Chapter 406: Tear-Stained Graduation Thesis 1
Human fear originates from ignorance. Simply put, we fear what we don't understand. I once read online that it's an instinct ingrained in our genes from primitive times, when "if you don't know, you die" was the rule rather than "if you don't know, you get hurt."
That's why humans began to uncover and organize the unknown, building a tower of knowledge and learning. Thunder and lightning, once seen as the wrath of sky gods in primitive times, are now understood as electrical discharges between negatively and positively charged areas within clouds. Most unknowns have been transformed into knowns.
This logic applied not only to the modern society I lived in, but also to Earth 4 where Han Se-ah was, and even to the fantasy world of the virtual reality game.
"It's already known that dead monsters return to mana and become mana stones. Even if the corpse is damaged, it doesn't affect the mana stone. But this is our first time with such a huge monster, so we should verify it again, shouldn't we?"
"Um, calm down for a moment..."
The issue was that she wanted to dig into the ogre's belly.
Her cheeks were flushed with excitement, and her tired eyes, lined with dark circles, sparkled with vitality. The hysterical-looking beautiful woman reminded me of the term 'gap moe' - like a romantic girl, thanks to her ★-enhanced beauty. Even her excited bouncing around looked oddly charming for a grown woman.
If only the words coming out of her mouth were a bit more toned down.
"After subduing it, we'll cut off its limbs and throw it into the safe zone- no, first we need to check if the mana stones of named monsters are different colors... but for that, we'd need more test subjects..."