According to the Data Terminal, the indigenous language and writing system of the Kolo World was a fusion product. More than half of it should have been the language of mortals, while a smaller portion might have originated from the linguistic system used by the Creation Goddess and her divine servants. Most of the loanwords in that smaller portion were nouns, including place names, ancient names, names of mythological entities, and specialized terms related to higher mysticism.
These nouns were not the original divine script, either. According to the calculations of the Crystal Core Research Station's analysis mainframe, the words had only about seventy percent similarity—including pronunciation and writing structure—to the ancient divine script copied from the temples of Korperus. The indigenous writing of the Kolo World consisted of winding symbols, which shared similarities with the divine script of Korperus. Judging from their writing structure, one could also guess that some sort of transmission relationship existed between them.
"Perhaps the ancient divine script was passed down into the Mortal World and gradually evolved over generation after generation. The parts of the divine script and divine language that contained power gradually faded because mortals could not understand them, leaving only the easily mastered pronunciation and some writing habits to be passed down to the present day," the Data Terminal said, offering its conjecture. "The mortals' own language was sufficient for describing their daily lives, so the main purpose of the divine script was to record things from the age when the gods still existed."
"A prison..." Hao Ren pondered. "That lines up with what I've seen here. The humans of the Kolo World believe that ancient evil entities were once imprisoned deep within their world, while the rulers of the various Order Kingdoms possess an inherited power known as the 'Keeper