Odyssey of the Blind God

"Nial…do you even know what you brought back here?" The old Mouse Demihuman, the Grand Elder, asked Nial when he heard what Nial had done.

Nial was just smiling while sitting on Shadow's back. It was quite confident and certainly easy to travel on Shadow's back, especially thanks to the various special traits Shadow possessed. From the looks of it, Shadow was not exactly an overwhelming force to reckon with, but that was not exactly true. Shadow was quite powerful due to the massive energy storage capability he possessed and the terrific agility and strength it possessed. However, making use of those traits was a different matter. Shadow had yet to learn how to control its body properly. This was the most important when it came to using his special traits.

The first glance showed a terrifying existence that was humongous and dangerous, but Shadow was rather adorable in Nial's opinion.

Of course, others wouldn't agree with his opinion. The Grand Elder was part of the 'others', who stared at the humongous beast that levitated behind Nial, staring through the glass windows of the 110th floor of the skyscraper where Nial and the Grand Elder met up.

"I think Shadow is an Origin Leviathan, precisely the youngest generation of the Origin Leviathans. He had been abandoned because of an adverse mutation and I saved him from a swarm of Space Piranhas," Nial explained and as he was recalling something, he added, "There was a swarm of Space Piranhas consistent of more than a thousand members. All of them were at the Mythician rank, which was quite a surprise when I encountered them behind the second layer of the outskirts!"

The Grand Elder stared at Nial for a few seconds. He shook his head and sighed deeply.

"Space Piranhas, a large-scale swarm at that? What are you even doing behind the second layer of the Meteorfield's outskirts? You do realize that your life is on the line every single second behind the second layer?" The Grand Elder said, just to lift his hand when Nial was about to say something.

The Grand Elder was mumbling something to himself, using a language Nial didn't know. It took the Grand Elder a few seconds to regain his composure.

"Let's ignore the Swarm of Space Piranhas for the time being. I won't even bother asking you how you took care of them, or what you did to 'Shadow' or whatever you call that beast…but…what the hell are you doing??"

No matter which way the Grand Elder thought about it, he was pretty sure that Nial was planning something. It didn't make sense that this beast jumped into his lap, just like that, all of a sudden at that.

There had to be more, something Nial didn't wish to share with others. He had been quite a while in the Demihumans' territory for now and he was accepted rather well by now. Most of the reasoning for the Demihumans' acceptance was that Nial usually spread out his black feathered wings. Doing this, he looked like a Demihuman, or to be precise, he looked more like a Demihuman.

But now that Nail returned with the four-kilometer-long beast, Nial seemed to have given up on 'hiding' his identity and the plans he had in mind.

"I will use Shadow to cross the Meteorfield once he is strong enough to do so. The restrictions on long-distance traveling using abilities and other means don't exist for this little guy. My focus will be on nourishing him while cultivating, as well. That's why I'm here for, in the first place!" Nial clarified, which caused the Grand Elder to nod his head slowly. He watch the humongous beast that calmly levitated behind the window as if it was waiting for further commands from Nial.

The Grand Elder was trying his best to maintain his calm and make sure that he seemed to be composed. However, his mind was quite literally wreaked. Everything seemed in chaos, but he couldn't show that to Nial, because the blind Original was way too calm.

"What exactly did you come here for?" The Grand Elder asked after a few seconds, squinting his eyes while his eyes moved back and forth from Nial to the humongous beast and back.

"Do you want to make business with me?" Nial asked, which earned him a confused gaze once again.

He took this as a 'yes' and cleared his throat.

"You would have to give me a bunch of materials, a proper blacksmith, and an unlimited amount of the food specialist's Waikyura Meat in exchange for me creating one runic armament every month, or a total of 100 runic armaments of your choice. I think I can be considered a Saint Runicier by now but you probably don't know what that means," Nial offered while retrieving one of his two remaining experimental runic armaments.

"You remember that I hired Godsly for ten days in exchange for giving him a small fortune of resources? This is the result of my research over the past few years and what I created by combining my already existing knowledge with the new things I learned in this part of the Universe!"

He handed the runic armament to the Grand Elder who looked at it a little confused. In this part of the Universe, they didn't have something like runic armaments. Their hieroglyphs were not bad runes but their efficiency was not too great.

Rather than focusing on improving their knowledge of hieroglyphs the Demihumans' biggest priority was to continually advance their technology. They wanted to travel faster through space and make sure that things would advance even more.

By being able to travel through space faster, it would be possible to explore the 'empty' space rather than attempting to travel through the Meteorfield where dangers lurked everywhere.

Exploring the empty space where individual stellar systems with new resources were located could be colonized much easier by improving their knowledge.  and technology. Using the new resources, they should be able to advance even further. Using this theory as motivation, the Demihumans stopped focusing on hieroglyphs and their usage. At least most of them.

"Try to use it and tell me if the deal is fine with you. I know that the Waikyura Meat is expensive but it's nothing in comparison to the value my runic constellations can deliver!"