A distant voice, gentle yet tender, carried a pure benevolence.
Ian looked in that direction and vaguely saw a misty human shape.
Even among the Fae, this figure was quite petite, seemingly floating on a high platform. Her silver hair, longer than her body, cascaded like a waterfall down to the ground, while six uniquely shaped but extraordinarily large wings floated behind her, wrapping around like an embrace.
She smiled, looking across the vastness of space-time, appearing young yet as gentle and nurturing as a mother.
"A world where rejection is possible..."
Ian murmured to himself, chuckling softly: "Yes. Given the lifespan, power, and existence of the Fae, none of the world’s constraints can bind these beings born with strength, immortal and independent of any societal systems..."
"So, if one wishes not to do something, one can refuse."
"Even if one doesn’t want to live, they can freely choose death, dissipating from this world."
He raised his head, meeting the gaze of that figure: "The ultimate freedom of life is choosing one’s death, rejecting life. All other freedoms, at best, merely amount to ’rejection.’
"I see, this is a world where rejection is possible... I completely understand now."
[How wonderful, you completely grasp the essence of the Fae]
The Fae softly replied: [But understanding doesn’t imply acceptance. I can sense that the Fae are not your goal. You merely wish to use them as a stepping stone, viewing us as a foundational template, just as we once used humans as our template, gaining the ability to transform the world...]
[How wonderful, how interesting. Good luck, Ian, the brand new ’Original Fairy’...]
[I eagerly anticipate where you intend to go]
The voice gradually faded away.
First, entering his eyes was a proportionally enlarged world—once small Frozen Fish and Gansong now appeared ordinary-sized, while Master Gravie stood like a towering mountain.
Then, there was perception.
No longer feeling the wriggling of internal organs, instead, the operation of Origin Quality, gaining a more intuitive understanding of the world’s foundation... what his eyes beheld was something all ordinary humans could never comprehend or know.
Everything turned into a tangled mess in an instant, a conglomerate of electromagnetic signals, then regrouped into slow images, sometimes accelerating, other times halting.
A person’s face was half Flesh and Blood, a quarter skeleton, and another part X-ray clairvoyance mixed with electromagnetic wave perception, blending together, while humans’ simplest optical perception grew faint.
This marked the Fairy’s perceptual ability causing cognitive system blurring due to the operation of Origin Quality and Spirit Energy frequency—a being capable of seeing through others inside and out; in the eyes of the Fae, the world held almost no secrets. They could even observe the neural micro-electrical current fluctuations when humans thought.
Thus, they emulated humans, obtaining form and wisdom, evolving from the primitive ’Planetary Tentacle’ into ’Fae.’
But Ian quickly repaired all these ’small bugs,’ fully prepared for this.
Slightly shaking his head, Ian in Fairy form slowly drifted upwards. He attempted flying; it had to be said this was nearly impossible to experience as Immovable Fortress Ian—although the Pioneer of Iron relied on magnetic forces for levitation, it was nothing compared to the light, agile form of the Fae; the Pioneer at most moved powerfully like a thrown block, never truly nimble and swift.
He remarked: "All technological progress must originate from ’being able to see,’ then ’to change.’ The Fairy’s body is indeed much more convenient than my original human form for scientific research, with Soul Materialization able to craft the most suitable tools."
Ian noticed himself speaking more. He looked at his hand, and smiled: "So this is why, the Fairy’s soul-body control system is too simple, paired with their strong intuitive perception of the world, negating the need for abstract conceptual expression, leaving no space for vagueness, abstraction, or conceptual thinking."
"In other words, the Fae can hardly lie, unless they have emulated humans for a long time, learning abstract expression."
Humans understand the world through highly abstract, complex, and inefficient processes, for instance, the sun; humans can only perceive light and heat, appearing small, flying across the sky, thus early sun recognition depicted it as a fiery bird in the sky, a chariot pulling fire, a sacred beetle propelling a fireball, etc.
This abstract, conceptual, and vague thinking catalyzed humans to create ’non-existent’ things like religion, states, and morality—they exist in humans’ virtual abstract conceptual world, simply because humans require these ’tools’ as foundations to collectively work with other members.
Therefore, lies were born in these unclear areas that are difficult to concretely perceive, explain clearly, and figure out.
Lies can be said to be a direct product of human wisdom, ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel-fire.ɴet
but the Fae are different. Fae can directly see the Logos behind many complicated appearances. Their soul doesn’t need a brain, a complex, vague computing device with various primordial design biases, to directly control the Body... Because everything is exceedingly clear and lucid, Fae won’t lie.