The Artificial God

Go Hunting

In the village of cat man or Leonis, we have fertile soil, and clear waters. Our village is very peaceful, plus with lush trees towering high. We make use of the trees as our home, and also make use of everything in our region.

In the north there is the Elf countryside which is also no less beautiful than our countryside of cat people. Those pointy-eared humans live in a different place to us. The land, trees, and others in the area, look very beautiful at night.

Plants, the trees shine brightly at night which makes the atmosphere more soothing. Then in the direction of the west was the territory of the demons, their place was so bad for the other races. They live on hard rocks, and are hot with lava flows flowing everywhere.

Not only that which makes the region look bad, and creepy. In their territory there are strange trees, and creepy animals. But from their point of view that's the best place to live.

Then in the east, ruled by winged men, our god gave a name to the winged race of men. God called the winged man an angel, not what he thought until such a name appeared, but to me it is not bad also the name given by our god.

There are many more races I want to tell elsewhere, but I'm lazy to tell. Then we also made a pact not to just go to his territory. We are only allowed to enter other areas when there is important business only, and attract the attention of the leaders of the regions only.

If it does not attract the attention of the territory leader, the person who gave the news will be killed cruelly. Though it is not this kind of life that I want, I want all races to be able to live peacefully. But somehow the gods let us fight like this, like they didn't care about us.

Maybe our god wants us to take care of this. Therefore the gods did not intervene just for this kind of matter. Therefore I am Gernath, the cat man has a very big dream, which is a dream to unite all the races that exist, so that the world can live in peace.

I want to be like that, but I live as an orphaned cat that has no one. I made my own home from the abundant resources in our region. If I want to eat, I just need to go hunting, or catch fish in the river with my own equipment.

Even though I don't have anyone, I'm already very happy to be living here. Together with the good people around me, sometimes they come to visit my house to provide for my daily needs. To repay their kindness, I decided to help them whatever it was.

Like helping to take care of the farm, take care of the garden, take care of their young children while their parents hunt, and much more I do. But still, I felt lonely because there was no one beside me to spend time with me.

Then to start this sunny day, I decided to go hunting with my precious weapon. The village leader gave me this hunting tool, and he told me it was my father's who used it for hunting. Now this very precious thing is being held full of zeal to hunt.

The name of this thing is a sword, it's no name given to us by the gods. The gods tell us everything about weapons, animals, plants, and others using the names used by old humans. God chose those names so as not to have trouble knowing new things in this life.

I entered the wilderness, this forest was named Agnuth forest. This forest is our favorite place for cat people to hunt, not just hunt. We also take abundant resources from here, such as trees, rocks, and others in this forest.

Srak...

"Yeahahoo!" I accidentally got into someone else's trap. I fell into a deep hole, my body was very sick after falling. Then the cat man who made the trap looked into the hole, and was surprised that the one who entered the trap belonged to him was me.

"God! how did you get in there, Gernath!?"

"Aw... ukh is very sick... Is this your trap Tygruth?" ask her while jumping out of that hole.

"Haha.pardon me, I can't hear no footsteps" Tygruth said, scratching his head.

"That's because I'm hunting here, I have to be careful in stepping so that my prey does not run away" I said.

"You're hunting too? but where's your sword you used to hunt?" asked Tygruth who looked confused. I just realized I'm not holding my sword. But thankfully I found him, and his sword was in the hole.

"By the way, how many traps have you set up here?" I asked who wanted to get closer to Tygruth so we could be friends.

"Hmm. about 10 more, you were lucky to get into the trap I just set up. Because of the other trap I've given me sharp thorns" Tygruth said.

We jumped up and down the tree quickly towards the direction of the sound. As soon as we arrived, it turned out that Tygruth had a big catch, a huge deer fell into Tygruth's trap full of blood because of the thorns he had placed inside. The thorns were obtained from a large tree that had thorns, Tygruth cut the thorn, and stuck it into his trap.

"Haha! I finally managed to get a catch for the first time" Tygruth cried bitterly.

"What's!? so this is your first catch? from a year ago since you first set this trap?" I was surprised to hear it.

"Yes right, with this my parents must be very proud of me. ah. sorry, I didn't mean..."

"It's okay.we better think about how to take the deer from the thorns that you put so much" I said while thinking.

"Eh!? you're right too? damn I never thought about this! are you a genius Gernath!?" said Tygruth who grasped both of my shoulders with sparkling eyes.

"What the fuck are you. It's just like that you mention a genius" I said who was actually happy to hear it, but I had to keep my authority.

"Then what should we do now? should we ask someone else for help?" asked Tygruth who frowned.

In the village we have a hunting rule, if we ask for help from others we have to share it evenly with the concerned. But to help bring a quarry like this, it seems only need to be given a quarter of the hunting results in the can.

Therefore Tygruth frowned, because he did not want the hunting results he had been waiting for instead distributed to others. This was his first catch after a year of setting these traps.

"No need to worry, I'm here, and I won't ask for your hunting results even if it's just a little" said the man who tried to calm him down.

"really? alright I trust my hunting results to you! but in what way?" asked Tygruth who had placed his hopes on me.

"Do you have a long, big enough rope?"

"Of course I have, it's in my bag"

"Well then, I'll use that rope" I said.

I took the rope, and tied it to my sword very tightly. I was actually a bit bothered by Tygruth beside me at work. His eyes twinkled while gaping, it made me feel irritated.

"Precise attention.. hiats!" I threw my sword into the body of the deer until half of the rod entered his body. Then I pulled my sword back with the rope I had tied to my sword earlier.

"What's!? how can your sword not be removed from the deer's body once you pull it?" shouted Tygruth who was surprised to see me.

"Don't ask too many questions.. ergh.. quickly help me pull it!" I said I had trouble pulling the big deer. Then Tygruth helped me pull the deer out of the hole, and finally we managed to pull the big deer out of the hole.

My hands became cramped from pulling the deer, and my strength was up, and so was Tygruth. We were tired, so we slept in the grass and chattered, then we looked at each other, and laughed together. Is this what it's like to have a friend? my little heart is so happy.

We decided to take a short nap before bringing the big deer home to replenish our energy. But suddenly from a distance we saw someone coming towards us. As soon as the person got closer to us, we were shocked, and immediately stood up in a standby position. Because the one who came to us from a different nation, that person was an Elf nation.