I'm Not Human?

Thirty seconds.

Perhaps even less.

In the howling gale that suddenly swept past, the mist churned as though boiling. Darkness danced within the gray-white haze like beasts choosing their prey. Having just sensed how close he had come to death, Minkler no longer dared to delay. He bluntly pulled open his collar, revealing a ring hanging around his neck.

It looked simple and unadorned, without any elaborate or exaggerated design, yet no one on Elephant Isle dared imitate it. It was the symbol of the Minkler Family's identity.

As an Alchemical Creation, it seemed to possess some form of verification function as well, distinguishing genuine from fake and providing authentication.

Ji Jue had seen one before, on Minkler's hand. But now Minkler had hidden it away, not daring to show it to anyone—because within the gemstone on its face, a tiny flickering crimson glow rose and flowed soundlessly like a flame.

It left Ji Jue stunned.

Ji Jue had seen that faint glow before—at the reception banquet on Elephant Isle before they departed for Central Earth, when the family head raised his glass in welcome. In the entire Minkler Family, only the family head's ring bore that faint glow!

Yet now, that faint glow had appeared out of thin air in Minkler's hand.

Which meant...

"I—I'm the next family head!"

Minkler's face twitched, caught between tears and laughter. "This was Father's final order. And it's also the authentication approved by the Family God." [Family God]

These days, if you wanted to make a name for yourself, you had to have some serious work under your belt. The greater the achievements and the broader the enterprise, the harder the work had to be. To establish themselves as powers among the chaotic Thousand Isles, even founding a city-state like Elephant Isle, rich