Totems

A Totem was like a complex machine, created by a Luminarist, made out of countless tiny components, and the tactics were the most basic of intricate components. At the same time, they could be used individually, to increase a totem’s ability in any one area. The creation of a **Totem** required an extremely intricate silver blueprint, and it had to be three-dimensional rather than flat.

A totem is like I got a new organ, an arm, for a Luminarist. It’s very lifelike and convenient. I can choose to control it, or give it a simple order for it to complete on its own. What a miraculous feeling. The power of the Totem itself will not harm its master.

Totems, regardless of their size, can be easily transported by means of storage devices, most of them no larger than the palm of a hand or a fist-sized sphere that are easy to carry on the body without inconvenience. The only exception is Silver Totems.

## Types

There are two types of totems one can have, one is **Core Totems** and the other **Basic/Support Totems**. Of these two types the Totems can be either **Primitive Totems** or **Silver Totems**. Of these two types, the Totems can be of one of the different Totem Series, **Animal Series**, **Plant Series** or **Elementary Series**.

### Basic/Support Totems

Basic totems have very weak abilities, but they’ll have a certain benefit for your daily life. Such as reconnaissance, such as cleaning up, such as collecting items, or using it as a tool etc.

As long as you can support them, you can create as many support totems as you want. After all, it’s your own talent keeping them afloat. Most Luminarists can only support one or two. The stronger ones can do four or five. Because support totems have simple structures, it’s easy to make them, so they’re usually treated as disposable items.

Almost the large majority of Luminarists have support totems that aren’t that different from real living creatures. There is no increase in their power, they’re just like the creatures you see outside. Bobcats are bobcats, and Neon Butterflies are Neon Butterflies. They’re just like the original creature, so support totems are rarely strengthened.

### Core Totems

Once you’ve settled on a core totem, you need to wait for more than five years if you want to change it. At the same time, you need a special ritual and ingredients to disassemble it. It’s very troublesome… but, with a decent C**ore totem**, you can have an automatically-reacting Totem Light that can follow you everywhere in life. Can't change this Totem without great difficulties.

**Core Totems** are different from **Basic/Support Totems**, these **Totems** are the basis of the Luminarist and therefore their goal is always to strengthened them and and evolve them.

**Core Totems** have sensation that was totally different compared to Basic totems. It felt like was more intimate than others. The vague distance between them shrank a fair bit.

#### High Levels

Ultimate Totem that had reached its form 4 peak was not easy to cultivate, and he had undergone a lot of tribulations and misfortune in between. After all, there were no tricks to get through this road easily. In the end, Core Totems needed to combine with their Totem Users, as this was one of the characteristics that were embodied during Spiritualization. If the Core Totem was not grown and cultivated with its Totem User since its low level stages, it would be impossible for them to merge.

If a strong individual gave a high level Totem to a low level Totem User directly, this high level Totem would not be able to adapt to the Totem User, and would cause the required Totem Strength consumption to increase rapidly in a short span of time. This would make it undergo terrifying changes that had the potential to suck the life out of a low level Totem User.

A Totem User needed to cultivate their Totems to ensure that the Totems would feed the Totem User themselves during the process, so that their respective natures would be able to match with one another gradually. This was in order to reach the final combination stage in the end. Natures that were not matched, regardless of the level of the Totem, would only be burdens and encumbrances to the Totem User, and would not be of any support at all.

Thus, carelessly changing Core Totems was something that only low level Totem Users would attempt, because once they reached higher levels, only a handful of individuals would be willing to pay such a hefty price. After all, changing one's Core Totem and cultivating it from the start again would require a painstaking amount of time and effort. Most people, even the talented ones, needed at least ten years or more. Every high level Totem that they cultivated required sources of astronomical proportions.

### Primitive Totems

Totems hand-made by duplicating the cells of a living creature in Silver. These are the Totems used by most Luminarist.

When it came to Primitive Totems. They do not need to consume food, which also means that they are unable to accumulate energy. Everything is provided by the Totem User. Which is also why Evolution then takes two steps – accumulation and activation.

### Silver Totems

Totems made by a Derivator created by Obscuro Society using an unknow material. This has a lot of advantages as the controler of the device don't need to suply the Totems in energy, so that you can control more. These Silver Totems are slightly less powerfull than primitive ones but are easier to create, use and don't need to much talent. You only have to capture a living creature so that the controller make it half-blood half-silver.

**Empowered Totems**, one of the ways that is uses to refer to the Silver Totems, cannot be kept inside storage tools, but must be left outside. They also need to consume food and excrete.

One of the benefit of Silver Totems, they had a specific level of simple intelligence, and could act on their own away from the main body. There was no need to worry about their loyalty either, as he could monitor their movements at all times, and control their lives at his will.

Silver Totems are living organisms, which means their bodies naturally accumulate a certain amount of energy. Not only that, an increase of energy happens whenever food is consumed. This was the reason why evolution through Potential Points only needed one step – activation.

#### Empower Humans

"Then, you should know if there is a way to empower humans without being controlled?" Garen finally asked the question he had been yearning to ask.

"Empowering humans is our main area of research. Empowering a body itself is nothing new; the technique required is nothing difficult, but there is not much use for it either. No matter how strong a body is, it is impossible to evolve more powerfully than carefully selected living totems. Over at the headquarters, a significant number of people chose to be empowered in order to extend their lives." Reylan confirmed what Garen had in mind. "Although so, I do not recommend you to do that, brother."

### Series

There are three, **Animal series**, **Plant series**, and the theoretical **Elementary series**.

##### Animal Series

The animal series is the most common type of totem used and understood by Luminarists. It is also regarded as the most ubiquitous totem type. Various types of dangerous beasts can be evolved into powerful mythical creatures. Obviously, the level of difficulty increases when evolving to the next level. The animal series is the weakest, but also the most widely used.

The animal series is divided into three main groups: **Ground**, **Air**, and **Aquatic**. The types that are currently most popular include **wolf**, **leopard**, and **hawk**. Various schools of thought, associations, and workshops have done extensive research in those areas. These well-loved totem types were popularized on the market by the very first **Heath school** of thought that listed the top three most important composition theories, referred to as the **Heath theory**. This theory integrated various totem types, and finally concluded that the creation, manipulation and restoration of the wolf, leopard, and hawk totems were the simplest. The evolution of these totem types were also significantly easier than the rest. Therefore, this resulted in an increase in the sightings of these totems.

Each country has its own national animal. Moreover, a large majority also have their own important imperial totems. For example: Bateman Empire, White Bat. Vandermantia, White Swan; Kovitan Empire, Red Wolf.

##### Plant Series

The plant series belongs to a field which is on the cutting edge of research by high-level Luminarists. It also possesses great power, and can be used for self-healing purposes. It is the most sought after totem skill. According to previous accounts, this totem type has been seen a few times throughout history, but quickly disappeared from the scene thereafter.

The first stage of the plant series is similar to the second form of the animal series. However, the level of difficulty is ten times harder than the animal series, regardless of creation or lighting up, restrained or manipulated. Therefore, Luminarists still mainly use the animal series.

##### Elemental Series

The elementary series, a type of totem that was worshipped by the **Phantom Light** users, was regarded as the most highly prized totem type. However, this series is still difficult to understand. If we were to say plant totem types still had traces for us to follow, elementary totems would be a myth that we knew nothing about. Thus, the elementary series remains theoretical, as there has been no proof that anyone has been able to create it.

## Evolutions

Any normal creature and Totem can evolve into strong, legendary creatures. It all depends on how is nurtured its evolution. However, the amount of financial and physical resources is extraordinarily high together with the evolution requirements and success rates were terrifyingly low. If you are not noblemen, evolution should not be something you can afford at all. This demonstrates clearly the gap among Luminarists.

Totem nurturing, in practice, had uncountable changes, just like the evolution of a creature. By satisfying different requirements, the evolution pathway would also be different.

Usually evolution is divided according to Form; the first form is definitely incapable of beating second form, and a form 2 definitely incapable of beating third form and so on. Besides that, there are tactics and precious heirlooms that will affect the level of strength. Of course, there is also the manipulator’s strategy and natural talent. Let’s put everything aside and talking about totems alone. Of the totems, the strongest is The Ultimate totem. This means that the totem has reached the highest level imaginable for evolution. Ultimate represents the end of possible evolution. Although such, when it comes to which ultimate totem is stronger than the other, it boils down to the nature of the body itself. The better the nature of the body, the harder it is to evolve, but the stronger it is after evolution. If the nature of the body is good and the number of evolution undergone is high, when and if the totem has finally evolved into its final form, it would be horrifying. Just like the black striped white tiger that you have brother, if it evolved into the fourth form, the power it holds is unimaginable.

### Totem Power Ranked

Totem power is ranked based on the evolution form of their totem.

* **First Form:** In this the Totem is a normal creature and a little stronger than a living one.
* **Second Form:** In this the Totem obtain special abilities and it would essentially be a killing machine.
* **Third Form:** In this case the Totem is like a creatures of legend; each extremely tough.
* **Fourth Form:** Some secretive big organization even has a this unique form.
* **Fifth Form:** Also known as Form 4 Aberration. These powerful Aberration Totems were far superior to most Totems, as they were aberration types that were specially forged and nurtured for strong individuals. An example of this would be the Grand Duke’s Platinum Dragonhawk, the most suitable Core Totem for a Grand Duke. The Form 4 Aberration Totem, which was also designated as Form 5, was also officially acknowledged as the strongest level that had ever existed in the whole world.

There are even some that could mutate based on the user’s talents to form the ultimate talent creature.

#### Variant

For the Obscuro Society, although **Totems** can be classified into animals, plants, and elementals, They were in fact of a unified division. Such was the internal levels of the Obscuro Society.

The Obscuro Society categorizes all the **Totems** under them into six levels.

* **First Form**
* **Second Form**
* **Third Form**
* **Spiritualization**
* **Fourth Form**
* **Fifth Form**

Only the strongest two marshals have achieved the fifth form. Their exact strength was an unknown, but definitely not something an average person can match. In fact, this path was the path of the elemental totems and spiritualization was the beginning of elementalization. All elemental **Totems** were at least at the third form of spiritualization.

According to Reylan’s judgment, spiritualization is obtained naturally through the evolution process. If they had poor innate talent or bad cultivating resources, the evolved totem will not have spiritualization. This is the difference between the quality of Evolution. Even the same type of Totem will have differing strength with different cultivations.

#### Whirlpool Beasts

The Whirlpool Beast is a unique high-level Totem among the Animal Totems. It was a theoretical model made by Luminarist Forgers in order to achieve manmade Spiritualization. It is known as the Animal Totem closest to Spiritualization. A normal Form Three Totem is no match for it. Its ability is to distort energy fields, it can swallow all creatures into its gut, digest them and then turn them into distortive power. The power of the Whirlpool Beast isn’t something that Form Twos can compare to.

They look like A large silver hunting hound-like creature. The strangest part about it was that it didn’t have a hunting hound’s face. Instead, it was a fluid silver whirlpool, spinning continuously, as though its whole body only contained this silver fluid. The silver whirlpool kept extending inwards, as though the deepest parts of its body could be seen through the head. The whirlpool hound was as tall as a man, silver fur all over its body.

### Top Level Primitive Totem

"Top level Primitive Totem Users have encountered a weird phenomenon. The Totem Light brought by their totems would bring changes to their own bodies, making it stronger and healthier, as well as extending their life. There were even totem users that merged themselves with their totems, becoming a collective body. This was the highest power imaginable achieved, which was also signified the birth of empowerment."

"Elemental Totems, Plant Totems, Animal Totems. In actuality, these 3 types of totems would definitely reach that stage. The main body and the totem will merge to become one, transforming into an inhuman being that exhibits the terror of a totem. This is Obscuro Society’s main goal. Brother, if you want to walk this path, the requirements are of high difficulty. When it comes to technical abilities, even I myself would not be able to help. This type of technical ability requires too much, even if I were to research for more than ten years, it would not guarantee any success." Reylan rejected Garen’s train of thought, "Obscuro society had researched for so many years, and only reaped a small area of technical success. Let’s not even consider the possibility if I were to do this alone.

### Rare Totems

This book, that Garen was reading, was a complete glossary of rare Aberration Totems, and was similar to the atlas that Edin had given him earlier. That book was kept in the underground library inside Blue Bay manor. He opened the book cover, skipped past the foreword and preface, and went straight to the table of contents. Suddenly, rows of faint words appeared in front of Garen’s eyes. Much like a tree, the entire table of contents were divided into many little branches.

‘**Aberration Totem** ---- **Idealized Totem** ---- **Coincidence Totem** ---- **Sacrificial Totem** ---- **Ancestral Totem**’ Below the four main groups were countless thin branches that listed out the various types. Naturally, the books that were stored here were not those that had regular research contents, instead, they contained deeper research that could not be found outside. Garen read the bottom part attentively. Soon, he found a tiny branch of words at the Ancestral Totem pane. ‘**Swamp Nine-Headed Snake** ---- 8882’ The words at the back were the page numbers.

Above the **Nine-Headed Snake** was the **Moth Wing Giant Lizard**, while the **Rainbow Bird** was below it. These two animals were species that only existed during ancient eras. He flipped to the Nine-Headed Snake’s page number immediately. The records on top appeared before Garen’s eyes instantly.

**‘Swamp Nine-Headed Snake** ---- The ultimate overlord of the swamp areas during the ancient times; great life force, uses strong sound waves to attack airborne creatures, and takes on the Dragon Demon’s life after confusing it. Entrenched in the deepest part of the swamp, it releases endless amounts of poisonous gas. It is the main producer of poisonous fumes in places with toxic swamp types…’

Garen read carefully, but realised that the above records were mostly things that he already understood. He felt that they were only added recently, and was perhaps information that was only discovered by researching his Totems. Wordlessly, he remembered Ivycius’ plant series Flowering Plant Totems. After looking through the book for a while, he quickly found the **White Rose Totem**.

**‘White Rose Totem:** Plant series Totem, exists in theory. Flowering Plant Totems have strict cultivation requirements, requires the blood of immediate family members as raw materials, and needs sustenance from a part of one’s close relative’s Totem Power. Before it achieves Spiritualization, its power is weak, but after Spiritualization, its power will increase explosively. According to rumors, once Flowering Plant Totems are successfully cultivated, it can hastily sustain the spirits of its relatives. This has not been proven to be real or not.’ Behind were different kinds of variations, and the White Rose Totem was divided into different types, and each type had a general introduction. Their abilities were also abundant and strange, but most of them were either poisonous or illusion types.

Garen began to find Veska’s ocean whirlpool type Totem. But it was slightly harder to find it this time. The Totem images that resembled large whirlpools, included four different types of Totems.

**Siren Totem:** An Aberration Creature that was theoretically cultivated, it was the result of a small family’s accidental experiment, and when this Siren Totem was born, it used its singing voice to destroy the whole family, before mysteriously disappearing.

**Beluga Whale Totem:** The overlord of the ocean, the Beluga Whale, can stir up huge whirlpools to hide itself.

**Elemental Totem Ocean:** Pure Ocean Totems, that were theoretically formed by the successful evolution of Elemental Totem water spirits. Possesses exceptional attack control even in large ranges. Its units of power are not very strong, but its wave range is the largest among all the other types. Its master, Minister Veska can even attack creatures within distances of a few thousand meters. It is one of the strongest war Totems. Although the news about Veska’s Totem experiments were recorded above, the ability section that Garen was most concerned about was just a blank space.

The same **Elemental Totems** also included **Earth Elementals**, a creature that was purely made up with soil, also known as a humanoid that could control terrain changes.

**Ghost Wind**, a strange formless Totem, had very little information, but was immune against any type of movement based attacks, and could only be harmed by abilities with static natures.

**Lava Rock Men**, high-temperature humanoids made of lava, abilities still unknown.

Garen scanned past these entries, and noticed some **Item Totems** above. **Weapon Totems**, much like **God Cloud’s chains**, and **Green Dragon Swordsman’s sword light**. **Armor Totems**, like the **Triangular Shields** of the wall generals who had just sacrificed themselves for the Kingdom.

There were also **Sacrificial Totems** that, through certain secretive measures that led to countless successful cultivations when put together, used these measures to allow it to swallow itself, before finally obtaining an ultimate **Totem King**, before then using these sacrificial means to borrow the **Totem King’s power**. The most successful **Totem King system**, belonged to Daniela.

Daniela’s strongest Totems, were not the King of Daniela’s Core Totems, but rather a **Cthulhu Totem** that had been successfully evolved by the **Totem King**. It had swallowed the ninety-nine Totem Kings that were cultivated in the world, and achieved Cthulhu status, only allowing families of specific bloodlines to borrow its strength. **Cthulhu Totems** possessed unimaginable strength, and no one knew their true power. No one knew how many levels they had evolved.

Daniela’s possession of the Cthulhu was their strongest form of protection. It was like Kovitan’s extremely powerful Caeserton Ultimate Protection. Ender had ancient mystical Giant Stone Sculpture battle groups. The three large kingdoms each had their own trump cards, and this was the result of the three main Emperor’s painstaking efforts.

When **Elemental Totems** were first successfully called **Core Totems**, they allowed Totem Users to quickly leap towards Spiritualized status, however, the starting point was extremely high, and evolution was also extremely difficult.

This book recorded many cases, and all of them were examples of **Elemental Totems** that could not evolve successfully. It was different from the information outside that depicted the **Elemental Totems** as legendary items, as this place clearly pointed out the existence of these **Elemental Totems**. Obscuro Society was one of the representations of success. Once Garen had finished reading this book on that introduced Totems, more than two hours had passed already.

His Totem knowledge had also become much deeper from when he first started. The Nine-Headed Dragon was actually not as amazing as the other extremely strong Totems. Moreover, the entire **Aberration Totem series** was unlike other Totem series.

Other than Elemental Totems, he could easily find a Totem that was stronger than the Nine-Headed Dragon. The Storm Elemental Totem for example, was a terrifyingly powerful black storm, and this was only its primary body, because after its first evolution, it would become a Hurricane Totem. Two people in history had obtained this Totem, and they were known as Hurricane Kings. Each of them could single-handedly dominate a war. When regular Totem Users stood before them, all who came to fight would end up dead.

‘Mass war tactics were ineffective’ These comments were a bloody lesson that arrived in exchange for the life of an ancient kingdom. There was also the **Hill King Totem**, an **Elemental Totem** made up of large rocks, which evolved and was known as the **Mountain King**, and once the entire Totem fused with the Totem User, it would transform into a large endless mountain that spanned over ten thousand kilometers, swallowing the three thousand elite Form 3 Totem Users that once invaded its homeland, destroying their Tactical Thunderstorm Formation at the same time.

These peak Totem records flashed past Garen’s eyes continuously. He was initially unconvinced, but seeing these Totems that were more frightening than myths, he knew that his own strength could not compare to these deviants. To be able to rank within a hundred of them already meant that he was strong enough.

However, although these Totem Users were extremely powerful, they all shared one characteristic. Their short life spans. Using these powers that could be considered the pinnacle of strength, in other words, made them grow old and reach their deaths quicker.

No one found the reason yet, but the most popular assumption was that they used strong powers that greatly surpassed themselves, but did not have an equally strong spirit to control them. In the end, they were affected by these powers and were ultimately assimilated.

Excluding Elemental Totems, there were still Daniela’s Nineteen Cthulhus, and besides the strongest Cthulhu King, the other eighteen **Cthulhu Totems** were distributed in different areas, each occupying their own territories and providing protection for the local Totem Users, and accepting their sacrifices.

## Links and References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 237
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Chapter 255
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Chapter 257
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 277
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 252
6. ↑ Chapter 256
7. ↑ Chapter 292
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Chapter 404
9. ↑ Chapter 254
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11. ↑ Chapter 299
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