Chapter 34 - Mana Cultivation Stages, An Appearance For Domination (1/2)

Numerous ranged attacks were blasted, aiming at the armored titan skeleton that was on its knee in the opposite direction.

Those barrages of high destruction were deflected by the magic shield of the Avalanche Bringer.

After the dust settles, the giant skeleton hurled its left arms to punish the attacker with a concentrated dark energy, branching into thousands of seeking murderous lines that could break through a dense mana shield from an Early Alcazar Foundation stage cultivators.

One of the savage warriors with a gunlance and shield managed to rush deep into the heart of the Calamities ranks. He was in his Peak Alcazar Foundation stage, slicing and gunning down Calamities with a ground breaking force.

To start with the stages—a cultivator started from the 'Mana Gathering' phase, a phase that began when a mortal managed to train their consciousness strings to perceive a wavelength of raw mana, hidden in space where they took the shape of fragmented tiny strings.

Those tiny strings were referred to as 'raw mana', they won't do or affect anything in its original state in which a cultivator will connect three or more of them to create a mini reactor that acts like a fusion energy.

The shape and the string's amount will determine the quality and quantity of the mana it will produce, too many and complex will force it to go through an unstable phase where it would literally explode and kill any reckless amateur, too simple will give a low amount of mana.

After gaining enough mana to nourish the barren miniature depository realm or athenaeum, a cultivator will begin to create a shell to be a vessel for their golden orb, this phase is called 'Hollow Orb'. There were many rules and laws that could be followed for this orb's vessel creation and each path will give different benefits and demerit to their user.

When the hollow shell is done, it's time for them to form their golden orb. This phase is called the 'Golden Orb' stage, at first it was called the Golden Orb Construction phase but because there were too many new cultivators in this stage and it's too long to be worded, the early pantheons shortened it instead.

Numerous cultivation laws have a very different method for acquiring and constructing the Golden Orb core. Mana have their own quality and it could be nourished and enhanced further, by streaming them through a Golden Orb.

But all of this needed one essential material for their miniature realm cultivation.

It's called 'Elemental Essences'.

Elemental essence is the unnatural byproduct from the elements available within reality and out, there are thousands of them but most cultivators were majoring on the basic elements like fire, water, soil, wind, darkness, light and lightning. Some of the unusual elemental essences were divine essence, which could be gathered from the ashes and remains of the Angels.

And another example if unusual elemental essences are 'void'. To harness these harmful substances, they need to adapt their biological vessel to atomic level. This breakthrough in knowledge was still being kept by MF for numerous years, clenching into it tightly for her to abuse it alone.

'void' is rich in nature but it serves no purpose for MF as she couldn't even access her athenaeum.

Although a cultivator could also create a golden orb that is dissimilar from their cultivation law's path, if it matches with the attributes of their mana realm.

Example, Elon's Fire Magnet Orb allowed him to extract fire into pure elemental essence and use them to fuel his fire based spell, elevating it further together with his mana.

And then we have Foel's Encapsulating Storage Orb where instead of nourishing, it coated the streamlined mana into a capsule so that it won't get absorbed by the numerous and parasitic black holes inside her athenaeum.

When the miniature realm stores a massive amount of mana, they will begin to replicate the real world equivalent of the cultivation law they took. From barren wasteland into a mountainous domain of volcano, a high stone windy cliff, a sea world or even a world of gold. As the sea began to develop and continents arose, unique cultivation plants, mystical beasts or even an anomaly could appear.

After creating their golden orb, finding the center and grasping the entirety of one's own current miniature realm, they will gain an enlightenment.

Then they will pass through a 'Nascent Realm Enlargement' stage. Where they will gather an insurmountable amount of mana to push their miniature realm and expand it using the World Catalyst, allowing more land and places to be utilized for both storing energy, and facility construction.

But this phase isn't simple.

To breakthrough, a cultivator must need to reach a bottleneck in the expansion speed. Many failed at this stage due to the premature development of their golden orb that couldn't nourish enough quality mana and material to fuel the World Catalyst.

A cultivator could enter their consciousness into their miniature realm at will. A good cultivator would try to grow numerous materials inside it and create numerous facilities and defenses to protect their athenaeum.

Why? Because a miniature realm could be invaded and most cultivators store their resources and spell circuits schematic within their miniature realm for them to utilize, nobody wants their hard worked, developed unique spell and formation to be stolen.