Audrey and Megan could not lift God's Gift Box, and Shade had no idea how Luvia had managed to do so.
In any case, under the watchful eyes of the three ladies and one cat, Shade knelt on one knee and reached for the Gift Box on the floor, taking out this week's gift.
It was neither parchment recording secret lore nor a stone tablet documenting Ancient Knowledge. What appeared in Shade's hand was a lump of mud—or rather, a lump of mud shaped like an eye.
The mud itself was utterly ordinary. Shade was certain it was just normal soil mixed with water. As for the shape it had been molded into, it looked like a child's handiwork, but abstract as it was, Shade could still tell that it was an eye.
This week's task was to play with mud together with his friends. This task was quite fitting for one intended for a child.
"What does this mean?"
Luvia frowned slightly, but Megan immediately understood:
"When Winnie introduced the [Life Fire Seed], didn't she say that although 'Life Fire Seeds' mostly appeared in Mechanical Creations, they could actually grant life to devices made by most intelligent life forms, not just those made of metal?"
Luvia understood as well:
"Yes. It is only because intelligent life forms make the most use of metal that this anomaly appears more often in metal.
But if Shade molds an eye out of mud himself and casts the thaumaturgy [Active Mud], then theoretically, that would also count as a 'precise device created by an intelligent life form.'
This way, could the hint that Old God gave Shade mean that he should find a way to transfer the 'Life Fire Seed' into the eye he molded? To the Believers of that ancient Creator God,