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A bell rang waking me up, looking outside it was a very hot day so I chose to leave my jacket and katana behind. I met up with Alice downstairs before heading to the Library of Piltu.
I observed that there were an unusual amount of artificials guarding the area. The citizens were wearing many different types of casual clothing and some of them seem to have visible mechanisms going in and out of their bodies.
'They all also don't seem to be sad or angry about the artificials patrolling.' I thought to myself.
'This country found a way to balance what jobs are needed for artificials and what the citizens need not only to earn but also avoid unemployment. They are also adjusting well.' I thought when I remembered the time when we were looking for an inn, I found that the houses at the first wall were more similar to the houses from Bellken but as we went further, it all change to less wooden and more cement buildings with pipes going in and out of said buildings which meant Kliyer was still in a transition phase.
We soon reached the Library of Piltu and me and Alice separated. Although a very tiny part of me is saying to accompany her, I only thought of her as a party member so I decided to not get in the way instead.
While exploring the library, I grabbed many certain books called:
Basic Guide to Races and Monsters
Artificials
Basic Guide to Magic
Gods of the World
After grabbing the books, I start skimming through them.
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Basic Guide to Races
Since living beings only inhabit 45% of the world's surface, new creatures that are discovered are put into two categories:
Creatures that can reason and
Creatures that can not reason
[Creatures that can reason]
Human -
Created by Liv, The goddess of the living.
Humans are beings with no natural-born talents on anything but they also have the potential to master anything.
They are by far the weakest race but have the biggest potential to be the strongest warrior or mage.
Elf -
Created by Liv, The goddess of the living.
Strong, agile, and lives longer than any human, due to elves making the forest their home and respected and living with it instead of destroying it which in turn, The goddess of Hunt, Kul, blessed their next and future generations becoming naturally adept with hunting and hunting weapons as well.
Their appearance is the same as humans, only they have pointed ears and more pale skin.
They also have the culture of using their villages or city's name as their last name.
Half and Half Races -
A common mix between races is humans and elves.
In the old days, such a breed was frowned upon by both races however the goddess of love, Cleo found such a race to be a definition of true love so she blessed those with half and half races to inherit both of their traits but the world is often cruel.
Demons -
These creatures are created like how humans repopulate and have the appearance of dark red beings like animals, humanoids, or monsters based on what form they choose.
Most demons have filthy faces for low-ranking ones but most high-ranking ones make themselves handsome or beautiful beings to make their prey seduced, afraid, or hesitant.
They come from the underworld which can be accessed by going far enough underground where a portal lies.
[Creatures that can not reason]
Demonic Creatures -
Not actually related to demons directly but instead creatures created from a large amount of negative energy to beings with mana or creatures that are malformed due to mana overload or infected mana. Demonic creatures can also take the form of any living creature or non-living thing.
The prime examples of these creatures are: Mulcurts - A gorilla-like beast, its fist can destroy boulders easily however it is dumber than the average gorilla. Mulcurt's tend to trust their instincts more than their brain making them easy to manipulate by those that have higher intelligence.
Hulcurts: Different breed of mulcurt which generally has a similar body and movement as a gorilla however this one has more of a slim body with horns sticking out of its head and spikes on its back. Generally considered a failure in their society due to their evolution of wanting to be more stealthy but due to their low intelligence, they become stuck between a Brutal brawler and a stealthy hunter.
Denovon: An offspring of a denovin and a worker. A bipedal black mantis that is protected by an exoskeleton has a similar body to a human however, its mantis head has two horns protruding on the forehead and its forearms are replaced with claws. Their hive collects living creatures and offers them to their queen to be eaten alive and all the leftovers will be given to the workers and children. Due to their queen eating most of the foods, most of the bigger nests destroyed themselves and only small groups of 50 are the largest nests that survived for ten years.
Denovin: Similar to a denovon however its body is more female-like. A new queen is chosen when a nest's current queen gives birth to a female and whether that female denovon can kill the current denovin and eat her corpse which makes the female denovon evolve into a denovin. If there is no denovin in a nest but the first female denovon is birth, The evolution ritual will happen where the female denovon will eat half of the nest population and a single female no matter what species it is alive.
Note:
Mana Overload - A large amount of in someone's body which increases the heat inside of their body causing them to bleed out or explode based on the amount of mana
Infected or Corrupted Mana - This can come from things that directly affect the mana going wrong and this is often the common result of it.
Negative Energy - Strong Feelings such as sadness and anger from beings with mana.
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I continue to skim through it before getting bored and started reading the next book called Artificials.
Artificials:
As proposed by Professor Likru, the artificials are beings that are not alive.
Artificials have many parts to make one. The head is made out of 4 parts: Both of the eyes for their sight, the upper half of the next so that it can move its head, and lastly the lower half of the next which connects the head to the torso.
The torso is made out of 4 parts. The upper torso is connected to the shoulders and lower torso and the lower torso is connected to the upper torso and pelvis.
In between the torso are spring-like structures to move both separately while also keeping them attached.
The shoulders are just oval-like shapes that attach to a small ball inside of the torso making it able to move freely.
The arms are comprised of 18 parts each. The arm which is connected to the shoulder is made of a light metal cylinder that gets a bit smaller as it reaches the elbow which is just another ball to move the forearm.
The forearm is nearly the same shape as the arm only connected to the hands which are connected by another small ball that allows them to move.
On the inside of the hand is a bone-like thing that connects to 5 balls on each finger.
Each finger is had 2 parts each with an even smaller ball to connect and move it around.
In between the pelvis and the lower torso are spring-like structures so that they can move separately and the pelvis itself only has two balls that attach to the legs.
The legs have the same amount of parts as the arms and are similar in how they work, however, after attaching they are just nothing than puppets with no strings so inside of the head and torso are giant balls called cores.
Professor Likru made it big and obvious where it is so that rouge artificials are easier to kill. He also made it so that, artificials need both cores to survive
The one on the head is the brain of the artificials. It is connected to the eyes which are modified to see even the slightest mana making them see and they also receive their request there which then are transmitted to the core at the torso via s๊ซ๊ชแฆ, a portal-like 4-worded spell.
The head core also has a replicated soul, which is made by putting a certain knowledge like how to make items or fight in them which makes their orders much simpler, this is all that the Kliyer government allowed to be shown in public for security reasons.
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The torso core a second after receiving the request moves the body to fulfill the request.
It can move by using the แ ป๊ชฎrแฅด๊ซ spell which moves the parts with precision.
I skim the rest as it deals with more of its history but on the last page, Likru commented on how complicated and reliant they are on mana. Likru hopes to make it more focused on technology than magic for those that are magically or physically impaired and the artificials are his first steps to helping them.
I closed the book and stretches for a bit as I looks around the giant and silent library before reading the next book