Chapter 28: Knowledge

"Let us begin"

"Firstly, let us discuss powers. I am sure all of you know a thing or two about them. But this time we will go in depth and discuss every branch of power known in the lower ground"

"You should know that an entity here can gain 5 different powers. It is known as the 5 aspects of life.

World Energy - which comes from the core

Mana - which comes from the heart

Mental energy - which comes from the brain

Bloodline - which comes from the blood

Avatar - which comes from the soul"

"Let us first talk about the most common one - World Energy. You concentrate and gather the energy of the world around you, you lead them to a place near your stomach and there, you have a core. Core has several stages, namely, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. This stages are also applicable to the rest of the branches except bloodline."

"The usage of world energy comes with different levels - World Energy: Release, World Energy: Manifest, World Energy: Embody, World Energy: Form, and the legendary World Energy: Manipulate. The last level, manipulate, comes in different stages too. Namely, Will, Intent, As One, and Manipulate. The difficulty of mastering these basic concepts grows from the former to the latter respectively. Furthermore, each one of them has 2 upper levels i.e., World Energy: True Release and World Energy Perfect Release, World Energy: True Manifestation and World Energy: Perfect Manifestation, and so on."

"The usage of World Energy also has many forms outside the basics that I just mentioned. Some examples are Fist Style, Sword Style, Spear Style, well you get the gist."

"Breakthrough in core requires you to literally break the existing shell to create a new one that is larger and stronger than the previous one. This will allow your new core to accommodate the density and strength of the next stage. If you try and compress an Orange stage World Energy without first breaking through from your base core, catastrophe will fall upon you. The core will fail to withstand the energy and it will collapse, causing the energy inside you to go rampant and damage your organs."

"It is also worth noting that although you can theoretically absorb World Energy and breakthrough continuously, it is not wise to do so. Since world energy will be harder to manipulate the higher its stage is, that is why you first need to adapt to your current stage. Master control over your world energy before stepping into the next realm. If you ever ask 'Then why don't I just reach the Violet stage then try to control my energy from there?' It won't work and you will die. You see, the higher the stage the denser it is Since your core is the only part of your body with that amount of concentrated energy, it would leak out. As core users in you know, the world energy inside your core continuously seeps out and travels throughout your body. This gives greater overall stats to you. But if it is so dense that you cannot control it, then it would just fill your entire body. Since you cannot control it, the pressure it causes while travelling is out of your control. This will lead to your death."

"Let us talk about sources now. World Energy is everywhere. There are countless sweet spots out there - sweet spots being a spot where world energy concentrates. Of course it is easier and faster to absorb energy from World Energy manifestations such as crystals - the currency we have, World Fruits, beast cores, etc."

"Now, about the pros and cons. World Energy users are in melee combat. It protects and enhances the body of its users. Furthermore, you can create various things through its applications which we'll get to momentarily. The problem is that It does not really excel in anything. In melee, it is outclassed by bloodline. In range, by mana. In utility, by mental energy. Well it is also outclassed by Avatar but that basically outclasses everything anyway. It is dubbed as average. It does not have outstanding pros nor does it have lethal cons."

"Applications, well. Its applications vary depending on the state you are using. Release allows you to, as the name implies, release the world energy anywhere in your body. Its caveat is that you cannot detach the world's energy from your body. Unique to other states, you can freely control it. Make it soft, hard, sharp, what have you. Manifest allows you to detach the world energy from your body and form it into a solid object, a sword, shield, etc. Embody, this basically combines both release and manifest. You get to form world energy all around you and expand it. You can solidify parts of it to become solid and create an armor or something. An enormous amount of world energy is needed to activate the body. This results in it not being transparent anymore and is instead in the color of your current stage. Form, you can say that it is a more ridiculous version of embody. It allows you to transform your energy into something and fully control it. You can create a tiger for instance and control the entirety of it. The only caveat is that you are supposed to be inside of it. It is a constant supply of your energy that supplements it after all. Lastly, manipulate. You can consider this as the big pay off. It allows you to manipulate the energy of the world. Unnamed energies of course. Pretty overpowered but is almost impossible to reach. Grandmasters who reached that state said that it was easier to achieve the perfect stage of all the other states by a mile than touching and manipulating."