CH 5 New Skill and Skill Growth
"Well, since we are going to start your training from tomorrow, I suggest you don't sleep tonight and work on acquiring a certain skill that is crucial for all Inhumans if they want to succeed in growing stronger," Shiva said as she slightly waved her hand. A melodious note came from his C.S. Alpha. He had received a new file from Shiva that was named Meditation- Energy Cultivation Basics.
"What is this?" Rudra asked. He was not a stranger to medication techniques due to his past life training as a martial artist, but why did Shiva give this to him now?
"It's something every Inhuman need. You see to use our skills, both innate and acquired, we use up varying amounts of a special form of energy that is present in our bodies. This energy can be further trained to evolve into various kinds such as Mana, Prana, Ki, or Divine Energy, but their starting source is the same."
"Meditation- Energy Cultivation Basics file that I sent you contains all my personal notes and observation on the essence of various techniques of meditation practiced all over the world by Inhumans. You can use it to create your own version of meditation that feels useful to you. Meditation will help you to increase both the generation Speed and the energy capacity of your Inhuman energy."
"Once you finish my one-week crash course, I will help you to transition your energy type into Prana, Mana, or Ki based on your preference," Shiva said as she gestured him to go and practice it now.
"Shiva, didn't you miss one of the types? Why didn't you say anything about Divine energy?"
"Oh, I didn't miss it, it is just not possible to acquire it by training. You see, divine energy is unique to every individual, as it originates from their innate skill. If one has an innate skill of divine rank then it will automatically consume whatever type of energy you have in your body to produce divine energy uniquely suited towards the innate skill. Therefore, it can't be trained to acquire."
"Actually, it's not completely true," Shiva said after some thought "a person can train for it. But the method to acquire divine energy is to first elevate your innate to divine rank first. So, the training is not to try and generate divine energy but to try and evolve your innate."
"Alright, thanks for the help," Rudra said as he went to his room to start working on the meditation technique.
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As Rudra expected, with his experience of the previous life, it took him barely an hour to achieve proficiency in the basic meditation technique. He felt astonished by the compatibility his Inhuman heritage gave him to such techniques.
In his previous life, it took him years of meditation practice to get the barest hint of Special energy to nourish his body. However, here it took him barely an hour or two in his first try to gain the same. While he was marveling at his body, he felt a nudge in his mind that made him want to look at the Status.
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Status
Rudra Jokaen
Species: Human (Artificial Inhuman), ???
Gender: Male
Existence Grade: Grade 1 (Inhuman)
Class: ---
Sub-Class: ---
Auxiliary Hidden Class: Skill Master
Health: 100% (State-Normal)
Energy: 100% (Type-None), 2 (Type-Skill Point)
Physique: Rank F
Spirit: Rank G+
Soul: Rank D-
Innate Skill: Skill Customizer (Rank ---), Laplace Interface (Rank ---) (Special Seal), Key of Akasha (Rank ---) (Special Seal)
Acquired Skill: Virtual Mind Interface (Rank S+), Physical Optimization (Rank A+), Basic Meditation - Rudra Variant (Rank G -)
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"Huh, I gained some of the second type of energy? How so?" Rudra wondered "Oh, didn't Shiva tell me that Divine Skills automatically convert some base energy to Divine Energy!"
After thinking for a while Rudra deduced what had taken place "So that is why it was like this. Since I didn't meditate before this in this body my Energy was fixed at the natural level at 100% and didn't exceed it. Now that I meditated and absorbed some energy, it was converted to Divine one by the Innate skills of mine."
"That reminds me, I didn't see the explanations of my Innate skills and Acquired Skills did I? I should learn about them to avoid future surprises. The system can you display explanations of all my skills?"
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Physical Optimization (Rank A+)
A Body that never degrades. Once the user has achieved a certain level of growth, the body never forgets that growth until the user reaches an even higher state. Once the user reaches the higher state, the body makes that state as the default state, and the cycle continue. This is a passive growth type of skill.
Virtual Mind Interface (Rank S+)
A Mind that never degrades and is passively and constantly storing all information gained by the user's senses. The user gets a mind that can at all times remember and categorize all knowledge, memories, and experiences of the user. The categorization is done like a quantum database; hence the organization and retrieval process is instantaneous. Users can recall everything that is stored in extreme detail. This is a passive growth type of skill.
Skill Customizer (Rank ---)
An innate skill that was born from the potential of the user's soul. Using Special energy called skill points allows Instantaneous growth of user's Acquired and Innate skills. It also provides two Special Innate Skills Laplace Interface and Key of Akasha. They are passively utilized by innate skill 'Skill Customizer'.
Skill points are acquired by converting regular energy to skill points. Due to the effect of skill customizer, the user can regenerate energy beyond the actual limit of the user's body, and the excess energy is automatically converted to skill points. Users can't directly interfere in the acquisition of skill points. Users can however try to absorb external energies and Skill Customizer will directly convert excess energy to Skill Points. Skill Customizer will never absorb energy that is needed for User's growth, only excess unneeded energy will be absorbed.
Laplace Interface (Rank ---) (Special Seal)
Provides a Mindspace for unlimited simulation and omnipotent emulation of knowledge. Further details are sealed until the user reaches certain growth.
Key of Akasha (Rank ---) (Special Seal)
Can be used to peer into the Records of Akasha. Used to obtain knowledge from Omnipresent and Omniscient Akashic Records. Further details are sealed until the user reaches certain growth.
Basic Meditation - Rudra Variant (Rank G -)
Gained the first step into the world of Energy Cultivation. Can absorb energy from the outside world and convert it to the user's own. Efficiency and capacity depend on Rank of the Skill * Average of Ranks of Physique, Spirit, and Soul.
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"Hmm, that is really a lot to process. I guess my current vivid memory can be attributed to the Virtual Mind Interface. Physical Optimization will help out quite a bit in training and will give twice the benefit for half the training effort. I even gained a skill for meditation so soon."
"Skill Customizer seems like an extremely useful skill. Anything I have acquired as a skill can rapidly grow stronger under its influence as long as I have enough skill points. However, it's pretty obvious that the skill points needed for high-level skills would be similarly great." Rudra sighed at the number of skill points he would likely have to accumulate for a transcendent skill.
"Anyway, I should try out this innate skill of mine. Let's see, the lowest skill I have is the Basic Meditation. Let's use that!"
Rudra concentrated on his Innate skill and a panel popped out in front of his eyes just like Status.
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Basic Meditation - Rudra Variant (Rank G -)
Increase skill from Rank G- to Rank G? 2 SP required for the process.
Proceed? (Yes/No)
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He mentally affirmed the choice and felt a cool yet energizing feeling spreading all over him. he checked the status and found that Basic Meditation skill had grown to Rank G now. With a quick test, he was able to determine that the power of the skill had a noticeable increase in its efficiency and energy increasing capacity.
He spent the rest of the night meditating. He had already understood that this was like an infinite loop that benefitted him. More that he meditates, more his energy would increase, which he can then use to improve his meditation skill again. He was eager to accumulate more skill points to quickly grow his other skills too.