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Humans can grow them too, but this condition was supposed to be very rare. If it gets more common, uh oh.

A vampire can be a blood elemental hiding in a piece of meat that, like a jellyfish, doesn't have a central nervous system but can learn. And its blood cells can be ordered to form this or that organ or a bat body by giving them the right signals and each memory is stored in a certain number of...

Insanity? It isn't like our mind doesn't have any methods to strengthen our body, it just doesn't want to. Going from this to a mind that agrees, but only as long as you play its games...

Salt? Isn't this just an old superstition based on what salt does to our food? Well, even if Science got a change of heart and is now telling me ghosts must be real, we still don't know much about them... Tbf, scientists who claimed they've investigated and found them to be real have been there...

The only type of magic monster on this planet is ghosts, and humanity fears them as much as most other animals fear humans. They are immune cause a body created solely by one's mind is only subject to said mind's inherent tendencies.

Aren't fighting words illegal?

You think a power that prevents your body from emitting and intercepting photons can be defeated by a machine that notices when your body emits or intercepts photons? Cause infrared light is a type of light, and most modern motion detectors rely solely on light too.

Mind control. Use it on myself to make my mind give me everything else. Changing my nature, limits and fate whenever I want, mhm.

You rank missions by how dangerous they are. None can survive. Only the best can survive. Only veterans can survive. Trained warriors are likely to survive. Untrained men can survive. Not dangerous. Monsters can be ranked for fun, based on which type of human can beat them 1 vs 1. Not for money.

If the person believes what they get (not being punished by the tax collector doesn't count) is greater than what they give, it can still be tax but no longer theft.

Charities and non-profits? Subscription-based service?

Money has value as long as people keep using it. And the only thing stopping people from coming together and creating their own monetary systems is, well, the government. The obvious alternative to taxation would be people voluntarily choosing to pay for what they use or support.

There are many completely different types of vampirism, and the value of its advantages and disadvantages changes depending on the environment.

For normal magic, you can fill the universe with "mana" that works as an extension of one's nervous system. Which allows the inhabitants to naturally learn to sense and control it. For cultivation magic, "Qi" is the energy that flows between one's consciousness and whatever it perceives as its...