Warning this chapter is an info-dump to justify partially the races of the world through the lens of our currently naive protagonist so can be skipped.
After listening to the story many revelations where revealed, Spirits, dragons, Dungeons and that Different races wondered world existed,Also a confusing concept raised in that killing living beings result in a boost in power which also lead to assumptions forming .It was confusing and the contents of the book may have been more than detailed for a child but for his needs it was usefull ,He was happy he could gleam so much from the book.
For one the humans would be considered weak in this ecososm of power where mages where the top humans where other races far surpassed them in this aspect. Under Masons deduction humanity one of the weakest.
There existed elves which are blessed with longevity , magic prowess ,keen agility which makes them outclass humans ,In the story it depicted them differently as the hero reached different areas of the world where they were consistently different and the most abundant was the wood elf ,Mason believed these beings evolved to be better suited to magic and the use of it ,Also he deducted that there was a elf corresponding to elements and there psychical states will be moulded by these elements , Dark Elf is what he believed was from the race evolved in a dark element rich environment, Sea Elf from the evolution in water element rich environments, Wood Elfs from a rich life essence environment which was the yellow element which both healed Mason & gave him the miraculous ability, There body's from the story where described as stick but very agile which means they would probably susceptible to physical trauma . Also in that they evolved in area they most likely stay in that area and not want to go out there ancestral ground, hence why they probably have not taken over most of the world or concerned most of the world.
Dwarfs also existed which were stunted , brutally strong and stalwart, they lived in holds or where nomadic smiths ,they are inured to magic essence meaning they cannot cast spells but they seemingly developed rune craft which allows magic effects to take place but much safer, Most likely this is the what the other races copied to get there enchanting, in the story they forged and enchanted the weapon of the hero and a smith followed him to maintain such a weapon, He assumed they evolved within a gravity rich environment due to their stunted height and strength as well as where they mined resources in the same environment as the book mentioned they have the best metals ,meaning gravity must of compressed the to a extent to form carbon crystals so hence there body's are strong and very resilient or maybe they were just that good at smiting .This lack of magic probably lead to their advancing in forging and the dwarfen holds probably have higher technology than here in the area of the world where humans resided, he still didn't know how large the world was a map that encompassed the world probably was costly so he nor his family had access to it.
Beastmen where the general term for half beasts or pure beastmen which were unable to use any type of magic and there bodys where much stronger and more agile as a result of the bestial bloodline in their veins ,The hero in the story obtained a slave beastmen and in such a cliché way he released this slave but the slave decided to follow him, From what he could gleam they far surpassed humans but dwarfs where stronger while elfs faster .This lead into the fact they seemed like a slave race or target of being a slave race due to the strongest beings are those able harness magic and they could not in any way .
Spirits are baseline magic entities which can contract with a individual as they did with the Knight in the story. They have a consciousness and From what Mason could deduct these spirits where either a simulacrum of their previous being with there memories as electromagnetic impulses stored magical into a incorporeal state and he believed the memory transfer may be not dissimilar to his own predicament or they were a true anomalous entity and spirits do exist which would mean he took over the body from the child and expunged the Child's spirit.
A dragon was the main antagonist from the story and from what he could tell these beings are very intelligent and very confused ,it can speech the language of the races, From what was described they could fly with 2 large wings and breath a fire which melts metal and scales resistant to everything from ballista and mortal weapons and resistant to normal magic, These beings where probably the apex predator of this world, he deduced either that the dragon uses phenomena to produce both these effects or has evolved to the point of being able to as the fire could be result of a collection of flammable substances in a gland in the dragon where they can release this which ignites when it contacts oxygen ,as well if it can melt metal it is at minimum as hot as 1000-1500C which made him shudder, the ability fly it could of evolved with a hollow bone structure ,That would mean if you could determine where either this gland is you could cause the dragon to explode from the inside or use blunt force trauma to break its bones as the scales probably deflected slashing type weapons ,Though the hero in the story just cut the beasts head off.
The book skimmed past concepts of giants which seemed to be large entities which used bows which made them a force to be reckoned with as they are like ballista's while dungeons where a recurring "monster " generator and magical beasts, Also it skimmed over information he badly wanted which was the elements and the information was subpar and only said that the hero was so chosen he could use them all and the only elements he knew of where the ones where the hero met a elf and if they were connected to a race.Also one regrettable thing which was left out was a very relevant information for Mason about how killing other living things result in a power boost.
All of this made Masons zealously speculation trying to make sure he knows as much as he can as even though it was a kids book it's still held use and he will still need to gather more books through growing up to establish the correct hypothesis of the origin of the races.
Not long after this Masons did not recognise the time but his childish body did recognise the time passing and the first true day of his rebirth was completed as he slept in the co