Shine takes a seat on a mat that has been prepared by the chief. She's already prepared a set of tea although his own cup is left empty as she fills hers. "My name is muun, I'm the leader of this village, may I know your title honored one?". He nods responding
"I'm shine a being from another world, I wish to use this village as a base while I gather materials and gain more information about this world and its inhabitants. Will you allow this?" I don't lie or hide my intentions, I had initially considered keeping the fact that i'm from another world secret but i couldn't find a way to justify that decision and I don't want to be the kind of man that lies and tells half truths by default . Besides these people have accepted everything about me quickly even making sure not to insult me by offering a drink after i've told them it was unneeded I'm sure my origin will be no different .
She takes in everything and sips her tea. I scan her face for a reaction, a slight twitch or moment of surprise but there is none that I can detect. "I see, we have no problems with you staying here or trying to learn about the world you find yourself in. If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them.
I take her offer starting with the one that's been bugging me since I entered this building "Every human in the villages produces a small amount of energy except you, what makes you different? Why don't you emit life energy?."
A somber look crosses her face. "In my younger years I was a cultivator. Those are humans who specialize in controlling and emitting qi or life energy as you call it. Back then I was a brave and feirce woman but I refused the advanced of a very powerful man one to many times and he ripped my cultivation away from me leaving me as I am now"
"And the villagers are fine with you leading them as you are?"
her face starts to shift into a half glare before she corrects herself and returns to her neutral facade "why your a rude one aren't you, were manners not a thing in your previous world? But no I haven't had any complaints about my current state from the villagers so far."
shine inwardly smiles at that first comment the fact that she feels comfortable enough to make rude remarks means the tensions softening.
"I see, are other worlders are common here?, and the bioweapons I fought in the forest, what's their origin and why don't they go beyond the tree line?"
"depends on the other world your talking about, plenty of demons find themselves summoned here and continue to roam even after they're summoner has died, theres also spirit beast and star children and occasionally even a human who claims to hail from another world will appear. These men normally end up cultivating at unheard of speeds and ascending in less then 50 years though. " she grabs her cup and takes another sip"as for why the spirit beast in the forest don't cross the tree line thats thanks to an array the first emperor set up it allows this land to be free of invading beast while also allowing cultivators the ability to go into the forest and hunt them for spirit cores and alchemy materials."
Shine grabs the kettle and refills her cup, "what do you mean by ascending? do they leave the planet?"
she shakes her head "to rebel against heaven is the basis of all cultivation and once you reach the peak of cultivation you receive the right to ascend"
Shine nods along before standing up " I think i get it (this was a lie), If its not to much trouble would you mind if I stayed here with you?"
she with a face of pure disgust and speaks with a tone of disappointment "I didn't take you for that kin-"
he closes the gap between them putting a bone carved finger to her lips "not like that, I just meant to stay nearby so that I can confirm a few things with you after my research is finished as you seem like the closet thing to a cultivator in this village"
removing his hand shine lets her speak
"...oh" she clears her throat and takes another drink of her tea drowning the entire cup while its still giving off steam "In that case i don't think there will be any problems, theres a spare room in the back you can use"
shine nods standing up and heading to the room and takes a seat on the bed destroying the bed frame under his weight and destroying the floorboards. A rude thing to do but he doesn't have the processing power to spare for manipulating his weight right now or at least he wont in a few moments.
"system, search any text or recorded dataset that contains the terms cultivation ,spirit beast , ascending, heavens, array(non computational), alchemy, or qi"
[total text mentioning search terms 105,321,203
Total unpacking time: 6 hours 33 mins]
Every 3rd generation ai was made with all of human and ai history installed in their database, every story ever recorded, every textbook ever made, every piece of art or music were all installed inside him at his creation ready to be downloaded needless to say this took up an enormous amount of data space. Despite that it was deemed necessary for 2 reasons the first was if we somehow managed to beat the great enemy(a miracle in its own right) humanity would no doubt be in a precarious state with most infrastructure and physical recordings destroyed. By turning each newly created unit into a repository for all knowledge as long as even a single gen 3 remained everything could be rebuilt. The 2nd less hopeful reason was more sentimental, even if the war was lost as long as a single gen 3 remained a record of our people and our accomplishments would be out there and the efforts of our 2 races wouldn't be forgotten.
"system, download all"
Shine shuts down, limiting his basic processing functions to a crawl so that the download ticks faster finally resting for the first time since his creation.