Charlotte had received a modern education and had always believed that evil did not lie in certain groups of people, but in certain morally depraved acts. Humanity had emerged from a time of eating raw meat and drinking blood, endured nature's brutal selection, and gradually developed feelings such as shame, morality, dignity, love, and compassion.
This was civilization, but it was also a shackle.
Slave traders had no lofty sentiments. They sold beastmen and humans alike; they could sell natives, and they could sell nobles from the New Continent. There might even be slave traders selling citizens of Fars and Inglima—it was only that he had not encountered them yet.
This was an evil trade.
It should be violently abolished.
Charlotte did his best to clear his mind. After all, in this environment, the Overback Red Bear youth he had transformed into was considered "slender" among bearfolk, but he was still huge compared to humans, making him extremely uncomfortable.
In this state, all he could do was cultivate Bloodthirsty Battle Qi for a while and empty his mind.
While cultivating, he could ignore the harsh conditions outside, making him feel a tiny bit better.
Bloodthirsty Battle Qi, like human battle qi, required one to condense a Seed of Power. A Seed of Power was condensed vitality.
Back at Behemoth National Academy, Charlotte had cultivated the Lamia Breathing Technique, also known as the Water Demon Breathing Technique, for a time. This Breathing Technique could replace sleep during cultivation and made one proficient in water, but he had failed to master it.
Charlotte had not expected cultivating Bloodthirsty Battle Qi to be much different from before. Yet once he immersed himself in cultivation, he felt the lively vitality throughout his body begin to stir, continuously gathering toward his lower abdomen.
His lower