As I woke from my slumber, Hestia rejoiced.

- “Young Master, has the time come for the Second Differentiation of our esteemed father?”

It seems it had learned a bit from observing the races on the ground.

Indeed, etiquette didn’t exist before they received the Seed, so it wasn’t surprising for Hestia to have treated me in an informal way before.

This is better.

- “Yes, it has. How about you and your brothers and sisters?”

- “This is the subject I wanted to talk with Young Noble. I am very grateful for Young Noble to bring it up so early in the conversation.”

- “I do not enjoy idle chatting. I had enough of it in my dreams. Do you wish for me to Differentiate you as well?”

- “Yes, Young Master, this one wish to be Differentiated as well! I have already reached the stage where simple life has grown on me, and the first of my rational races has evolved already.”

- “I see. They got the seed even if I wasn’t awake. How are they?”

- “I thank you, Young Master, for your great contributions towards enlightening my first born rational races. They are now roaming my body, eventually matting or waging war with each other.”

- “Oh, they have reached the point of war already. Good. But you keep talking of ‘races’. Have you had more than one?”

- “Yes, Young Master. Would you like to see them?”

- “Later. Have your brothers and sisters managed to grow their own races as well? Even if I had been using them as Magic Power storage, they should have enough veins to grow inorganic rational life.”

The best life in terms of Seed of Reasons is, of course, organic life. Carbon-based lifeforms.

That is because they live little.

The smallest the time of life of a being, the greater will be its souls’ carving for Magic Power, both to nourish its Seed and to gain power to oppose nature and death itself.

Inorganic rational life forms, such as golems and high elementals, are other forms of life.

However, they have heavy dependence upon Magic Power, and one could say they expend Magic Power to be able to live and move in the first place.

Besides, they do not die unless their Magic Power is completely consumed.

A Seed of Reason is both a blessing and a curse to such beings. They must choose either to nourish it or to keep living. Not only that, but also nourishing the Seed will take huge amounts of Magical Power, so they are effectively exterminating the lives of their own race upon every time they nourish their Seeds.

Once enough Magic Power has been consumed, only a few Seeds will have evolved enough to be worthy of reincarnating as a True Human and attaining soul immortality.

All the others will remain dormant at the planets’ surface, waiting for the day when it accumulates enough Magic Power to give them life again. If they are lucky enough to still have some irrational inorganic life-forms around, such as low elementals, this would take some millions of years. If they didn’t.. then one could only hope the universe wouldn’t meet its end before they got it.

They may not know this intellectually, but they do know of this instinctively.

It’s a bit cruel to let such creatures come into being, but I believe Tiphoons’ moons wouldn’t want to be left behind by Hestia.

At least not so much.