"This can’t be it. There’s got to be what a halfling truly is, right?" Axel asked no one in particular, eyes still fixed on the monitor.
He had been scrolling for what felt like hours, clicking one link after another, but still nothing new, just the sa thing over and over. Short people, humanoid midgets with pointy ears and stubby arms. He sighed and rubbed his eyes.
"Well... that’s twenty minutes of my life I’m never getting back. This is useless."
"Guess I’m not getting that free ten EXP today."
He started thinking maybe he should just quit. The mission wasn’t even that important. It only gave ten EXP anyway. What’s 10 Exp right?
He was about to close the page when sothing caught his eye, an old article buried deep in the search results. The date made him pause. It was over a hundred years old. That alone made no sense, he had never seen anything that old online.
When the world fell to the first invasion, all old records were wiped. Only the governnt had access to what ca before the invasion. They controlled the stories, the data, everything. They decided what and what got the public and what didn’t, so what was this doing here?
Curious, Axel clicked on it.
As soon as he did, the screen started glitching. It glitched for a few seconds, the color flickered like the system didn’t want him to see what was coming, then, the page loaded.
"Ominous..."
The font was weird and old looking, and the title read: Mythical Beings of the Old World.
He scrolled down, scanning through sections. He found creatures like goblins, dragons, nymphs and even vampires. There were even creatures he had never heard of before.
Then he saw one on Halflings.
He clicked on it quickly and funny enough, the description started off the sa way.
"A halfling is a humanoid creature half the size of a normal human..."
"Ugh! Not again." He almost facepald but then the next line made him interested.
> Halflings are said to be creatures of evolution. They do not remain as they are. They evolve, into sothing greater, or sothing lesser. A Halfling is a being of transition, born between what was and what is yet to co.
It exists halfway between two states of existence, constantly evolving.
So evolve into higher beings, gaining powers beyond asure. Others... descend into sothing less that what they were before
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