Skyward Over God

The boy looked at Tetra as he walked alongside him and asked, "So where are we going?"

Tetra smiled "Somewhere we can get stronger, one of my old dojos to be precise. A least I hope it's still in one piece it's been thirty years since I was tricked out of my strength."

"Tricked out of your strength? Wait a minute you were even stronger than you already are." Fei Lei questioned in awe.

"Yeah, I lost a bet against a certain powerful being, and it caused the loss of my physique's vitality. Right now I'm trying to revive the dead muscles in my body while using my Breath of the Spring. By mixing it with my level 0 spell Puppet Master, I can forcibly move my body."

Fei Lei listened carefully as he walked beside him, "If I can get my hands of some good Magical Herbs, I can constantly dosing my muscles with a highly refined drug, then I should be able to get back to regular strength sooner rather than later. Think of it like I'm cursed and slowly breaking it."

Fei Lei scratched his head and said, "Yeah I didn't get any of that."

Tetra laughed before saying, "Just like you I am a Non-Elementalist Spell Caster, I'm going to teach you some old and very powerful Spells, Fei Lei."

Fei Lei looked up in awe and called out, "Teacher?"

"Yeah?" Tetra replied back.

"You look ten years or so younger since I woke up. How old are you?" Fei Lei asked in surprise.

"Old enough!" Tetra answered laughing.

They arrived at the outskirts of Hystaria one of the 10 Capitals of Magic, they traversed deep through the Monster Breeding Forest until they reached a small shack-like dojo blended in with the natural surroundings. Seeing that his home was still in one piece he led Fei Lei in to begin his training.

Most of what he did was physical exercises, the phrase strong Mana dwells within a strong body was railed into him during the first few years of his training.

After going above and beyond in his training, Fei Lei had finally been given the okay to start learning magic, first, he discovered that he was like his master; he only needed to memorize the spell matrixes in all of its entirety, and think of it.

Next was the rankings for Spell Casters were Adept, Magi, Erudite, Sorcerer, Wizard, Warlock, Arch Wizard, Grand Warlock, and Prime Magus. Every stage of power was split into three forms, Gas, Liquid, and Solid. In order to rank up, one must absorb Magic Cores that are suited towards their Sigil's elements, or use a Special Mantra that only Nobles and prestigious Magician Academies had access to.

Next, he learned to the two types of Spell Casting, there was Sigil use and Spell Matrixes.

Sigils are magical imprints that give Mages their unique and personalized spells, it is beyond rare for someone, anyone to have the same Sigil. The major upside to Sigils is that they have almost no mana drain for activating them, the downside is there is no do-over, you get what you get.

When gaining new Sigils, there was a special catch to it, for instance, Fei Lei's level 0 Spell exist in a gaseous form and if he could rank it up to a liquid, it would be considered a 0.5 Level Spell Sigil, if he managed to somehow turn it into a Solid Level Sigil, it would become a Level 1 Spell Sigil.

Regular Spells are Spell Matrixes created by dozens of predecessor Mages, anyone can make a spell as they are derived from the comprehension they gained towards their Sigil, as long as their knowledge and understanding of mana and spell specifics is good enough, these spells can be used by anyone with matching affinities, this gave Non-Elemental Spells upside and a downside, if one was stuck with a Non-Elemental Spell Sigil like Fei Lei, then they would be labeled as affinity-less too, the upside to Non-Elemental spells is that they can be used by anyone with any elemental affinity.

Fei Lei was giving several Level 0 books to study, there were at least 120 different level 0 spells gathered before him, Fei Lei had no choice but to start going through them and start learning the ones he put a priority on.

He ended up choosing ten different Level 0 Spells, only the Boost Spell that was Non-Elemental had a whole collection of spells ranking from Zero to Nine, this spell was capable of doubling all of his physical parameters in exchange for his body's stamina, the higher levels turned into x3, x4, x5, all the way to the level 9 version which was x10. The spell builds up fatigue so it can't be used for extended periods of time, and it also puts a heavy strain on the body's muscles, organs, and skeleton.

Level 0 Spell Quick Recovery, this spell exchanges vitality to heal minor wounds. After using this spell one must sleep to regain lost vitality, it causes extreme drowsiness for greater wounds, such as fractures and breaks.

Level 0 Spell Innervision, this allows one to exchange their mana to search the inside of their own body, it was usually used to search for internal damage done to the body.

Level 0 Spell Invoke Intent, allowed one to use their mana as a medium to manifest and extend their intents, such as goodwill or killing intent.

Level 0 Spell Clean, this allowed one to remove dirt from an object or person.

Level 0 Spell Gravity x2, this allows one to double the weight of their body and anything they wear.

Level 0 Spell Lion Roar, creates a weak sonic boom by enchanting the caster's lungs.

Level 0 Spell Hypnosis, mixes Mana in the caster's voice to hypnotize those with weak wills.

Level 0 Spell Foresight, give the caster a danger sense of a sort, if there is an immediate danger of any sort, the caster will fill a pinch in their head letting them have a feeling uncertainty.

Level 0 Spell Cloak, with this spell the caster can pull in their presence to hide from wild animals, doesn't work on animals with higher levels of intelligence.

Each of the spell Matrixes was extremely complex and made up of certain universal truths and laws, one had to have an advanced understanding of math and geometry to create a spell matrix, and even more so, on the specifics of the spell, such as how it works and why it works.

Fei Lei was smart and already had a basic understanding of all these things, in fact, the more he studied, the more of memories from his previous incarnation slipped through the cracks and helped him learn.

Noticing that his Teacher had many other books besides just spells, after many hours, Fei Lei had piled up over a hundred different reading materials on one of the many massive wooden tables that reside in the house's library.

The manuscripts he gathered contained information pertaining to, maps of the world, geology, magic items, alchemy, dozens of bestiaries, agriculture, directories of magical herbs and treasures.

Magic Items have the progressing stages of power, Mortal, Earthly, Heavenly, Spirit, Immortal, Kingly, Emperor, Relics, and Artifact level treasures, every item has its own rarity, Flawed, Moderate, Flawless, Peerless, and Grand Creation, these rarities can determine whether an item is worth keeping, for instance, a flawed Earthy treasure is weaker than a Peerless Mortal treasure. A Grand Creation Treasure is special, these ultimate works can evolve alongside their owners, and can even manifest a Item Spirit.

The ranking of the mystic beast has many variants that follow a single cultivation system; the known the book showed recorded variants that according to Tetra no longer existed on this land, Mystical, God Beast, Unique Bloodlines, Aberration, and Demonic Beasts. Only Magical Beasts were known on this continent, Fei Lei was really interested as to where his teacher gained this information, but he never gave him a straight answer, saying things like 'I found it on my warriors pilgrimage, you have your own someday too!' and 'This world is full of destined opportunities, it's up to you to seek out your own.'

Their cultivation system has nine steps just like human cultivation; however, the experiences and evolution greatly differ from humans. They grow through stages that the people classified as a star rating danger system, 1 Star being the weakest, and 9 Star being the strongest.

The first step in their cultivation they are considered to be only slightly different than any other wild beast, this is called the 0 Star Stage, and at this stage, in order to cultivate, they begin forming their monster essence, and Mana into their chrysalis. When a magic beast forms their Mana Core, only then do the beasts truly begin to learn cultivation.

From this point on they are known as 1 Star Beasts, this is a magical beast's most sensitive stage of evolution, as they are attempting to remove the untamed bestial nature from their souls. This causes them to become extremely aggressive and territorial over cultivation sites.

At the 3 Star Level, they begin to develop their mental awareness, giving them the same level of intelligence as a 2-year-old human child driven by all the wild instincts of their bestial nature.

They can still evolve even if they don't develop their awareness; in fact, some of the Magic Beast chooses not to form their monster's wisdom and align with an element. They can instead choose to remain as beast-like minded creatures gaining incredible physical abilities.

If they choose not to forego their mental awareness, they can instead choose to form a Tyrant Core instead, thus evolving them into Tyrant Beast.

These terrifying monstrous beings have an entirely new cultivation system of their own and are completely vicious, mad, and self-destructive in nature, every time someone's managed to kill them their Tyrant Cores explode creating a massive crater of destruction that's always a few Stars higher than their rating.

Fei Lei continued to research the many books pertaining to magical beasts, with great enthusiasm.

If they manage to reach the 7 Star Level, this allows them to wield the power of the elements with ease, and become one with the element giving them an almost immortal elemental body.

The 7 Star stage is when they create their Bestial Insignias on the Mana Cores. This chrysalis insignia contains all of the creature's training, and experiences in them, if such a beast gained many high-level insights towards certain concepts the more complex and intricate their insignia becomes. If a practitioner were to refine such a monster chrysalis then they would gain a deeper affinity, and understanding towards those specific universal truths.

Fei Lei sighed before saying, "There's not much information for the last two stages, and most of the findings are inconclusive as the pages are too worn to read."

Next was the order of evolution and rakings of mystic Herbs.

The different tiers are Poor, Flawed, Perfect, and Heavenly, the rankings of Mystic Herbs are Copper Rank, Bronze Rank, Silver Rank, Gold Rank, Platinum Rank, Diamond Rank, Medicine King / Queen, Medicine Emperor / Empress, and Medicine God / Goddess.

Fei Lei went further into detail "It takes 10 years of constant Mana absorption, for a copper ranking Magic plant to form then to evolve, they undergo repeated heavenly tribulations.

After a hundred years it can evolve to a bronze rank herb, in a thousand it can become a silver ranked mystic herb, ten thousand years it becomes gold ranked, Platinum at fifty thousand years, Diamond at one hundred thousand years, then it undergoes a massive evolution to become Medicine Kings or Queens, at five hundred thousand years, and it undergoes its final evolution at one million years of age to become Medicine Emperors or Empresses.

Next, he began reading into Alchemy.

There are nine levels of Master for the Alchemist profession, Primary Alchemist, Novice Alchemist, Apprentice Alchemist, Intermediate Alchemist, Journeyman Alchemist, Advanced Alchemist, Expert Alchemist, Master Alchemist, and Grandmaster Alchemist.

The Alchemy system consists of seven elements, which included the five classical elements of Wood, Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, the final two are the Metal, and Lightning Elements, which represents the Alchemist's life force and their Cauldrons.

The theory of alchemy coincides with the atomic theory of a physical theory that supposes all matter to be composed of minute particles, and where all physical bodies possess both an inner spiritual and outer physical layer, that consist of these minute particles or corpuscles. Fei Lei was surprised to find out that they had figured out atomic structures, but they still had a lot to learn.

To use alchemy one must concoct with their souls and mental energy in perfect harmony, they then use their Mana to mix and merge the ingredients on a molecular and magical level. This process is very taxing on one's Mental Energy and Mana, so a large Mana reservoir and a powerful Mental Focus are mandatory in order to become a full fledge Alchemist."