"Why do you think this is the case?" Hearing the question directed at him, Jyorta readily shook his head, unable to give any thoughts on the matter. Seeing his action, Madam Rizenne shifted her gaze, lingering it on the girl to his right.
Seeing the girl too repeat the sa action, Madam Rizenne diverted her gaze to the 7th row, glancing between a couple of faces. After 30 seconds passed in such a manner, Madam Rizenne stopped her action, clicking a button on the remote held in her hand, and switching the image on the screen.
Two pictures, placed side by side, one a regular human, and the other, a human that had nurous cancerous outgrowths on his body. Glancing at the second image, the students averted their gazes, with so sporting expressions that were on the verge of puking their lunches.
Jyorta closed his eyes; the blue soul overlaid the false persona, one of calm, optimism, and filled with focus, subtly affecting his ntality. But, it failed to suppress his budding disgust, instigating a reaction in his stomach.
'I should next create a false persona that would help keep my levelheadedness while faced with disgusting stuff.' Jyorta trained his ears, listening to the sounds from his batch mates. He planned to open his eyes only when the atmosphere returned to normal.
Madam Rizenne changed the image on the screen, replacing it with a single black dot, "Starting next month, you will be trained to get accustod to seeing such aberrations. After all, the image I flashed now is nothing compared to a Tier 4 Ring Worm, which is by far, the definition of ugliness in the Wild Zones."
"Coming back to the topic," Madam Rizenne waved her hands, emitting a gentle flux of psychic energy, turning it pale blue, calming the moods of everyone present. "If the Skills are sothing manifested by a change in DNA, then it would exhibit physical mutations. It would beco sothing like the second picture I showed just now."
"But, it doesn't happen. Irrespective of the Tier of the Warriors, they retain their human appearance, lacking any physical mutation or deformity." Madam Rizenne pressed another button, showcasing the image of a glass tumbler, filled with water. Placed next to it were gems, each radiating their own colours, akin to natural luminescence.
It was a video, recorded as an example. A hand picked up a red gem and dropped it in the water. Due to the refraction of the light emitted by the red gem, the water turned red. The hand removed the red gem and then dropped an orange gem, making the water turn orange. The process was repeated with gems of different colours, from red to violet.
"Skills are a definite manifestation of a fusion between two DNA strands, originating from the human and the Wisdom Parasite, forming the base. They then form a cluster with similar DNA strands and create new genes, deriving the genes originating from the human body, shaping its structure. They finally beco a genetic material capable of manifesting a biological change."
She raised a finger, pausing to emphasise her next sentence, "But, that would have been the case were the created gene allowed to affect the human body. Upon completion, the gene settles within and modifies a part of the Wisdom Parasite."
She brought her palm forward, allowing everyone to see it clearly. Using her psychic energy, she created a filant before her, distorting the light, forming a lens that magnified her palm and the space above.
Tendrils of blood, numbering in the hundreds gushed out from the pores on her face, coagulating into a crimson sphere in the fraction of a second. A section appeared along its middle, parting it into two. The two hemispheres rotated in opposite directions, unravelling a long cylindrical body.
Grooves appeared along the cylindrical body, segnting it into six. A pair of arms ford in the second segnt, while a pair of legs ford in segnts 4, 5, and 6. Feminine facial features, almost humanoid, appeared on the first segnt, with the top morphing into hair, braided, spanning the length of three segnts.
The mont it appeared, it began to wriggle its body along the centre, dancing. It was Madam Rizenne's Caterpillar. Through the lens she had created through her psychic energy, Madam Rizenne allowed everyone to gaze at the magnified image of her Caterpillar.
She opened her mouth, her voice crystal clear, "Look at how my Caterpillar's body has six segnts. The case is the sa for the Warrior's Centipede. Now, you might wonder why I am ntioning this, since both the Caterpillar and the Centipede are just the manifestation of the Wisdom Parasite's psyche and not their actual bodies."
She retracted her Caterpillar, dissolving it into blood tendrils before absorbing them into her body, the process faster than when she summoned it. "You might not have noticed it during your Induction Ceremony but, there were five grooves on the Wisdom Parasite, segnting it into six. The lines were so faint that you wouldn't have realised unless you observed with focus in close proximity."
"Each segnt pertains to a Tier of the Wisdom Parasite, or its evolutionary potential to say the least. This ans that all the Wisdom Parasites, the ones injected during the Induction Ceremony have a chance to evolve until Tier 6, which is their final form."
"Now, when an Observer Nurtures his Tier 1 Skill, it ans a gene has been created as explained before. But, this gene lodges itself in the first segnt, i.e. the parts where the first segnt of the Wisdom Parasite has fused in our spine and modifies it. This causes the spine to experience nurous changes. Since the changes are to an internal organ, we won't find any change in our external appearance." Madam Rizenne lifted the hand that held the remote, pointing at the screen behind her.
"Observe the example depicted in it, you can consider the Skills as the coloured gems. Alone, their effect is not apparent. But, when imrsed in the glass of water, their effect is pronounced. In the case of Warriors, their energy is the equivalent of water. It changes depending on the Skill actuating it." She smiled, depicting the image of a Wisdom Parasite, with its body separated into six parts by a red coloured line.
Upon a click, another image flashed below it, grossly mutated, a realistic image. It was segnted into six too, with the sixth segnt blurred beyond recognition. "The ones above are the six segnts of a Wisdom Parasite, while the ones below are the changes they experienced after Nurturing a Skill at each Tier. This is a specin image extracted from a Transforr who had died 8 years ago, after gaining his permission before death."
The first segnt on the bottom had slight spikes, minute in size. It was covered in patches of green, showcasing a slight shrinkage in size. The second segnt was similar to the first, slightly amplified in its features.
The third ford a stark contrast with the rest, silver-blue in colour, shaped like a jelly, mottled with pores oozing out a green fluid. Fus spewed out of it from the pores on the top, with its ends slightly lted.
The fourth segnt looked rock solid, but on a closer look, a fluid seed to flow beneath the rough exterior, faintly varying the exterior at gradual intervals.
The fifth segnt looked no different from the fifth segnt aboveone belonging to the Wisdom Parasite before Nurturing a Tier 5 Skillexcept being smaller in size. Suddenly, it ballooned in size, becoming ten tis the original, exhibiting characteristics of all the other four segnts. It then shrunk once again, reverting to the plain appearance from before.
"Rember that their appearance varies based on the Skills the individual had Nurtured. The fifth segnt is more or less similar to everyone, thanks to us Nurturing the sa Skill at Tier 5." Madam Rizenne pressed another button, flashing a tabular column.
The title of the tabular column was, 'Observer Skills'. It showcased three columns, 'Serial Number', 'Skill Na', and 'Skill Effect' and 20 rows. It seed that the list continued but due to the available space on the screen, only 20 rows were displayed.
"The majority of the beings, humans, and Frenzy Beasts included are comprised of Warriors. Therefore, learning about the various Skills they possess is of the utmost priority." Madam Rizenne raised her voice, "Every race produces a set of Skills at each Tier, with the appearance of so Skills forming the majority."
"Depending on the Skill used, you can determine which race the individual originated from. Very few Skills sh between the different races. Most of the races have their own distinct set of skills. We will be talking about them in today's class." Madam Rizenne said, pointing at the screen behind her, "We will first talk about the Skills humanity possess and has Nurtured to date. This data is inclusive of all the human cities."
"Based on the records," Madam Rizenne paused once, glancing around the auditorium, checking the reception of the students present, continuing with a satisfactory nod, "There are 87 different Skills Nurtured at Tier 1, 46 Skills Nurtured at Tier 2, 21 Skills Nurtured at Tier 3, 6 Skills Nurtured at Tier 4, and one Skill at Tier 5."
She let out a wry smile, "There is also another Skill at Tier 5 but it is a military secret; unless you join the related departnt in the future, you will never co to know about it."
"Now, we'll go into detail about the Skills of Observers."
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