I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

To be honest, Viya thought it was her imagination, but she did taste a faint sweetness. Viya looked at the plate of turtle sashimi in front of her with a surprised expression. To be honest, she did not expect that after the blood of the turtle was washed away, it would have a faint sweet taste after chewing it a few times.

Just then, Viya suddenly saw Yuhaka take a piece of crustacean sashimi. However, instead of putting it in her mouth, Yuhaka used her chopsticks to pick up some cold crustacean skin salad from the side and put it into the crustacean sashimi in her hand. Then, she wrapped the cold crustacean skin salad with the crustacean sashimi and stuffed it into her mouth. Seeing Yuhaka's actions, Zelusi, who was in the system space, couldn't help but comment on Yuhaka's way of eating:

"What kind of eating is this? Cold dish with sashimi???"

Seeing how Yuhaka ate, Viya and Heller followed suit, eating the cold shellfish skin salad and shellfish sashimi together. Before Viya took a bite, watching Yuhaka prepare the cold shellfish skin salad filled her with a sense of novelty, as she had never seen anything like boiling water to cook food before. Because it was difficult to start a fire on Pandora, the Nivi and some other races ate raw meat, and their vegetarian diet consisted mainly of fruits and plants unique to Pandora.

However, after seeing how Yuhaka blanched fish skin, Viya thought of a hot spring in an underground cave in her tribe's village, and wondered if she could give it a try.

But now Viya knows exactly what that black "water" is.

After putting the crustacean sashimi wrapped in cold crustacean skin into her mouth and chewing it a few times, Viya suddenly opened her eyes wide and showed a surprised expression.

【This, this taste!?】

Viya stared in disbelief at the cold tossed shredded shellfish skin in front of her. After being blanched, the shellfish skin had transformed from its previously slightly firm texture into a surprisingly chewy and bouncy one. Viya found it hard to believe that this was the hard skin of a shellfish. Most importantly, what was this fresh taste spreading in her mouth?!

Viya's hair shimmered with golden light as she looked at Yohaka and said:

"Yoyo! What, what is this!? It tastes amazing!"

Upon hearing Viya's question, Youhaka looked at Viya with a puzzled expression and said:

"Cold fish skin salad, oh?"

Viya shook her head and looked at Youhaka, saying:

"No, that... I meant the black water, that's where the delicious smell comes from!"

Viya seemed quite excited about tasting soy sauce for the first time, which puzzled Youhaka. Curious, Youhaka then asked Viya:

"Viya, have you never seen soy sauce before?"

Upon hearing Yuhaka's words, Viya was also taken aback and said:

"Huh? Soy... sauce? What's that?"

“O-O......”

Upon hearing Viya's question, Yuhaka realized that Viya was much more pitiful than he had imagined. She clearly had spices but didn't know what soy sauce was. Viya was also puzzled when she saw Yuhaka looking at her with pity, as if she didn't understand why Yuhaka was looking at her with pity.

Meanwhile, Heller, standing next to Viya and Yohaka, transformed into a fish-eating machine, devouring Yohaka's crustacean sashimi and chilled crustacean skin salad bit by bit.

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After several hours, Viya finally emerged from the coral forest with Yuhaka and Heleye. However, even so, they still had to walk a distance to reach the location of Viya's Niwei tribe.

“OoO~ Oh~”

Yuhaka looked up at the enormous blue whale-like creature flying high above him and exclaimed, "Such a big fish must be enough to fill me up!"

Seeing Yuhaka's amazed expression as he gazed at the enormous, blue whale-like creature flying overhead, Viya, looking a little shy, said to Yuhaka:

"The name of that giant creature in the sky is Itno."

“ItnoOwO?”

Yuhaka looked at Viya with a puzzled expression and asked, "What's wrong?" Viya looked up at Iteno flying in the sky and said, "..."

"That's right... that's the name. The reason it's called that is because, except for when it lays eggs or when its lifespan is about to end, it flies in the air forever. Besides that, each generation of Eterno has a very long lifespan, so we call it Eterno. And this name has a kind of eternal meaning."

Chapter 540 [Arrival at the Niwei Tribe]

When Yuhaka brought up the topic of whether it was okay to eat iteno, Viya looked embarrassed and said:

"Well... I don't think so. Besides, Iteno is very rare. You might not see one even once every 20 days."

After hearing what Viya said, Youhaka also thought of the "endangered animals" he had seen on TV at home.

If that's the case, then Yuhaka can't eat the creature called Itno anymore, since if he eats it and then doesn't get it, he won't be able to eat it again.

Well, the prerequisite is that the creature has to taste good.

After crossing a shallow area, Viya led Yuhaka and the others to a cave. Viya turned back to Yuhaka and the others and said:

"We've arrived. This is the entrance to our tribe."

After seeing this scene, Zelus and the others in the system space looked at Pandora. Pandora told them that because of those humans, she dared not allow other races to appear on the ground. If those humans were to drop bombs like last time, Pandora would not be able to bear it.

Soon, led by Viya, Youhaka and Hailey arrived at the Niwei tribe's village.

At the entrance to the tribe, Viya's mother was leading the Niwei warriors, who were waiting there. Beside Viya's mother, a Niwei warrior wearing armor made of biological skeletons and carapaces asked her:

"Lovit, why hasn't Viya come back yet?"

Hearing the words of her tribe's war chief and husband, Lovett frowned and looked at the Nivi tribesman beside her, saying:

"In public, you should address me as the Great Witch, Leader Rose."

"Yes yes yes~"

Hearing his wife, who was also the High Witch, speak, Chief Rose gave a perfunctory "yes, yes, yes" reply. Behind them, several Nivi warriors whispered amongst themselves:

"Wow... the chief and the high witch are showing off their love again, how annoying..."

"Yeah, yeah, they don't even consider how we single fish feel..."

Rose, at the front of the line, had a "I heard you" look on her face. Maybe she should make them clean the toilets another day...

Just then, the Niwei warriors on the watchtower saw Viya and Yuhaka approaching from afar and spoke to the Niwei people below:

"Great Witch, Witch Viya has returned with the Star God's Apostle!"

Upon hearing the words of the Niwei warriors on the watchtower, several Niwei people climbed to higher places and looked around at Viya and her companions in the distance.

Viya and her group also noticed the tribe in the distance. Yuhaka stood on tiptoe, looking at the Niwei tribe with great curiosity. Although Yuhaka had seen the Meru Cat tribe and Jilin's Youxiong clan tribe, he still thought Viya's tribe was more attractive.

The Nivi tribe's settlements were built in a relatively spacious open area inside a cave. The Nivi's houses were constructed from the bones, shells, skins, and scales of creatures that inhabited Pandora. Illuminated by the glowing crystals and glowing mushrooms inside the cave, they appeared colorful and very beautiful.

Viya turned around and looked at Yuhaka, who had an OAO expression, and Heller, who had a 0A0 expression, with a hint of pride, and said to them:

"Welcome to the Niwei tribe, Youyou, Xiaoye."

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Inside the temple built into the cave wall of the Niwei tribe, Yuhaka and Heleya sat on a fur rug made of some unknown creature. Seated before them was Viya's mother, Lovett, and beside her was Viya's "father," Rose. Viya, sitting next to her mother, seemed a little blushing. For some reason, she felt as if she were introducing her husband (Yuhaka) to her parents, even though she and Yuhaka hadn't yet held that "ceremony"...

Lovett bowed to Yohaka and Heleya and said to them:

"Thank you so much for coming from the distant outer realms to help us, Lord Youyou and Lord Xiaoye."

Upon hearing Lovett's words, Yuhaka and Heleya greeted him. After exchanging a few polite words with Yuhaka and Heleya, Lovett had some Niwei people offer them a lot of food. As Lovett watched Yuhaka and Heleya wolf down the food, Viya quietly tugged at Lovett beside her, indicating that she had something to discuss with him privately.

After seeing that his daughter had something to discuss with him, Lovett arranged for Yuhaka and Heleya to stay there. Lovett then left with his daughter, and Rose also left because she had to guard the tribe.

At Lovett and Rose's residence, Lovett looked at Viya, who was blushing slightly, and asked:

"Viya, is there something you want to tell me?"

Viya, looking a little embarrassed, glanced around to make sure no one was around, then quietly told Lovett about Yuhaka's advances. Upon hearing Viya's words, Lovett almost cried out in disbelief, but Viya was prepared and quickly covered her mother's mouth. After Lovett calmed down, she looked at her daughter with an incredulous expression and said:

"By the Goddess of the Stars, Viya, are you sick and talking nonsense?"

Hearing her mother's words, Viya, who had been blushing slightly, immediately looked at her mother with a speechless expression and said:

"Mother, how do you view your own daughter...?"

Lovett looked at his short daughter with an expression of utter certainty in response to Viya's words:

"Otherwise, how could someone as short as you, a member of the Nivi tribe, possibly catch the eye of an apostle from a distant land?"

Seeing that her mother didn't believe her, Viya sighed helplessly. There was nothing she could do; people of the Niwei tribe who were short like Viya were generally considered to have low "appearance," even though Viya was the most powerful witch in the Niwei tribe.

Then Viya grabbed the thin nerve bundle on her head and said to Lovett:

"Mother, come with me for a [connection ceremony], and I will prove that what I said is true."

Chapter 541 [Viya Wants to Become a Hero]

The Connection Ritual is a special and sacred ritual performed by all intelligent beings on Pandora.

The connection ritual involves connecting one's own nerve bundles with those of other people or creatures. The intelligent beings on Pandora believed this ritual to be a bridge for communication between the souls of all things, allowing them to connect with the hearts of all things and achieve a state similar to "human-horse unity."

If it's a connection ritual between intelligent beings, then the two of them have nothing to hide from each other. However, this ritual can only be used between close friends and spouses, and it's also used by witches to contact the star goddess Pandora at the sacred tree.

After the connection ceremony between Viya and Lovett ended, the nerve bundles between them separated (for details on nerve bundle connection, refer to the Na'vi in ​​Avatar).

Lovett looked at his tiny daughter with an incredulous expression and said:

"He actually took a liking to you? By the God of Stars, this is simply unbelievable..."

Viya looked at her mother with a speechless expression. She was clearly her mother's daughter, so why didn't her mother give her more trust?

Well... actually, Lovett didn't distrust Viya, but Viya's current physical condition was just too "poor". Of course, it wasn't that Viya's physical fitness was bad. In the current Niwei tribe, Viya's physique could rank among the top three, but in terms of height, Viya could rank last among all adult Niwei tribes.

Can you imagine a tiny person of only about 140cm tall among the Niwei people, whose adult height is around 170cm to 200cm?

Apart from the underage Niwei people, none of them are shorter than 170cm. This explains why no Niwei person has ever proposed to Viya. If Viya weren't a powerful witch, the other Niwei people would suspect that she might be disabled.

Incidentally, the "disabled" here refers to the disabled people in the Niwei ethnic group.

Lovett looked at his slightly blushing daughter and said with a puzzled expression:

"If that's the case, wouldn't that be great? But why are you telling me all this?"

Then Viya regained her serious expression and looked at Lovett, saying:

“Well, that’s not enough. I’m not good enough for Youyou right now, so I want to hold a [Kumosh Ritual].

Before discussing the Kumosh ceremony, we must first mention how the Niwei tribe assigns jobs. All underage Niwei people are given "jobs" after they reach adulthood. Depending on their performance, the jobs they receive vary. Generally, the Niwei tribe has two types of jobs: livelihood jobs and combat jobs.

There are various professions related to daily life, such as "Growers" who cultivate edible plants, "Nanny" who care for children, and "War Craftsmen" who create weapons and armor, among others.

Combat classes include the [Warrior], responsible for ground combat; the [Beast Knight], who fights on horseback; and the [War Chief], a powerful commander responsible for leading battles, among others...

The Kumosh ritual, among the Niwei and other intelligent races, is used to grant Niwei members who have been assigned a profession the option to change jobs or have an additional job position.

Of course, the Kumosh ritual also changes depending on the profession chosen by the trial participant. If it is a life profession, the trial content is related to life skills, while if it is a combat profession, the trial content is related to combat.

Seeing Viya's determined look, Lovett didn't try to stop her. After all, this was a major event concerning his daughter's lifelong happiness. However, Lovett was also curious about why his daughter wanted to choose a profession as her secondary occupation. As for what a secondary occupation was, the reason was simple: it was because of Viya's profession as a witch.

There is no way to change the profession of witch because it is a hereditary profession. The first witches were all personally chosen by the Star God, so they basically did not become witches through the Kumosh ritual.

Upon hearing her mother's question, Viya told her mother:

"I want to become a hero."

Upon hearing Viya's words, Lovett fell silent. The meaning of the Hero profession is quite different from other combat professions. If other combat professions are for the Nivi tribe, then the Hero profession is for the entire world of Pandora.