INFORMATION COMPLEX ON THE OUTSKIRTS AND CHAOS.

***On planet Gieâ..

***In the Continent 'Eclipse of the Oceans'..

***Inner Outskirts..

***Clingford's martial academy..

***Male Dormitory B-complex..

***Third floor..

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Cultivation is a neatly structured lifestyle/practice and this is made very obvious to all even at its martial levels.

Levels are imposed from the martial academy's services which are grouped into tiers and segments to its housing systems which are arranged based on one's own level and martial experience.

The academy's male and female B-complex dormitories comes as a completely different experience for those who have the qualifications compared to the other side of the coin. Only disciples who have sensed mana or have passed the martial exams that are taken after staying in the academy for three consecutive years are entitled to the experience of being in a B-complex dormitory.

The gap between these select few people and mudane disciples are made very obvious to all.

Infact, mudane disciples have to refer to this class of disciples with an higher title of 'Martial seniors' though even amongst fellow martial seniors, there is an even stronger hierarchy!.

Despite the privileges, martial senior's are given much less boundaries and babying than martial disciples. In plain terms, amongst themselves.. martial seniors are allowed to do almost anything!.

From bullying to sparing to fighting, betting and others. For martial seniors, everything goes as long as permanent damages are not inflicted(On academy's grounds).

Martial seniors are also strict on hierarchy amongst themselves. Infact they are so strict on hierarchy that they even possess a power board. The martial senior's power-board is a constantly updated table that shows the relative battle strenght of each martial senior in relation to the others.

Rankings of the power-board is displayed at the ground floor of each martial B-complex. On this table, the rankings show that there are currently three hundred and six martial seniors in the academy.

Martial Seniors in the top hundred of this list are known as the elite ranks and these class of people stay on the second floor of the B-complex dormitories.

The select few people in the top twenty of power-board are the seat of power in the martial seniors hierarchy and thesse few top rankers resides on the third floor of the martial B-complex dormitories.

On the second and third floor of B-complex martial dormitory's, there is no such thing as sharing a room. Each disciple on the top hundred of the power-board have their own rooms.

The rooms of people staying on the second floor of the male martial B-complex is over two times the sixed of a shared room in the normal male dormitories.

As for the people staying on the third floor, their rooms are essentially independent apartments with everything that one would find in a basic home!.

Due to who they are, martial seniors have always carried themselves with more of a sense of pride than average disciples. In terms of battle powers and experience, ninety percent of martial disciples are not even worth mentioning compared to even the bottom rankers on the power-board.

Though three days ago, something impossible happened!.

A martial senior that has been rightfully ranked 88th on the power-board, an elite!.. got killed in the most brutal way possible in a death duel!.

The few martial seniors that had gone to withness the match have spread stories that painted a scene of terror in the minds of all other martial seniors.

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An orange-eyed kid with a sword. The strenght and speed of an elite martial senior. Punches through the helmet and fists digging bloodily to the skull!. Getting stabbed without as much as flinching.

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These stories all come together to paint Navi as a monster from martial fantasies. Not only do the martial seniors feel chills from Navi's feat but they also feel a bit of their martial prides hollowed out.

An elite ranker on the eighty-eighth(88th) position on the power-board got so brutally defeated by a kid that's barely thirteen years old. A kid that only picked up the sword two months ago.

What does this say about those martial seniors ranked below 88th position?!.

What does this say about the power-board and their positions on it from which they pride themselves in?!. A joke.

A kid has just made a complete joke of the entire squad of martial seniors though the martial seniors direct more of their embarrassment and rage at the already dead Marien Lee than at Navi.

They would only be making a bigger fool of themselves if they come at Navi who's nothing but a kid.

Though if martial seniors are feeling this way, one can only imagine the turbulent emotions in less experienced martial disciples who had withnessed the chilling scenes from the death duel!.

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***On the third floor of the Male B-complex dormitory..

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In the apartment(Dorm-room) of one of the most famous top-ranking martial senior.

In the apartment-room of Tora Gosgutu.

Amongst martial seniors, Gosgutu is a force of command and rightfully so as he is ranked 4th on the power-board with most arguing that he is on par or even beyond the third ranker in terms of martial might.

Considering Gosgutu's surname then being so highly ranked martially is not only expected but inevitable!.

The Tora family is essentially royalty as far as the outskirts is concerned.

A little more information about the outskirts is that the outskirts is not a very habitable environment and this fact entends to even its energies!. Unlike what would come to the mind of most cultivators when they hear about an environment inhabitable in terms of energies, the outskirts is not energy barren.

Infact, the outskirts have a surplus of energies in its ecosystem and atmosphere though this is exactly the problem!.

Due to the dark spartial tear millenniums ago, a dark form of energy known as negative energy(Chaos) rolled in through the atmosphere.

In cultivation, chaos/negative energy is not a distant term though unlike mana, affinity or Qi.. the energy called chaos is not an alternate form of ether. Instead, chaos is the exact opposite of ether!.

Since ether is the energy of creation then chaos is the energy of destruction. Although opposites, chaos is alike with ether in many ways.

Just like ether, chaos can exist in alternate and less deadly forms and these forms of chaos can be wielded by some cultivation pathway. For instance the witches and dark shepherds(necromancers) can wield chaos alternate forms.

Also, like ether.. chaos in it's base form cannot be controlled by people!. It can be used up by nature though not controlled. One of the primary purposes of the great walls around the outskirts is to prevent chaos from leaking into the continent main grounds.

The excess presence of chaos in the outskirt's environment is the main reason why plants cannot be grown on its lands. Chaos is also the reason why the meat of weaker monsters in the forbidden forest is inedible.

Another one of direct effects of chaos in the outskirts is on cultivation. During cultivation, especially without a good technique a practitioner cannot completely filter they type of energies they absorb.

In an environment filled with chaos and lacking access to cultivation techniques, it is automatic that one would not be able to filter the intake of chaos.

In the outskirts, without resources and guidance cultivation is very difficult. Adding this to the disadvantages caused by chaos directly imposes a lower limitation to the possible might attainable by practitioners.

The upper limit of cultivation in the outskirts is the Intermediate Rank three. Compared to the outside world, this limitation is extremely low yet despite this.. only three families have ever been able to produce individuals who have attained this upper rank.

Generation after generation, the Tora family, the Mure family and the Vinquin family have been able to produce family leaders that attain the Intermediate Rank three in cultivation.

Cultivation is power and if the apex of power stays with just three families through repeated generations then it becomes the norm for the majority of power and wealth to stay with these three families.

Tora Gosgutu is one of the most promising heirs of the Tora family and he is well on his way of breaking into the first rank at just twenty two years old. By outskirts standards, this feat can be considered very impressive.

Gosgutu is raked 4th on the academy's power-board and through mulyiple generations of the academy, it is almost the norm for the top fifteen spots of top-rankers on the power-board to be occupied by the most promising heirs of the three top families.

This year is no different.

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"..that idiot lost.", A voice in Gosgutu's apartment-room says with a twinge of casual rage and embarrassment as the owner of the voice throws a dart accurately to the center of a dart board hanging off the wall.

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