Water people
Worlds coded by realization energy are easier to fix than those coded by complete laws. However, factors such as the difficulty of realization coding and its higher costs are reasons why most choose to code low-level worlds with complete laws.
Complete law coding works fine, and repairing worlds is unnecessary for overcoming the majority of worlds.
Lewis started the process of fixing the code.
Changing codes after they have been written is a highly challenging process; Lewis obviously doesn't have that ability.
So, his 'fixing' involves adding more codes that alleviate the problem as much as possible.
This kind of problem-solving is not the orthodox way, but it does work; most low-level civilizations can only use this method, as they cannot fix the code in the orthodox way.
After a few months of coding and occasionally stopping to observe, Lewis finally patched the problems.
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In general, the living beings sold by Alive have a few differing characteristics.
First, the species.
Each species has some unmodifiable characteristics; for example, traditional wood elves like nudity; it's in their nature; even wood elves without culture instinctively go around nude.
Exactly as some races among beastpeople like raw meat, regardless of culture.
Second, culture.
From traditional to medieval, to modern, to advanced, to galactic, the culture is the theme that mortals will instinctively reach; modern humans would stop advancing in technology after a certain extent, medival cultures only use swords and never guns, etc.
Culture is not necessary for species; one can buy mortals without culture; mortals without culture are free and can go in any direction.
Other characteristics include language, memories, race, desires, talents, magical talent rate, magical talent rank, etc., all of which are customizable.
There are also add-ons, like peaceful, aggressive, passive, explorer, etc., that can be bought depending on the need.
Lewis bought cultureless elves and divine species with the lowest magical talent rate and rank as possible.
Divine species he bought were placed in different locations: some in icy places, some in hot places, some in deep jungles, some near the sea, etc.
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Water City is a habitat of water people.
Water people are of the divine species, but they don't call themselves such; they call themselves water people.
With an initial population of 1,000, the first water people knew they had to work hard to increase their population. And so they did; after less than 200 years, the initial 1,000 turned into more than 600,000.
As with humans, the body exchange laws apply here, too, but unlike humans, the exchange shops never appeared.
Water people just adapted to it.
Because of this system, they instituted laws to protect bodies from damage.
In many other worlds, one person owns their body, which means they can do whatever they want with it—tattoos, body modifications, cosmetic surgeries, etc.
But here, nobody owns their body; therefore, the laws prevent any modification to the body.
If someone neglects and damages a body, they can be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of a body exchange.
As a result, everyone is careful.
The laws of water people worked; the injuries from work were very low.
Many elders and shamans have thought of a way to create artificial bodies.
Right now, there is a shortage of good bodies.
More than 10,000 of the total population have unsuitable bodies, like those with shorter height, damaged bodies, wrong gender, etc.
If they manage to create artificial bodies, in addition to fixing all of those, they can also give everyone a stronger body that is good for manual labor, a delicate body for precise work, a casual body for ideal time, etc.
There are many benefits to it.
Therefore, the higher-ups of water people did a lot of research on it. But the water people were all cultureless, so they didn't know any technology; they were superstitious, with shamans playing with things randomly to create a body. They have failed so far.
However, the speed of technological progress of this group of people was astonishing. In only 200 years, they had transitioned from living naked near the beach to having a few cities and invented farming and domesticated farm animals.
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Time passed, and another 200 years elapsed.
Some time ago, a group of water people departed to an island. It was significant because it was the first time a group decided to separate from the main group completely.
The population is now around 5,000,000 people, and food is the only limiting factor.
The progress toward the ability to create an artificial body is still nowhere near success.
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400 years later, the small group that left for an island now calls itself fish people.
They have developed lungs that can breathe underwater and a few extra organs to help them swim.
Water people on the beach have also changed; they now have darker skin, and the intense sun and high humidity no longer harm them.
They can also hold their breath underwater for a long time, though they still can't breathe underwater.
There is a reason that no sane civilization will put divine species on the same land as other species.
Divine species have a very high ability to evolve; Alive doesn't even sell cultured versions; they only sell uncultured divine species.
They adopt so quickly that they can defeat wood elves in the forest, humans in cities, beast people in the wild, and plant people in green spaces.
Other species have almost no chance of competing; the best outcome would be integration through marriage if the world's laws allow it.
Just like this, only after a short time, a small group of ordinary divine species develop to the point that they could swim like a fish and explore underwater mines; only sea elves could, in theory, barely compete with them on the sea, though this place has no sea elves.
Fortunately, both fish people and water people had peaceful add-ons, so no war occurred.
On the side of water people, they progressed to the point of being able to generate power.
The cities are now almost as modern as modern humans; at this speed, they soon surpass modern humans in technology.
They can already produce artificial organs, though not yet complete bodies. Still, they can now fix many damaged bodies.
Water people also began producing organs for fish people too.
Not for free, though.
Fish people are still far below in technology from water people, but they are far ahead when it comes to underwater mining.
And like that, a healthy trade relationship began.
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After another 100 years, the water people finally created complete bodies.
They tested it, basically having intimate relations with the created bodies, only to discover the body exchange won't work.
All their effort was for naught.
Lewis's clone saw this and decided to give them a helping hand.
The code stipulated the need for a soul in both bodies for a body exchange to take place; the water people were brilliant, and they would eventually discover this need.
Lewis would prefer them to avoid advancing in that direction.
Because it's obvious what happens next: the water people refuse to believe it won't work and may start to try to use embryos as bodies.
A soul would only appear if a baby is born from at least two genders, usually men and women.
Some demons can give birth alone, but those are technicalities. Technically, the demon who gives birth alone is not one gender; it's both man and woman.
The water people had the technology to create bodies using fertilized eggs hundreds of years ago. Still, many among them thought it to be immoral and evil, and the hope of developing bodies artificially provided another avenue, so they didn't do it.
Now that they know the artificial way won't work, they may start thinking about using embryos.
Lewis is not evil; he doesn't want them to do this.
Embryos that are born and grown are ordinary people; using their bodies is something only demons and cold, ruthless people, that is admittedly most of the high-ranking civilizations, think is as an opinion.
Lewis is not a very kind person, but he is not as cold and ruthless as most rank 11s.
Most rank 11s won't hesitate to use cruel ways to extract a bit of profits.
High-ranking demons and high-ranking angels are not really any different; both only think of profits with cold logic, with no emotions and morality.
If there appears to be someone who cares about emotions and morality of right and wrong, they would most likely lag behind because limitations of doing good will cause their advance speed to slow.
Anyways, Lewis changed the codes to allow the transfer of bodies even if only one of the two bodies has a soul.
He has no sympathy toward artificial bodies. They are only meat, with no consciousness, thinking, or awareness, like a piece of meat. There is nothing to have sympathy toward; saying having compassion toward an artificial body is like having empathy toward a piece of stone.
The water people continued experimenting and were surprised that the body transfer suddenly began to work for no reason.
Many of their scientists started thinking about what caused it but found nothing.
Still, this made everyone very happy. Now, they no longer need to be so careful about their bodies.
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The invention of artificial bodies was a key breakthrough.
Water people began mass-producing bodies and gave everyone one free body.
Then, they started producing specialized bodies, like 'beauty,' 'labor,' and 'precise' bodies.
Water people were not robots; they had emotions and desires. Beauty bodies, which were male and female bodies with very desirable appearances, were popular.
Even people of the divine species like looking beautiful and handsome.
Water people's system of government was the elder and shaman system.
Elders were mostly the original 1,000, and shamans, which nowadays are far less admired, are water people who 'advise others' on 'spiritual ways.'
Many suggest getting rid of shamans because they are 'parasites' that only 'mislead' people for their own benefit.
For now, the shamans are still powerful, even though nobody listens to their 'advice on the spirit.'
The government on water people, in general, is small; the body-making business is privately run.
With few exceptions, the country will fail when the government controls the companies.
It may be that the government has infinite money and doesn't care about profits and efficiency.
Water people didn't decide to nationalize everything, and their government protected private property.
Still, the government was responsible for coining the money, which was water coins.
Before, the coins were real metal coins, but now, nobody uses them, and everyone just uses 'credit wallets.'
Credit wallets are devices that hold data.
Water people are generally more affluent than fish people because fish people usually sell raw materials, and water people are the ones who make useful devices with those raw materials.
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In the year 2000, the water people finally got rid of the shamans.
The system of governance underwent a revolutionary change.
Every year, the three hundred million water people vote on whether to keep the government.
The voting was easy because it was done through their credit wallet.
The credit wallet is now far more than just a wallet; it can be a video recorder or be used to connect to the Connectnet, etc.
Connectnet is a network that covers all water people's and fish people's cities, connecting all credit wallets.
Fish people also use water coins.
If water people vote to keep the government, then it remains. If they vote the government out, a new government must be formed, and it only regains legitimacy if it receives a 60% majority from the people.
60% to approve a government and 50% to get rid of it.
If a simple majority can approve a government, it will increase instability.
50.1 percent can approve a government; the next year, another 50.1 percent can get rid of it.
It means only a 0.1 percentage swing is enough to bring down a government.
With a 60% initial threshold, the government has a margin of 10%.
As for how the government forms, etc, they have detailed laws for all of that.
Recently, there have been many talks about the water people and fish people becoming one again.
Both were once the same, and they will go further if they unite.
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In the year 2050, water people and fish people officially united.
Because of the existence of Connectnet, elections were accessible; now, in voting, both water people and fish people vote for one unified leader.
With fewer internal worries, they began to look beyond the beach and into the continent.