Book 10: Chapter 27
High Anthropoids, or rather, the original anthropoids number few.
The anthropoid society was separated into four levels. The highest level anthropoids were those nobles who acted as administrators. They were the eldest anthropoids. They were most useful during the big change in the North, and even paid a big price. They were the administrators of the North. They were brilliant; not only did they possess sturdy bodies, they were also very pretty.
The second level was the officials beneath them. They were those who stood above the average anthropoids. They weren’t the administrators, but they were relatively intelligent and competent. They were considered brilliant individuals despite having significantly inferior bloodlines and genes compared to the elite tribes.
The third level was the ordinary anthropoids, which were similar to the commoners outside. Their beast blood was more prominent, so they weren’t as smart as the superior anthropoids that were closer to humans, and their appearance was inferior. Further, their bloodline and genes were messy, so it was impossible to determine which race they belonged to. Before the change in the North, they were the lowest on the hierarchy.
The fourth level was the low anthropoids that were created with magic. They had no intelligence and only knew how to fight. Though they had sturdy bodies, they were all brawn. They were incapable of speech and lacked emotion all together. They only obeyed orders from high anthropoids and were the lowest slaves in anthropoid society.
The low anthropoids handled all of the laborious work, but had no means of completing technical work. They were usually responsible for hunting, planting crops, breaking ice and fishing. They were also tasked with simple, yet dangerous, tasks such as transporting rocks. Even the strongest animal would be nothing but prey with their numbers and fearless characters. Plus, they didn’t need to rest. If one died, they just had to replace them with another one, which made it possible for the higher level anthropoids living in the North, where all of that was hard to do, to survive.
They would even sometimes be used as backup food. They would be killed and boned. While the texture of their flesh wasn’t nice and the taste was bad, they could act as preserved food.
How did they identify each other? They did so using their belly buttons, because they were creatures created through magic. The low anthropoids didn’t have a belly button, while commoners had lots of fur. The officials were born as commoners, but they shaved their fur to display their identity. Ling Yue didn’t have any fur on her belly. Hers was smooth and flat, exactly the same way a human’s looked.
Anthropoids similar to Ling Yue had most of their fur concentrated around their ears. For example, the fur on the sides of her face; actually, that’s probably a fox’s fur… She also had lots of fur on her tail. I didn’t know what the others are like, but Ling Yue only had fur around those places.