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@Kaarme
I made the assumption that it would magically be transported into our world with its magical properties intact, but imagining how magical creatures could work in reality is fun too.
If you want to make a none magical animal out of it then yeah, it would probably be bone or some kind of shell and probably would be not as dangerous... ya know...because magic...
It could actually still be made out of metal, but it's quite rare for the animal kingdom to actually use metals but they do exist.
A lot of biological materials are better than metals anyway and don't rust to give a few advantages. ( also if you want to be "that guy" you could point out that calcium technically is a metal)
An example pretty I'm sure everybody knows is that spider silk is stronger then steel if it was upscaled. ( imagine if we had spiders the size of cows, that would be pretty crazy... )
Also, a woodpecker can do some pretty crazy stuff because of how its brain is shielded from the impact force when it's pecking wood.
Nothing stopping the whale from having something similar to prevent itself from getting brain damage when it rams ships.
That said, an animal like that would have to have had some kind of reason to ram its face into rocks to naturally evolve like that...
So I guess you would have to make it a rock / metal-eating whale or something 😅 ( we both know that would most likely never happen, but hey... its fun to speculate. )
@angelusalvus
Could be, but there could also just be that there is no skill for torture.
Considering what you learn in some later chapters of the novel regarding how the skill system actually works, it makes sense that some skills just doesn't exist yet.
minor spoilers for like manga chapter 300 or so... ( its really far off )
I made the assumption that it would magically be transported into our world with its magical properties intact, but imagining how magical creatures could work in reality is fun too.
If you want to make a none magical animal out of it then yeah, it would probably be bone or some kind of shell and probably would be not as dangerous... ya know...because magic...
It could actually still be made out of metal, but it's quite rare for the animal kingdom to actually use metals but they do exist.
A lot of biological materials are better than metals anyway and don't rust to give a few advantages. ( also if you want to be "that guy" you could point out that calcium technically is a metal)
An example pretty I'm sure everybody knows is that spider silk is stronger then steel if it was upscaled. ( imagine if we had spiders the size of cows, that would be pretty crazy... )
Also, a woodpecker can do some pretty crazy stuff because of how its brain is shielded from the impact force when it's pecking wood.
Nothing stopping the whale from having something similar to prevent itself from getting brain damage when it rams ships.
That said, an animal like that would have to have had some kind of reason to ram its face into rocks to naturally evolve like that...
So I guess you would have to make it a rock / metal-eating whale or something 😅 ( we both know that would most likely never happen, but hey... its fun to speculate. )
@angelusalvus
Could be, but there could also just be that there is no skill for torture.
Considering what you learn in some later chapters of the novel regarding how the skill system actually works, it makes sense that some skills just doesn't exist yet.
minor spoilers for like manga chapter 300 or so... ( its really far off )
The gods may or may not be artificial intelligences / the people from the MC´s earth. (it's not confirmed, but hinted to be true )
The gods artificially created the skill system, and because all "evil" gods have been purged or sealed from the system by the other gods.
( we only really know about one, possible two evil gods so far though )
All skills are made by absorbing memories from heroic people and integrated into the system so other people can use it later
( we actually get to meet a guy who has made his own skill in this arc IIRC )
So because the gods actively choose what skill to integrate and their pretty high standard for it, it makes some sense that your everyday torture wouldn't be good enough to be made into a skill.
You would need quite literally god-tier torture skills for them to make it into the system if the gods even want it to be there in the first place
( they have rejected stuff like nuclear power magic that's too dangerous and things they dislike so they could just be like" Nah we don´t like torture, let's not make it a skill" )
Also, just from observation but none magical skills are a lot rarer than those who are. ( but that could just be the confirmation bias talking )
The gods artificially created the skill system, and because all "evil" gods have been purged or sealed from the system by the other gods.
( we only really know about one, possible two evil gods so far though )
All skills are made by absorbing memories from heroic people and integrated into the system so other people can use it later
( we actually get to meet a guy who has made his own skill in this arc IIRC )
So because the gods actively choose what skill to integrate and their pretty high standard for it, it makes some sense that your everyday torture wouldn't be good enough to be made into a skill.
You would need quite literally god-tier torture skills for them to make it into the system if the gods even want it to be there in the first place
( they have rejected stuff like nuclear power magic that's too dangerous and things they dislike so they could just be like" Nah we don´t like torture, let's not make it a skill" )
Also, just from observation but none magical skills are a lot rarer than those who are. ( but that could just be the confirmation bias talking )
