Knight's Ranking System

## Spiritual Energy

Knights (all kinds including Assassin knights, Defenders, Fighters, mages etc) train in 'Internal Spiritual Energy' && 'External Spiritual Energy' respectively.

### **External Spiritual Energy:**

External Spiritual Energy refers to the "strength of ones physical body" && "physical conditioning". Since it's the body's energy, it has limits. The limit of external spiritual energy is 200.

### **Internal Spiritual Energy:**

Internal Spiritual Energy is the strength of mind and soul. It has no limit and training it increases ones external spiritual energy beyond it's limit. But more importantly, internal spiritual energy is the source of all kinds of skills and special abilities along with magic and other stuff.

## Sacred Awakening

Sacred awakening is a process of activating ones inner spiritual energy. Most are done after one has reached the peak limit of external spiritual energy of 200 but it can be initiated before as well though the risk and pain would be greater. The sooner this awakening is initiated the better with average age being before 15yrs. This awakening serves two purposes,

* Activating inner spiritual energy
* Gauging ones potential through Innate Inner spiritual energy

### **Innate Inner Spiritual Energy:**

Every person is born with "Innate Inner Spiritual Energy" which can be gauged once going through Sacred Awakening.

* The higher ones innate inner spiritual energy is, the higher the prospects and greater the heights one could reach in the future.
* Conversely, the lower the innate spiritual energy, the lower the future achievement.

Innate spiritual energy is a fixed number. It's not impossible to increase it but this can only be achieved by relying upon extreme external help. No medicine or stuff could do this, only if One was contracted to someone like 'Scion of light' or equivalent would this be possible.

* Those above 40 are rare geniuses
* Those above 60 are extreme geniuses
* Those above 70 are pinnacle geniuses
* Those above 80 are an era genius(Have the potential to become divine knight)
* Someone above 90 is scion of light and equivalent(Has the potential to exceed divine knight)
* Someone above 100 has no category(Has the potential to become God Knight)

That said, only three in the entire history of Knight Temple had Innate spiritual Energy above 80 and only one of the three managed to become a Divine Knight.

As for 90 or above, no one in the history of knight temple has ever achieved that level except for Long Haochen.

## Ranks

When a knight reaches the last rank of its step he has to pass an examination to be recognized as a knight of the next step. All other classes use a very similar ranking. (As the story progresses they all use this system)

## Big bitty boy Requirements

Knight Squires are graded between the first and the tenth rank. After breaking through the hundredth spiritual energy level, they can be promoted to Standard Knights. Standard Knights are graded the same way: they gain one rank every ten spiritual energy levels and upon breaking through the 200th level, one can take the Genuine Knight examination. The knight examination does not only require spiritual energy, it also requires one to have the ten standards of a knight. After becoming a Genuine Knight, one can be promoted from the first rank after ten spiritual energy levels as well; only upon reaching the 210th spiritual energy level will someone be a second rank Genuine Knight, and after that, each of the eight other ranks are promoted every thirty spiritual energy levels. At the last rank, one can reach the fourth step of the vocation after accumulating fifty more spiritual energy levels and reaching the 500th spiritual level.