80 Innocent Arrogance (1/2)
Taku spent what felt like days discussing earth to Kaguvi, who was more interested in the science side of things. Especially technology for some odd reason. Taku was incredibly impressed by Kaguvi's intelligence. The man understood everything he explained perfectly. It was almost as if he was hearing the elementary version of something he was already familiar with. This got Taku thinking.
Perhaps the Gutu knew more than he understood. For example, the stone tablets they used to store and send information. There must be some sort of principals behind it. True magic was simply science he didn't understand. A quote he got from Tony Stark, one he firmly agreed with. In fact, he saw himself as real Earth's Iron Man, except he wasn't, he was just a rich nerd.
But he did understand Muay Thai and Taekwondo. Being bullied in his youth taught him the importance of self-defense, even in the Age of Information. He practiced the martial arts to fortify his mind, not his body. It's part of the reason his soul was able to smoothly integrate with another soul. Not only was it of high quality but it had a tough will.
'If this guy really is the Supreme Martialist, then his mind must be like Fort Knox.'
The Gutu were a warrior race, hence psychology was important to them. They knew the effects of training on the mind.
'But he acts like he is a nutcase. Maybe its some sort of ruse?'
Taku continued to make his conjectures while simultaneously talking to Kaguvi, who was like a black hole, sucking as much knowledge as possible. Then at some point…
”Hahaha!”
Kaguvi was rolling on the floor laughing, much to Taku's displeasure.
Kaguvi got up removing a few tears, ”Wait wait wait wait, you are telling me that the majority of your planet uses electricity? Electricity? You have to be joking? Do you know how backward you sound?”
Taku couldn't wrap his head around this. Earth was backward for using electricity? Shouldn��t it be the other way around?
Kaguvi somewhat understood what Taku was confused about, ”I've been to many worlds that took the route your world did, in fact, there is a country on this continent that uses electricity. But its incredibly inefficient and highly volatile. World Energy, Zesa, Qi, Mana, and Yuan. These are the true energies worth exploiting for technological uses. I assume since your world uses electricity, it is heavily reliant on technology, hence when you saw the Gutu you thought them to be backward no?”
Kaguvi's words hit the nail perfectly. ”Well young man let me explain, believe it or not, we use far more technologies than your people, it's just that we value our heritage. Technology can be powerful but it can easily be countered, in the end, nothing beats personal strength, although I do understand since your people could not cultivate. But I am interested in something your people made, you called it programming?”
”And you say you were the best at programming?”
”I had no equal.” This was bragging, but there was no vanity, only clarity. He was that good of a programmer. He had near-perfect memory and an IQ of over 200. He was a paragon in the world, which was now dominated by computers.