The Noctua Codex

(Before we start I have made a mistake, Kane's surname Achlys was supposed to be a nod to the Greek goddess of misery but that's Oizys, even though Achlys can represent misery it's not her main domain, so I have changed his surname.)

16:20

Egor was easily healed, the combined efforts of a dozen people quickly restored him to his peak. The only things to show that he had terrifying injuries is the charred, cracked skin and thick blood that had fell onto the stone floor of the arena.

Healing type auras work by promoting cell growth, this lets you grow back skin, produce blood and even regrow limbs. It also removes the unrepairable parts of the body such as burnt skin.

Egor slowly stood up, with a huge grin was plastered across his face, the normally shy guy was now beaming like the sun.

Acala smiled gently at the titan, "Well done Egor, we all believe that you deserve this win, we've seen your hard working nature since day one and we are really happy for you."

"Well done big guy." Kane seconded.

"I told you he could do Xiao Ying." Feng Yutu's lively voiced exclaimed.

"Miss calm down a little." Xiao Ying said, she looked worriedly at Egor to see if he would take Feng Yutu's statement in the wrong way.

"Mr Vullvat it's not that I doubted you, it was just that you were very injured." Xiao Ying apologised.

"It's fine, I also thought I lost, even when I pulled out that pill from the rubble all I felt was that I was grasping straws." The Titan said sheepishly, "If Sami didn't help I wouldn't even know what I refined."

"Let's go guys, we're gonna have another celebration!" Samael said walking toward their guild hall.

The others followed along, the two young dragons were speeding along, they knew that if they were celebrating Sami would cook food.

17:30

The original seven members of the guild were in the meeting room, Thorus had brought out a thick book. The book had a golden cover and had The Void's Owl insignia on the front, when Alice opened it all the pages were blank.

"What is this?" Alice asked.

"I call it The Noctua Codex." Thorus proudly stated, "It is basically a central hub that connects all our badges together."

"It will also record the guild rankings. Eventually if we are able to increase it's strength enough we can make it semi-sentient."

"Nice, Thorus this will be very useful when organising the guild." Xiao Ying her eyes lighting up with eagerness.

Samael was rubbing his chin, seemingly in thought, the other six looked at him curious about his new idea.

"How about we write all our physiques and bloodlines into the codex, it will help us when we need a certain person for a certain mission."

"We can also use this as a way to make a perfect training course for someone or equipment that fits their needs impeccably."

"Furthermore we can implement a trading system and using the info on their physique/bloodline we can send this trade to someone who will be interested."

"For example me if someone were to find an Aether material they would know that I would be interested and contact me."

The six look at Samael with bright eyes this was brilliant, it would break boundaries between the guild members as there would be less secrets. This would build trust and make everyone rely on each other more.

Awa frowned, "What if people really want to keep that info locked away, I don't think everyone would be comfortable with disclosing that information."

"Hmmm your right, how about we give them an option between just disclosing their main elements and what they would be interested or fully writing down their physique/bloodline." Samael added.

"We can also say if someone wants to check the specifics of their talents they need permission from the physique/bloodline owner."

"Yes, that would be perfect." Xiao Ying said, "We can announce after the celebration."

3 hours later, the party had ended and Alice informed everyone about The Noctua Codex, some people were kind of sceptical however were proved wrong when 5 of the seven put all the information about their physiques and bloodlines in the book.

Awa didn't put her bloodline down and Samael did not talk about how is physique can create stars he will only tell people he trusts about that.

Nyadi, Moriko, Kane, Egor, Rosa, Imum, Long Ke Ai and Eos soon followed suit, all of them writing most of their information down.

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We already know Xiao Ying's, Yutu's, Acala's, Sami's, Egor's and Alice's info so I won't repeat it.

Nyadi - The Immortal Neutral physique and The Shining Platinum Bloodline.

Nyadi's physique gives him a whopping 450% affinity in the Neutral aura and whenever he absorbs Neutral aura it removes his fatigue and heals his injuries. His bloodline gives him a 150% affinity in the Metal element.

Moriko - Black Jade Nekomata bloodline and Flaming Yōkai Physique

(Real world Info: The nekomata are said to have powers of necromancy, and upon raising the dead, will control them with ritualistic dances. These Yōkai are associated with strange fires and other inexplicable occurrences. Yōkai are pretty much Japanese ghosts.)

Her bloodline gives her a 100% affinity in darkness and 150% in the death element, it also gave her the ability to materialize a shamisen and whenever she plays music it will create phantoms that can fight for her.

Her physique gives her a 200% affinity in fire and a 100% affinity in the death element, simple as.

Kane - Eternal Enlightenment Physique and The Tartarus Miseria bloodline

His physique just gives him insanely high comprehension, like that's it and as he grows stronger this comprehension will continue growing.

His bloodline gives him a 300% affinity in the Curse bloodline.

(Kane is probably the weakest combat wise but remember he uses technology. Also the curse element is not weak per say but it is focused on causing pain not ending lives.)

Rosa - Divine Star Seer body and Sun God Bloodline

The divine star seer physique gives the user the ability to glimpse into the most likely future (there are infinite possibilities for the future the seer just sees the most likely one).

When the constellations are out the user gets an increase in affinity. For example if the Leo constellation (which is a fire lion) is in the sky the user gets a 50% increase in fire affinity and a base 100% affinity in elements relating to the constellations.

In this world constellations rotate on a 12 day cycle and appear during night and day.

The main ability of this physique is not the increase in affinity but the ability to see in the future knowledge is the truest strength

Fire = Aries (1st) Leo (5th) Sagittarius (9th)

Earth = Taurus (2nd) Virgo (6th) Capricorn (10th)

Air/Wind = Gemini (3rd) Libra (7th) Aquarius (11th)

Water = Cancer (4th) Scorpio (8th) Pisces (12th)

The Sun God bloodline gives the owner a 250% affinity in fire 150% in light. As the sun doesn't per say lose to water there's is no negative affinity in water but a -300% affinity in darkness

Imum - Chronos Clock Physique and the Soul reaper bloodline.

(Real world info: Chronos is the Greek primordial of time. He is often mixed up with Cronus the leader of the Titans and Zeus' father. Even the Greeks themselves mixed the two up. Chronos even inspired the grim reaper as he used a scythe.)

His physique gives him a 300% affinity in the time element and his bloodline gives a 200% affinity in the death bloodline, he is a lich after all.

Long Ke Ai - Tyrannical Devil Physique and Wang Feng Bloodline. (Wang means King and Feng means Wind.)

Her physique gives her 400% affinity in the devil element and a technique called 25,920 Demon Transformations. Ke Ai can temper her body 25920 increasing her strength to terrifying levels, it is rumoured that at the peak of this technique you can hold stars in your hands.

Her bloodline gives a 300% affinity in the wind element.

Eos - Bifrost Bloodline and the Nidhogg physique

(Real world info: The Bifrost is the rainbow bridge in Norse mythology it allows you to travel between Asgard and Midgard. Nidhogg is a dragon who bit the roots of Yggdrasil in Norse Mythology.)

His bloodline gives him a 300% affinity in the space element, his physique allows him to eat more and turn it into energy, it is kind of similar to Sami's physique but Eos can only consume edible food.

Awa - Divine World Tree Body and ????? Bloodline

The divine world tree body gives the user a 250% affinity in healing, 300% affinity in wood and a 300% affinity in the life element . However a -150% affinity in the elements of fire and death.

The ?????? Bloodline gives the user a very rare ????? aura allowing you to ?????? and ?????? enemies you have 200% affinity in ???? and a 200% affinity in ??????????

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(I Know that was very long but I didn't want to find a different way to introduce their physiques/bloodlines. From now on whenever I introduce a side character that has joined the guild I will assume he/she has written down their information.)

A week later. All nine preliminary stages have been complete the original seven where now on their way to the Arena it was time for the second stage of the combat tournament.

(I will explain what happened in the other 7 stages next chapter, it's gonna be short because there are no interesting characters appearing.)

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Info of the day: Hioti Tribe

The Hioti tribe are a small group of human travellers, they ,mainly live on the sea and live a nomadic lifestyle, travelling from place to place settling down for only a small while.

They are very proficient in the water element and many of them are huge in size ranging from around 1.8m to even 3m. This is huge for a human.

They are very respected by the world as they do not push their ideas onto others unlike *cough*cough* the druids.

Their flagship boat is called The Kraken, it is an absolute war machine and has even caused trouble for some of the greatest powerhouses, it is an amazing piece of ancient tech.

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