After the robotic female voice spoke in my head, the runes on S10’s collar glowed and a screen appeared in my mind.

*Language of the Human clan*

*Designed and constructed by the human ancestor Eltorr, designing the language of the Human clan by mimicking and outlining symbols out of demon clan scriptures, that the demons learned from studying the laws of nature from the continent from above.

*Ready to upload basic patterns and lines for the language, are you ready to learn?*

What! it needs my permission

*Will you learn?*

Thinking carefully I inwardly replied ‘YES’

The basic information for the runes flooded my mind but it was not an immediate translation but a collection of 50 lines forming symbols when combined, “Oh so it’s similar to the Egyptian hieroglyphics and now I can use it to learn and understand this world more,” I thought

This had me thinking if the Egyptians back home learned their ancient language, by this method of studying nature's so-called laws.

The walls and, huge boulders beside them had symbols on them of different patterns, “Mining section, Loading section, Sculpting section, Storage section, and gulp!

The corpse section.”

Seeing the corner packed with the rotting maggot-infested corpses perverting the air with the stench similar to roadkill, that I would just pass by the street back in my world without feeling the slightest urge of sympathy, but now it’s individuals like myself that are dead and piled up like a cheer squad pyramid, well some of them looked, more like pigs with human bodies, I’m guessing orcs and some handsome ones probably elves but their appearance even though I'm, not a doctor shows death by starvation and fatigue, similar to my small dwarfen body.

After looking around in wide-eyed shock at my surroundings, S10 turned and looked at me then, said, “Hey I think you rested enough, time to get back to work before we get whipped again, and I will help you this time,”

I felt warm in my heart, this young girl is so nice to me, and even offered to help me even though we just met.

As we were neared the light wall, She took the bucket back and I walked with her to the mining section that had slaves with pickaxes hammering the walls of rock removing giant boulders the size of elephants.

There were giants holding pickaxes landing huge blows to the walls causing huge explosions with the collision force.

Boom!

The power was menacing, and these guys are slaves with such power how? I wondered about the power of the masters of these guys.

An old man with sharp pointy ears waved at us, we got there to be handed giant rusted chains strapped to a giant boulder, “Go on pull it away to the loading section,” said the old elf.

Well, damn it! talk about free labor, just I and S10 had to pull this alone, I gulp! Thinking to myself about how I could have done this alone in my condition without the help from S10.

Strapping the chains to my right arm in a coiling motion, and resting the chains on my shoulders I pulled with all my might, and S10 pushed from the back with what little strength she had.

As we moved to the loading section I could not resist the urge to ask, “Hey, S10 why are we mining these huge grey boulders?” I said, my bare feet gripping the rocky ground as I pulled the boulder.

“They are preparing for a final battle with the Molens.” She said

“A battle!? With mole..what now?” I said

“Hehe you don’t know a thing don’t you?” she said, her voice at the back full of contempt at my ignorance.

I laughed embarrassingly as I pulled, “ It’s not my fault that the previous owner of this body never gave a crap of understanding his environment, but only worked himself to death for 8 years,” I thought.

Poor kid was just occupied with seeing the outside world.

“You're too hopeless you should start, scanning and understanding your environment more if you want to survive in this world,” she said, scolding me

I felt wronged but what could I do, can’t tell her that I am reincarnated, and I bet she would not believe me even if I told her the truth.

“Well listen up to tell you about the war you should know about the history,” she said

The realm we are in is called Sub Terra, located underground and devoid of sunlight, the creatures called Molens are the native residents of this place and also the guard dogs.

“Guard dogs, what are they guarding?” I said

“Us”

“Excuse me! Could you repeat that”

“You heard me right, they guard us, we are all prisoners even our slave owners are prisoners, Mother told me that all the races found in here were banned to the Sub Terra realm by the new rulers of the Above ground after

the great war that lasted eons,”

The Demons and Humans fought for supremacy over the world above, which for a long time was a stalemate until about 1000 years ago the demon gods abandoned their followers and the demons were finally defeated.

Humans are cruel by nature and also racist taking the non-humans and banishing them to the Sub Terra world.

The humans even put collars to make it easier for the criminal humans long banished here by the human clan themselves in the Sub Terra world to control us for many years.

But the humans here are a little lenient, and did not kill us all instead have been using us as slaves and fighting with the Molens for hundreds of years now.

 “What is the outside called?” I said

“It's called Afreya so I heard,” she said

“So even when we manage to get out of this place we will still be hunted down by the humans up there and killed huh?”

“Not exactly if you are strong enough like some of our Demon Lords outside who still have enough power to rule a region of their own you can seek refuge there, this world is where the strong prey on the weak, so even when everyone is against you, with the strength you can subjugate them all and instill fear in your enemies to not even think of harming you and your people,” she said

Listening to her I started to think of how to get stronger, till we stopped by the loading section, and I watched the giants grip the boulders lifting them on their shoulders taking them to the Sculpting section, and using their bare

fingers to cleave the boulders, chipping away the rocks to making cubes,

The cubes were made by the giants barehanded with movement techniques that gently hacked, cleaved, and slashed the boulders into large cubes the size of an elephant.

“Just how are those guys doing that?” I said

“Dummy it’s Cultivation techniques of the giants, it’s called Iron hand,” said S10

“Cultivation,” then I remembered the screen which also indicated this thing called cultivation level but mine said none.

“Can you tell me more?” I said as I walked back to the Mining section with S10.

The world I find myself in is filled with strong warriors, and the weak are bound by the laws the strong make but do not follow.

Gates of cultivation, are levels that are opened by any living organism whether beast, demon, and human.

All gates must be opened to reach immortality or godhood like in the myths, and all creatures have different ways to practice cultivation but all have to pass the power levels starting at the Mortal Release Gate, Ascension Baptism Gate, Scholars breath Gate, Omega body gate, King’s Domain Gate, Saint Gates, Overlord Gate.

Every realm has 7 stages to open, each stage and level is said to be tougher than the next.

“Give me your hand. My mother taught me how to scan for the talent in others and see if they have the talent to cultivate, maybe I can help you look to see if you can cultivate.” She said

Looking at her, “ What's the point aren’t the collars going to just stop me from cultivating,” I said

Shaking her head, “No, not until you reach the late stage of the Mortal release realm nothing will happen to you, the collars will forcibly suppress the cultivation level of the wearer, it’s kind of like a bottleneck inducer, now give me your hand and let me check out your talent,” she said

I nervously gave her my shaking right hand and her bat wings trembled immediately, then a smile reaching from ear to ear appeared on her face, “hehehe,”

Feeling my heart racing in anticipation I asked her, “Well come on spit it out how is it?” I said, my voice trembling.