Surprisingly I have the same name on this world as well as on Earth.

3 years have passed since I arrived here.

During those 3 years I learned a lot about this world, at 8 months I was already able to walk well, at 18 months I was already able to talk at full sentences, although I was already able to talk much sooner, I did not reveal it as normal babies even at being 2 years cannot speak too well.

After I first learned to walk I always try to sneak out of the house to try to roam the village, although I cannot move more than a few meters away from the house before my parents or neighbours were able to see me, but still those few meters were better than staying all day at the house, and the awesome is that our closest neighbours are beast men, canine beast men to be exact.

They surprisingly have the build of a large human while having the face of a dog that looks exactly like a shiba inu, after I learned to talk whenever I saw they I call them doge, they always thought that it was just a endearing name that I have given them as calling the canine beast men a dog is a respectful term for them. Oh just if they knew.

After I learned how to speak I always accompany my mother asking her a lot of questions, like the geography of this world, Floras and Faunas around the village and other nearby places, the jobs of the people of this village, the lifestyle here, culture and other important things that I should know, but of course the way I asked her was like how a baby should act like.

“Wow, mama what is that animal with a brown skin called?”

“Why is father always leaving before I wake up?”

“Mama, why I have to do *insert superstitions or weird cultural things here* those things?”

I always ask her like a baby, so she would not get suspicious. It is always better to be cautious as I do not know a lot of things on this world yet.

As for my father, I learned from my mother that apparently he’s a hunter, he’s a part of the hunting group of the village, they usually bring different kinds of animals in different sizes ranging from the smallest which are as small as a hare and some which are incredibly big that they probably are twice or even thrice the size of adult elephants.

Seeing the sizes of those beasts, I initially thought that they would last for a few weeks or even months but after seeing how much some villagers like those crocodile men and the orcs eat, that extremely large beast only lasted for a week.

From asking my mother and some of the nearest neighbours I was able to get a somehow clearer view of this place, apparently this place is like a tropical country, no winter or fall here and most if not all villagers experienced winter yet. Well, coming from a tropical country I guess there goes my hope of experiencing winter for the first time.

This place is also like a typical small village on medieval times, a village surrounded by forest and a flowing river that flows from the south east of the village to the west and consisting of around a hundred and fifty households with an average of six persons per household, it is a pretty large village and could even be considered a town if you place it in the standards of Earth but here it can only be considered as a small to average sized village.

As for the nearest village it is 15 kilometres away from here, and the nearest town is around 400 kilometres, if you would measure this on the standards of Earth then it is extremely far as the usuall villagers only needs a day to carry their goods to the cities in order to trade and be back the same day, but here the average citizen can travel up to twenty kilometres per hour just by walking and can travel up to eighty kilometres per hour by riding a domesticated mammoth like creature they use for carrying people and items, which they call as Kruls.

As for the food, the main food source comes from hunted animals, as the lands here are not that fertile and the plants planted yields only a small amount of food.

Hunting on these lands yields a greater amount of food than farming as the places surrounding this village has a lot of different kinds of animals and most of them are larger than a rhino, although most of the wild beasts are aggressive and pretty strong so hunting alone or in small groups is usually not done.

As for the government of these lands and the surrounding villages, it all comes down to the council of the respective villages as uniting these chaotic lands are extremely hard especially that the races that are living here are extremely diverse. There have been a lot who tried but none have succeeded so far.

Banditry is also not that rampant as villages usually help each other in quelling bandits and people here are more concerned about the wild beasts roaming around the forests, mountains and plains and the beasts also serves as a natural barrier and deterrent against travelling gangs and bandits that lives on the secluded areas.

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As for the geography of this whole place, apparently the area of the whole continent that we are currently in is divided into two, there have been no interactions, news or messages from the other side of the continent for the past thousands of years and any information about them is pretty much forgotten and even the few records about that side of the continent is only stored at the largest libraries in the cities.

The only known information that is widely spread among the populace about the other side of the continent is that this side is only a tenth of the size of the other side of the continent.

As for the reason why the continent was separated into two, it was because of the extremely large forest called by the locals as the Nightmare forest, this forest separating the two sides of the continent suddenly had a massive amount of wild beasts that appeared out of nowhere, and these beasts are far stronger than the various races’ warriors, and those are only the beasts on the outer perimeter of the forest, there have been reports that the deeper you go into the forest the stronger the enemy gets.

Since the beasts arrived, several attempts have been made in order to cross the forest but none have succeeded so far, even the farthest they were able to travel have been only been four percent of the whole forest, and that is even with the strongest warriors and mages that have been gathered for years.

As for the history of this continent, there were a lot of things that happened and some stories my mother would tell me for hours, but the one which I was most interested on and the one that I remembered most was that apparently contrary to the stories on Earth where humans usually are the superior and dominant races, here humans have been nearly reduced to fewer than a million due to wars from other races.

Generally some races wants the riches and lands of the other races leading to wars, and as most of these races tend to avoid the stronger ones to avoid losses; they would attack rich weaker kingdoms.

Humans generally have an average magical capability compared to other races, they also have lower physical strength, although this may seem fine as humans generally have higher than average amount of fertility rates they have a fatal weakness, it is that they only live for a few years, even the strongest humans can only live for a little more than a hundred years.

This gives the humans a lot of mediocre level of warriors or mages but no real expert than can protect their kingdom for a long time, this led to many wars that is targeted against the human kingdoms until they were nearly driven into extinction and slavery, that is until the humans were able to discover an ancient stone stele that has words and images that are drawn on it.

After discovering and interpreting the message on the stele, the humans were able to draw tattoos on their bodies, this tattoos that were placed into their bodies allowed them to borrow the power of the tattoos for a cost proportional to the strength borrowed.

Thousands of years ago before the continent was divided, on the siege of the last five cities of the humans, a city named as raga, did an unimaginable thing.

The city consisted of more than 50,000 humans, as they were about to be breached and captured, using the most powerful spell that they found on the stele, they placed the tattoos on every citizen of the city, by the time that the city was breached, the city sacrificed all of its inhabitants to kill all of their enemies and made the land surrounding it to be desolate.

When the enemy received news about this incident they were so shocked that they immediately ordered the retreat of their armies, because if they still try to go and besiege the human cities, they might try to do the same thing on the rest of the cities, and instead of gaining something, they would only lose a huge amount of troops.

Because of that incident, humans were deemed as crazy by the other races, and this belief was only strengthened throughout the years after countless humans sacrificed themselves whenever they know that they cannot escape or that they are about to get killed. This led to less and less people provoking the humans as they are deemed as like a time bomb, as even the weakest human can kill an extremely strong warrior.

This tattoos that the humans were able to acquire has other different forms as well, others are for defence, attacking, movement, supporting or even just some miscellaneous skills and mysteriously, only humans were able to use these tattoos. And because of that incident in raga, these arts were then called, The Forbidden Arts.