Qi

**Qi** or **Ki** is the life energy of a person. They are able to use life energy in attacks and defence. During the Magical Era of Earth, it was still regarded as a relatively new concepts to Humans at the time of the Shadow Plague.

# Relation between Qi and Mana

Mana is the energy borrowed from the world's energy, while Qi is the energy from within the body. While Mages could increase their Mana pool with Beast Crystals, Qi users could not, therefore the former were socially more valuable than the latter.

Gathering **Qi** and Mana were very similar, but the latter drew energy from the outside rather than the inside. They were in fact two sides of the same coin, as they were the same type of energy.

When one had both Qi and Mana, one could infuse Qi with elemental attributes.

# Types of Qi

There are two types of Qi, one is the Qi that has been increased due to your training it is safe to use it in combat. Second is Life force Qi, it is the life force of one's body some call it the true Qi. This is where all the Qi originates in one's body. It affects one's life span if use this type of Qi.

# Stages of Qi

* First Stage of Qi
	+ how to use Qi in your body
	+ how to move Qi around to different parts of your body
	+ how to infuse Qi into items or things you are touching
	+ the most important thing is to increase your Qi output strength
* Second Stage of Qi (Chapter 782)
	+ how to externally release Qi to coat the outside of the body like an invisible shell of armor or you can coat your weapon and infuse it with power
	+ the second stage allows us to encompass something external, like a weapon to give it a power boost.
	+ It can even disrupt other peoples life force when hit by it
* Third Stage of Qi
	+ how to externally release Qi on it's own without physical contact
	+ The third stage of Qi allows us to use Qi itself as a means of attack.
* Fourth Stage of Qi - reinforce
	+ A form of Soul weapon enhancement that does not require the individual to have an ability
	+ If one person was to use it too long, they would have to fuel it with their real "life energy" (chapter 1082)
	+ it is not needed to know the third stage to access the fourth stage (chapter 952)
	+ The fourth stage of Qi is something that only those that don't have an ability seem capable of learning.
* Fifth Stage of Qi
	+ it allows us to insert Qi into an object, a person, or even a being, and give them a type of command.
	+ the fifth stage of Qi is something that only members of Pure have reached.

# Effects of Qi on the Human body

## Sensation

Qi felt like a warm sensation in the body, as if the cells were on fire.

## Counterindication of teaching Qi to children

During the Magical Era, it was counterindicated to train children to practice Qi because it could damage their internal organs. Qi was only taught starting at the age of 15 years old, as the body was deemed capable of enduring the stress it put.

## Reducing aging trough Qi

Humans could slow down the aging process and live for hundreds of years when they became talented masters of Qi. This property was known ever since the Magical Era.

## Metabolism acceleration

It was possible to accelerate the metabolism trough Qi, and in the process haste the elimination of alcohol by the cells' lysosomes.

# History

## During the Magical Era

During the Magical Era, knowledge of Qi was widespread in the militaries of the Bronzeland continent. It was systematically taught to knights, and therefore covering a sword with Qi was expected for any accomplished knight. In the Avrion Academy, **Qi** was a mandatory subject in the second year. Unharmed combat with Qi was however not popular, and Von's training room in the Avrion Academy was empty for this reason. It was Von that taught **Qi** to Ray Talen. Adventurers were however not typically introduced to Qi.

## During the Magicless Era

Like Magic, Qi went to be almost completely forgotten and became an occult knowledge restricted to a chosen few. The ancient knights of Avrion evolved into the Altered Hunters. After all the Magical Beasts were exterminated on Earth, it's only trough reviving some with Magical Beast fossils and a Nest Crystal that new Magical Beasts would appear. From their Beast Crystals, Humans were beasted and they were called Altered. the Altered Hunters perpetuated their ancient missions of killing Magical Beasts by killing the Altered, their last trace on the planet. While pretty much all their members were familiar with handling Beast Gear using **Qi**, only few of them were aware of **Qi** formally. The Hunt family were one of the families of Altered Hunter, and among them Blake Hunter inherited the power of their spiritual founder, Gary Bluebird. Sabre Hunt (Zero) would be a descendant from that family centuries in the future.

In Virtual Sword God!, the concept of sword energy is quite similar to **Qi** but differs on a crucial point however : **Qi** had 5 stages (and only the three first were known since the Magical Era), while sword energy had 9 levels. The first level could coat a blade in energy and stop bullets, while this would require the 2nd and perhaps even 3rd stages of **Qi** to do the same.

## During the Dalki Wars

Before the Dalki Wars, Sabre Hunt and his students (such as Leo Suiyan) were among the few that still transmitted the ancient art of Qi. Their forced relocation to another planet to fight in the frontlines against the Dalki caused Hunt to harbor a strong hatred of Earth's military and led him to found Pure to oppose them. He taught it to his first new students Chris and Lucy. In Pure, all the top 20 members would be initiated to Qi.

At that time, it was almost completely unknown to the Vampires (since one needed to have Human aura to perform it), with the exception of Richard Eno (that learned it when he was an Human knight of Avrion).

Leo Suiyan and Chris taught Quinn Talen, and himself had it taught to many members of the Cursed Faction, sometimes trough Leo or trough Nate Snell. Quinn Talen taught the basics of Qi to Owen Graylash, and he would later grow so fond of it he would continue to learn it as far as he could reach, enabling him to live an unusually long life.

## During the Spacefaring Age

Qi eventually became very widespread, to the point almost every Human mastered the first stage. Most Humans now knew how to block vampiric Influence with Qi. Pure now discovered the fifth stage, but it remained limited to their top members. However, all members were now allowed to learn Qi at all, not just the top 20.

# References

1. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 200
2. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 57
3. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 284
4. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 504
5. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 80
6. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 57
7. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 23
8. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 23
9. ↑ My Dragon System, ch. 503
10. ↑ My Werewolf System, ch. 358
11. ↑ My Werewolf System, ch. 579
12. ↑ My Werewolf System, ch. 358, 463, 465, 549
13. ↑ Virtual Sword God!, ch. 128