Chapter 9: Accepted

“What do you want and what will you do?”

This question would be the starting point of her life, she observed around her. A world with not a lot of population, gods claiming to help and their hero becoming an army of zealot. One thing is sure, I’m weak, and I know nothing of the way of the world. I don’t know how to make most of the things and how to fight. Maybe I could train and learn a lot of things?

“I want to be strong! I want to learn everything that I don’t know and I want to protect people dear to me!”

With growing inspiration, she told her own wish, and aspiration for later. Gordak could only frown at it before accepting it. She had tried to do her best to save Lucina, and he wouldn't let this girl down, she owed him a debt.

“I like your spirit girl, but you are weak! Are you sure you want to learn from us? You are a stranger to us, you could even be exiled if you do something bad against my people.”

Her assurance didn’t wane, if she could become stronger against this world then she could live easier. Without feeling shame, she could only prostrate herself becoming a student to her debtor.

“Yes I want to! Everything is new to me and I can’t have my arms crossed while feeling weak!”

“Okay! What is your name, little girl?”

“I am Luna!”

“Good I like your determination! We start now!”

“I… Huh??”

Not prepared for this, night is still high and her body is still asleep. Feeling sluggish she realised weakly that he didn’t joke about starting now… Trying to negotiate, she could only slip out other information without thinking about repercussions.

“Can’t I just go to sleep and send a clone in my place?”

It's information she would not tell directly to anyone, but with her tired mind and body and the situation made her unaware of what she had done. To her surprise, his next words were now assurance.

“So you are really a god’s messenger. It’s even better then! Use your power!”

“I, I mean it’s not what you think!”

Now trapped in an irreversible situation she could only comply with the whole situation. Creating a clone and her clothes. Looking at her mana, she now has more.

[10/50]

A perfect copy of herself with clothes appeared, she’s full of energy, but still her mind is tired. Gordak could only muster his fascination, finding something incredible.

“Interesting. Is it you, or not you, is she a puppet or a real person?”

“She’s like me, alive and she’s like another body I control. Can I go back to sleep?”

His stare was clearly identifying her from head to toes, with a piercing gaze, he could see that everything, even her clothes are identical to even the fur orientation and how the sewed parts were made. To him it was clear.

‘I could work with that.’

“No, you follow me with her, I want to know all your limits! Maybe You could do more than you think. Oh also, never tell anyone your power nor use them in front of someone else, even worse in front of another hero. Let's just say that you’ll die from someone else if you say you are from a god. Some people do not like gods and some others kill them.”

It was disturbing news for Luna, she was not expecting people to try to kill her because she’s a Chosen. Maybe her other power?

“Not even my inventory?”

Stolen novel; please report.

“Even worse, this is the fact you are someone sent by a god or a child of a Chosen.”

Luna and her clone 2 could only follow weakly, It would become a new type of hell. She didn’t participate in any army training in her old life, even working her old body wasn’t her passion. Now? She is training. Only one person has seen her use it, Lucina, maybe she would forget about it? She prayed not for divinity but mentally to her to let her go. But only Lucina can reply to her plea, for now she’s sleeping and Luna needs to train herself.

‘Maybe it won’t be that bad right?’

After a long night of running, jumping, running until she could not move, lifting heavy things and throwing them. Everything is now clear.

‘It was bad!’

“You are stronger than a normal human, but It’s your body that lets you move with ease. My only feeling is your body and mind are not aligned. If by the way you were fighting the wild boar the same way you fought other creatures. Then you are lucky, but luck won’t save you next time.”

While breathing heavily she could only listen to his lecture without a counter. She knew her fight against the raptor was just luck by using her body and her power. Without any of it she would be dead today, and the big boar, is just because this man saved her only because she had saved Lucina. Luna could not deny it anymore, feeling self conscious she could only resume her training. But before she could continue.

“You are exhausted, I see it clearly now. You are stronger than you thought and I could clearly see progression from the first hours. I’ve trained all the warriors in this tribe and you do have a good adaptation. You progress faster in using your body, I can jump on real practice later.”

After his lecture, she could only her and clone 2 weakly go back to sleep. She didn’t mind being in the same bed as Lucina, making it four people sleeping in it.

The next day Lucina could only be confused by this view of 3 girls sleeping with her. She could only smile at it like the more the better and didn’t even try to question it. The chief Gordak himself had let her live freely, he could feel the presence of everyone and their hostility. He had already killed people before Luna came to this island. Most of them died by his hand, harboring a will to submit the tribe, even god's messenger came and died by his hand. Being silent about him killing them, she had already accepted that everything he did was for the best for everyone.

Luna being alive is only because he could see something she could not. He also told her that people with strange power would appear everywhere and everything defying what normal power could create. Creating what impossible, now possible but only a select few could get this power.

‘She’s too innocent for this world, but she could maybe give something for this community.’

Lucina left the room to the sleeping girls, being oblivious of her thoughts more realist about this world than she let others think she goes to her usual work before winter.

Hours later Luna wakes up all her three bodies at the same time, thinking about something else. Strangely she doesn't feel strained nor weak and could feel that her mind is less heavier than yesterday. Now she could do simple things like lifting a bowl of water and drink with the three bodies at the same time without headache.

One thing had changed from before, she had now gotten [Mental Fortitude (E)]. She doesn't know where it came from, but she felt like she could support more pressure in her mind.

With it, it’s still difficult for more complex actions like dancing with all three. Losing balance when more than two of her do it, she could only let clone 2 on the bed letting her sleep for later use. It’s strange she felt she could let her sleep here without any problem, only food and water.

Now out she felt that people now accepting the ‘stranger’ were not against her walking around the village. Wandering with no goal, she could see kids working to move little objects and for older ones they were tutoring some activities for the survival of the village. Boys were learning more physical work, while girls learned what they could.

In this world I could tell, every talent is to be used efficiently. Some of them are strong, but most are normal, making it possible to make a class of people. Looking around I could see that everyone looks like they live in harmony. But I could still see rictus on them looking down to normal humans for some stronger one. Maybe only Gordak could make this situation acceptable.

While pondering I could finally smell what stink the most in this village, tanning. Not the process itself but when the corpse starts to stink, it becomes difficult. This is why it was alway in the extreme opposite of the middle, far from people. But they could not tell them to live outside the wall.

Walking near it she could see the corpse of the wild boar being skinned. This is something Luna needed to know how to do, it’s something essential for clothing and later the concept of armor. So she let her two sets of feet move her to the 3 tanner, 1 old woman and 2 men working on it.

“Hello! I’m Luna, can I help you? I want to learn a lot of things.”

Stopping in their work, they look at the two catgirls that look like girls. Remembering who they are, they bore a face a mix between grimace and distrust. She’s a stranger and a child, but they can’t clearly push her away. What Gordak told the village, they were warriors stronger than normal humans. Still not fully believing in their abilities, the two men back down, while the woman taking out two daggers made of bones were given to her and her clone. Looking at the girls with a mischievous smile.

“Then, skin this wild boar! This would help us a lot!”

It was hard for them, but maybe they would just give up minutes later, is what this old woman could think. But to her own surprise they took the knives and worked at it. In six hours, it was cleanly cut into a whole piece. Some losses were expected due to her inexperience, but being two helped her to understand how to cut more and more cleanly. Her mind was at work and her two bodies were at work, learning how to carefully and efficiently do it. Ropes were used to lift the carcass, the wild boar weighed 1.5 tons and its carcass 500 kg, it was heavy for anyone, a system of ropes were used to hang it to a thick wood log above them.

The entire skin could weigh more than 200 kg, and Luna with her clone could not lift the skin in one piece. So she made several cuts for 5 parts of equivalent weight, skin from legs and skin from the neck were different, thicker for the neck and head and thinner on other parts. Still heavy for anyone, but with a bit of strength a normal person can lift it with strength.

The woman looking at the carcass could only ponder deeply.

‘The Boar being a real mastodon, weighs 1.5 tonnes and the only person that this old woman knows who could transport it is the chief, but he’s always hiding how he moves it. He’s strong, but even though the beast is heavy, every villager could not even lift it together.’

While pondering she did not sense when Luna tapped her hips. She jumps in surprise, before looking back at the now empty carcass. The meat was already stored away (some are stolen by Luna shhhhh) for later use. Bones strong enough to let a beast lifting this size should be strong. Looking at the girl, she’s now finally convinced, the two men could not be more troubled. It would have taken them 4 whole hours to make it and 5 and half if they wanted to make it clean.

Impressed by their dexterity and coordinations like working as one, even with her colleague she could not even do that, working 15 years together. She could only drag her in more work to see her doing more impressive things. Even while learning she wasn’t this skilled she had thought she was lying at first, but when she had seen those two working from the beginning it was sloppy and at the end it was really impressive.

“I’ll tell you what to do now, I’ll do it with you directly!”

Luna didn’t know why she’s fired up, but it’s nicer to have people doing things with passion. Making the preparation a part of the day and following her until evening for her every activity.