Mana Users

## Information

A **Mana User** is a normal person who awakened and receive powers from the universe. A widespread of dungeons appeared on February 22, 2022, therefore, **Mana Users** came to public. In 2026, the Users Information Protection Act was officially submitted then later passed in 2027 to protect users from being successfully assassinated, injuring the national power of a country. *SSS Class Gacha Hunter* begins in 2030.
Before a user can enter a dungeon, they must receive compulsory training for a month. Users part of a Guild will receive from their respective guild, if not, they will receive from a governmental sanctioned institution.

**Mana Users** have their own status that can be mostly viewed with the Mana Watch, standard divided into:

1. Level
2. Mana
3. Strength
4. Stamina
5. Reflexes
6. Mana Detection
7. Talent(s)
8. Skill(s)

The are special status information that require achievements or encounters to awaken, such as the Title. Once opened, the Title will exist above the Level in the status display.

## Status Information

### Leveling System

Mana Users can level up by combating monsters to earn experience points. Each level up can increase stats from one to some and to all stats, but randomly per user. Certain skill conditions can also permanently increase stats, aka Connection Gacha.

After attempts by newly awakened users to test power leveling, an efficient leveling system was made. This leveling system was to take users of that Rank to dungeons of higher Ranks and made them eat boss monsters (Lv.53 monster = A-B Rank). Or letting one person monopolize the monsters. You can't level up in a dungeon where the monsters are much weaker than your Rank, and that grinding has a better chance of leveling up, even if only a little. However, there was a limit of leveling up. This was the yet-to-be-named "Experience Penalty".

#### Experience Penalty

Power leveling restricted. Cannot level up outside the dungeon. Leveling up was solely done in the dungeon. It was the reason why the user had to enter the dungeon unconditionally. There are skills that can passively remove the experience penalty, such as Kaumka's Fighting Spirit.

The experience penalty on Earth in the 37th Universe was lifted when the Demon Army 7th Legion SSS Rank dungeon on Mount Fuji was cleared in 2030.

#### Second Great Cataclysm

When the experience penalty was lifted, a temporary hidden experience buff was applied to the entire Earth in the 37th Universe until the "Demon World's Space Invasion Outpost" SSS Rank Special Annihilation dungeon was born, the beginning of the Tertiary Great Cataclysm.

The top Rank users (SS and S Rank) could not raise many levels because the experience requirements were too high, but the middle and lower Rank users were growing day by day. It became standard practice to level up enough in the lower dungeons where intelligent monsters did not appear, and then challenge the higher dungeons. The weakened dungeon strategy took a 180-degree turn, everyone started looking for dungeons, and the dungeon market was revitalized.

### Mana

Mana is a stat **not** included in the "All Stats+ " effect. Mana is the basis of the user. You can use it to activate skills, strengthen your body, and you need it to get in and out of dungeons. Naturally, the more mana you have, the better, and many users will spare no effort to increase their mana.

* Mana Recovering
1/1
Mana is the energy for using most of the abilities that a person or monster has. It can gradually recover after a day and is different by the amount in every person equivalent to the total mana possessed.

### Talents

* Level 1 and 2
* Level 3
1/2
Talents are what a certain person or monster is good at.

A normal person will have level 1 but if this talent and skill are honed over generations, it can achieve level 2.

Level 3 is considered a whole another dimension.

For example, if swordsmanship is level 3, it will be the rout of all swordsmanship, the genesis spread through the universe, the original, born from the True Universe.

In short, is the ability to create concepts.

Jin Jeongdo later developed the first Talent level 4. Level 4 is bypassing the rules of the Universe to conduct its function.

#### Talents Level

* The Talent with the User
* Leveling a Talent
* Leveling up a Talent
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Talents are assigned to every person at birth and it will remain with a person until the moment it dies.

But when a person's talent level is changing it means that the fate will also change and it could result in the death of the user.

### Skills

Skills are really hard to acquire. There are only two definite conditions for acquiring skills for new users that have been revealed so far. One is when you **first** level up () and at some levels after. The other is a "Skill Stone" that can be found in dungeons with a very rare chance. The other ways to acquire them were still being researched by the World Association. The value of skill stone was tremendous. Some skills that are rare cannot be bought even with money.

Exclude the skill stone. Even if the talent was judged as a has-been talent in the awakening, if a very good "Skill" was generated, it was very rare that it could be used as a "combat team". Of course, since skill generation is closely related to the talent possessed, usually if the talent is of low quality, the skill generated will also be of low quality.

Normally, skill is influenced by talent. This meant that the skills possessed by a single user were often similar to each other. If a user had the skill of coercing the truth, there was a high probability that the other skills would be of a similar nature, such as publicizing the truth.

Most novice awakened users have no Skills.

Some Mission Dungeon bosses might grant Skills. The more unique ones might have Skill Books.

## Types of Awakening

### The Awaker

When a person pays the fee of 300,000 Won, it can use the device to become a mana user and afterwards receive a Mana Watch and a Mana License.

### Realization

They are mana users who didn't used the Awaker and awakened using a different method.

It was a term that referred to those who had awakened themselves through hard training and Zen meditation without the help of an Awaker. They basically had an extreme aversion to the mundane world, especially to encountering users who had awakened to Awaker. They are awakened users before the development of The Awaker.

## Type of Mana Users

Not all users work in guild units. Users who don't want to belong somewhere mainly team up with a few like-minded people to explore the dungeon.

### Seeker

They are mana users that discover, explore and sell Dungeon intelligence. The Academy in Korea is internationally the Korea Seekers Academy (**KSA**).

### Murderer Villain

It's not actually a profession but it's actually a type of user that kills other users.

### Tanker

Combat-like mana users who use their body, armor and shield to withstand attacks like a grounded pillar. They deliberately attract enemy attention and attacks, becoming a decoy for their teammates.

### Damage Dealer

They are mana users who fight by only combat and less on support.

## Equipment

The user and the equipment were inseparable. Good equipment equals spare lives. If you are a user, you should not save your money for better equipment. Barely a D level dungeon so far, there wasn't much need for equipment, but upgrading equipment was a must for advancing to higher Rank dungeons.

### Myth Rank

* Excalibur (Sword)
* Green Dragon Crescent Blade (Polearm)
* Ganesha's Blessing (Pendant)
* Twin Dragon Swords (쌍룡검, Ssanglyong-geom of Yi Sun-Shin) (Dual Swords - 1st Myth Rank made on Earth)
* ...
* ...

## Ranking

A standard **Mana User** of the required Rank needs two stats worthy of the same Rank and two stats one Rank lower in values at least. They can be improved through hellish training. National treatment between C and B Rank are a significant difference, with A Rank and higher each being individual categories.

The higher the Rank Title of the user, the greater the benefits provided by the government. There are many benefits, but the biggest of them all is the reduction in the tax rate. Therefore, the higher the user's entitled Rank, the more geometrically inflated the money they earn. The user's Rank can be increased by passing the Association's exam. The examinations can be done by dueling with an instructor in the Mana Virtual and then being accepted by the instructor. Of course, not everyone could take the exam, and there were minimum requirements specified by the association.

When D and E Rank users face S Rank and higher users, they are surprised at how mediocre they are. This is because it is only when you reach the C Rank that you can faintly sense their S Rank strength.
70% of all Korean users fall into the E~D Rank category.

### SS Rank

There are only 9 official SS Rank users in the entire world by Spring 2030. Ranking unknown "First Awakened" Elle McDowell, "Arthur" of Britain, "War God" of China, The SS Rank Title is only given to those who have defeated SS Rank monsters or made equivalent achievements. The top three SS Ranks were "Gamer" "Arthur" and "War God". The youngest SS Rank is "Moneyman".

A SS Rank user's personal warehouse couldn't be ordinary. There was an array of brand-name goods that would make other users' eyes pop out of their heads if they saw them.

Stats at 90+ for Strength, Stamina, Reflexes or Mana Detection.

* "Gamer" Kang Haejoon (South Korea, 9th)
* "First Awakened" Elle McDowell (United States)
* "Jeanne d'Arc" "Saintess" (France)
* "Arthur" Husband of "Merlin" (Britain)
* Lady "War God" (China, Upgraded WN Ch. 195)
* "Indra" (India)
* "Combat Dancer" (Brazil)
* "Moneyman" (United States WN Ch. 202)
* .
* "Hero" (2030, United States)

### SSS Rank

See Webnovel Ch. 107 & 135, & 195

1. "Triple S (SSS)" Jin Jeongdo (2030, South Korea, Skipped SS Rank, Defeated Yamata-no-Orochi)
2. "War God" (China, '*Offiicially*' defeated 1 of the Four Perils)

## References

1. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 10
2. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 13
3. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Webnovel Chapter 18
5. ↑ Manhwa Chapter 17
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Webnovel Chapter 64
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Webnovel Chapter 74
8. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 71
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Webnovel Chapter 87
10. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 111
11. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 98
12. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 13
13. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 3
14. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 14
15. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 7
16. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 39
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Webnovel Chapter 17
18. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 152
19. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 44
20. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 56
21. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 31
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Webnovel Chapter 15
23. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 22
24. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 27
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Webnovel Chapter 46
26. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 34
27. ↑ Webnovel Chapter 9