The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 122: Mystery of the Soul

"Alright, then I will look for you to arrange specific matters after class later. That will be all for today; don't let Princess Isabel wait anxiously."

Fisher nodded, doing a conclusion for their conversation this time.

As a result, waiting for a second or two after Fisher's words finished, seeing she still hadn't moved and looking at her, only then did she realizing after the fact stand her body up again, red in the face bowing farewell toward Fisher.

Why did it feel her reactions always appeared half a beat slow?

Fisher thought somewhat perplexedly, casting a glance at the time. The current him still had an extremely long chunk of free time to exert. And during this period of time he also didn't really want to return to his own laboratory to exercise. Having been fiercely criticized by Eliog, he felt he ought to think for a bit again before practicing, otherwise lacking the slightest bit of results would be considered striving in vain.

However right now he felt his physical body and magic power states were both extremely excellent; it was just right to take out the previously obtained Soul Completion Handbook again to research a bit.

He opened the room door, hanging up a "Do Not Disturb" sign, and then locked the office door dead. Subsequently he turned his head again to shut the windows and draw the curtains close.

Although ordinary people couldn't see the Soul Completion Handbook, being a bit careful and cautious was better. In case someone saw Professor Fisher looking at an empty completely bare tabletop with a face full of deep thought, would they feel he was going crazy?

Moreover reading the Soul Completion Handbook required extracting magic power; the Magic Circuit on the hand would light up.

Fisher sat back down in front of the office desk, taking out that Soul Completion Handbook leaning against the other side of the inner lining, placing it onto the tabletop.Completion Handbooks actually originally weren't thick. Right at the start when Fisher obtained the Demi-Human Completion Handbook the outside appeared relatively thick, but flipping it open resulted in only two pages. But later on after recording Renee, the subsequent page numbers began to grow themselves, as if boundless and inexhaustible.

Fisher flipped the page numbers to the place read up to previously, proceeding to start reading the subsequent contents.

Where his gaze swept across, those tadpole-like texts resembling garbled code very quickly twisted their postures, turning into Naris text Fisher could discern. But amidst this process, his arm also began to overspread with the radiance of Magic Circuits; reading these contents was currently consuming his magic power.

Beneath the main text Fisher had previously read above, a line of small characters employing another kind of color appeared. This seemingly was Caleb's annotations. Different from the academic formal text above, below was entirely filled with his own comments and pondering, possessing quite a bit of life aura.

"I have always been considering researching the usage and principles of the soul. Thinking left and right, it seemingly appears as if there's only this one usage of magic... So I am preparing to go pay a visit a bit to that group of 'dangerous elements' using magic."

"I truly haven't figured clearly, why the magic these Dragon-kins cultivate is this dangerous; even their own bodies frequently receive injuries. Is there truly no method to improve these magics a bit? I visited the Dragon-kin Magician Colihal... Right, I discovered all Dragon-kin names are whatever-whatever-ir. The High Priest told me, the pronunciation of 'ir' represents 'continuing individual', it is their proof of acting as the descendants of the ancient Dragon God Fafnir."

Fisher had discovered this early on: all names of the Dragon-kin race ended with the pronunciation "ir". Raphaela, Mill, Lar, Kexir, and Faxir...

However at the time when asking Raphaela and the rest why, they nonetheless couldn't voice out the reasons, only knowing their generations had all selected names like this. Truly hadn't expected to unexpectedly obtain the answer within the Completion Handbook.

"I inquired Colihal a bit as to why they didn't alter magic a bit. Hadn't expected they unexpectedly very happily invited me to improve their magic... Good heavens, they thought I was a magic grandmaster? I expended immense effort before finally explaining clearly I didn't know magic! After inquired I only then knew, so it turns out all Dragon-kin magic, including the magic of other demi-humans, was all learned by the Dragon-kin ancestors from the hands of the humans of another continent! They thought I was a human coming from that continent. These days they are all considering how to have me help them improve magic... Dammit, I just said why they fed me so many delicious things in a day!"

Seeing up to here, Fisher's gaze faintly contracted; intense curiosity drove him to read downwards.

"So it turns out humans settlements still existed in other places! I actually thought after leaving the home village and arriving at this world, humans were still all existing in the primitive era! If another continent possessed humans, then what was their civilization level like? I attempted to inquire the Dragon-kins, but they knew absolutely nothing regarding this; they also only knew there was still another continent from within ancient tomes."

"This truly is too much of a pity... But I also produced doubts. If the two continents were separated extremely far, and Dragon-kins also possessed no abilities to explore, then how did they learn magic from the hands of humans? Could it be humans drove boats over, exactly like Captain Columbus like that?"

"This is a massive secret tidbit larger than the heavens, however I almost forgot the original purpose of coming here..."

Next, Caleb described his process of discovering the second nature of the soul from the magic principles obtained from the Dragon-kin Magician. The power of magic was actually mobilizing the power of the soul to pry the world, letting the world give a response, thereby achieving various miraculous magic effects.

In this sense, it definitely was using force to pry the world. This also explained, the soul itself was precisely an energy source, and moreover was a self-regenerating resource possessing self-repairing functions; however the repairing speed of this kind of energy source was extremely slow.

Within the text, Caleb possessed guesses regarding the entirety of energy contained by the soul. He established a concept of "species baseline magic power capacity", describing a baseline magic power capacity a species would possess even without having undergone soul exercise.

Fisher very quickly realized, this could exactly be the technological origin Pherone obtained from this manual; namely the theoretical basis on why he would produce that kind of bizarre thought.

Fisher guessed, originally Pherone had thought about letting souls release energy, and then waiting until they exhausted magic power before self-repairing again, and then awaiting the next time to use again. But like this it would be no different from carving magics; time-consuming extremely long, efficiency extremely low, otherwise those magic items wouldn't be sold this expensively.

Under the circumstances of this path not working out, Pherone received inspiration from Soul Loss Disease, walking toward another extreme.

Up to here, the second nature of the soul [Renewable Energy Property] was then entirely spoken through. But prior to narrating the third nature, Caleb had the readers ponder an extremely interesting question.

Fisher's magic power was being consumed very quickly, but he seemed as if not realizing the slightest bit, wholeheartedly entirely intoxicated into the knowledge within the book.

The Demi-Human Completion Handbook began slightly scalding hot, but the temperature wasn't excessively high, Fisher also didn't perceive the slightest bit.

"Friend, come ponder an interesting question first. A person born congenitally crippled having lost an arm, is his soul complete or not? What if a person was born carrying a complete soul, and lost an arm within an accident the day after tomorrow? Is his soul complete or not?"

"The answer is, their souls indeed are complete. But when they lost that physical body part, that part of the soul would also disappear following it; after all we all know the soul specifically manifests as Magic Circuits upon the physical body. Severing a part of the bodily shell also means that part of the Magic Circuit has detached from the main body, but due to [Self-Repairing Property], the soul will slowly grow into its original appearance."

"But the problem lies in, will the soul of that severed off part of the bodily limb turn into a complete soul because of the Self-Repairing Property?"

"Yes, it will."

"The soul upon a partial bodily limb detached from the physical body nonetheless possesses the tendency of self-repairing into a complete portion. However this tendency is extremely slow, solely lying in whether the vitality of that bodily limb can support it re-growing into a complete soul. I did an experiment; I took down the arm of a Dragon-kin on the verge of death, and then exhausted full strength to maintain the vitality of that arm."

"What's interesting is, the Magic Circuit of that arm, compared to when it was taken down, possessed situations of growth. Furthermore that Dragon-kin could still vaguely have sensory response toward that arm."

"This exactly is the final nature of the soul, [Split Independence]. In theory, the separated physical body part still exists carrying that part of the soul. However because that part will very quickly lose vitality, the soul existing within will very quickly dissipate."

Fisher's train of thought however drifted very far away. For a period of time he began to consider, if that separated part was maintained with vitality all along, then wouldn't that part of the soul inside also survive all along? Exactly like the Artificial Witches of the Witch Research Society like that!

Bart implanted a part of Caro's flesh chunk; so when Caro was close, his body would present reaction of connection; also just like how Caro could occasionally perceive the Undying Witch's gaze from the place of a single hair strand...

However, if according to this theory, if the main body died away, and that partial bodily limb was still alive, then, what would that partial bodily limb turn into?

A new main body!

This exactly was the implication of the Split Independence nature of souls.

Right when Fisher still wanted to read, a burst of severe pain unexpectedly transmitted from his chest. With a "hiss" sound he lowered his head to look at his own chest, yet discovered it was currently emitting smoke there. Flusteredly he reached his hand to pluck out that Demi-Human Completion Handbook scalding exactly like a branding iron. Looking toward his own chest, there, a square-shaped red imprint was branded extremely conspicuously.

But realizing after the fact, he was extremely limp and feeble top to bottom throughout his entire body, as uncomfortable as if having been hollowed out.

He bit his teeth, covering his own chest. Only then did he discover his magic power had at an unknown time already been hollowed out. Continuing reading again he estimated he was about to turn into a dried corpse exactly like those people illegally carving magic.

The moment he thought of this, he somewhat heart-stunningly looked at that Soul Completion Handbook sprawled on the tabletop. At that instant just now, he indeed was intoxicated within the knowledge recorded inside. Myriads of associated thoughts and pondering all poured into his brain in an instant, making him want to acquire more extremely much...

Was it because of this manual?

Fisher frowned sizing up the Soul Completion Handbook on the tabletop a bit, but yet felt it wasn't because of it, because at that moment just now, he clearly realized, it was exactly those knowledges currently guiding himself to continue reading, rather than the manual itself.

It merely fulfilled the duty of recording, lacking any activities whatsoever.

Fisher looked at the text above. Below was still a paragraph translated out by Fisher's magic power, but he still hadn't read it just now.

This wasn't the main text, but records personally penned by Caleb Woods, exactly like text written like experiences and diaries exactly as before.

"Year 332 of the Dragon Court Calendar, July 27th. Caleb Woods of London City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, decides to leave the Dragon Court and set foot upon a journey."

"In the past few years, actually right at the start I was somewhat rejoicing that I left that f*cked-up world. I kept away from the bankrupt company, the derailed wife, the family nearing collapse, arriving at a magnificent world filled with epic picture scrolls. I lived quite not bad as well; these demi-humans were also very friendly. I spent an extremely good period of time here."

"But the longer time passed, the more I increasingly felt lonely. I frequently dreamed of my wife Karina in dreams, dreaming of when we went exercising, playing ball together during university. I still remember when our daughter was born, her bearing of lying on the hospital bed on the verge of death, gazing at me with tears flowing."

"I thought of my daughter, that rebellious girl who only sought me for money... If the time flow speed of England during these few years was identical, she ought to have gone to study university already... Did she ultimately apply and get into the University of Manchester she wanted to go to? Has she ultimately been in love yet? Does she ultimately long for me or not, this father who left without saying goodbye, who never shouldered responsibilities?"

"I always long for them. Even having experienced how many times of self-comforting there still was no way to make them leave from my mind. I think, I early on have already forgiven Karina. I early on have already wanted to accompany my daughter to do the matters she wanted to do, even if I previously exceptionally hated those matters."

"I'm homesick. Thus I resolve to leave the Dragon Court, to go seek methods returning to my original world."

Fisher wrinkled his eyebrows. He possessed the habit of making notes after reading. Reading down just now he possessed many yields. But only until the final sentence, did he finally slowly comb out the information obtained after this reading session.

First of all, Caleb actually said all other demi-humans' magics were learned from humans over there? Fisher actually thought Kadu's title of "Origin Land of Magic" was self-proclaimed.

Furthermore, the magic of demi-humans was learned from humans over there; this also implies humans of the West Continent possessed connections with the demi-humans of Southern Continent an extremely long time ago? Then why didn't human of the West Continent uniquely voyage on pioneer ships discovering the Southern Continent for the first time until the recent several decades?

The second matter exactly was Fisher obtaining some information regarding the world Caleb Woods originated from. Although not entirely comprehensive, nevertheless it could at least possess some foundational understanding.

Fisher silently recorded down words such as "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and "London" and so on, using exactly the text he originally wrote down.

The final matter exactly was the most primary. Regarding the traits of [Renewable Energy Property] and also [Split Independence] of souls. Fisher suddenly recalled the energy this magic power consumption surpassed previous levels, almost not managing to squeeze Fisher completely dry.

And according to previous understanding regarding Pherone during battle, he basically hadn't conducted cultivation in the magic aspect. Then did he know the contents Fisher read today?

The clouds of suspicion regarding the Southern Continent previously once again struck onto his heart. Fisher nevertheless didn't ponder anymore.

Weakly he rubbed between his own eyebrows. A sense of nothingness of being hollowed out made him grow exhausted and sleepy.