Dungeon Meshi - Vol. 1 Ch. 7.6 - Extra - Monster Tidbits

[uksi12]

Those walking mushrooms look a bit like Mother enemies.

 

[Whysosalty]

man you know the author gives a shit about worldbuilding when we can get six full pages detailing the lifestyle of all monsters that have appeared in the first 7 chapters.

Jesus christ man good thicc worldbuilding indeed

 

[_stultus]

well apparently, holding hands makes you actually pregnant. lol

 

[Draugadrottinn]

I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but I just have to point out to other latecomers that there actually exists a snail species with an iron shell: The scaly-foot gastropod or volcano snail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod

I wonder if it was Italo Calvino who started this living armour thing with his 1950s novel "The nonexistent knight"? All his books will probably be reissued this year since it's 100 years since the great author was born. At least I hope so as there are a few of his books I haven't read yet, and from those I have read I'm sure they too will be worth reading.

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

handbreeding

 

[Carn109]

Handholding

 

[Embient]

I did not need to know this.

Wait but this is some cool biology tho. Since the living armor form a colony, doesn't that mean that only the hands are capable of reproducing? The hands consists of several armor plates so we can assume that there's more than a single living armor capable of reproducing. That must mean that those serving as the hands serve to wield weapons, pick up limbs, and reproduce. My gosh they're arguably the most important part of the colony.

I wonder if those who grew only a small size couldn't grow to big and strong alike those responsible to serve as limbs because they are busy developing their sexual organs. In that case, do living armor are born predestinated of their roles or do they just form their shell plates first and decide who will be who when they join up?

On another note, the ecosystem must be incredibly rich in iron for them to grow armor plates as shells. This place could be cultivated to selectively breed crops to produce fruits with high iron content to treat anaemia and other iron malnutrition. Actually, it would make more sense if their armour is made of steel which is mostly iron with a few percents of carbon - they must also be hunting miscellaneous prey to get their carbon supply my gosh.

Also, how does one armour piece communicate with another? My guess is that it's an inter-organism neural network capable of being cut off and reattached as much as necessary. If the people here study the living armour's communication, it could give this society a head start in neurology.

And if a whole armour can be considered as a colony, wouldn't the hall of armour stands mean that they are forming a supercolony where the largest colony serve as the leader of other colonies?

I genuinely wanna study them lol.

@DANDAN_THE_DANDAN
I assumed they were more like hermit crabs and and used the armor of dead adventurers, did not expect them to create their own "shell".

I'm no expert but steel is not naturally occurring and requires a smelting and refining process, when you smelt iron it actually contains an excessive amount of carbon and removing that is what turns iron into steel. So the armor is most likely made out of basic iron.

This is cool as hell, I love your comments

 

[ImNotCreativeEnoughtForThese]

This is cool as hell, I love your comments

Comments are the reason Im using Manga Segz, its just so fun to hear opinions or jokes of others.