Chapter 353
Chapter Title: Heavenly Realm
As the enormous concept of humanity came up, I couldn't help but make a bizarre expression.
"Hu... humanity?"
Distinctions like humans, Central Plains folk, or Westerners were common enough. But the word "humanity" felt like it was defining humans as a distinct category, even implying that humans weren't the only beings around.
Soon enough, I figured out where that sense of incongruity came from. It was a difference in the scale of the worldview.
The black cat in front of me dismissed the human race as mere "dust" in this world, which was why it separately referred to humanity, including two-legged folk and four-legged beasts.
Of course, it wasn't incomprehensible. In fact, based on the "truth" of the world I'd grasped so far, it made sense for someone like the Mangnyang Immortal to lump all human-like races together as the "human species" without dividing them by sea or land. But that perception was something only someone like me, who'd long been exposed to the darkness lurking behind this world, could accept. It was a term that could never be understood within the conventional concept of the Central Plains.
The Mangnyang Immortal spoke.
[From the start, you don't even know what the Blessing of Heaven-Breaker is capable of. You're just treating it like some convenient tool you might as well take since it's there, right?]