Shiro and Jibril walk across a deserted plain with calm and steady steps.
Jibril, shamelessly, continued to pester Shiro with countless questions.
"Hey, what's your name? I'll give you a chance to tell me yours." Jibril, with a somewhat proud tone, continued to hold her panties with one hand and say to Shiro.
"My name is [Shiro Eternus]. You can just call me Shiro, the leader of a portion of humanity, and what's your name, Flugel?" Shiro replied indifferently. Shiro has never understood why people like to say things like, "It's rude to ask someone's name without saying yours first." It's meaningless and just a way to unnecessarily prolong the conversation.
"So, your name is [Shiro Eternus]. I'll tell you my name to show my respect. My name is Jibril, the youngest Flugel, the extra individual." Jibril said in her normal tone of voice.
"I understand your name is Jibril. Why are you following me?" Shiro, without looking at Jibril, continued walking calmly.
"Of course, it's because this magic circle you call (enslavement magic) is a magic I've never seen before, and I'm very curious," Jibril said with an ecstatic face, a tone of childlike happiness.
"I understand. You can follow me, but you can't hurt the humans in the human village," I said, somewhat seriously.
"Don't worry. As long as the talking monkeys I call humans have something that interests me and keeps me interested, I won't kill any humans," Jibril said with a somewhat proud tone.
"I hope so. Anyway, how long will it take for your body size to return to how it was before?" I said in my usual tone, a tone of voice with little emotion.
"Thank you, Shiro. As for how long it will take me to recover if I return to [Avant Heim] and use the Restoration Ritual, I can recover in 5 years, and if I don't use the Restoration Ritual for around 50 years," Jibril said in a calm voice.
"You can use the Restoration Ritual yourself, or do you need to return to [Avant Heim] to recover?"
"Well, I can use it myself."
"Please demonstrate that Restoration Ritual to me."
Jibril showed me the restoration ritual without hesitation. After all, this restoration ritual only serves to restore magic and isn't that important.
After I learned this Restoration Ritual, the [Great Sage] began to deduce and improve the Restoration Ritual to achieve greater effectiveness.
According to the Great Sage, the improvement of the Restoration Ritual will last around 5 days. After all, the Restoration Ritual can be improved so quickly due to the knowledge of [Zeref Dragneel] and [Anos Voldigoad]'s magic.
"I'll improve this Restoration Ritual to make it more efficient. It will take around 5 days."
"Oh, it seems you're very confident. We'll see if you can improve it," Jibril said.
After 10 hours of walking and countless questions from Jibril, we arrived at the base of the mountain.
"Jibril, remember, you can't hurt humans, and don't call them talking monkeys or hairless monkeys. Although they don't mind you calling them that, it's best not to give them the wrong impression," Jibril said calmly as we began to climb the mountain.
"Whatever you say, Master, I will never call Master's race talking monkeys," Jibril said fanatically.
After climbing to the cave entrance, we encountered two guards guarding the entrance.
We walked inside the tunnel for 45 seconds until we encountered two guards halfway down the tunnel behind a metal door.
After a few password combinations between the guards and me, the doors opened.
"Welcome back, Chief..."
But they fell silent upon seeing a child who was clearly not a human child, but clearly a flugel.
In less than a second, they drew their katanas and took a fighting stance, ready for combat.
"Chief, can you explain why there is a flugel with you?"
"Don't get us wrong boss, we're not interrogating you, we're just following rule [number 28] anyone, no matter who it is, if a human returns with a different race than human must be checked if they are being controlled or forced to bring it to our village" said another guard.
"I understand. Don't worry, don't worry. I'm not being controlled or forced. This is Jibril, my new subordinate. She's a flugel. I defeated her and turned her into my subordinate. She's under my control and can't harm humans as long as you don't attack her first," I calmly explained to the guards.
After my presentation and a few more tests, they let us in.
After opening about three doors with 20-digit code passwords.
"Master, your security measures are quite simple. Any magical attack can destroy your defenses. Why not use defensive magic to protect this place instead of these simple doors?" Jibril said with a curious tone.
"I'm the only one in the human race who has spirit circuits and can use magic. I used a special ability to obtain my spirit circuits. If I use magic in front of humans, they might think I'm from another race. I killed the previous leader and simply took the leader's form and impersonated her."
"Although I am the same person you've known since birth, nature and the human heart fear the unknown."
"Although the human heart has many beautiful feelings and is the reason humanity has survived this world of war without any strength, it is desire, longing, and human love."
"But humans can also cast off their emotions and be as rational and cruel as machines."
"But the most terrible thing about humanity is that in a moment of panic, they make the most irrational decisions without thinking."
"That's why I can't use magic in front of humans, but I'm researching a way to create [artificial spirit circuits] for humanity, and with the current research speed, it will take me about two years to achieve it."
I finished my explanation as we began to descend the silver-white stairs.
On the walls were bluish-white tubes in the shape of circuits that illuminated the stairs to the exit at the bottom.
"I don't quite understand what you mean by the human heart and feelings, although we flugel have feelings like joy, excitement, interest, and disappointment."
"We don't have the human feelings that drive us to survive like you humans do. After all, we are weapons of war made to kill gods, and we fear death," Jibril finished.
"That doesn't matter. Every living being has all human feelings, even [Ex-machine] machines without physical hearts."
"I'll tell you a theory I have, Jibril, but before I ask, I'll ask a question: What came first, the body or the soul?"
"It's something I haven't researched, and it doesn't seem important to me, but if you're asking my opinion, it's that the body comes first," Jibril said.
"So if the body came first and then the soul, does the soul affect the body or does the body affect the soul?" I asked.
"Hmm, I think the soul affects the body," Jibril replied.
"Not in my theory. The body affects the soul, and the soul affects the body."
"This theory comes from the idea that feelings come from the soul, and the human body, having evolved from apes over thousands of years, is designed to feel all the emotions the soul produces."
"But since the other races were created by the gods, they can only feel very limited emotions like the one you mentioned earlier, because the body affects the soul and only allows it to have those limited emotions, but over time, they can develop other emotions."
"Jibril, if you spend more time with humans and slowly understand them, you will have what we humans call a heart, something intangible but existing," I finish explaining to Jibril about five steps from the exit.
Jibril thinks about what I explained to her: that even Ex-machines can have a heart.
Although Jibril doesn't care about the so-called senses and the human heart, she will try to understand humans.
After all, Jibril is only about 297 years old now. She's not 6,407 like she was 6,000 years later when she met Sora and Shiro in the future. The only senses Jibril has now are more from the excitement of combat, fighting, and curiosity about the unknown.
As you enter the large square cave, you can see many two- and three-story houses and various buildings.
You can also see some farmland where different foods are grown.
And next to the crops, a small farm with some chickens, ducks, cows, and some fish.
"Jibril, welcome to the human village I built with the help of all the humans. Follow me to my house. I need to sleep. I haven't slept in about 72 hours," I say to Jibril.
Jibril is a little confused about what the [time] I spoke of is.
"Hmm, Master, what do you call [time]?" Jibril asked, increasingly interested in humanity.
Jibril looked around, observing the different structures she had never seen before.
"It's just a way of measuring time. For example, a day has 24 hours, 1 hour has 60 minutes, and 1 minute has 60 seconds. But you can understand that in more detail when you return to my house," I said in a sleepy tone of voice.
Since it was very early at that time, around 5 in the morning, most people were sleeping, and only a few were awake.
She was startled by the sight of a flugel, but I explained to her that she was my new subordinate.
They calmed down a bit, but they were still a little scared.
I told a member of the exploration team that when people start waking up, I should tell them that a flugel has become my subordinate so they won't be scared by seeing a flugel in the village.
I walk into my house calmly. My house isn't locked, after all, there's nothing of value in my house, and humans aren't greedy these days.
As I stand at the door of my room, I say to Jibril.
"Jibril, go into the next room. That's where my house library is. You can read any book, they're in different languages, like human, dwarven, beast, and elven."
"I'm too sleepy. Good night."
I say as I walk into my room. I throw myself down on the bed, falling asleep in less than 15 seconds.
Jibril walks into the library, grabs a book with a title that says [Human Common Knowledge] and starts reading it.
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Sorry for taking so long to write a new chapter, I've been very busy these past 10 days.😞😞😞