Coiling Dragon: Magic System

==Introduction==
This page will explain the magic system that the novel Coiling Dragon uses for its cast of characters. Coiling Dragon is one of the two novels that make the Grandmist Duology verse.
==The Magic System==
*Cultivation System used in Coiling Dragon is branched in two parts at the beginning but later in the story, it becomes meaningless as only the comprehension of Laws will matter at that level.
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|-|The Path of the Warrior=
The Warrior Path is common for those of commoner, ordinary man could form Battle Qi from childhood.
The basic QI is gathered from Qi Building Stance The ‘Qi Building Stance’ was the most simple, yet most effective way of exercising one’s body.
This was based on the experiences of generations of forefathers. When a warrior practices his/her battle qi, the battle qi is stored in a fist-sized location directly beneath the navel, a person’s ability to practice battle qi is based on the extent of his/her training. If his/her body is too weak, even if he/she gains access to powerful battle qi manuals, his/her body won’t be able to hold much battle qi, and he/she still won’t become a powerful warrior. Many warriors, due to not having received proper guidance in their youth, only understood the connection between battle qi and body strength much later in life.
But by that age, there wouldn’t be much progress when they trained. Many forefathers had gone on many wrong paths and gained much experience, a warrior path had a stage where the stage divided into early phase, middle phase, and peak phase, each stage of battle qi is the amount accumulation of battle qi.
Warriors rely on absorbing elements from nature as part of their training. Battle-qi is fueled by and determined by a specific elemental type. Elemental type divided into subsections
*Earth Elemental
*Wind Elemental
*Water Elemental
*Fire Elemental
*Thunder Elemental
*Light Elemental
*Darkness Elemental
Every peak phase stage warrior is one-step closer from the next rank, under certain circumstance could gain a breakthrough into the next rank.
In training battle-qi, if one possessed or acquired some special treasures, perhaps their battle-qi would be greatly enhanced. One’s level of understanding might suddenly jump as well from a flash of insight.
*Cultivation Rank
**1st Rank Warrior: Minimum rank to join the Military of any Country
**2nd Rank Warrior
**3rd Rank Warrior: Can become an Elite Soldier
**4th Rank Warrior
**5th Rank Warrior
**6th Rank Warrior: Can become a Military Captain
**7th Rank Warrior
**8th Rank Warrior
**9th Rank Warrior: At this point, even Kings have to treat them as equals as they are a one-man army
The power, ability, technique of a warrior could advance through understanding when a person had a certain understanding, he/she could develop it into techniques:
*Using ‘strength’ and ‘battle-qi'
*Wielding the heavy as though it were light or Wielding light as though it were heavy
*Impose
When a person gains understanding at "impose" level, they could breakthrough any time by gain insight into "Profound Laws".
*Saint Warrior Rank
The Saint-level combatant is the last rank of a mortal as a warrior. A person reaches the Saint-level he/she will stop aging, becoming immortal.
*Profound Laws is the basic understanding of laws for Saint-level combatant.
Elemental essence affinity only represented that one would be able to gather mageforce faster. But to experts, it represented that one would have an easier time to be able to attune with nature itself and understand the Laws of the Universe. The Saint-level is divided into subsections:
*Early: A person with certain amount accumulation of battle qi.
*Middle: A person with certain amount accumulation of battle qi, and had understanding through Impose or Profound Laws at a most basic level.
*Peak: A person with certain amount accumulation of battle qi, and has understanding through Profound of laws.
When Saint-Level Combatants reach the optimal battle-qi and are on the verge of becoming a Demigod thorough understanding of the Profound of the laws, they are called Prime Saint Stage.
|-|The Path of Magus=
Magus path is only available to one that had natural talent, if one talent is low, the accomplishments will be low as well.
Magical aptitude is divided into two parts – the strength of one’s magical affinity for certain elements, and the strength of one’s mental energy. If the two conditions are met, one has natural talent. If just the first or later, then the talent is low.
When casting spells, the most important thing for a magus is Mageforce and Mental energy. If the mental energy is sufficiently powerful, one can even insta-cast spells, without need for any incantations.
Magical incantations only serve a supplemental function. To cast a spell, the body must be able to provide a sufficient amount of mageforce, and then use mental energy to control that mageforce to summon sufficient elemental essence to form it into a spell, in order to cast magical spells, one needs to draw upon external elemental essences.
Mageforce is really just pure, highly-refined elemental essence. Therefore, the Mageforce of a magus is extremely important. If one doesn’t have enough mageforce, one will not be able to cast a spell. However, without spiritual energy to control a large amount of mageforce and elemental essence, this power would run wild.
Each elemental style is roughly balanced, but in different environments, they will have different effects. For example, in the water-rich environment of the ocean, water-style magic will be extremely strong. In some places where the wind blows powerfully, wind-style magic will be very powerful as well.
Principally because there’s a high requirement when it comes to spiritual energy. The absolute minimum requirement for a magus is having five times more spiritual energy than someone of the same age. Ten times or above puts one roughly in the middle of the pack, as far as the average magus goes.
Elemental essence affinity divided into three ranks:
*Average Affinity
*High Affinity
*Exceptional Affinity
Most Magus have average elemental essence affinity. While high affinity & exceptional affinity is quite rare. By way of explaining, an ordinary magus might take ten hours to produce a certain amount of mageforce, but one who has exceptional affinity would only require a single hour to get the same result. There is a case when one had two exceptional elemental affinities, thus they called are Dual-Elemental Magus.
Magus rely on absorbing elements from nature as part of their training. Spiritual Energy is fueled by and determined by a specific elemental type or Edict. Elemental affinity divided into:
*Earth Elemental Affinity
*Wind Elemental Affinity
*Water Elemental Affinity
*Fire Elemental Affinity
*Thunder Elemental Affinity
*Light Elemental Affinity
*Darkness Elemental Affinity
There were four types of magic which surpass earth, fire, wind, water, lightning, light, and darkness style magic. These four magic had been passed down from Overgods. These four branches of magic are astonishingly powerful, precisely because they originally stemmed from the Overgods. One need to be attuned with the contents of the rites for aptitudes. They are:
*Life Magic (Overgod of Life)
*Necromantic Magic (Overgod of Death)
*Oracular Magic (Overgod of Fate)
*Destruction-Type (Overgod of Destruction)
For the four types of Edict, one could reach another realm with spiritual energy and train the magic there. In truth, the normal seven elements of magic (earth, fire, water, wind, lightning, light, darkness) all had fairly high requirements with regards to spiritual energy. But the higher level arts of Oracular Magic, Life Magic, Necromantic Magic, and Destruction Magic, have terrifyingly high requirements when it came to soul potency. Of these four types of magic, Necromantic Magic has the highest requirements with regards to spiritual purity and soul analysis. In order to learn Necromantic Magic, an extremely pure soul is needed. Comparatively, it doesn't have much of a requirement with regards to elemental essence affinity. For example, Destruction-Type magic, one's soul has to be sword-shaped.
The status of a magus is a full rank higher than that of an equivalent warrior. Magus have such social standings is because the destructive potential their spells have is enormous. In wartime, a Magus is more important to a kingdom thanks to its environmental spells.
1st and 2nd Rank is called Junior Magus
3rd and 4th Rank is called Mid-level Magus
5th and 6th Rank is called Senior Magus
7th Rank Magi - is called Senior Magus
8th Rank Magi - is called Master Magus
9th Rank Magi - is called Arch-Magus
The Saint-level Grand Magus is the highest rank a magus can reach. A person who reaches Saint-level he/she will stop aging, making them immortal. Saint-level is divided into subsections:
*Early
*Middle
*Peak
When Saint-Level Grand Magus reach the optimal Spiritual Energy and is the verge of becoming a Demi-God thorough understanding of the Laws, they called as Prime Saint Stage.
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