Chapter 41: Races and Their Filtered Corruption
"Let’s see...this is the one!!" I murmur, grabbing a book about the races and quickly going to a place where my chatter won’t bother anyone.
As in the past I was quite reclusive and in this life I’m trying to be the opposite, I end up talking too much to myself, perhaps a slight mix of narcissism with an attempt to talk makes me talk too much.
"..." I sit down in a chair observing the book, the reason I want to know more about other races is because there may be many useful things, for example I can create a puppet that has a "race".
Just imagining an angel puppet with incredible sacred powers and the ability to attack while flying already excites me, so studying the races will be very useful for future puppets with really interesting abilities.
"First Chapter, demons and their biology..." I begin to read in a low tone so that only I can hear.
Demons are a race with strong magical characteristics, and various different subspecies, due to the environment in which they lived for millennia, the natural magic of their bodies has increased.
While millennia of natural adaptation have generated various racial branches creating several unique subspecies.
Demons have more than one form of reproduction, with the most common being the union of magic for the generation of a new demon, which allows greater chances of a perfectly healthy birth of a child with much more magical power.
The most common characteristics in demons are horns, tails and long ears, not every demon has the same characteristics as they change according to the subspecies of the demon.
The stronger a demon is, the more natural magic it has, but this depends on the race, with certain races converting magic into physical power.
Many demons awaken a certain degree of power based on lineage, the older the lineage, the greater the chance of awakening greater or rarer power.
The oldest lineage of demons is the Ashcroft lineage, a lineage belonging to the first demon king, who always passes his throne on to family members through a tradition of competition.
The competition is a way to choose the best, the first demon king believed that nature always favors the fittest and that competition is the way nature chooses the best.
"Hmmm it’s more or less what I knew...but that’s not how this description was before..." In the game it was never said that the first demon king initiated the competition aiming at the survival of the fittest.
’No...it was supposed to be an event related to honor and...forget it...’ It’s obvious that it’s no longer the game, I should expect something like this from a race like the demons.
"He put his children to kill each other...slowly the competition gained rules to not end so quickly..." I read a part that disgusts me, the first demon king threw his children into an arena and made them kill each other, leaving them without water and food or medical help until only one was left.
Slowly the competition gained rules to test not only power, but intellect, adaptability, forced competition evolution and personal growth over the years.
"This...is terrible!!" This barbarity never appeared in the game, and the book describes the competition, the injuries of the competitors and how each one died in an absurd way, I quickly switch to another race.
I don’t want to see anymore how my race is bloodthirsty and barbaric, I shiver just thinking that this competition that is already bad was terribly worse in the past.
"Beastmen..." I begin to read this Chapter trying not to think too much about the demons.
Beastmen are a "variation" that separated from one of the races, although it is not known exactly which race generated this variation and there are only theories that it may have been from humans or demons.
This variation arose at some point and divided into more subspecies, but because they have animal characteristics they adapted to environments that favored them, which caused them to separate into different territories and areas.
Being a beastly race, they have more animalistic instincts, which has caused their customs, culture and technologies to be more primitive, with them barely reaching the handling of iron.
Although they have less magical ability, they have great physical power and incredible physical abilities, with sharp instincts and remarkable endurance.
As they are territorial and follow a tribal logic, they prefer to remain united, but also with clear prejudices against external tribes, thus generating conflicts over territory and sometimes wars.
The position of leader among beastmen is usually chosen through combat to the death, with the candidates fighting until the strongest takes the position of leader, and although they have already tried to dominate other continents, they have failed because they don’t even know how to make functioning boats in mass, so they depend on other races.
"...This...is again worse..." In the game they were a really radical and extremist race, but they were even quite friendly and kind to outsiders...but according to the continuation of the book’s description here, they hate "foreigners" who are seen as invaders.
"Maybe...I shouldn’t try to explore this continent..." Extreme territorialism is what is described in the book, to the point where they kill women, the elderly and children who come from other tribes.
And they do even worse with those they consider "invaders", which means that if humans, demons or angels go to a tribe and they don’t like them, they will do terrible things before killing them.
"T-The humans must be better...t-they have to be, right? They’re human..." I start to despair a little, first the demons were worse than in the game and now the beastmen.
"Humans..." I start reading hoping for something a little better and more peaceful.
Humans are considered a neutral race, they have low physical and magical abilities in general, but with a considerably high intellect and great ability to adapt and technologically evolve.
They are the race that develops the fastest technologically and culturally, although divided by a system of social castes that values political influence and power over merit or pure power.
They were the first race to evolutionarily declare wars on other races and remain relatively stable, although considerably clever, they hate members of other races.
And they have enormous expenditures of resources on their own wars, usually only uniting if the situation becomes difficult, their government is socially divided with several kingdoms and many kings, unlike the rule of the demons that has a single king for the entire race.
"Humans...commit various war crimes below only the demons...with rape...murder...torture...theft, and chemical weapons attacks..." I read this feeling even more hopeless.
"Is this serious? Slavery even of children?...how disgusting..." Even children can be sold as combat, labor and even sexual slaves to some nobles, I feel complete disgust for the race I thought wouldn’t be so bad.
They have so much prejudice against other races that they don’t even see them as anything more than animals they can use as they please.
"T-The angels!! They can’t be that bad, right? I MEAN, IT’S AN ANGEL!" I say nervously, moving on to the angels, I didn’t even manage to read the full descriptions of the race, I only read partial parts of each one because horrible crimes are cited as something common.
"A-Angels...are the race closest to the gods..." I begin to read, mentally begging for it not to be as bad, I know that in the game the world was a gloomy fantasy.
But there were limits, such terrible or disgusting things never appeared for any of the sides, so much so that I thought only demons had a socially terrible culture.
Angels are the only race with divine traits even without abilities, they say they have divine blood even if extremely diluted and weakened.
They are a race with immense magical and physical potential, being the race considered blessed by magic, being able to rival and even surpass most demons in this regard.
They live in a monarchy with a single king, queen and kingdom similar to the demon monarchy, but angels never go to war with their peers and believe that only "inferior" races deserve "punishment" for their actions.
Being the only race that can achieve a huge monopoly of resources by having the largest continent, being the only 100% independent continent that would not need to negotiate with anyone else.
They are also the second most populous race, second only to the human population that reproduces rapidly.
Angels have a high life expectancy and although they don’t have many children at a constant pace, they still have members of at least 9 to 15 previous generations.
And although it is a neutral race, they are generally extremely narcissistic, considering their race above all others and eliminating any "invaders" just as they never allow interspecies reproduction to preserve the purity of the race.
"This..." I read something that really disgusts me about the angels, apart from their extreme prejudice against all other races, to maintain numbers and purity, incest is absurdly common among them.
To the point where mothers, siblings, uncles, aunts, fathers, children, grandparents and even ancestors 7 to 13 generations back tend to have relationships with each other, because for them incest maintains the purity of the race.
So in addition to being prejudiced, they are also incestuous, a complete set of a hypocritical race, since in my view there is nothing pure about this relationship.
"I don’t want to see this anymore..." My dreams have been shattered, and the world that I had as something special in my heart has just become darker than I could like.
"W-Wait...could it be...that the game was lighter because we saw everything from the perspective of...the heroine..." I have an epiphany.
"Heroine...the title of the only 100% neutral being that no race should hate or reject...in other words...the only being that could never show their entire rottenness..." I feel dizzy, throwing the book on the table and holding my head.
Heroine is a title that any race can have, in short [Hero] is an absolutely neutral being and that no race should start a conflict regardless of the morality or race of the hero, as long as the hero does not start a fight first, no one will do anything.
The reality shock hurts, not a physical pain, but it hurts my heart as a fan, there is a limit between entertainment and reality, the gloomy fantasy of the game was cool, well described and well placed in the Lore.
But now this is my reality, and all this rottenness that can be seen in a textbook shows how terrible this world is.
’A-At least...my heart is still fair’ The fact that I repudiate this shows that even though I am now a demon, I do not accept this as something I should participate in.
I get up, I’ve completely lost the will to study the races, I’ve seen their uglier side and now I just want to sleep and forget how a book fragmented the heart of the number one fan.