Cycle of matter
Book II branch c for ChoMiA
Title: Monumentum Perennius
001. Summary of earlier development
POV of reader of Book I Epicycles
History of CHoMiA, Cultivation Humanhood of Mountains intersecting Abyss, starts at the end of Book I from Cycle of Matter, titled Epicycles. That book is disturbing and kind of horror story. Characters of CHoMiA aren’t involved directly in any horrific acts. They are gathered together due to complicated reasons and presented with chance to start journey of cultivation. This book should be book about their cultivation. If You are interested in cultivation stories only it’s advised to You to skip that first book.
Some magic abilities system was developed. It’s not fully known, what are full abilities and how it’s working as knowledge comes from tainted source. At the moment cultivators know some things about cultivation of magic abilities.
Magic major abilities
middle
lightning
sensory radar/ magic sight
ranged
ranged
plasma ball
friction control
close
close
sonic boom
wind sphere
middle
Only known minor magic ability is freezing. It’s close distance ability.
From abilities on the table one can learn one from row. There are levels of magic completion. If one doesn’t train magic it disappears with time. If one trains magic to completion, for example minor completion, it won’t lower itself below achieved level of minor completion.
Also some knowledge about psychic abilities is present, but not the way to learn them.
Main weight of book first was put on entities known as Devas to cultivators in the making. Devas seem to have knowledge of magic and are willing to share it. Some of them are willing to share it, as it seems, that those are afraid of some kind of doom scenario. There are also suggestions between the lines, that price they, Devas, paid and are paying for that knowledge is huge and probably harmful to humanity. One of the reasons, that CHoMiA was funded is to stop Devas, if they would ever go mad. Devas are using aliases and three of them are cooperating with CHoMiA, those are Nameless, Coal, Mouse. They have status of Temporary Elders in Humanhood. They have some inhuman qualities.
Current list of CHoMiA members is:
CHoMiA
Name
Alias
Magic ability
Magic ability
Magic ability
.
Minor magic ability
Founders
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1
George
Flash
lightning
friction
x
x
2
Betty
Dancer
x
friction
wind sph
x
3
Mike
Elemental
x
plasma
x
freezing
4
Eva
Anihilation
lightning
plasma
x
x
5
Voytek
Vov
lightning
x
wind sph
x
6
Tom
Darth
lightning
x
x
freezing
Members
7
Arek
lightning
8
Ignacy
lightning
9
Peter
plasma
10
Dorothy
lightning
Latest
11
Yola
magic sight
George, alias Flash and Tom, alias Darth, got to minor completion in lightning. It was possible, because cultivation chamber for lightning cultivation was built.
Description of abilities:
.- lightning: shots some energy, that looks like lightning; it’s similar to natural lightning and electric current but also different as you can’t fill battery with it;
.- sensory radar: Devas have sensory radar instead of magic sight, they can feel other Devas and people with magic abilities around them in quite big range
.- magic sight: one person have it to this day, Yola; she can see magic as colors and some psychic abilities as sinister darkness; she saw real Deva, bio-stone, and those that call themselves Devas are linked to that kind of entities
.- plasma ball: flame can be controlled as plasma and directed; it sticks to hit area and burns similar to acid
.- friction control: can be used in close proximity to body of user or on subtle medium as smoke
.- sonic boom: some technique of amplifying blow; to this day only Devas have enough strength and body integrity to use it
.- wind sphere: some control over moving air around person lets it become weak domain around; with bit of luck it can change trajectory of objects a little, even plasma ball, which can make a difference; overall weak
.- freezing: it lets user to suck warmness from around inside; usually used by touch with hand
All magic users have some kind of aura and when very close, they can feel each other. It also blocks strange aura of Devas to some extent. Devas aura seems to be somehow different as it make normal people anxious very fast and puts pressure on others.
Temporary Elders put some money in CHoMiA. They bougth some abandoned village in east part of Poland, which became base of CHoMiA. For now cultivators have no way to make money other than teach cultivation. It’s just the beginning of development and there is lot of ordinary troubles.
World in which characters are living is similar or maybe the same as we have today. They live in Poland. History of world is also almost the same.
Devas have their own organizations. Those stories they have will be described in Book II branch d Liability of Humanity, which is straight continuation of main line of Cycle of matter. Those stories are disturbing and sometimes very horrific. Book II branch d and book II branch c would be parallel to some extent. It’s under Cycle of matter title on Royal Road.