Sense Mana

*Sense Mana: You have opened your mind to one of the energies that fuels this world. You can now sense mana in its raw form.*

Sense Mana is a high-tier extrasensory perception general skill which allows its user to perceive mana and certain related phenomenon. It is one of the skills that can be merged to obtain True Sense, the absolute best sensing skill, which is considered one of the 5 ultimate skills.

Upon reaching at least 30 breakthroughs in Sense Mana and capping the skill a world message will broadcast the user's unparalleled mastery, along with their receiving a legendary action point tailor-made to enhance the skill. A skill enhanced with this point will evolve and increase its base power tenfold, along with doubling it's level cap.

Sense Magic is one of the enhanced forms of Sense Mana. In addition to all the capabilities of Sense Mana it allows the user to see true magic and magical phenomenon.

## Breakthroughs

1ˢᵗ Breakthrough: You have sensed an overwhelming pressure of mana, letting you sense mana in such quantities and better see slight difference in mana levels.

2ⁿᵈ Breakthrough: You have learned to perceive different containers of mana, letting you see the general shapes of mana containing objects around you.

3ʳᵈ Breakthrough: You have learned to see different types of mana, letting you see elemental mana.

4ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have learned how to see mana essences, letting you see the many types of essences.

5ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have learned to see different amounts of mana within objects, letting you better see how much mana is within certain parts of things and people.

6ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have learned how to expand your aura of sense mana, letting you see farther.

7ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You’ve learned of and seen the relationship of essences and elemental mana. Now you can better study them.

8ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You’ve predicted a mana storm. This breakthrough will help you predict the turbulent behavior mana.

9ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You’ve learned to differentiate the unique mana produced by people letting you detect unique individuals.

10ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned to see the transformation of one mana into another, letting you better see the interactions of natural processes and spells.

11ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned to move your area of mana sensing, Allowing you to scout ahead, and eventually view remotely.

12ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've observed and learned the mana interactions of enchanted items. This will help you better understand the process of enchanted item empowerment.

13ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've observed and learned the mana of magic items. This will help you better understand the process of magic item empowerment and creation.

14ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've observed very dense mana, Now you'll be able to see the workings of dense mana.

15ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've seen and learned how mana interacts with monsters and monster parts. This will help you better understand the process of monster creation and death.

16ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned how to sense mana in two different locations, this will help you see more.

17ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've entered a state of complete focus on your perception, this will boost all your perceptive abilities.

18ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned of and seen Mana infusion, this will help you better understand the process of mana infusion.

19ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've observed and learned how Mana interacts with mundane materials. This will help you better understand the interactions in materials.

20ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned to differentiate the properties of mana signatures, This will help you see the difference of skills and other similar magical signatures.

21ˢᵗ Breakthrough: You've learned to Analyze through Sensing Mana, This will help you learn more about people and objects.

22ⁿᵈ Breakthrough: You've observed your mana core, this will help you discover how mana comes to exist.

23ʳᵈ Breakthrough: You've observed spell creation, letting you identify them and see just how much power they have.

24ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've seen Hyper dense Mana, this'll let you discover the workings of mana in such an extreme environment.

25ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have sensed Vitality, this will help you study lifeforce.

26ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned how to track magic items and materials, this will help you find the sources of mana signatures.

27ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned to see the mana particle; this will now let you study the interactions and true nature of mana.

28ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned to see the MM force and empowering fields, letting you see the workings of one of mana's driving forces.

29ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've seen the components of mana particles; this will let you study the interactions between them and the true nature of mana.

30ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've learned to sense mana even in mana-starved areas, letting you pick out even the faintest trace of mana.

**Sense Magic Breakthroughs** (some of these breakthroughs are achievable with Sense Mana but depend on very high skill levels or specific knowledge)

31ˢᵗ Breakthrough: You've learned to see magical frameworks, this will help you identify and study them.

32ⁿᵈ Breakthrough: You have sensed Miasma; this will help you discover more about it.

33ʳᵈ Breakthrough: You've detected a source of magic; this will help you find and study more sources of magic.

34ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have seen a magical being; this will help you study them.

35ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have learned how to manipulate perceptive pressure; this will help you hide from, or attract the attention of, beings that can feel your perception.

36ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have learned how to sense passively; this will help you avoid retaliation at the cost of less information.

37ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've sensed experience; this will help you discover how true magic works.

38ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've sensed another's perceptive field; this will help you detect when you are being spied upon, or determine the target of others’ attention.

39ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You’ve sensed the quantity of magic in something; this will help you study magic and understand how powerful magical beings and items really are.

40ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You’ve noticed that you were being traced; this will help you avoid being found by those who feel your gaze upon them.

41ˢᵗ Breakthrough: You have observed the magic within an apotheosis seed; this will help you unlock the mysteries of the system.

42ⁿᵈ Breakthrough: You have observed super-solid mana; this will allow you to see mana in one of its most extreme conditions.

43ʳᵈ Breakthrough: You have observed solid vitality; this will allow you to study vitality under unusual conditions.

44ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have manipulated your perceptive vectors; this will help you defend yourself against tracking and retaliation.

45ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have seen unstable mana; this will help you understand this elusive and alien mana.

46ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have seen into different spatial layers; this will help you understand alien and normally unstable mana.

47ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have projected a perceptive eye; this will help you perceive things further than normal.

48ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have used perceptive beams to attack another's perceptive eye; this will help you engage in perceptive battles.

49ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have sensed Bond Mana; this will help you study the bridge between mana and Bond.

50ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You've sensed primordial mana; this will help you study the first form of mana.

51ˢᵗ Breakthrough: You have detected Miasma in the body of a person; this will help you study the interactions between Miasma and life.

52ⁿᵈ Breakthrough: You have detected ambient Miasma in the air; this will help you study this form of Miasma.

53ʳᵈ Breakthrough: You have seen ambient Magic; this will help you study inactive Magic.

54ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have seen a Calamity Egg; this will help you study the birth of Calamities.

55ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have seen hyper mana; this will help you study mana under multiple extreme conditions.

56ᵗʰ Breakthrough: You have seen Living mana; this will help you study the actualization of mana.

## Mechanics

The normal range of Sense Mana is a sphere of radius 1m/level, but the perceptive field can be manipulated into any shape with a volume less than or equal to that sphere. The same limit applies collectively when operating multiple perceptive fields with the 16ᵗʰ breakthrough. When in the state of focus from the 17ᵗʰ breakthrough the range of the skill is increased by 2% per level (stacking additively with all other bonuses).

Sense Mana operates through a person's perceptive eyes, which are a metaphysical sensory organ, similar to how Mana Sight operates through a person's physical eyes. The function of a perceptive eye is to emit and receive perceptive vectors, which are a metaphysical flow of information which locate stimuli, such as mana, and return that information to their source.

People without sensing or tracking skills still possess a perceptive eye which can detect when others' perceptive vectors are passing through it, which is why people get a sense of being watched when they are scried upon. Sense Mana users receive one perceptive eye per ten levels, though this amount is affected by bonuses from race and enhancement. When a perceptive eye is projected outside of the body, with the 47ᵗʰ breakthrough, it relays information back to the skill user through a metaphysical link, which can’t be traced through the same methods that perceptive vectors can.

The 35ᵗʰ breakthrough allows for the manipulation of perceptive pressure, which is determined by how "open" a perceptive eye is, similar to the aperture of a camera. Perceptive pressure isn't necessarily omnidirectional and can be focused onto a single part of a perceptive field. A higher perceptive pressure allows the skill user to see in greater clarity; for those within a field of high perceptive pressure they describe having a feeling "Like being watched by a very powerful being." The power of a gaze skill scales with perceptive pressure. A lower perceptive pressure can be used to avoid triggering most retaliations and evade the notice of all but the most skilled trackers, though normal perceptive pressure is required for the Analyze function of the 21ˢᵗ breakthrough.

The 36ᵗʰ breakthrough allows for passive sensing by reading only the MM force that passes through a perceptive eye in order to extrapolate the location of mana in the vicinity. Because it projects no perceptive vectors, passive sensing is virtually untraceable and will almost always circumvent retaliations and perception-harming abilities.

The perceptive beams of the 48ᵗʰ breakthrough are formed by focusing maximum perceptive pressure into someone else's perceptive eye in order to overwhelm it. Perceptive pressure from multiple perceptive eyes can be combined for a greater overall pressure, but with diminishing returns. After being overwhelmed, unless the target has other perceptive eyes or a method of healing them, their sensing and tracking skills will be rendered unusable. A perceptive eye usually takes hours or days to recover on its own.

The 11ᵗʰ breakthrough allows the skill user to move the centre of a perceptive field roughly 100 times the radius of their perceptive sphere away from its source. That range applies to the distance that perceptive fields can travel from a perceptive eye, as well as the distance a perceptive eye can travel from the skill user, so the effective range of the 11ᵗʰ breakthrough is doubled once the 47ᵗʰ breakthrough is unlocked.

## Known Users

* Alysara
* Kayafe
* Feyan
* Kanato
* Yafe & Yafel
* Papuyo
* Storm Wardens
* Chyzu
* Esofy
* Holuna Ruluna

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 2: The System
2. ↑ Chapter 69: Kayafe's Advice
3. ↑ Chapter 73: Back to the dungeon
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 7: Speaking
5. ↑ Chapter 9: Bonding
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 10: A friend
7. ↑ Chapter 13: Breakthrough
8. ↑ Chapter 14: Elders
9. ↑ Chapter 15: The Colors of People
10. ↑ Chapter 18: More storms
11. ↑ Chapter 28: Gains
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 29: Tailoring
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 31: For those that live
14. ↑ Chapter 32: Seeing Double
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 33: The Makings of a Dress
16. ↑ Chapter 37: The Dragons Advice
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Chapter 38: Analyzing
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 40: The Fairy Summoner
19. ↑ Chapter 47: Mana Toxicity
20. ↑ Chapter 49: Sense Soul
21. ↑ Chapter 57: To Evolve or not to Evolve
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Chapter 70: Choice
23. ↑ Chapter 84: The Mana Particle
24. ↑ Chapter 88: Assassin
25. ↑ Chapter 91: Enhanced
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Chapter 93: Scapegoats
27. ↑ Chapter 95: Cursed Being
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Chapter 111: Oppressive Vision
29. ↑ Chapter 113: Passive
30. ↑ Chapter 116: Experience
31. ↑ Chapter 124: Espionage
32. ↑ Chapter 129: Magic Quantity
33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Chapter 141: The Ugly Empire
34. ↑ Chapter 150: Apotheosis Seed
35. ↑ Chapter 154: Super-Solid
36. ↑ Chapter 158: Mastering mana
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Chapter 161: Perceptive Vectors
38. ↑ Chapter 177: Logic of Layers
39. ↑ Chapter 181: Eldritch Gazer
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Chapter 191: An Offer
41. ↑ Chapter 197: Kayafe and Safyr
42. ↑ Chapter 209: Nipping the Bud
43. ↑ Chapter 212: Primordial Mana
44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 Chapter 223: Light of Annihilation
45. ↑ Chapter 225: Ambient Magic
46. ↑ Chapter 228: The Egg
47. ↑ Chapter 247: Hyper Mana Breakthrough
48. ↑ Capter 248: Living Mana
49. ↑ Chapter 121: Other's Perspective 2
50. ↑ 50.0 50.1 50.2 Chapter 193: Perceptive Attack
51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 Chapter 231: Trusting Fate
52. ↑ Chapter 117: Training Montage