Matthew Alexander

## Talent

### Tier 1

Primary effect: Mana Regeneration inversely proportional to current mana, directly proportional to Maximum Mana.Secondary effect: Essence cannot be applied to mana cultivation. Mana Regeneration is decoupled from mana cultivation.

Tertiary effect: Maximum mana set to 1.

### Tier 3

Primary effect: Any mana in the mana pool in excess of Maximum Mana will permanently increase Maximum Mana.Secondary effect: Maximum increase from this Talent in a given Tier is equal to double previous Maximum Mana.

Tertiary effect: Maximum Mana initially adjusted to 10.

## Appearances

### Alias

MattMattyQuill

Matt is the main character of the story. He grew up in the city of Warrington on planet Lily. His parents were killed in a rift break when he was 8 years old. He spent 5 years at Warrington's Upper East Side Orphanage #3. At age 9 he started training to become a delver. He was awakened at age 13.

During the rift breaks on planet Lily, Matt was on the bus to school when a tier 4 turtle/porcupine rift beast attacked and damaged his bus. The bus rerouted toward the more affluent city center where the children waiting in a fancy hotel's ballroom for their parents. Matt's never came for him.

Matt is 5'10 at age 14. At age 16 and a half, he was 6'2''. At age 18 he was more than 6'5''.

He has sandy hair and hazel eyes.

## Talents

### Tier 1 - Diminishing returns on mana regeneration

* **Primary effect:** *Mana Regeneration inversely proportional to current mana, directly proportional to Maximum Mana.*
* **Secondary Effect:** *Essence cannot be applied to mana cultivation. Mana Regeneration is decoupled from mana cultivation.*
* **Tertiary Effect:** *Maximum mana set to 1.*

Matt had a Tier 1 talent rating of detrimental. Unlike normal mages who regenerate a certain amount of mana per hour, he regenerates a percent of his maximum mana depending on how much he has left.

> He'd be regenerating his Maximum Mana per second when it was below 1.0%. That was absurd, but that rate didn't last. After the 1% mark the regeneration rate dropped down drastically. It would take an estimated ten minutes to reach 10% mana, and two weeks to reach 25%. He scoffed at the projections of a year to reach 50%, and 50 years to reach 75%.
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### Tier 3 - Maximum mana set to 41,943,040 (at tier 25)

* **Primary Effect:** *Any mana in the mana pool in excess of Maximum Mana will permanently increase Maximum Mana.*
* **Secondary Effect:** *Maximum increase from this Talent in a given Tier is equal to double previous Maximum Mana.*
* **Tertiary Effect:** *Maximum Mana initially adjusted to 10.*

His Tier 3 talent allows his mana to double every tier after. his maximum mana initially capped at 10 for tier 3.

Because of his talent, Matt cannot allocate essence into mana concentration and must use mana concentration potions. At Tier 7 he needed a Tier 14 mana concentration potion. At Tier 8 he needed a Tier 16 mana concentration potion.

## Skills

### Core Skills

#### Cracked Phantom Armor

* **Cracked Version:** Channel mana into the skill to activate phantom armor, which will then block physical and elemental damage depending on the rate of mana channeled into the skill.
* **Tier 14 upgrade** made a second layer of armor anchored to the first. Must put at least 1 mps into the base layer of armor. the amount in the base layer is the maximum he can put in the second layer. It is less mana efficient but more flexible.

#### Personal AI

* Unlike most AIs which reserved mana for usage, his ended up using it in the form of a channelled skill, allowing him to have a weaker AI at the beginning, but a far stronger one as he would rise up in tiers with increased mana regeneration. He had to go make a deal with TrueMind for this copy of the AI.

#### Cracked Mana Spear

* **Cracked Version**
* Confirmed chapter 171

### Inner Spirit Skills

* Mages Retreat - moved Inner Spirit → Core Spirit in chapter 73 to increase endurance when active. Core Spirit → Core Spirit in chapter 87.
* Endurance - moved from Core Spirit to Core Spirit in chapter 67.
* Fireball  - Initially entered in Core Spirit to modify to a cheaper cost.
* Flamethrower - increased the throughput to 15mps currently
* Water Manipulation - confirmed moved from Outer Spirit → Inner Spirit in Chapter 171
* Earth Manipulation - confirmed moved from Outer Spirit → Inner Spirit in Chapter 171
* Air Manipulation - confirmed moved from Outer Spirit → Inner Spirit in Chapter 171
* Fire Manipulation - confirmed moved from Outer Spirit → Inner Spirit in Chapter 171
* Mana Slash
* Acrobat's Finesse
* Barbarian's Hide
* Ranged Heal
* Lesser Regeneration
* Ranger's Sight
* Sharp Mind
* Willow in the Wind
* Bandage
* Bulwark
* Cracked Mana Trap

### Outer Spirit Skills

* Create Water
* Mana Bolt
* Jolt
* Lightning Manipulation
* Mud Manipulation
* Lava Manipulation
* Hail - confirmed moved from Inner Spirit → Outer Spirit in chapter 171
* Mana Charge - confirmed chapter 171
* Lesser Sacrifice - confirmed chapter 171
* Earth Spear - confirmed chapter 171
* Sand Manipulation - confirmed chapter 171
* Blood Manipulation - confirmed chapter 171
* Ice Manipulation - confirmed chapter 171
* Create Blood - confirmed chapter 171
* Wood Manipulation - confirmed chapter 171
* Shadow Manipulation - confirmed chapter 171
* Light Manipulation - confirmed chapter 171
* Process - confirmed chapter 171
* Purify - confirmed chapter 171
* Cleanse - confirmed chapter 171

## Cultivation

Matt allocated 30% of his essence to Directed Physical Cultivation of: regeneration, proprioception, and senses. His talent stipulates that he can't cultivate mana.

His concept gives mana to people within an area of effect. He has three limitations: it is less effective the further you are from him. It's less effective on people with higher concentrations than him. He can't control who gets more or less mana, it's shared equally with everyone who isn't full.

Compared to the average physical fighter who were forced to do a split of 70 - 30 (70 in all of physical, 30 for mana), due to his talent, he could invest all 100 in physical. This leads to him being better than his fellow cultivators at the same tier in physical, by a margin of 42.85%, assuming they've followed the same way of cultivation.

He is unable to cultivate mana, and his only method of cultivating mana concentration is the concentration potions. He is unable to affect his maximum mana nor his mana regeneration by any means known yet.

## Bound Pet

* Bound Pet: Arctic Fox.
* Elemental Affinity: Ice.
* Name: Aster

## Equipment / Buffs

##### Mage Gloves

Mage gloves from Dena that protect your hands from magical effects among other things.

##### Paired Teleport Ring

* At Tier 4
	+ A growth item he shares with Liz. At tier 4 it can switch places at 1k mana and teleport a short distance for 2k. The swap has a range limit of 10 feet and the has a charge capacity of 2k
* At Tier 6
	+ Reserve of 6k mana. can switch from 40 ft away. Short range teleport is 2 ft.

##### Root from the Tree of Perfection

Increased his body closer to a tier 15. It also removed his physical AI chip and his birth control implant. Body nears closer to perfection over the course of a year.

##### Enchantment Growth Sword

Can purge itself of enchantments with mana and metal of its tier. Is heavy and must be enchanted by the person that it is bound to. Matt can affect the shape of his growth sword slightly and add more metal to make it slightly heavier each tier.

##### Growth Mana Aspect ring

Can remember any aspect of mana it comes in contact with and converts mana that passes through it. starts with a bad conversion rate at lower tiers.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 276
2. ↑ Chapter 276
3. ↑ Chapter 28
4. ↑ Chapter 274
5. ↑ Chapter 40
6. ↑ The Concept of Death 9
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 1
8. ↑ Chapter 54
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 2
10. ↑ Chapter 12
11. ↑ Chapter 51
12. ↑ Chapter 4
13. ↑ Chapter 10
14. ↑ Chapter 10
15. ↑ Chaoter 111
16. ↑ Chapter 95
17. ↑ Chapter 23
18. ↑ Chapter
19. ↑ Chapter 87
20. ↑ Chapter 92
21. ↑ Chapter 93
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 Chapter 106
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 Chapter 72
24. ↑ Chapter 35
25. ↑ Chapter 14
26. ↑ Chapter 8
27. ↑ Chapter 19
28. ↑ Chapter 21
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Chapter 65
31. ↑ Chapter 68
32. ↑ Chapter 69