Agi: 5

Int: 5

Spirit: 4

Luck: 3

Skills:

[Butcher F]

[Gatherer F]

~

These villagers are either teenagers or adults, and this one is an adult in their thirties, how come their skills are still on F? I questioned that and the answer is quite obvious already.

They're having a hard time living and not only that, they don't have enough resources to rank up their skills. The number of people who have an E rank in this crowd can't pass over five.

It's the lack of resources.

We can change that in the future.

I decided to bless the butcher with a skill, [Dismantle F] since the pelt could also be used for clothing and to warm them up. The content of the skill is instinctual and it also corrects the user by making them feel as if they're doing something erroneous.

Now that they have bones they could make better spears, and it seems that they're already doing that. I still can't decide to who I could give an epiphany.

I sighed and gave a quest to the butcher.

[Quest]

Tell the village who wants to be given a task.

Reward: 1+ Spirit.

I chose to up one stat of the Butcher because it's the cheapest. And since one stat point is only needed to raise it it won't be an actual loss.

105SE is still a lot.

After contemplating for a bit I decided to open my [Godly Realm], might as well open it since I won't be doing a lot of things in this place other than float.

When I opened the realm it pulled me in like a vacuum, the tug was so powerful I had no moment to resist.

[Godly realm, Opened]

[Error: Abyssal dimension opened instead]

I was pulled into another dimension, this was a completely different place. The sky was bright and I don't know if it was good or not but I could touch the flora, that's not good.

A giant Feline appeared out of nowhere, its slit eyes threatening as its paws release the claws in between them. I scuttled to hide, I felt like my chest was going to explode, what was going on?! I immediately left the Godly realm. I have no idea what was in there and I am not going to find out!

[Abbysal Dimension was left without occupying territory]

[Abbysal Dimension was closed]

[Open Dimension? 50SE]

Abbysal Dimension?! Are you telling me that I opened the Abbysal Dimension instead of a realm?! I can't help but be annoyed, I just wasted SE on that!

I sighed, not that I could take back all of those SE now, could I? I just need to formulate a plan to get myself land there. And Abbysal Dimension seems cheaper, yeah I'd open the Abbysal Dimension first.

And it seems that the Abbysal Dimension seems dangerous, considering that the inhabitants of this world have monsters to fight I could say that I as well wouldn't be able to escape such a burden.

Now, do I have the power to leverage myself there? The system primer in my abyssal knowledge only tells me that System primer starts the Domain Subject of one's power. I started the Particle System, so do I have power over particles?

I tested it out and reached my hand in front of me, towards the dirt. I tried to move it out of my will.

—whoosh.

Cmon. I concentrated harder. And somehow a small clutter of dirt moved, that's me right? I did that, right? I immediately knocked myself out of delusion, that's probably the wind.

For now, I stopped joking around and sighed, I could probably wait for a few decades till the life in the village got better, have some blacksmith and have it create a machete or something.

I looked at my status.

[Status]

Name: Hadro

Godhood: Lesser god(previously minor)

Soul energy:51 (0.37/year)

Followers: 37

Skills Created:

A:

B:

C:

D:

E:

F:

[Lexicon]

[Mathematician]

[Dismantle]

[Thrust]

[Medicare]

[Botany]

[Wikipedia]

[Hunter instinct]

~

51? Wouldn't it be 55SE? What the hell? I tried to find a plausible cause of my SE loss and the only time I ever have some semblance of using them is…

I raised my arm in concentration, finding a specific pebble and with my mind I commanded every single particle inside it to move.

It moved a few centimetres to the side. That's when I checked my SE again, it dropped, it dropped. That means my powers rely on SE as well.

Just to move a centimetre of the rock, costs 1 SE. What if I have to move more? And heavier at that? SE is my source of Skill creation and what seems to be my energy source as well.

I started scouring the Abyssal info I had in hand, I checked what SE is good for. They are the resource of power, they can be found naturally in nature, including the universe. That would mean every mortal would have them.

Mortal souls are created thanks to a conglomeration of resources both found in Reality and the Abyss. Cells have different resources to keep their chemistry going and rocks with different elements glued together with no function.

Every single thing had a dormant state of energy in it, according to the Abyssal info mortals with sentience are categorized as “Natural machines” these dormant energy are accessible only because of sentience. This energy is called spiritual energy

An example of this is that there are living things that have spiritual energy but cannot use it such as animals, slugs, jellyfish, ants, etc. They're living beings and yet they don't have souls, why? Because sentience plays a part in it.

A rock doesn't have a soul what only lies on it is dormant energy. However, despite the dormant energy an object has it has a purpose. Abyss and Reality go hand in hand, like two servers pinging for a response Dormant Spiritual energy will not stay in one place.

Eventually, the Dormant Spiritual Energy will start cycling, from Reality to the Abyss and so on, this creates a phenomenon where the object's Dormant spiritual energy starts to stagnate in the Abyss and takes the form of whatever object it inhabits back in Reality.

It's like transferring data from one server to another. But this only happens in the Abyss in its natural form since the only place where energy becomes clumped together to form matter is only in Reality, it breaks down quite fast in the Abyss.

It is possible for an object to contain no Dormant Spiritual Energy, though it would not appear in the Abyss. Gods, like I, are pure Spiritual Energy, since that was the case we could travel between reality and the Abyss.

If we look at the Abyssal Dimension, it is just the history of the planet they stand on, it is the record of everything that has existed and is existing. Right now, the Feline I saw must have been extinct but since it was strong it must have cannibalized or eaten others to maintain its form. After all to maintain form in the abyss, one would need Spiritual energy.

After all, according to the Abyssal Info, living things can be recorded to the abyss much faster if they're alive, but one thing that stood out is that if a living being were to be much stronger like having a lot of Spiritual Energy, its copy in the Abyss will be occupied by itself.

However, when it means stronger it means that it is the level of a demigod which is nigh impossible for a mortal to step in without outside help.

When I looked inside the Abyssal Dimension it seemed that the recorded existence followed the rule of nature, the only difference is that the rule of the flesh doesn't work there, you may bleed, but once you die you will turn into Pure Spiritual Energy that its inhabitants need if they wanted to.

If I wanted to help my followers I needed a foothold in the Abyssal dimension, to that, with what I have is necessary to give.