Prologue

On a planet, known as Roneglaise, there happens to be a separate way of life. People generalize this as 'cultivation' and in cultivating you can become stronger in both your perspective talent and person. There are lush forests that have magical beasts and money isn't the only kind of payment, as there are special magical stones acquired from magical beasts, that can help with cultivation, making them quite highly desired with everybody. There are many profession talents that people can cultivate in, but for most people, only one per person is able to be obtained.

For instance, you could become a Shape Shifter and be able to change your body into other things upon learning them. And if you are a Shape Shifter, you will not be able to learn any other profession talent, like Psychology...But you would be able to grow in your chosen talent as you can cultivate your own Intelligence, Strength or others to help you. Under these profession talents are sub contents that would take many years to learn. Shapeshifting isn't just about turning into an animal, but upon acquiring more knowledge you could also turn into another human, which would be harder. Then beyond that, Shapeshifters could change other things, such as a rock, into water. Learning this would obviously take decades, and is a very high skill to learn.

Cultivating talents also depend on how popular it is and if they are even still around. Many talents have nearly disappeared, leaving them a lot harder to obtain, as the people with the knowledge would ask for a great deal to let one person learn from them. Then, some don't have a choice to choose their talent as they are born with their talent already, which happens every couple of generations.

There is the occasional one in a thousand, who can learn that of two talents. Of course, obtaining a person as such as to be able to learn more than one talent is always used with force. Sadly, many commoners who can have two talents happen to be forcefully taken and then mind controlled so that they don't run away from those who had captured them. This is a reason why many clans have someone that has the talent of Psychology, and then under that mastered the art of Mind Controlling.

There are even more rare occasions, of one in ten or even twenty thousand, that people are able to do three talents and wars could be started across the lands of Roneglaise because of this. To obtain those people, that they think of as nothing but an asset, they want to greedily own them for themselves and that of their own clan.

There are a few lucky people, who can cultivate more than one talent, that are safely already within the royal families of one of the four major continents, but for those poor unfortunate others, they are taken and live their life not even being able to think their own thoughts.

When a talent is chosen, they can enhance it with their own personal cultivation, which would be Strength, Dexterity, Intellect and a few others. For instance, the ladies in this land tend to greatly cultivate 'Grace' through doing art, music, literacy and needlework. Through improving their cultivation in Grace, they would also improve slightly in their profession talent. For that reason, quite a few ladies would pick to cultivate the talent of Art, to further their basic skills and to connect their talent and personal cultivation together.

It has become quite common that people would cultivate towards their talent to help themselves get a better job or be known as someone that would be qualified to higher their clan’s status. Of course, it isn't easy to cultivate your Strength and others, as it is very vigorous training that only gets harder and harder as you go.

For this reason, it is very common for families to have their children do something that they already know and have the resources for. As for a family that knows how to cultivate the talent of Thrifty, would have their children follow them and become governors for the royals or businessman, like they themselves. Which is why the reason that they were still using the technique of marrying their children to another clan to help their own clans gather more resources for themselves.

Another good reason for this type of way of life was, with the chance that children who have been born unintelligent, weak or sick can get smarter, stronger and healthier by personal cultivating, to give them the chance of a better life.

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We begin now, with an old man who was running out of time before their death. They were enjoying somewhat of a retirement as they had ventured into a long life of cultivating the talent of Spiritual Wisdom, in which he had mastered the art of Soul Scribing.

Suddenly, his old head became full of knowledge of past life's and past worries. Indeed, he had now been reincarnated many, many times and for so long he had wanted to learn exactly what he had finally mastered in this life.

Before he could celebrate his mission, as it had taken him many, many centuries to finish, he could already feel his life slipping away. There was no time to ponder on anything else but to use the art of Soul Scribing his soul, with his remaining energy.

Relaxing with his last breaths, the old, white haired man smiled. Finally, he will remember!

(A bit of information for the cultivation in this novel)

Personal Cultivation

(For the person's body, more than one at a time can be cultivated at the same time. Everyone can cultivate each of these.)

Stamina: Based on Endurance. To cultivate, take blows and recuperate and forcing yourself to endure without sleep or running for a longer period, stuff like that.

Dexterity: Based on Agility (being quick). To cultivate, best way is to fight with eyes closed and with real swords, push oneself to run fast many, many times. Hardest personal cultivation to train, besides Power.

Intellect: Based on Greater Intelligence and cleverness. To cultivate, is to play harder and harder opponents with chess/go/etc. Overcoming situations with words, and reading old scripts and understanding them.

Strength: Based on Strength, obviously. To cultivate, fight with pressured cuffs on feet and hands, making the pressured cuffs heavier and heavier as you cultivate Strength more and more.

Power: Based on Power, (With power it can make it easier to cultivate your talent/s and when you use your talent, Power enhances your talent as well). To cultivate, the only way is to use magical stones! So, it’s not only expensive but can be deadly. The idea is to steal the power out of the magical stone, but it’s like a tug of war because the stone fights back. If the stone wins, you die and the stone is upgraded to a higher degree magical stone.

Proficiency: Based on being able to cultivate talent/s quickly. To cultivate, is to repeatedly cultivate something repeatedly. It is still worth cultivating Proficiency because it can cut five years or more into learning your talent/s and arts. There is also more of a chance to cultivate and master two lots of arts under a talent, instead of only mastering one.

Stability: Based on Resistance to change. To cultivate, the government might interrogate the guards using pain to make sure they are 100% loyal (Yes, people do this and it is a wanted talent.) Obviously, something that can be cultivated with Stamina. This is wanted mostly for guards who protect the royal family.

Grace: Based on beautiful form. To cultivate, the normal arts like art, music, literacy and needlework, also, always acting 'graceful'. Could be learnt by men, but many don’t bother. For a girl to marry, this cultivation is mostly always wanted.

Senses: Based on the five senses. To cultivate the five senses, meditation for hearing, food for taste, Blindfolding for both hearing, feel and taste, etc, obviously something preferred for many professions. Trappers need to cultivate Senses more so then a Mind Controller.

Talent Cultivation

(Can learn more than one art under a talent. Some are born with a specific talent.)

Spiritual Wisdom: About communicating better with souls or minds. For the most part, meditation is how you cultivate it. Under Spiritual Wisdom is Soul Scribing, which is looked upon very well, as you can be a priest or inscribe weapons (It scribes directly upon your soul). Also under Spiritual Wisdom is the art of Reincarnation. This art is very hard to obtain now and every time you reincarnate you lose all your memories. Any kind of religious arts are under this as well.

Thrifty: Resourceful and economical, wanted for people who are governors. To cultivate this one is mostly going through books to learn and then a more business approach afterwards. Many shopkeepers and merchants have this talent. Normally the people who come up with new ideas to do something better or easier are also under this talent, the art of Creation. The art of Source, also under this talent, is a person who can find materials (like iron or gold) easier. It’s the best talent to become rich.

Psychology: Not spiritual, but still on the mind. More so the brain. This art has the art of Mind Control under it, very popular art. This talent also has a mind blocker art that can stop one from being mind controlled. The art of Invisibility is under Psychology. The best strategist comes from this talent. Also, this is a dark talent, because of the art of Mind sacrifice, which can hypnotize, create tumours and make someone crazy.

Goods Smith: Making and forging weapons, buildings and goods. To master in daggers, you cultivate the Dagger Weaponsmith path, etc. Under this is the art of Infusing, which can add personal cultivation to your personal weapon. Also, under Goods Smith, is the art of Building. Obviously, people who are to build houses and tables and chairs the best are under this talent. Very popular talent.

Chemistry: Mixing of materials. The art of Cooking is easily improved through cooking and eating. The art of Alchemy has a few branches as well that lead into the art of Flasks, Transmutes, Pills or Poisons. The art of Cosmetics is also under Chemistry.

Biology: Based on the body. The art of Reproduction, rare but wanted, especially for any kind of royal family. Others under this talent is, the art of Healing and the art of Rejuvenation. The art of Shapeshifting also.

Traveller: The art of Trapping, obviously trapping and one that can detect traps. For people who roam around, and also, The art of Tracking is under Traveller. More people tend to take this talent to endure extreme weather conditions (Glazechill continent is very cold and snows, having the talent Traveller, the cold would not harm you even half as much and you would be able to walk on the snow easier as well, through The art of Terrain). Also, their minds on the land is very easily remembered, hardly ever getting lost through the art of Compass.

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