Re: Tales of the Run Chapter 590: Pangea’s Ascension & Verdantis’s Sorcery

Chapter 590: Pangea’s Ascension & Verdantis’s Sorcery

CH590 Pangea’s Ascension & Verdantis’s Sorcery

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Due to their limited information, Alex and his party had initially assud that Verdantis’ Combat Warriors were the plane’s equivalent of warriors, that Sorcerers were the equivalent of mages, and that the Clergy roughly corresponded to warlocks.

He later received important information which led him to suspect this was wrong. And now, after reading through the knowledge preserved by the Heavenly Venerable, Alex confird his doubts.

’The different branches of Sorcery contradict that characterisation,’ Alex mused.

’Sorcery appears to be an entire cultivation system in itself.’

’In fact, one could argue that Sorcery is the true cultivation path of Verdantis, while the Combat Warriors and Clergy are rely substitutes created by the Navi after the exile of the Sorcerers at the end of the Era of Sorcery.’

’If that is the case, then I should be comparing Sorcery with Pangea’s entire cultivation system, rather than comparing it solely with the magic system.’

Alex slowly sat down on the floor beside the shelf he had been reading from.

He placed the scroll in his hand on the ground and sank deeper into contemplation.

’Even then, directly comparing Sorcery to Pangea’s Ascension path is also inaccurate. Sorcery and Ascension are asymtric systems that should be examined on their own rits rather than forced into an artificial equivalence. Their goals are fundantally different.’

’Pangea’s Ascension system is structured so that the three Class branches —Mage, Warrior, and Warlock— are essentially independent, and often even xenophobic toward one another. Once one commits to a particular class branch, one cannot train in the others.’

’The only exception tends to be individuals with exceptionally powerful bloodlines —like mine— that can forcibly bridge the gap between branches.’

’Verdantis’s Sorcery, on the other hand, seems to display a strong interconnectedness among its seven or so branches.’

’According to the scrolls, being a sorcerer of the Physique Tempering branch does not actually prevent one from casting "mystic arts