Capítulo 1012: Chapter D399: Heart, Return to Primal Origins_2
But now she could read it, realizing they were just arguing in a manner incomprehensible to ordinary people.
The debate about monsterization focused mainly on the definition of the forr: “Life that originally had a soul but no magic power gained magic power.” According to this definition, haven’t humans undergoing a Profession also experienced “monsterization”?
Humans, compared to other species, have always been known for being “born without magic,” a trait often considered a disadvantage.
In the distant past, humans even beca slaves and livestock to Magic Creatures, a humiliating history that has left a sense of inferiority lingering in the hearts of the Kingdom people to this day.
Of course, after the Holy War fifteen years ago, the situation improved significantly, with a new, idealistic academic theory erging: “Precisely because we are born without magic, humans possess infinite potential.”
However, this theory, which manifested human superiority, wasn’t widely spread in the past. Although the Holy War annihilated many Magic Creatures causing havoc, it still couldn’t eliminate the Arcane Surge or suppress all Magic Creatures, so the wilderness remained perilous for ordinary people and even first- or second-transford Professionals.
After all, even Goblins, or even Slis, could potentially take a life.
However, after the Hero beca the Saintess, this theory began to gradually gain popularity.
Before setting off, she read in the latest edition of the Warlock Association’s journal, an article acclaid as the year’s best. In extensive chapters and exaggerated prose, it argued: “Precisely because the Saintess is human, she can control the soul of the Corrupted Phoenix without being Legendary. If it were other Abnormal People, even those who are Heroes, it wouldn’t be possible. It’s because she is a human Saintess…”
Halfway through, she closed the book, a bit embarrassed.
As expected, what the Warlock Association says is often unreliable.
After all, her Phoenix Avatar wasn’t obtained by defeating the Corrupted Phoenix.
But only her grandfather, the Noble Lady, four Guards, the Border Count, the Cruising bishop, and the Snow Woman Clan knew about this.
Even the Sergeant, unless he specifically communicated with the Border Count, might believe her Phoenix Avatar was a result of the Highland battle.
But to protect the mountain forest environnt of her hotown, the Hero naturally wouldn’t clarify.
‘This is academic misconduct; the Judgent Court should wake him up.’
However, at that ti, the other part of her was clamoring to conduct a physical audit on that scholar.
It was only after the Hero reminded her, “Doing so would turn into ‘Humanity is amazing, defeating the Phoenix without even using Phoenix Power!'” that the Depraved Hero reluctantly dropped the idea.
But although “born without magic” is now seen as a unique human advantage, there are countless ordinary plants and animals in nature that don’t use magic power.
Large herbivores, small carnivores, and the ubiquitous trees and flowers in the forest… all these don’t use magic power and were the main source of food and materials for humans in the past.
Large carnivores are basically Magic Creatures; in the past, when the Professional system wasn’t developed, the at of Magic Creatures was often considered highly toxic—because even after cooking, the residual magic power in the at was too intense for ordinary people, and eating it recklessly could lead to various symptoms, from fever and fainting to bleeding from seven orifices.
However, as long as the conditions are right, put simply, staying at the core outbreak point of an Arcane Surge, any creature, be it flowers, birds, fish, or insects, could rapidly transform into a Magic Creature.
Except humans.
This fact beca a breakthrough for scholars’ research: What is essentially different between the human Professional system and ordinary creatures’ monsterization? How is humans’ “born without magic” unique compared to ordinary animals?
Although there is still no unified conclusion in the research, the Church proposed a widely accepted hypothesis: the Self and Spirit Theory.
The reason humans don’t monsterize is that each person possesses a “self.”
Humans, having a self-contained spirit, not only differentiates “you, , and him,” but also sets humans apart from the world.
The argunt is that, aside from the Arcane Surge, there is another easy way to cause ordinary creatures to monsterize, which is “swarming.”
In the Kingdom, animal husbandry is an industry with a significant threshold and inherent risks.
Because even ordinary livestock, once they increase in number, the leader among them is prone to monsterization, such as the lead sheep or chicken king.
And after the leader monsterizes, its magic power radiates to the surrounding, driving more of its kind to monsterize.
If the breeding scale is large, once monsterization occurs, the resonance in the large swarm sotis even allows the leader to leap directly to being a mid- to high-tier Magic Creature, causing losses far beyond property, even leading to an Arcane Surge.
And it’s not limited to livestock; even crops and fruits occasionally exhibit such phenona, like apple trees that begin to throw explosive spicy apples, which were not exterminated but instead planted in the Royal Capital Academy’s greenhouse as royal supplies.
…Maybe not being able to study in the Capital is a blessing?
In any case, small-scale self-sufficiency in the countryside is still acceptable, but for the developnt of large cities and even the entire Kingdom, agriculture-related monsterization is an unavoidable challenge.
The Bishop of the Courage Church, who walks the Path of Nature, and fostered that Tree Shepherd Hero, had so consideration of this aspect as well.
[Kingdom’s Worst Agricultural Product Incident (-10)]
D90=76
[Playing big, what is it?]
1. Chicken
2. Duck
3. Sheep
4. Pig
5. Potato
6. Mushroom
7. Chili
8. Anchor
9. Dove!
10. Critical Success/Extre Failure
D10=3
♛: Sheep
In the old tis when the Kingdom still retained slavery, there was even a tragedy where a demon awakened within a flock of sheep, eventually opening the Gate of Hell, a calamity still recorded in the Kingdom’s history books.
Historical records ntion a young shepherd, a slave, who after years of labor and abuse, was found dead in the sheepfold one morning, having failed to let the flock out to graze. Once the sheep finished the feed in the pen, they beca agitated, unable to break through the reinforced barriers—eventually, the lead sheep turned its hungry gaze toward the shepherd’s corpse.
Although in the Kingdom now, that was the last recorded appearance of a demon, and since then no demons have descended, one can still feel the horrific tragedy of that Magic Disaster through the writings.
That disaster beca one of the catalysts for the abolition of slavery and also provided vital information for subsequent monsterization research.
Scholars analyzed that within animal swarms, due to their lack of intelligence to construct a “self” and lack of spiritual boundaries, in the mixture and resonance of saness, their magic power easily concentrates towards the leader, prompting its monsterization.
Though such phenona are rare in plants, there are cases where the most robust individuals seizing nutrients and even magic power from other plants, then subsequently monsterizing.
This is because they lack the spirit to differentiate from each other, and so creatures, even when monsterized, do not possess a self.
And humans, even the most ignorant and foolish, possess sothing called “I.” This spiritual barrier fundantally blocks the outflow of inherent magic power and isolates the potential for the upgrade of life hierarchy.
Thus, humans can only gain the magic power that other creatures acquire easily through self-will to train and accumulate.
This also explains why, aside from thods like vampire transformation or demonization, humans are hardly able to beco demons later in life. Even rare beings like Book Spirits, who are born to normal humans, are innate.
Because only when self and spirit are unford, still in the amniotic fluid, can humans undergo “monsterization.”
Even without mory, at the mont of a baby’s first wail, a person’s mind is already beginning to take shape.
And as a “creature that can originally use magic power but was born without a soul,” the Master of Crystal Flower Field undoubtedly possesses its own spirit and thoughts.
What can be done to make her willing to show up, converse with, and even befriend herself?
Even though using global perception to drag her out is one thod, after so thought, the Hero opted for another approach.
The girl raised her hand, starting to write.
[Hero activates skill: Golden Jade Spirit Fate—Contract Object: Dusk Fairy (D Intelligence D Charm, Calligraphy 30, Affinity 30)]
[High difficulty check, Dusk Fairy LV52*10=520 , rank suppression prevents the use of Incarnation Attribute, if judgnt fails, use Incarnation Position, obtain the eighth incarnation]
D320 50 D232 60=(140) (158)=408
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