I decided to leave.

I jumped out the window onto an empty street.

My mind still lingered on the human teachings in the book I read. It gave a brief explanation on each school of magic and how to start your cultivation for each. Even illegal ones like celestial, primordial, divine, lunar and veremancy.

Which surprises me. They deem necromancy as valuable yet veremancy as something 'cowardly' and 'disgraceful' and that's me sugar coating it.

Humans are prideful, not arrogant. In my short travels I have seen some humans on good terms with elves and other races (of which I don't know the name of).

I became curious. How come humans can both be such scum and respectable allies? I need to find a library.

Luckily, that wasn't hard.

I didn't want to bother with whatever librarian was in there so I just snuck in.

There's a lot of knowledge stored in here, about magic, alchemy, arts, crafts, biology and many more things.

However there was one book under 'biological science' that just said: Humans, true hellborne.

I had to read that.

Chapter one: Human biology and anatomy

Humans are common sapient beings that live on the surface of the world, kind of. You see humans are special case of... everything. They're one of the most robust races if not the most robust. Only ogers can top them on that and only because their diety specifically created them to be the most robust. Poisoning a human is very possible but you might burn a hole in your lungs while doing it since their extremely resistant against: Poisoning, the elements and mental damage.

Humans are built like elfs, but better. They're from nature on able to lift more than their own bodyweight. Which elfs need years of training to accomplish. They recover faster from flesh wounds and broken bones at the cost of eating five times an elf of their weight class would eat. Whilst their hearing is duller a humans sense of smell is hard to fool.

It's said the human with the strongest body to ever exist was practically invincible, spearheads failed to pierce his throat, warhammers hardly left bruises, fire and thunder spells barely got a grunt from him and at his absolute prime, it said that, he was able to open the gates of hell.

Chapter two: Gender

Humans have two genders: male and female.

Human male's are much bulkier than their female counter parts and do most of the heavy labour. There are exceptions, of course, under the right circumstances a woman can be bulking brute and a man a bunch of twigs. But usually men have a much easier time building up muscle and thic skin. Women on the other hand are gifted with a natural talent for magic and witchcraft. Men can also be born with a talent for the arcane, on rare occasions.

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For a long time humans basically ignored the existence of genders, evident that their bathouses and living quarters that don't separate men and women. Which can be very irritating on the first visit to such places.

Their reasoning was:"If someone is desperate enough to rape a woman, their desperate enough to rape a man." Which considering their culture is uncomfortably reasonable.

After a lot of heated arguments with a lot of the governors of other races humans changed that. By simply copying their laws but reading 'men and woman'.

Nothing else changed.

Chapter three: culture

Humans respect two things: Strength and bravery.

If their confident that they're the strongest around humans can be real nightmares to deal with. However if you stay calm and composed against a display of power or ignore it they won't push it, since that would be a sign of weakness. But if you fall for their bait, and respond with hostility, then expect having your teeth kicked in.

A human refusing a duel is the absolute show of power, with such a move their announcing that whoever challenged them is so weak they could defeat them even if the challenger ambushed them in their sleep.

However there's no such thing as 'a human refusing to duel'. Their general attitude towards violence is: yes. Fighting someone clearly stronger than them is a great honor and accepting a weaker one's challenge is a show of respect and sincerity.

A human is at their absolute happiest whilst fighting someone equally strong.

Sending their strongest is a show of respect and honor.

Sending their weakest is how they announce defeat during war.

Chapter four: hellborne

You might have noticed that humans don't have any sort of religion and any holy building made on human territory is burnt down and whoever made it was given a slow and painful death. They refuse to join any religion and if raised in a temple or church will be killed or put through a demonic ritual. Now that's not per law, humans have on paper complete religious freedom and there's no law against temples and churches. It's just that civilians will go out of their way to do that, for an unknown reason. If captured whilst or after doing the deed they will commit suicide without a single remark.

Human mana cores are different from that of other races. They are the most valuable kind of crystal and can be used to craft powerful catalysts. Humans go as far as they can to retrieve the cores of their fallen comrades. It's the family, or the closest person to them, that get to decide what to do with the core.

Now this is where it gets interesting.

The Humans honor their dead by letting the prior mentioned gates of hell absorb the cores of the fallen.

It's depressing that this is the best outcome for a dead human since the people refuse the idea of religion. If left lingering the core will turn into a restless spirit and if crafted turn into a cursed catalyst with full sentients.

Humans are the oldest sapient race in the whole world. It's said the first Humans came out of the gates of hell and that they're actually demons.

That would explain a lot of things, but not all.

In the end. Humans aren't evil, only territorial and the whole world is their territory.

That's something. If it's public knowledge that humans are demons why didn't the other races try to get rid if them?

I need answers and won't find them in an nowhere elven city.

The knowledge I seek are human secrets, I need to crawl into the bears den.

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My hands were on her cold chest.

"Death, is the price of life."

I spoke the mantra I have said so many times.

"I call bullshit on that."

Necromancy and vitamancy at the same time. Life and death both rushing into the girls body. Necromancy allows me to fix the damage on her and vitamancy to breathe life into her.

"I, the preacher of flesh, command thy: Veni ad vita!"

Demanded the cultist.