The next day, after their first ‘Technique development class’, they had a second class that alternated with it. Naturally it is also PE and alternates with Technique development. The class subject is called Internal Power Studies class.
Naturally, people who do not have any form of energy still join in so that they understand the characteristics and know how to react to different forms of spiritual and metaphysical forces.
Because of how many kinds of energies exist, this class is done in the auditorium with several classes at a time and several teachers of different ranging energy backgrounds.
There were no restrictions on sitting arrangements however and to the surprise of those close to Robin, he asked Ruth to sit close.
The both of them have gotten more used to being around each other but not for the reason most people would assume.
With time and adapting to their twin telepathy, they’ve found that their minds work faster when they have a strong open connection. The more surprising fact is them being able to share sight and sound between them. The best feature is that, like a lucid dream, when they fully open their connection to max, their minds usually find themselves in a sort of cloudy space and they even share Robin’s High speed calculation skill.
They are able to physically manipulate and store incoming information making it a valuable learning tool.
They were neither stupid or prideful enough to waste this immense tool for learning.
After the last classes walked in, the staff was already waiting on stage as the last teacher sat down.
Among them were Chasm Might and Esper from the heroes themselves. Below them was Grace for life force, a necromancer to explain the unique aspect of the energy of death mana, Mr Hodge, aka Puppeteer, who would explain common mana, and a few other braveman of different energy types.
The most amazing part of internal energy is the study of fusion energies. Mana is a clear demonstrator of this aspect because it is either mental power infused into chi or chi into mental power. It seems strange but the specifics of this is the location in which the energy stores itself.
It is exceptionally rare for someone with Chi to make mana because of the dangers of creating mental energy. It is infinitely safer for a psychic to swallow a chi pill and just channel that energy into the upper dantian that already has mental energy and fuse them. In fact, the process has become ten times easier than what Harold went through because all psychics are helped by staff to obtain the pure psychic flow system. Like how Titan force is purified and condensed with the flow through the acupoints, the blending along the entire body takes a huge pressure off the brain to do the same thing.
After a short wait, Esper walked up and everyone went silent after a moment.
“Thank you for the wait. Today we start our first class on Internal power studies. This class was designed to teach everyone about all the internal energy classifications as well as how to improve the usage and training of all kinds of usage. Please be aware that a lot of the more advanced things in this class are still in research so it is possible that, depending on your power, the effect and usage may even be different from what you learn.” Esper explained.
“So the first thing we are going to talk about is ‘what are the most common base energies and what they can be processed into’. This also includes known fusion and how these energies interact and are usually used but only superficially explained.” He explained.
He takes a step back and the projectors lit up and the images appeared on the already extended screen behind Esper.
“Please be aware that we are also including things we’ve discovered recently through summoned beings.” he said as the list came up
Raw energy
Life force
The energy found in the body, it represents the energy of life itself. It is thin and spread throughout the body and many people that might have life energy deficiency will find that there are some areas or a lot of areas where life force energy is lacking.
Mental energy
The most basic state of psychic energy. It powers very weak psychic abilities and is unable to leave the body. If focused, it can help the brain momentarily work faster.
Chi
The raw state of the most common spiritual energies. Due to the wide range of usage of chi, it has produced many varieties through different processing methods.
Spiritual Energy
A strange form of mental energy different from it. Not a lot is known about this except that people in contact with undead or spiritual entities tend to possess this.
World power
An energy born from the world or items of similar constitution to the world. It is the raw state but it is still very powerful. Considered one of the most powerful raw energies, it is rare but not so rare that it isn’t possible to find a community.
Holy Power
An energy source found in the heavenly realms. It is a stable power formed from the union of the heavenly realms seven virtues
Demon Power
A power in hell that is formed by the Supreme Demon God. The Demon god will calm the elements and fuse the sins into a demon power that demons will be able to use.
“As you can see, there are a few energies not found on earth but it is still important to learn about it since there are still people who are born with both types of powers due to a contract with these special beings. Again, the information in this is very superficial and we only have basic knowledge on the subject. In depth talk of this has to be left to the creatures who use them on a large scale.” Esper explained. “Now we naturally avoid using natural forces like elemental energy and solar energy because this is ‘internal energy’ in other words, energy natural to human beings or that would be generated inside the body if the ability allowed it. Natural energies are external so they are avoided initially.” Esper explained to clear up the problem.
From there he began to explain mental power, that was his specialty.
After that we had Chasm might who explained chi and Grace who explained life force. Spiritual energy was done by the necromancer who explained the energy being the mental energy of spiritual entities.
Finally Chasm Might explained what he knew on World Power because there was no teacher on the subject itself. Anyone with it didn’t want to teach so he just gathered government research. He explained it as the power running through the earth and an energy with the capacity to transform into all forms of natural energies, both nature based and living being type. It is basically the life energy that keeps a world alive.
As for Holy and Demon Power, it was explained by Grace’s contract demon.
“Holy power and Demon power are two powers that are very similar. As explained by the diagram, it is the power formed by either the seven virtues or the seven sins. On earth, you are unlikely to find demons with actual demon powers, they are instead likely to use the power of a single sin because the ‘hell’ connected to Earth is incomplete, without the mentioned demon god. However those that do form it cause the entire realm to evolve and the demons with them. The dangerous realm becomes an underworld like in mythology and the demon kind in these worlds evolve into Devil kind, a more pure and powerful variant of demons but at the same time, they are actually less evil because they are more duty bound to run the operations of this underworld.” He explained.
Several students raised their hands and he picked one, “Does that mean until now, the souls of earth's people have not moved on to hell or whatever?”
“No, they do move on to this hell. Except they aren’t properly ‘treated’ for what they did during their lifetimes. The underworld exists to reward those who do good and punish those that did bad. Those that do good will just cleanse the natural sins of living by staying in hell for a while before their souls go to the realm of heaven. Those who do evil will pay for all their crimes many fold and when they have paid, they will return to live a new life. If this same soul lives a life in the same way, it will be tortured and reborn as non sentient beings in their next lives from that point.” He explained.
Everyone felt their heartbeat rise when they heard that and looked at one another at the intensity of punishments.
Robin took a look at Lola who was nearby and was lightly biting her lips. She had naturally revealed to him, Shoji and Milo what had happened to Lily so they were aware that she was actually creating a Demon God. If she could make her become a Supreme demon god they didn’t know though. She still wasn’t able to use demon power however because Lily hadn’t hatched to make a safe area around her home yet.
The heroes saw the commotion so Chasm Might nudged Esper to intervene and he cut the questions and had the deity stop.
“Alright, from this point we will be reviewing what we call Lv 1 processed energy. We’ve also taken the liberty to divide it between just pure processing and fusion energy.” He explained.
He pressed a button and the screen changed to a few new graphs.
Pure energy
Raw
Lv 1
Life force
Life Essence
Mental energy
Psychic Energy
Chi
Qi/True Qi
Chakra
World power
Titan Force
Fusion energy
Raw
Lv 1
Life force + Chi
Spiritual Force
Life Force + Mental energy
Aura
Mental Energy + Life force
Aura
Mental energy + Chi
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Mana
Chi + Mental energy
Mana
Chi + Life Force
Ki
Mental energy/Spiritual energy + Death energy
Death Mana
Life Force + Holy Power
Divine Essence
Life Force + Demon Power
Devil Essence
Esper pointed to the Mental energy position with a laser pointed, “Now we will be going over all the primary mental energy combinations. First is the most known, Psychic energy. Every esper and psychic is born and develops this along their life. The basic characteristics that come from this are enhanced mental capacity, expanded mental limit and naturally the capacity to use this force outside the body. For people born with mental energy, those who are capable of producing psychic energy are very likely to witness power blooming as a side effect as their ability evolves to adapt to the new power. Usually this continues growing over a period of time as your body adapts to naturally produce psychic energy. Smaller changes can be noticed as the capacity of psychic energy grows. People born with mental energy are also subject to gaining psychic energy control, meaning they can use extra psychic energy not being used on their innately active psychic power for more normal usage of the energy such as telekinesis and other basic types of usage.” He said
Next he pointed to the fusion and four people stood up.
“Now is the fusion segment.” Esper said.
First puppeteer walked up, “Thank you, I am here to talk about upper storage mana. The creation process is regarded as the safest method out of any of these. The reason being that chi used in the process would be obtained via pills made to contain the energy providing the sufficient force during the creation process. Very similar to psychic energy, it is a strong mental force but it has a weaker mental enhancement capacity. In return, mana has a much higher capacity to, as scientists call it, bend reality. It is a very ‘external’ force instead of most normal internal energies. This is why you see many wizards in myth and their great capacity to alter the weather, conjure large objects and spawn great guardians by controlling nature. These are different applications of upper storage mana.” He explained.
That said, right after him another person walked up and it was a new teacher. “At the same time, there is mana created and stored in the lower storage that chi is usually made.” He said. “It is one of the more dangerous methods to make because it requires special machines, and previously dangerous techniques, to enhance the user's brain to produce controllable mental energy even though they shouldn’t be able to produce sufficient amounts to control. As most people know, those born with one force usually cannot naturally awaken other forces.” He explained. “The differences of mana in the lower storage is surprisingly quite large. Where normal mana affects the outside, lower mana affects close to the body. A good example of this would be martial arts used to control elements of nature. It also allows for enhancing the physical body with mana with as much destructive force as the natural bending magic that normal mana produces.” He said as a video showed the rare few who have done this as they kick the ground and move large areas of earth or literally bend metal into armor.
Finally they showed one person glowing with a white mana aura and punching a cliff face and forming a large depression. Of course this was a braveman so the force was already large but next to it was a similar depression caused by a normal punch and it was one fourth the size.
After that a different person came up, “In a different sense but similarly dangerous process, “Infusing mental energy into life force will produce an energy known as Aura.” he said and the image changed to focusing on mental energy infused into the heart. “Aura made with life force and mental energy tends to be an internal mana with no reality bending capacity but it contains a very large destructive punch and can be focused into weapons or through the body to produce as much or even greater impact compared to lower stored mana. The lower usually flows through the blood and promotes a lot of body development as you adapt to it.” He said showing his own before picture. He could even be called a twig.
Another monk-like person walked out, “In counterpart, Aura created by life force infusing into mental energy had a very spiritual change. Although similarly not reality bending, the aura in this location gives a very unique capacity to sense the auras, the energy of life and the waves of energy, in your surroundings and control it.” he said raising both hands and mystical forces from the surroundings gathered into strands and formed a condensed orb of blue energy. He also shaped it into different forms like blunt weapons.
A person behind him came out and from his hand, armor and even a weapon formed and he smiled, “Different from that magical life force, when Chi is infused into Life force, it produces Spiritual force and causes a great deal of change. Not only is your body radically enhanced with the energetic chi that is usually the source of many great changes but your life force gets energized to the point that you can sculpt physical objects so much stronger than normal items of the same form to enhance your capacity.” He said.
All of these were braveman ranks showing off because many people that never had any of these energies were naturally awakening one or the other, especially in the 10th grade year. Wisdom structurally changed the brain and even those that didn’t have any trait connected to it have begun to feel mental energy while life force in everyone was becoming very active. Those with any link or required some kind of life force ‘repair’ would have it developed until it becomes life essence to repair these damages so it was very likely that many people would form fusion energies to greatly enhance themselves or their powers.
Finally, those that were chi centered walked up. “Finally when you infuse life force into chi, it produces Ki. I know the naming sounds very similar and many people would say it is the same thing but it is not.” He said and produced an orb of pure energy in his hand very similar to Lola but it was glowing bright. “Ki is a very powerful life energy condensed in the lower storage and with a very volatile nature outside of the body. People with this energy will find that they can control and fire this energy in explosive bursts and changing the state or area in the body they flow can produce different things. One of them is a static energy beam by passing this energy through the nerves and gathering at the head where you focus it out into your hand before shooting it.” He said. “It is also one of the energies most likely to unlock unique transformations natural to the body. These are still up for debate but this energy has been shown to react especially strongly with animal transformation and cause blooming in the most unexpected manners.” He said.
However there was no video of this because it is still preliminary.
That said, some people chuckled and actually pointed at the many kong clan members but they whispered and spoke quietly.
However, when this finally finished Robin raised his hand and held it as Esper came up.
“These are the fusion as we’ve seen… Yes.” he said, seeing Robin’s hand.
He raised his voice so it went all over and asked his question.
“What about fusing Psychic energy and Life essence?” Esper replied to confirm and tell the others and Robin nodded.
“Because of the intense purity and concentration of processed energies and the rarity of someone having both so processed, there is no record of the reaction. I would suggest not to try it.” he said, knowing that Robin had both.
After that Chams Might and another person walked up.
“Alright, Now we will explain the difference between qi and chakra. First off, I will go off and say that my own ‘True qi’ has this name because it is the strongest system of producing qi from raw chi. As well as one of the hardest for those without much talent or capacity to produce it. Qi is a metaphysical energy that can cause minor external changes but is primarily an internal force that is used to enhance the body. Those with it will find that when using it they can fly with the energy alone. This is similar to the Ki.” Chasm Might said and showed himself flying and even sitting down mid air like how psychics would show off.
Next to him was a respectful man. “Different from Qi, Chakra is seen as an internal force with a strong connection to nature energies. The method to produce it is to break the yin and yang, or the positive and negative forces of your internal force before making them flow in unison and form a balance while channeling your chi and making chakra. This energy is commonly used to gather and amplify the power of nature energy to produce large scale power. The spectrum of people who can use it can go from elemental powers to even summoners.” He said but didn’t directly show off.
Death mana had the necromancer explain that very similar to mana it used either mental energy or spiritual energy stored in the mind while people with affinity and resistance gathered death energy from the nether realm in their lower storage. After their bodies adapted they would fuse the two forces into death mana and this force would produce the power to greatly enhance undead summoned or created by them. Among them is enhancing the bones summoned from the nether realm as weapons. The difference between one enhanced with just death energy and one with death mana is leagues different, the same for the undead.
As for the last part, once again it was the deity who explained since demons that earth connected to did not have demon essence.
One student asked what would happen to humans if they gathered holy power in their lower storage, like angels, and fused it with their life force.
“I would suggest not to. It has been done before in different worlds. Just know that the reaction is not what you think, take this warning seriously as well because it could cause much more disaster than you can dream for. Only select people can and should do that because they have biological safeguards to guarantee their safety.” He said, serious.
Everyone was serious after that but it soon calmed down and they began to ask questions.
Among them, Robin asked, “Are there even higher states of energy being processed?” He asked.
“Yes.” The two heroes said
“We’ve confirmed it with Grace’s deity but throughout earth, no one has been able to successfully achieve this feat to date so although we know it is possible, it has not yet been achieved.” Chasm Might said.
Everyone became excited because in the future they might be able to achieve it.
After a while someone asked, “Why does world power not have any fusions?”
“Because the only person with such a high quantity of world power we know of that has a secondary force, we are unable to confirm if his power has fully merged. Also it is too dangerous to confirm.” Esper said.
“Who would that be?” the student asked.
“The Evil Death God, Tartarus.” Chasm Might said.
Everyone instantly felt a chill run through their spine. This was a threat known and taught about worldwide. A man that gathers the worlds power formed in his own body but his body is also connected to the realm of the dead and he uses both powers in unison to produce immensely dangerous and toxic energy.
He was beaten by Blue Phoenix nearly a decade ago but not without serious injuries as he had explained when he fought Time Tempest, scars infested with death energy that even his sacred flames couldn’t completely purify. It went to show the danger of this person.
Although he beat him, he also got away and hasn’t been seen since but the danger is always there.
After a few more questions the teachers ended it and they began to focus on just the pure energies and mana, since it is rare for there to be many other forces but that wouldn’t stop children from making them after learning of them.
Starting from Chi and Qi, they began to teach how to train but even more importantly was control and how to pull out the most force from controlling and channeling it.
Those with it tried it slowly as they listened and he showed a diagram.
After that Grace talked about how to draw out a lot of force from Life essence.
“Because life force users tend to have to fight hand to hand, we have to learn to properly focus our energy. That said, coating your fist like qi is not the actual proper method to use it.” She said and pulled back her sleeve and clenched her fist. “This is just coating, it has next to no visual representation.” She said and punched, raising a breeze through the entire place. “Now the proper way to flow your power is not to flood it like a barrier on your skin or muscles. Life essence and life force are both energies natural to your body, overloading it gives prime space for energy burn when you attack with more energy in your body that surpasses your limit. Instead, Life essence should be in constant flow. That said, not like a raging river but a spinning vortex. Don’t just force energy through your blood vessels. When you properly do this...” She said and focused slowly, thin waves of energy gathered around her arm like how Robin had showed off to that family at the institute but after a moment, it began to spin around her arm and gathered just lightly off her skin and didn’t leak out.
When it calmed down she punched and a gale twice as strong as before filled the entire stadium making many people cry out.
“See, remember that it is vital to obtain the life force flow trait or you will not be able to do this because this flow method evolves your heart and arteries to be able to properly contain this energy and connects it to the acupoints that have the capacity to amplify the energy while keeping it stable. As you saw me, I've also recently discovered this so it is still slow but I've already been getting used to it. For those just starting out, you should start training this by channeling the spinning life essence only through the thickest vessels until you can do it subconsciously. After that you move on to secondary vessels and only when you’ve got the most control you move on to capillaries. As you get used to this you can see your skill grow through the system as well so train hard.” She said and ended her explanation.
Robin frowned and looked at his hands and wondered how strong his life essence could get and Ruth was actually thinking the same as him before Esper came up.
“For Psychic energy, we’ve also been adapting to the new nervous system flow that was recently developed last year. However we’ve found that very similar to life essence, a spinning flow through your body will provide a strong stable energy. To use just psychic energy, it is best to flow it through your body to the extremity that you plan to use as the ‘support’ of the specific ability you are training or even your own natural power. This can even include the eyes and ears as much as the arms and legs. For those learning levitation, it would require the entire body but just like life essence, the training is actually very similar. It is learning to consciously flow your psychic energy until you’ve got it at the unconscious level and have it flowing naturally through your body during all times. Start with the largest nerves and once you’ve mastered that you move out until you reach the smallest.” He explained. “The power difference is quite big, sadly I cannot show it at this time because of my own strength.” He said.
He was already very powerful but it made sense that if this actually made him stronger, it would mean he would take another step in strength once he mastered this.
Many people were already thinking and Robin could sense Shoji already flowing his psychic energy through his body to figure out the spinning trick.
Milo was bored however because they focused only on mana.
Mana didn’t have that complicated of a method inside the body, what was important was learning to enhance the brain and eyes to be able to start seeing magical mysterious things to learn from. The world has many hidden markings that magicians can learn from to obtain inspiration for magic.
Still the necromancer didn’t talk because there was next to no one with actual Death mana yet as everyone was still adapting. Even the top disciples were adapting to the new trait.
The only thing Robin didn’t learn was about his Titan force but he assumed that if the other energies worked more efficiently like that, Titan force would as well but he wasn’t planning on trying. Even with all the energy he consumes daily from the stone, he is still likely to get energy burn if he over uses it and he doesn’t want to rely on it so instead he decided to train his two other energies instead and learn to use them efficiently.
“Alright, class is just about done, tomorrow we will continue to work on technique but remember to train your energies if you have them because they make a big part of your future strength.” Chasm Might said and finally dismissed the students for actual PE before they had afternoon classes.