Characters:

MC - ~1000, dark hair, beard, tall and wiry, long but slightly handsome face (his own opinion). Real name is Drew Lian, he doesn't really like names though, so he barely uses it. Born on Earth, somehow ended up in the body of a mortal in a random cultivation (CV) world upon his death. He spend the next thousand years learning everything he could get his grubby hands on, earning him the ire of many sects and organizations. Ascended after a relatively short amount of time, got slapped to a different dimension for reasons. Loves gardening and making stuff. Mind/braincore & body/heartcore cultivator.

Mount: Big blue bear.

Style: Not needed, he can calculate the most optimal movement at anytime.

Lola - 2 weeks, white, cute fluff ball. Cultivator bunny. MC’s pet. Cute bundle of fluff, body/heartcore cultivator. Did I mention she is cute?

Tree - 1 week, semi sentient tree. MC initially only talked it into giving him shelter, he then came back later and turned it into his private mini pocket dimension garden. Turning into an avid gardener and landscaper.

Tess - 17, long black hair, blue eyes, skinny frame. Street kid from Tower City. Found by MC on the 8th floor of the Tower dungeon, half dead and dying. Lola saved her, forcing the MC to kill or rescue her. MC then decided to kidnap a few other kids and take them as disciples. Likes shadows and skulking around unseen. Dantian/gutcore cultivator.

Mount: Big, black feathered cat.

Style: Low Profile Sneak - all about hiding and sneaking attacks. High precision strikes with low profile walking methods. Knife & Dagger & Spear

Ket - 17, short black hair, dark eyes. Depressed autistic antisocial kid. Typical bully case, treated as trash while he tried to make a career as bag carrier for dungeon delvers. Kidnapped by MC for his metal affinity and made into a student. Now he loves and lives numbers all day, every day. Mind/braincore cultivator.

Mount: Shiny metal horse.

Style: Punch & Kick - very normal and standard set of fighting moves. Average in all aspects.

Suicidal - Full attack focussed techniques, no defence at all.

Vox(ander) - 18, red hair, smidgen of scales around navel, pale skin. Ex-noble with slight beast traits. He got exiled when they came to light as he went through puberty, somehow survived a year in the forest he got dumped in. Acts flamboyant as a cover, light affinity. Uses lasers and can heal pretty good. Dantian/gutcore cultivator.

Mount: Fur covered, long maned, yellow snake.

Style: Precision in Position - 100% precision focussed. Pure muscle control techniques that focus on micrometer precision movements.

Rapid Swift Speed - Speed, speed, speed and more speed. This is Sonic’s fighting style, gotta go fast! Naginata (for both).

Bord - 15, fat kid, short, blonde hair & blue eyes. Pampered little boy that was getting fattened by a noble. Body/heartcore cultivator. Likes to play with weight.

Mount: Cithin covered, dark brown bull.

Style: Curve of the Earth - All about spinning and moving in circles. Use the centrifugal force of the spin to punch, kick in big and heavy swinging movements. Also, rolling on the ground.

Stampede Trample Step - Use muscles of entire body to quickly jump of. Use the entire body like a pogo stick to change direction.

Angeta - 20, fur covered cat beast person. Has tail? Maybe? She never shows it if she does have it. Looks like a human female with a full body beard. Weird ears. Dantian/gutcore cultivator. Likes to play with nature stuff.

Mount: Scaled capybara with red face & feet.

Style: Jungle Swing & Spring - Movement that bends like reeds in the wind, followed by a fist or like like a falling tree. Lots of moving around, techniques for jumping of off trees and swinging on vines. 2H longsword & 2H hammer

Selis - 16, short blue fuzz, short in general, big blue eyes. Born in a minor merchant family, her parents thought her slightly retarded. She just has horrible, horrible eyesight. Likes to play with water.

Mount: Big, dark blue rooster.

Style: Dumb Heavy Smash - all about brute force. No tricks, just smashing stuff. Defence = attacking the attack. Greatsword & Flail & Rapier

Rhea (Re-Haan Ra-Lush-Neer Hu-Ungu Le-Fetsun) - Couple of thousand years, bigass white dragon. Got send away from her home to keep watch over a part of the continent, has to keep an eye on potentially balance breaking mana disturbances. Usually naps the years away until the MC embroiled her into his schemes.

Master Fellis - ??, one of Tower City’s most influential nobles.

Places:

Shi-eit Kingdom - Human ruled kingdom. We know about the following cities:

Capital - Biggest city around, massively dependant on imports from land and sea, no dungeon of its own (as far as we know, que spooky music).

Tower City (Neutalinn) - Dungeon city built around a massive pillar sticking up into the sky. MC caused it to snap in half somehow. No sparkling dungeon core at level 100, just a freaky possibility eliminating quantum computer thing. Bosses give mainly metal, weapons and armour. Every ten floors is called a decad.

Peak City (Kardel) - Dungeon city build against a single side of a dark brown triangular pyramid dungeon. Gives mainly furniture and construction materials. Its buildings are build with a variety of leftovers from material shipments. Exports the majority of the dungeon loot.

Mage Isles - To the north of the Shi-eit Kingdom, the waters are infested with pirates and the mages are doing nothing to stop them from pillaging. Unless you hire an expensive mage escort, of course.

Beastkin Territories - To the east of the Kingdom, caste based society. Born a farmer = always a farmer. A goat-kin will never rule, a lion-kin will never farm. Habitants are more human than animal. No furries here, just fur covered humans with weird ears.

Magic & Cultivation:

Core locations:

Braincore - Anyone who automatically forms a braincore is hunted down and killed in the CV world. Ancient and current texts are filled with warning against this CV practice and scare people away from this path. CV’s who cultivate with this core go insane, their mind starts to belong to a higher level universe, so they lose touch with the current one. They get lost in the data flows and become terminally depressed because their ascended minds can see the end of all things, a couple of billion years later. Unless they dumb themselves down through automation, aka, locking away parts of their intellect with inefficient, automated tasks.

Heartcore - Body CV’s have their cores in their heart. All the qi they absorb gets deposited inside their flesh and bones, limiting their ability to cast complicated spells, but making their bodies incredibly powerful. Near immunity to poison & cold. Instincts & reflexes get boosted a lot.

Gutcore - Standard cultivation method, they form a core in their dantian, behind the navel. A small portion of their qi strengthens their bodies, leaving most available for use in techniques and spells.

Cultivation realms:

Qi gathering - Initial cultivation phase, all about learning qi control and gathering qi.

Qi condensation - The completely filled gaseous core is squeezed until it collapses into a minuscule droplet of liquid. Need sufficient mental powers to do so.

Core forming - The completely filled liquid core is squeezed into a single minuscule crystal. This core crystal can be surrounded by gas or liquid qi. Liquid qi is a lot harder to use but causes the crystal to grow a lot faster. Growth versus fighting power.

Solid core - Core space is completely filled with crystal. Cultivation starts getting more and more esoteric and mystical from this point on. There is no set way to advance from here on out, need to start forming your own Dao.

Foundation - Use the fully formed core to carve out the first stone of you foundation. Can literally take any form, from the first brick of a house in a potential city, to the first seed in a grainfield. MC in CV world made his core into a single page, then a book, then a shelf, then a row of shelves, then… etc.

There are a lot of stages in between these, every realm officially has like 9 steps. MC does not like using these. Every person is different, making up your own path of cultivation also prevents a lot of bottlenecks. The CV method of one person is not suited for another person, this is all extremely personal. Guidance can be sought, never copied verbatim.

Spiritual sense: This form a sensing sounds fancy, but it’s just spreading out your qi and feeling for the gaps. Conscious effort has to be applied to sink qi into solid materials, even more effort is required to sink it into living beings. This is basically a cultivators radar. The range is dependant on the mental strength of a CV. Spreading your qi too far causes it to slip from the CV’s control.

Divine sense: Normally, late stage foundation CV’s start generating a much more refined version of qi, the MC calls this augur. This fine energy seeps through molecules on a quark level, allowing for molecule precise manipulation. Friction between free qi and passive qi causes this energy to start forming. It’s like a fine powder formed from a lot of rocks banging together, like a ball mill. The fine powder is augur, the rocks represent qi.

Local magic mana flavours and emotions:

Element

Positive

Negative

Wood

Compassion

Anger

Fire

Joy

Anxiety

Earth

Trust

Apathy

Metal

Anticipation

Grief

Water

Courage

Fear

Air

Admiration

Loathing

Note that these are all based on the MC’s understanding. Misinterpretations are things that can happen.