The Copy Mage Chapter 50: Overview of Cultivation

Damian imrsed himself deep into the first few pages of the inheritance of the scroll and it was a massive eye-opener for Damian.

The first few pages were a summary and description of cultivation and were much more detailed and profound than anything he had ever heard of or co across up until that point.

[There are 4 base elents used by cultivators that are a part of almost everything. Fire, Water, Earth and Wind. Most mages and fighters unknowingly are elental mages that manipulate an elent that corresponds with the elent of their Soul Spirit, which is the base and focal point of humans' cultivation.

Fire Mages are known as Pyro Mages, Water Mages are known as Aqua Mages, Wind Mages are known as Acro Mages and Earth Mages are known as Terra Mages. It is the sa way for fighters that have Soul Spirits linked to the 4 base elents] recited Damian within his mind.

Damian was fascinated by everything he was learning about and his desire for knowledge continued to increase as he discovered more and more.

[It says that the 4 base elents are the most common elents and are the elents that are part of most other elents, but they are not the only elents and there are many other elents and specialisations that are not widely known and I don't currently have access to the knowledge about them] read Damian frustratedly, wanting to know more.

The Fire Elent allows Mages to perform Pyrokinesis, the ability to manipulate and create fire. The Fire Elent tends to be the most destructive of all elents, with very few defensive properties and skills. While also having similar effects on fighters, granting them explosive power and speed, and the ability to use Fighter Skills of the fire elent, but not much defence.

Abilities that use the Fire Elent can be affected by the weather. When it's sunny and arid, the potency of Fire is enhanced, but while when it's raining, humid, or underwater, the Fire Elent becos difficult and or even impossible to use.

The Water Elent allows Mages to perform Hydrokinesis, the ability to manipulate water at will. Water Magic can be considered to be the most adaptable of all the base elents, having the ability to transform into various states, like Ice and Vapor.

However, unlike the Fire Elent that has much more obvious and common applications and Soul Spirits, the water elent has almost no fighters that use it.

Also, most mages are not capable of using its different states with their Soul Spirits, as it requires the ability to use more than one elent. For example to produce vapour it would also require the fire elent to evaporate the water and would require a Soul Spirit with dual elental affinities.

The Water Elent can also be affected by the environnt, mostly depending on the humidity and weather.

The Wind Elent allows Mages to perform Aerokinesis, the ability to manipulate air and create wind at will. Unlike other elents, Wind Magic is not directly countered by any of the other elents, and can be considered the deadliest elent.

Users of the Wind Elent make up for the lack of physical defense capability with deflective and evasive moves. The Wind Elent can also be destructive depending on the Mage's or fighter's potential that would have similar applications, but different thods.

Acro Mages would use their internal energy to manipulate the air around them and use the wind elent, they have an affinity with, to enhance the speed of their bodies. While Acro Fighters, who would mostly be External Cultivators, directly use their affinity with the Wind elent to use Fighter Skills that enhance their bodies with the wind elent, but wouldn't be able to manipulate the air.

And unlike other elents, Wind Magic can directly affect weather, creating hurricanes or other wind-based phenona, but it is stated within the inheritance that only top masters were capable of doing so.

The Earth Elent allows Mages to perform Geokinesis, the ability to manipulate earth at will. While it's not necessarily earth, Geokinesis allows the user to manipulate most earthen minerals or any form of earth, such as rocks, sands, minerals like gemstones and crystals, and even Mud.

Boasting raw physical power and great mass, the Earth Elent is strong in both defensive and offensive capability, as well as pure destructive potential at the cost of the user's mobility, because Earth Magic is often accompanied with slow movent to be accomplished.

While fighters wouldn't have the capability of Geokinesis, they would be able to intwine their bodies more with the Earth elent, gaining more physical strength and fortitude than Mages from the earth elent.

Damian felt completely enlightened about how most Soul Spirits worked, as there were Soul Spirits that didn't have elental affinities such as beast Soul Spirits and Body Augntation Soul Spirits.

However from what Damian read, beast Soul Spirits would be ford from the humans either sharing the bloodline with the beast and or being descendants of the beasts, or humans who had a close affinity and similar composition to the beast to form a Soul Spirit.

While Body Augntation Soul Spirits were rely mutations ford by cultivators becoming more and more common and people absorbing energy to enhance their body, which ford the elentless Soul Spirit that enhances the user's body.

From what he read, Damian could see that it seed that Mages had the complete advantage over Fighters as they had their own unique capabilities and could also use skills and techniques that were ant to be unique to Fighters, but people still believed that Mages should only be support or ranged combatants, instead of close combat fighters.

Utsusu who was learning with Damian, was unlocking more and more knowledge that he had sealed within him and the more he learnt from Damian, the more he understood from his own sealed knowledge.

[In the current state I am in, I should beco both a Pyro Mage and a Pyro Fighter and after I gain other Soul Spirits I will delve into the other elents. But for now I will focus on the fire elent] decided Damian after digesting the overview of cultivation he had just read through and analysing the situation he was in, but he still couldn't relieve his curiosity.