Weapon Cultivation History (1)

Breon had waited for almost half a day when his children arrived. Looking at them he gave an approval nod noticing the advancements on both of them.

"Good. You have entered the Bone endurance stage and Nilsa is near the point of completing"

"So, can you take us hunting now right?"

"Yes, but first there is something we need to talk about"

"What is dad? You have been saying that we need to talk but you haven´t talk with us yet"

"Yeah…. Things have gotten complicated in the last week. Anyway, there are three things we need to talk about.

First, tell me on which stage of Bone endurance you are and what you know about our Weapon Cultivation technique"

"Well, I´m on the late stage of Bone endurance as I just have tempered my 234th bone of the 247" said Nilsa.

"And I´m on the beginning stage as I have just started and only my left hand has been tempered" added Einar.

"Mmmm ok…"

"As for our cultivation technique, it was passed to us by the founder of the village. It is a cultivation technique that allows us to specialize on a weapon after breaking through the first level because we gain abilities corresponding to the weapon and some of the weapons awaken a type of soul and it requires the user´s energy to exist. That's way on the first level one needs to temper the body.

The first level is the body tempering and it has 5 stages: strength tempering, muscle tempering, viscera tempering, bone endurance and blood transformation.

The next level is called Second Weaponry and has 3 sub-levels: False Weaponry, Initiate Weaponry and True Weaponry. These 3 sub-levels are divided into 5 stages which are low, medium, high, peak and supreme. And the maximum stage of the cultivation technique is the True Weaponry that adds 1000 years of lifespan to the cultivator" explained Nilsa.

"So that's why the elders are over 1000 years old" said Einar.

"Mmmm…That´s right but there are some things you are unaware of" added Breon.

"You now that thousands of years ago we were conquered by the humans, right? And that they forced us to share our cultivation"

"Yes"

"However, there is a dark past in our race history. It is true that the cultivation technique was imparted by the founder of the village and thanks to it we were able to perform arduous tasks. Also, that the humans obligated us to share the technique. But this didn´t happened thousands of years ago, instead it has been almost 500.000 years"

"What?!?!"

"You heard right. It isn´t a matter of just thousands of years"

"Why?!?! What is going on dad?!?!"

"Ahhh… This is a dark past of our race and a secret. Only the Patriarchs are able to know about it. However, the previous Patriarch told his son, Rensor, and me because we have been like brothers and also in an attempt to help Rensor in the future as this is a heavy burden. Now I´m telling you after having receive his approval. He is going to tell Gerd and Elin too. Why? Times are changing and we can feel that is not in a good direction.

As you have said, our cultivation technique allows us to gain abilities according to our weapon and some of them can awake a soul. Also, we gained an additional strength. Thanks to it, in the past we lived in prosperity in this valley, our numbers were over the one hundred thousand and our cultivation reached a high stage called Arch-Weaponry. There was nothing to fear and we were confident that if the strange creatures, that once almost slaughtered us, appear again, we will be able to repel them with no problem. However, there was a Patriarch that was no happy with our situation, he believed that we needed to expand our domain. He convinced most of the elders and race members to set out of the valley.

Convinced by his words, they prepared an expedition team to gather intelligence. In the firsts years there was no news about them, and we started to worry. However, in the summer of the sixth year a member of the expedition team returned. He told us everything they observed and learned.

It seemed that beyond the marsh the land was enormous and despite travelling for almost 5 years they didn´t explore all of it. That we live on a piece of land called "Wrofen Continent" and beyond a big body of water, that you can´t see the other side, are other continents and the place where this valley is located is called "Region of Rennes".

This Wofren continent is the home of various races such as humans, demi-humans, elves, dwarfs, devils, goblins, trolls, "Moncens" a type of intelligent beasts, and more. They lived on groups called kingdoms and empires. I don´t know the difference between them. However there seemed to be conflicts among them and that they didn´t live in harmony like us. Also, that despite been high populated, their power is weak, and they war among them with simple weapons and use a type of energy called mana that allows them to cast spell and do other things.

They travelled around the continent gathering intel and also captured some of the other races to investigate them.

The Patriarch and the elders discussed for a week before announcing that they will set out to conquer the other races and expand our dominion. Despite the pleas of a group, that were against it, the decision was made and almost most of the race approved it.

It took around a year to be fully prepare for the major quest of our history. Everyone crossed the marsh: men, women, the elders, the younger generation and the only ones allowed to remain were the small kids and those who couldn´t fight and they were placed in charge to groom the kids so they can join later. Of the over one hundred thousand members, only around three thousand stayed in the valley" Breon told them.

"What?!?! We had more that one hundred thousand members and the limit of this cultivation isn´t the True Weaponry stage?!?!?"

"….."

"Yes, that was a golden period of time of our race but it wasn´t the apex"

"What do you mean?"

"It´s true we were powerful and our numbers high and that wasn´t all. Despite been a small race in comparison to the other ones, our strength was a mighty one and the Wofren continent was going to be the first one to experience it first-hand"

"How" asked Einar.

This was really shocking, he couldn´t believe they had such past. He was behaving like a child that have just discovered an amusing toy.

Just as Breon was about to continue, a voice said "Allow me to explain it"

It was the Patriarch who had arrived with Gerd and Elin.

"Oky" Breon nodded.