Well... Seeing how their classroom teacher is speaking to demons (shadow, avoiding tower, contract, killing are evidence enough to point as suspicion), I'd imagine he allows it because his goal is to corrupt him. Meanwhile, the person in question refuses to tell someone who might be able to help.

But like all good stories and real life, when bullies get punished (if they do), they come back with a vengeance.

This is the specialty jobs thing, crossed with refusal to pass on knowledge.

India trade routes were used with ship sailing. Competitors would gain from knowing the knowledge and thus it became restricted. Then because people who are typically on land have access to vitamin c don't suffer, even if the discovery is spread, it holds little value so the people in power don't bother disseminating the information (which is another version of refusing to pass on information); which leads to forgotten knowledge.

Not sure if this is exactly what happened, but this is the most logical reason why they never retained the information. It'd be the equivalent on a nation needing to distribute the knowledge that you need oxygen to live. If there was no need to explore underwater, outer-space, or medical employment, it wouldn't be reasonable to move a nation to change its schooling to include it as a curriculum. Especially in an age where science isn't majorly developed and autopsies (where biology really started picking up) were considered sacrilegious.

lets not forget the quick lesson of what strength was in the dungeon

Supposedly a database of worldly knowledge. But what doesn't make sense is if that's the case, shouldn't she know the location of every other-worldly item, and also demon cores? At least where they were at birth and prior locations. Or know who each of the heroes are with familial ties. Such on and so forth.

what you don't realize is that Hitler is depicted as the gay lover of Satan in South Park since almost it's beginning.

The spot you clearly missed: (Chapter 15, Pg 29, Panel 3, Bubble 1)

economic prosperity is indicated by a series of things. Like what was said, the prices went down BECAUSE security was established causing merchants to have less NET LOSS from stolen and destroyed goods from criminal activities.
Prosperity is determined by net gain/loss. If the goods went down due to loss of demand/overproduction, that would lead to Net Loss per POS (point of sale) which has contingencies to it as well. If the overproduction occurred due to revolutionary means of harvesting (it didn't), then the cost of labor goes down thus accruing a MASSIVE NET GAIN since sales will reach sales > cost of production.

If the apples are successfully delivered to POS and the cost of production hasn't changed but transporting them successfully has; the influx of apples in correlation to price drop suggests the merchant (the bearer of transportation costs) has determined that his NET GAIN > X%. If he can decrease the value of apples to sell out a more abundant product, then the POS of lesser cost may exceed the total gained from POS with higher cost since citizens who live frugally can't justify the purchase. Over time of selling more with a slight decrease in price, the market will create it's own price point, of what people are willing to buy vs the quantity vs market price.
Eg: If 1 apple sells for $50, 2 might get sold, if 1 apple is $20, 10 might get sold since it's more affordable.

Then to compete with others who may drop their prices to get more sales


All in all, the money flow is set like this:
• Farmers may employ others and produce goods.
• Based on the cost of production vs economy vs supply vs demand, the farmer will set a cost of the goods he sells
• The merchant/distributer will pick up the products and transport the goods. If the goods get robbed, broken, spoil, or devalued in any way; they bare this cost which is added to the NET LOSS
• When the transportation reaches the destination for POS, they determine NET LOSS (cost from wholesaler + product loss) and determine Cost of transportation.
• When the Merchant finally gets to sell the product, they have to predict how much is sold.
• after assigning the prediction, he has to account for
- [How much he wants to earn vs Competing prices] vs Time to sell vs Loss then divides that by Projected sales

If there is LOSS in any step, it raises the overall cost of goods.

Therefor, as indicated in the story, a drop in price is a sign of economic prosperity since the drop occurred in tandem with a drop in criminal activity based on security employed.

I don't want to post a long article to explain, but US citizens are living worse than serfs. It's a country who practices slavery without the violence. People are still poor, still malnourished, and instead of abused physically are abused economically. Instead of it being mainly blacks, now it's anyone who isn't in the upper echelon of chain store owners. Unless it's a trade job that requires years of experience or running bets (stock market, gambling, ect), the likelihood of getting a job that pays well enough to not be in poverty is slim. Then the training for those trades are sold at unreasonable prices and paired with courses that have no relevance to the job itself.
Then the trades jobs are only offering entry positions and pay looking for advanced experience people.
Then we send cops to harass low-income people and scrutinize them to squeeze money or jail them to get an excuse to treat them as lesser people, instead of someone who was CAUGHT making a mistake.

Anymore would be too long, but you get the point.

I never said what percent... Governments are usually bad at responsible spending. Like the US thinks that spending money on jobs that aren't productive is beneficial to the economy. Yes, it brings more people into the workforce, but does it bring benefit? There are other positions that would be both meaningful and productive. Sadly, governments are often run by "good idea fairies" who siphon funds away for personal gain AND poor investments. When called out, they twist optics to make the accuser have a negative image.

This is politics.

He's using a revolver now... What drops a machinegun or rifle... Or shotgun

*fighting the fire dragon
"DICK get down"

the moment you realize he is closer to a demon king than the demon king himself

i don't know much, but i do know that the brain fires off electrical impulses through the neurons like you said. After which, the blood then flows to the brain carrying the brain food. My main point was the research that indicates the brain is working at 100% totality was through the fMRI imagery. Which, as it stands, isn't very accurate as a grasp of how much brain is actually used. Then, like you just said, equipment to monitor these impulses isn't advanced enough to monitor accurately (in this case defined as being able to monitor every neuron vs *capturing the overall signals). This is why I currently believe there are greater heights (even if 1%)

* If we think of the way electromagnetic fields are seen, a current in a spherical shape will light up with the indicated unit of density. But what if a group of neurons are firing off, covering up other neurons within it's range of influence. At this assumption, we can conclude whether the hidden neurons fire off or not won't be discovered. Even though it accurately depicts the entire region as operating, it's depth of accuracy is still called into question.

While I won't argue percentages, I don't believe we use our whole brain. The fMRI from what IK only shows increased blood flow through color coded imaging. This doesn't mean that the whole brain is firing but represents that blood is pushed through regions while firing specific points.

What does this mean in lamen terms? Just because you use 1% of an area at high capacity, the rest connected to the flow also receives more blood.

This can most likely be the cause for why fMRI studies are mostly inconclusive as the recreation of specific scenarios cannot be copied.

Another way is to think of the brain as a motherboard (like computers). Some chips can process faster, but can't actually maintain that speed due to overheating. As such, limiters are emplaced on it so that it operates efficiently and safely. This doesn't stop the whole board from receiving power. However, until liquid coolant is put in with it, it won't be able to run faster.

I've always thought of it as an intangible thing like gravity. We just haven't discovered it's application.

There is also the fact that as humans, we haven't evolved enough to use 100% of our brains. What if the development is directly related to the ability to manipulate unseen forces?

i feel like your initial thought was there, then veered off at the end.

It's most likely a scientifically mutated monster to produce steel for the overpopulated citizens. When they died, there was nothing left to keep the demons in check until they resurfaced in the next era.

My god

For them to put so much emphasis on soap, a noble's greatest income, how are they going to think of a real map.

imagine a map that actually gives the exact position towns and cities with accurate distance. This changes not only the production of trade but also changes the security of the nation. There are so many advantages of knowing the terrain, distance of travel, and safe routes. If they treat a shitty map like that as a restricted item for anyone not a noble, an accurate map would be restricted up to the king and his military advisors.

not really. Although advanced technology is known, we often abandon the primitive knowledge since mass production means easier access for everyone. If no one can fill the role of advanced technology, then they lose all progress in that field until someone can learn the theory to fill that role through the book they can't read.

We know composting, but would you know it if compost was really cheap and someone else did it for you? Maybe, but not many people would. What if you died but never told anybody else? Now it's a lost technology since it was outdated and forgotten (even though it doesn't require advanced theory)

First and foremost, you are operating under the assumption that it's impossible to lose the knowledge and that's just not true.

It'd take too long to explain the most likely case so I'll sum it up.
• Experts in fields died and couldn't pass on techniques (only way it didn't get passed on)
• Rich plundered books and refused to pass on knowledge to make it a family specialty (saw with beekeeping book)
• Books aren't systematic for teaching jobs. People won't waste time on things they can't grasp or afford (ie CHEMICAL FERTILIZER, tractors, husbandry-pulled-machines, ect)
• Specialty jobs die out and can't pass down techniques (beekeepers)
- Since some specialty jobs can't be done in certain places, when there is no transition it means 1 less. (Crop specific products, pharmacists, beekeepers, ect)

It's not that it can't happen, they just haven't explained the how step-by-step. Although they did give clues like burnt pages, talking about protectors of books, changes in written language, and 2 civilization crises.

i think it's more fair to say that he is learning new symbols, not words. He has his past life memories. Like he knows of methane and pressure cooking, but not the process. He knows fertilizers are good for crops but does not know how much to mix in or the precautions one has to take while making and using it. He knows about crop rotation but not what should be in the fields if anything during the off cycles.

These are the things he is learning. His past life's knowledge is intact so he can infer what things are by the deconstruction of the symbols. Like when you read the word [F***], you already know the word, why it's censored, and when it'd be used. So, when someone else tries to decode the word in the future, if the language has changed, it'll be a [lost word]. But to someone who knows about it, it wouldn't be hard to decode it.

I only measure in metric. It's how i was taught distance since I use Minutes of Angle. I can accurately judge distance up to about 1.5km by 50m intervals. I'd never want to replace it with imperial. It'd be too hard to be accurate