Halflings
'Cybill, you don't get angry at men who know nothing.'
Cybill self-restrained herself before trying to reason with Arthur:
"Arthur, you need to understand this. Our extreme sense of existence taints our mana sense and mana signature. Because we employ our mana in our fields, the results we obtain are also tainted by that. The more we have that taint, the more inferior the quality of every ranking item we craft for ourselves.
And it applies to lower-ranked humans as well as those who have progressed much further in their ranking journey. I would even go so far as to say that human rankers become more arrogant of themselves as they progress further in their ranks."
After she said that, Cybill glanced at Arthur to see if he got her meaning. The latter simply maintained a poker face, giving her no clue that he got it. So she verbally marched on before Arthur could ask: