“To progress as a Community will always triumph over the progress of the Individual.”

“Yet, it is the progress of the Individual that will drive the progress of a Community.”

“A strange Paradox, is it not?”

#35 - Book of Race and Species.

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Dream Realm - Goldy

Personal Journal of Grand Observer and Librarian of Dreams - Entry #1

At the suggestion of my Master, the first ever record to be added to the Library of Dreams will be my personal journal.

The building/temple that would function as the Library of Dreams had been built for a while now. But Master refused to Name and Define it till now.

He always stated that once it was Named and Defined, there was no going back, and it would stay that forever unless torn down and rebuilt from scratch.

Now it's done, and after my first exploration tour of it, I have no choice but to admit that it takes my Spiritual Heart away. And the best part is that this whole Library of Dreams, with its numerous floors, vistas, lounges, and a few other specialty rooms catering to the relaxation of the reader, belongs to me.

Everything inside it belongs to me. I could feel that Truth in my humanoid form, and even when my Powers of Observation are at their weakest in this form, I could feel that Truth.

It was undeniably so. No matter where I looked, I currently had the highest Authority.

Even Master as the Architect and Builder only had equal Authority with me in regards to the Library of Dreams.

Unlike what I had imagined at first, I had control over the Library in intriguing ways.

I could manifest a new floor anytime I wanted. And if one was unneeded, it vanishes from the typical makeup of the Library. I could even make it exist in plain sight, yet none would ever find it without my permission.

At the same time, I had control over everything stored inside the Library. Even now, the unfinished first ever Journal in the form of a Book, I could feel like it was the Sun shining down upon my perception and body.

I could not displace and forget about it no matter how I tried, as it would always be there in the back of my mind. With this perception of Books, I could rearrange everything that needed to be rearranged in a matter of moments. Yet I could already imagine why Master said that I would need assistants.

There were limits to my own attention span and mental prowess.

It was simple now, but I imagine in the future constant care, additions, and reductions would be needed, and I would lose a lot of time doing those.

Having assistants doing those leaves me Time to spend somewhere else.

The same applied to how the Library would be perceived by somebody else.

I was absolutely sure that was one reason the Master built and called it a Library of Dreams and left me as the caretaker of it.

After the Library of Dreams got filled with Books of all kinds, it would be open to all the Honey Badgers in existence, or at least those that knew how to reach it or were able to reach it.

All those visitors will need proper attention, hence helpers dealing with the visitors.

Just imagining myself standing there beside the currently unpowered Portal awaiting visitors leaves me with feelings of anxiety and depression.

Those things aside, as I am writing this Personal Journal, it has come to my attention that this will be the first time, ever, that I personally have the freedom to define things about myself.

As such, I shall take this opportunity to write about myself and my thoughts regarding things transpiring around me, the Dream Realm, and the Honey Badgers.

I shall start with my past first before saying anything about the present.

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Personal Journal of Grand Observer and Librarian of Dreams - Entry #10

Master has secluded himself from almost everything at this point.

The occasional break he takes happens when he visits the first Honey Badger family. He mentioned that he does so to teach them a few things here and there in order to help them achieve the next step, but I believe that that reason is only part of the true reason.

Thanks to the memory dive I had experienced when I first attained this form, I have understood that my new Master had lived a very short life before appearing here on this World.

As such, I have determined that the lack of Social Contact had been the other part of the reason.

As a Master's servant and creation, to a degree, I would have liked to help with that problem, but I must face a fact.

Now that I have gained a Spiritual form where Social Contact is essential to me, I have determined I shall face the same problem, only from a different angle.

I will have no problem with a long absence of Social Contact, but I will have trouble interacting with others in any meaningful way.

For that reason, I eagerly await the return of my Spiritual Children to improve that part of myself. And I should not have to wait long, thanks to the Arching Portal and its Star interpretation of every Life Form connected to it.

Some have already hatched.

Therefore, I eagerly await them.

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Personal Journal of Grand Observer and Librarian of Dreams - Entry #15

With trepidation, I have begun to record two other Books.

They became the first Books to be written of my own accord.

One is about Magi and the other about Maximus.

My goal is to record everything about them and their transitions in Life. And as I do this, I already have one significant event to document for the future.

The Cubs she had mothered up till this moment have been driven away by her and her mate, Maximus, out into the world to live on their own.

How they will develop and live their life is for another Book.

The current adolescent male, Max, as Master named him, had grown to rival his mother in size. Therefore he had to go first.

The current adolescent female, Mana, as Master named her, stayed longer. She was smaller than adolescent Max and adult Magi when she got sent on her way.

With that being the case, Master assumed that with time, the two young adolescent Honey Badgers would rival their parents in the future.

How much time that would take is still to be recorded, but by now, Master and I were certain of it.

Master, on the other hand, had secluded himself even more now.

The reasoning was that he was close to establishing the Soul Variant prototype.

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He called it The Meridian System.

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Personal Journal of Grand Observer and Librarian of Dreams - Entry #20

Two more Honey Badgers have achieved the Second Stage of Ascension.

One male and one female.

Due to proximity, Master sent the female in Scar’s direction.

Master wants them to build a third Community in the Southern Forest, just like Wand and Lola have begun in the Vast Grasslands east of the Southern Forest.

Master began visiting Wand and Lola from time to time. He repeated the same thing he did with Magi and Maximus.

Strangely, he used a different language called German with them.

When I questioned what kind of Language, Scar and the new female would be learning, he just shook his head and said none. Apparently, he had a language that fit them, but he did not know enough about it to provide a consistent guideline.

However, he did admit that he was working on a workaround.

That way, a few other Languages he possessed incomplete knowledge about could be distributed.

It was not a priority, so it was slow going.

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Personal Journal of Grand Observer and Librarian of Dreams - Entry #20

Today, it has come to my attention that new babies have come into existence.

Magi and Maximus's prolonged freedom of not taking care of children had come to an end.

They have decided on another, and this time it should be much easier on them as not only was one on the way instead of two, this time they had much more experience as a family.

On the other hand, Wand and Lola have become a family of sorts with Masters' slight intervention, so they similarly expect one.

Scar and Tina are still avoiding each other.

The avoidance started with Tina as she first entered the Southern Forest. After careful observation, I have determined that Tina was still unfamiliar with the environment.

Therefore she was taking caution and familiarizing herself with the environment over having children.

When I presented the observation to the Master, he agreed with me and decided to leave her be for now. After all, it would take but a year or two for her to truly familiarize herself enough to be confident with bringing newborns into the world.

Master, on the other hand, continues his work on the Soul Variant system.

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Personal Journal of Grand Observer and Librarian of Dreams - Entry #30

In this entry, I will be mentioning Masters' laugh of happiness that echoed in the Dream Realm.

It contained so much Emotion that it inadvertently affected me too.

Master’s laugh was filled with satisfaction and gratification.

It was so overwhelming that it took me a long time to realize I laughed with him.

Though, I was nowhere near him. It was such a surreal experience.

To be immersed in somebody else's enjoyment like it was your own.

I have already determined that this experience will be one of my most cherished memories.

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Dream Realm - Ho’Ney

All that meticulous research, theorizing, and the building had been excruciatingly annoying me for so long that I had almost broken my own tenet of not using Potential Chaos for this experiment.

It was my excuse to improve my own understanding of things instead of brute forcing things with Potential Chaos.

Although… it wasn't actually brute forcing. It is more like Divining for a solution I had discovered in the future, only to receive it in the present.

Technically that was cheating. And I loved Cheating.

But as my understanding of the Soul increased and the knowledge about Soul Variants unfolded, I realized that maybe, it was time to stop relying on a crutch like that.

Maybe it was time to increase my understanding, by which I could make greater use of the crutch in the future.

So I worked and worked.

Over time, I built many, many variants.

Over time I defined many variants and their inner workings.

Yet, somehow, I always came to the conclusion that it was not good enough. That something was missing no matter how detailed the Soul Variant became.

It was so obvious. Then again, I probably would have dismissed it without the countless failures.

With a thought, I vanished from my Laboratory and appeared at the Arched Portal.

My gaze sternly observed all the Honey Badgers in existence.

The closest and biggest stars were the brightest. But I was looking for those that have yet to advance to the Second Stage of Ascension.

Finding the promising candidates, I put my right hand before the Arching Portal and blew on the glowing Soul Variant that appeared on it.

Like blowing a Dandelion flower releasing its seeds into the sky, this Soul Variant separated into thousands and thousands of smaller pieces as they flew towards those candidates I had chosen.

All those candidates had one thing in common.

Gender did not matter. All that mattered was that these candidates were young but not too young.

They mattered because they had the chance to step off the only existing path, which I had yet to name, to be honest.

Anyway, with these Soul Variants, the Path of the Meridians will be open to them, and if my theory is right, which it should be, this will enable them to begin the Cultivator's Path.

In theory, as I mentioned.

Once those Seeds were underway and fused into the youngsters, I raised my left hand. Upon it was another glowing Soul Variant, and this one was for Chakra users.

As I explored my variant of the Chakra Aural System, I came to the conclusion that back on Earth, Chakra was probably just another term for Qi instead of the Magic system I imagined it to be.

The only difference between them is how they performed inside a living being. So, I adapted the Chakra Aural system into its own system.

It heavily relied upon my own Auril field generation.

Better said. It could be called the Auril Field Generation, Extra Light ver.

Maybe in the end stages, it would rival my own? I simply did not know.

However, in the beginning, it would be more like every stage adds a different Aural effect on top of the base that the Chakra Aural System will become.

With all that said, as my version of the Chakra Aural System was unique, I had to change its parameters from the ground up. I did not change too much, in all honesty, but different parameters were taken into account for an efficient progression along every stage of Chakral Ascension.

At the same time, every Aura added on top will fuse with those gained before and apply a different emotional progression. All with the goal of improving the steady expansion of Consciousness, because of the slower development caused by the influence of Mana.

In the beginning, this Path will belong to Martial Artists, but later on, they will gain access to spellcraft in theory.

Or whatever the Honey Badgers come up with.

Once the Chakra system was underway and fused with the youngsters, I chose randomly, and a third Soul Variant manifested in my right hand.

When it manifested, it was the same size as all the others, but this one contained a lot fewer pieces inside.

This Soul Variant was designed based on the various impressions Magic had left in my memories from watching various Shows, Movies, Anime, Manga, and written stories.

The Magical Soul Variant was both easier and harder to design. Or modify in this case, as this variant came from the Soul that the World Spirit manifested inside me.

Looking at the brightest stars of the Honey Badgers, I locked on them all and blew on the Soul Variant.

Again, like Dandelion Seeds, the pieces separated and flew into the Arching Portal.

Moments later, those pieces found the Second Stage of Ascension Honey Badgers.

Only after these three Soul Variants were out there did I raise my right hand for the fourth and final time as the fourth Soul Variant appeared.

This Soul Variant embodied Life Essence, but because Life Essence requires a strong and active Will of the Individual, at least if you want to do anything advanced beyond just improving your biology, I designed it as the foundation.

A Foundation upon which other Paths could or would be built.

At the same time, being the base, it had the fewest features of all. Therefore, it became the base on which to attach the Interface of the System I made.

A System I would continue to improve upon.

Either way, this Soul Variant contained the most significant numbers. In fact, it had enough to be infused into every single Honey Badger existing currently, except those already invested in.

At the same time, I made it possible to pass down the Interface from parent to child.

Therefore, one last blowing motion from me and 134 784 pieces separated and flew forwards. Some took longer than others, but moment after moment, I observed every single Honey Badger gaining a Soul Variant and access to my System.

Of course, being Honey Badgers, there was no way for them to use it, so its true interface would only appear after they achieve the Humanoid form.

However, just because they could not, did not mean I could not make use of it.

Still, that part would have to wait for me to activate CIRSY.

Once everything got done, for now. I announced a sigh of relief.

I've created the guidelines.

Now it's all up to the Individuals that exist or will exist in the future.

If they went to the Heavens or trumpeted down to Hell, it is out of my hands.

Anyway, I still have two more things to accomplish before relaxing and maybe even taking a nap.

I wonder, how long will it be this time?