Chapter 466: Linguistics

Chapter 466: Linguistics



"General Song is-."

Morgan began to speak, planning on listing out everything he knew about General Song's abilities and skills; however, the Basilisk King quickly shook his head.

The Professor was taken aback, first because he was surprised that this wasn't the information Sylas wanted, and second because this beast had picked up on the fact that it wasn't what its master needed so quickly as well.

This was the smartest creature he had ever come across, and for a moment, the scholarly side of Morgan almost geeked out. What he did best was study peculiar minds, and a mind like the Basilisk King had him on edge.

However, he quickly realized the situation they were in and that there wasn't much time. If he was correct, Kael would certainly report this, and though it was easy enough to bullshit a rookie without much experience, he knew enough about General Song to know the stoic man didn't have the mind of the meathead one might expect from him.

'If not that, then...' Morgan's pupils sharpened. '... Could he see through that already? But how could he possibly take advantage of that?'n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Sylas was correct; Morgan's role here wasn't simple.

The truth was that his role as a studier of neurodivergence in humans was almost a side project, though it would still be inaccurate to describe it as such.

He was a psychologist, psychiatrist, and, oddly enough, a linguistics expert. His real specialty was in studying the changes of the human mind over the course of history, with a focus specifically on the extremes of the spectrum.

In fact, one of the reasons he became a linguistics expert to begin with was because he wanted to see if it was because everyone spoke the same language now-as opposed to in the past where there were hundreds of them-that knowledge was simply passed from country to country more smoothly and thus allowed for more geniuses to emerge.

It could be said that he was absolutely obsessed with this study. So much so that he seemed to neglect the fact that he could only take it so far because he was one of the neurodivergents he claimed to only study.

This was all to say that when the Celestial Republic ran into a group of aliens that seemed to have set up shop near one of their World Wonders, the top of the list to study this matter was

Morgan.

Not only was he a linguistics expert and could decipher their writings and language, but he was also the best suited to comprehending their culture, their thought processes, and how those two things would inform their decisions.

The reason he was called to the battlefield today, then, was obvious. General Song thought that there might be a chance that this Planar Convergence Gate situation was related to these aliens that they had detected the existence of. If it came down to it, Morgan being here might be the difference between them being wiped out or not.

But that was precisely why it was hard to fathom how knowing this would help Sylas. Even Morgan and the others hadn't quite figured everything out yet, and they had yet to make contact with these aliens. It was just that a member of the Celestial Republic, even higher up than Morgan and General Song, had already confirmed that they must exist.

Even with his intelligence, Morgan really couldn't figure out how any of this would be of help to Sylas.

However, that only made his eyes light up with more fervor.

He really wanted to see what kind of brain Sylas had.