Unfair world (1/2)

Shortly after the battle started, it was already over.

The bodies of the rabbits were collected and Emily took care of getting rid of the smell, using a barrier spell.

Without it, they would attract powerful beasts.

I was currently watching Rodolphe's fight.

His one-on-one fight seemed to be going well, and he seemed perfectly calm despite the fact that it was his first fight

I smiled

'Concentration really does make a huge difference.'

He was not only fully engaged in the battle, being able to use his fighting skills without limit, but he also did not seem to feel the fatigue that was building up in his body in a painful way. Nor did he have a suicidal attitude, thinking of crap like 'i don't want to kill, it's sad'

That had no place in the fight. He hadn't agreed to fight for it in the first place.

Yet these feelings happened more frequently than one would think.

That's probably why the ability to stay focused seemed so strong.

Not only could a mistake that could have been fatal even for the elite be avoided, but it was also a devilishly effective training tool.

While demons and angels were born with a strong heart, humans were first and foremost social beings, and their hearts could be turned upside down by anything and everything.

This was both a strength and a weakness.

Yet as I watched the fight I couldn't help but think that the world was unfair.

If a rabbit, who looked to be at most a year old, was so strong, then what about those mystical creatures, such as dragons, that didn't just exist in legend?

It was terrifying to think of the potential of other species.

***

'He truly is a genius' as he watched Rodolphe's fight, Alain noticed that he was constantly improving. Not only was he learned during the fight, but he dared to use his new techniques directly in the fight, and yet managed to use them flawlessly.

'But he lacks strength'.

If he could be considered a genius in his techniques, he lacked the basis of all life: a sufficiently powerful body.

Growing up in a low-energy atmosphere, he hadn't been able to cultivate his body sufficiently.

Although for his age, even in the capital, he would be above average.

Why could the cultivation gap between 2 people be much greater than that between 2 others? It was because there was something that was called 'the energy center' in every life.

The rabbits they had just killed also had one, but their strength was not great enough, so it did not materialize. Only the leader had one that started to materialize, but it was only a few millimeters in diameter, and honestly, didn't have enough energy to sell it for anything.

Basically, the energy center of both humans and beasts weren't born materialized but were still part of the human body. Yet it would not grow naturally. It was fixed at birth, and the only way to increase it was to get stronger.

The latter could be considered essential, the key of cultivation. Not only could it store the energy of the atmosphere: the impure energy, it could also create pure energy. And with efforts, all living could transform some of the impure energy into pure energy.

While impure energy was used to fight, being nothing but unstable energy, pure energy was used to strengthen oneself by acting directly on one's body. It was a kind of energy, a fuel that we fed to our cells, or that we used to perform a particular movement.

The thing is, each person had a more or less powerful energy center.

This is why the difference between two talented people was less than between two untalented people. The environment mattered much more to the untalented.

...

The ranks of cultivations were as follows:

Foundation

Fortification

Strengthening

Energy creation (The talent becomes much more important at this stage and the following ones)

Energy surge

Union

Divine union

Sublimation

Great Sublimation

Each was separated into 4 stages, Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, Peak.

Rodolphe, at the age of 8, was already at the top of the foundation. In comparison, Alain, aged 35, was only in the advanced fortification.

This was due to a lack of resources, a personal lack of resources.

After all, humans had many methods to increase their strength, it's just that since spiritual energy was limited, not everyone had access to it. However, a young prodigy would be helped directly.

'We have to train him as much as possible for the next 4 years.'

At the age of 12, every citizen could try to enter a paladin training academy. The level required, however, was to be a knight. This allowed us to filter out the worsts talents or people who had neither the talent nor the resources.

Of course, Rodolphe wouldn't reach this level before he was 12 years old, but humanity was sorely lacking in talent. Thus, the academies also judged on skills, conducting examinations for low cultivation.

Here he had his chance.

This chance was created by one fact: techniques were more difficult to master than increasing cultivation was. Thus, most Knights currently had a cultivation of energy creation order, while one could in theory be a Grand Knight in Fortification.

(Reminder: Foundation → Fortification → Strengthening → Energy Creation → ...)

Clearly, an unfair world.

...

Knowledge: The power of a newborn dragon is estimated to be about equal to that of an advanced veteran. Without even cultivating, its power at the age of 3 will be considered equal to that of a Grand Knight. This is why the beasts' talent is sometimes considered the greatest, alongside their power. However, they prefer to fight each other, giving other species precious time.