Since they had already reached a partnership, Mr. White wasn't stingy. He began instructing the villagers, "Pick the bigger Ice Galls, then choose the ones whose ice spikes have a reddish sheen on the surface and process those first. These are all Ice Gall Kings. Usually you can get a fire-type beast core from inside."
"Yes, Mr. White."
The villagers responded and started sorting the Ice Galls.
The ones without fire-type beast cores wouldn't be eaten and would be prepared for sale. The ones with fire-type beast cores would be opened up. While helping the Lord collect fire-type beast cores, they could also enjoy a feast of Ice Gall dishes.
"Mr. White, why are these Ice Galls so strange?"
Ethan casually picked up an Ice Gall with a reddish sheen on its surface, then cut it open with a knife. Sure enough, there was a fire-type beast core inside.
But the shell of this Ice Gall was clearly made of ice, and it was a creature that lived in the snow. How could it possibly have a fire-type beast core?
"You mean the fact that it's a fire-type creature?"
Mr. White put on his black dragon-skin gloves and peeled open an Ice Gall as he said, "Actually, creatures that are different on the inside and outside aren't uncommon across the entire Mist Continent. It's said they're directly related to changes in their living environment."
"I remember reading an article written by the Sage who studies creatures of all elements, Dumbledore. His research found that these Ice Galls are actually very similar to a creature called the Fire Gall. Whether it's their appearance or their body structure, the similarity is extremely high."
"Because of that, he believes the original form of these Ice Galls was a Fire Gall that lived inside magma. But after experiencing a volcanic eruption, those Fire Galls were blasted out of the volcano and onto the surface."
"Some of the Fire Galls survived after undergoing mutation."
"And so these so-called Ice Gall creatures came into existence. In order to adapt to the new environment, they developed a thick ice shell. But their original inner core couldn't change, so they ended up with fire-type beast cores and an outer ice shell, this bizarre combination."
"And creatures that are completely opposite inside and out like this have another collective name. They're called Chaos Creatures!"
"That's actually pretty interesting."
After hearing that, Ethan took another bite of Ice Gall meat.
The Ice Gall meat was warm, with a faint sweetness and a texture that melted in the mouth. It was really delicious.
"But that still doesn't seem right."
At that moment, Ethan happened to see a villager's torch pass by an Ice Gall. The sight scared many Ice Galls into retracting their ice spikes, which gave Ethan another question.
"If these Ice Galls are fire-type creatures, why are they afraid of torches?"
"That question is a bit complicated."
Mr. White fell into thought, "But I remember Sage Dumbledore explaining it. He said that between the inner and outer layers of this kind of Chaos Creature, there's something like a conversion layer."
"When fire-type energy passes through this conversion layer, it turns into ice-type energy. And when the ice-type shell absorbs energy and passes it through the conversion layer, it can turn into fire-type energy as well. It's the same principle."
"But precisely because of this conversion layer, they've indirectly lost the ability for their outer shell to come into contact with fire-type creatures without getting injured."
"In other words, these Ice Galls can never return to living in magma again. Their outer shells are afraid of fire."
"So there are actually people in this world like Darwin, studying evolution," After hearing Mr. White's explanation, Ethan felt even more that this Mist World was far from simple.
"Who's Darwin?", Mr. White asked in confusion.
"A big shot from my hometown who specialized in studying the evolution of animals," Ethan brushed it off casually. Then he remembered something about the Mist World from before and continued asking Mr. White, "Earlier you said that Magic Spirit Wine was something left over from the era of spiritual energy revival. Can you tell me more about it now? About the things from the old era."
"Of course I can. It's not really a secret anyway."
Mr. White pondered for a moment before speaking.
"It's said that more than a thousand years ago, the Mist World didn't look like it does now. It was a green world, or maybe a blue world. But it definitely wasn't this foggy world we see today."
"Then one day, a kind of huge spirit stone started falling from the sky. It's the same kind of stone we now use as an energy source."
"These stones all came from outside the world, and after that, those spirit stones brought enormous changes to the land."
"It's said people in the old era used something called electricity, or maybe it was some kind of power called science. I don't remember the exact details, I only saw it mentioned in some documents."
"Then because of these spirit stones that fell from the sky, everything from the old world stopped working."
"And those spirit stones supposedly triggered violent changes in the world. The year the spirit stones fell from the sky was called the First Year of Disaster in the records."
"Tsunamis appeared everywhere, mountain fires, earthquakes, and even all kinds of plagues."
"As all kinds of disasters began, the creatures that originally lived in this world started going extinct in huge numbers."
"But while disasters appeared, some creatures and plants not only adapted to the existence of these spirit stones from the sky, they even mutated, becoming powerful and aggressive."
"This new change was marked in history as the First Year of Rebirth."
"This First Year of Rebirth lasted nearly two or three hundred years. Not only did animals mutate, even many plants turned into aggressive lifeforms. Some even developed intelligence. The most famous examples were the two plant-humans known as tree spirits and treants."
"As the world underwent earth-shaking changes, some of the old humans also began awakening all kinds of strange abilities, such as enhanced eyesight or mutations in parts of their bodies…"
"But according to the stories, during that First Year of Rebirth, humans actually lived extremely hard lives."
"Because countless new lifeforms appeared on this land, the original balance of creatures was broken. On top of that, the old world's energy sources no longer worked, so humans were pushed close to extinction by those powerful new creatures."
"Until a great hero appeared among humanity, Houdini!"
"The ability he awakened was magic. He became humanity's first magician. Not only did he awaken magic, he even taught the humans who had barely survived, allowing everyone to learn magic together and fight against those new creatures."
"This era was called Humanity's Rebirth, the First Year of Magic."
"With the opening of the First Year of Magic, humans gradually began pushing back against those new creatures with magic. They gained some places to live and established the First City, the first city belonging to humanity after the new era began."
"And this city is also the heart of the Mist World, the First City."
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