Chapter 16 (Raw)

Don't be disheartened. It is better this way. Till this day, theres has not been any young cultivator to comprehend the ways under the age of forteen on record. On average, it will take about a cultivator to comprehend at the Elemantary Tier at their late twenties. Teenager cultivators that comprehend ways are considered Demonic Class prodigies and Peerless Emperor and Empress genius candidates in the mana cultivation world.

"You are only ten. Very young, but already a master bowman in this world as a normal human is by all means a miraculous accomplishment. With your mastery over the bow and arrow will no doubt propel you to comprehend a Bow Ways with your first ever breakthrough to becoming a new born mana cultivator. You will have a major avantage over your generation."

Cassandra was not happy nor upset. If such news were to leak out, a massive uproar would spread across the universe like the plaque. Cassandra felt that Eddie's archer talent was top notch that he would easily be a top ten finisher in the world competion of archer to all ages. Because of this, she beleived the Elementary Tier would not be his limit when the time came for his first breakthrough. His comprehension may break through the Intermidiate Tier and High Tier at once.

This would be unprecendented event. Nothing but a myth and fair tale coming to reality in the eyes of those who now stood on the apex of cultivation. There was simply no way that her legendary status would act as a detterance and protect Eddie. Not just the top notch rogues from big criminal organizations such as Black Haven would be after him, but the S-ranker old foggies from big clans and dynasties would come out of seclussion to hunt her son.

However, she knew deep within her heart that Eddie's fate has been predetermined. He was destined to walk the path of life and death. Bloodshed would follow him throughout his cultivation pilgrimage. Besides her, only a few knew the true origins and identity of the elder dragon currently incarcerated inside of her son's spiritual sea of consciousness.

The secret about her son could not be kept from the world of cultivators forever. Some day, Eddie's secret would leak out and a greater calamity will befall him. The dragon inside of her son is a bane to all creatures of life and the most feared since Ragnarok. The entire Yggdrasil Tree will see him a Five-Star enemy to all living creatures and must be killed at all cost.

Eddie saw Cassandra's eyes flickered and her complexion became gloomy. He was reluctant not to say anything and kept to himself to avoid agitating her any further.

"Listen up! I'm going to explain how the three types of forms a person breaks through to become a cultivator. The first form is called a Mana Warrior. This is the most common form out of the two. The second is a Mage. Mages are cultivators the practice in Magic's to become a magician and wizard. The third form is Radiant Healer.Out of the three forms, Radiant Healers are rare to be born into the world.

"Mana Warriors are cultivators that tempered their bodies with mana to become powerful, tough and fast. A Mana Warrior Has three basics forms. They are basically fighters, warriors, soldiers, martial artist or anything that resembles an attacker and defender. Mana Warriors come in the five most common classes, Warrior, Tanker, Ranger and Assassin.

"There is a slight difference between a Warrior and a Tanker. A Warrior specializes in offensive while a Tanker is heavily suited in heavy armor, equipped with a shield and a choice of weapon. Three most common weapons for a Tanker are a sword, battle axe and a lance. Although Tankers have brute strength, they specializes as a defender. Their armor protects them in longer battles than normal soldiers. What really makes the a true defender is that their shield can cast a very potent array barrier to protect the first line of army from invaders and incoming projectiles. This works well at a castle walls too.

"A Ranger specializes in long range attack as a marksmen. The most common marksmen are bowmen or crossbow users. In this modern age, their are guns modified to shoot bullets condensed out of man without shell casings. That's for another topic to discuss for another time. Rangers specailizes as scouts that can find people, a place or a thing. They are very proficient as trackers too. They could find just about anyone within the terrain by following footprints, traces of presence such as blood from a wounded person in the environment. Traditional Rangers dressed in cloaks that blends in with the forestry with perfect camouflage. Rangers are known to be foresters and best display their abilities as a forester by setting up ambush rally points or behave as assassins within a forest.

"I shouldn't explain this class too much what an assassin specializes in and their output appearance. You generally have an understanding what an assassin does for a living after reading those comics of yours."

Cassandra brushed aside her long, elephant crimson mane with her hand as to clear her face. Eddie remained poised and eager to hear more of Cassandra's lecture.

"A Mage is like a Mana Warrior that gathers the energy of the universe and combines them with their spirit power. The two creates mana and it is distribute to the mana network. However, unlike Mana Warriors, Mages do not temper their bodies. They manipulate mana from their mana network to create seirdr also know as magic.

"There are promotion from Mage to an Archmage. Arcmages are promoted to a Wizard. Wizard is the top of the line for mages. The top wizards that stood at the apex in the cultivation world are granted the title 'Great Wizard'. In the entire universe there is only three active wizards that achieved that title and one of them happens to be the Lord Woden the Wanderer. The classes for Mages will be discussed for another time. Any questions so far?"

Eddie was flabbergasted as he shook his head. It was like a his favorite video games and movies coming to reality.

"Before I go what a Radiant Healer is, you will need to know that people can be born as mana cultivator straight out from the womb. Most of this cultivators have what is called a Blood Limiter. A Blood Limiter is a type of Seidr, ability skill that rare cultivators inherited from birth and can be passed down to the next generation through descendants. Most Blood Limiters originates fron the bloodlines of the gods and creatures that stood at the top during ancient times.

"Lets use the god Heimdall for reference. Do you remember the Norse bedtime stories? A little pop quiz for you. Who is Heimdall? What ability does he have? Do you remember? . . . hmm?"

Eddie rubbed his sticky chin, trying to think back about the tales of Asgard. The god he paid most attention to was Thor and his father Odin All-Father. I didn't too him too long and guessed the correct answer.

"Heimdall is the god who guards the rainbow bridge of Asgard and has the 'All-Seeing Eye' ability to see anywhere in the Yggdrasil Tree."

"The All-Seeing Eye is a Blood Limiter Heimdall had passed down to his children through his bloodline. This is the one of many Blood Limiters in the vast universe. It is important to remember that anyone with a Blood Limiter cannot be taught and copy outside the cultivator's family. Blood Limiter comes from the cultivator's bloodline."

Eddie nodded with approval.

"It's like the ninja clans in Ramen Ninja Boy. Those ninja clan members are born with specail type of Nin-jutsu. The Bloodline Break," Eddie said it with pride. "Other ninjas outside of a clan cannot have a Bloodline. Only way to obtain one is by tranplanting, body snatching or injecting DNA from a ninja clansman into them. That is only way a ninja is not from a clan can have a Bloodline Break."

"This . . . is," Cassandra was flabbergasted by Eddie's response. Eddie was a true fanatic and imagine himself to be Ramen Ninja Boy in reality. From the costplay orange jumpsuit down to Ramen Ninja Boys trademark slogans and behavior was mimic by him. Cassandra, like a good parent, monitored what Eddie read on the internet. She was very selective in what Eddie could read and what he could "not" read. This impllied to video games and TV shows.

She knew about the different genre and demographic of manga. The popular manga demographic in the market and online are Shounen manga, which are aimed towards teenage males audiences under twenty. The female counterpart manga were called Shoujo. Cassandra had maimed. She had to determined if Shounen manga were to gory and violent for Eddie. Ramen Ninja Boy manga was a Shounen and met the requirments

Cassandra does not follow the story. She had a basic understanding of Ramen Ninja Boy manga. The main character was a talentless blond hair ninja that loves to eat a bow of ramen for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He had a mythical Asian mythology Nine-tail Redfox sealed inside of him. He choosen to be a part of a three-man cell team that usually consist of two males and one female ninja the same age as him. They were assigned an instructor by the Ninja Academy to train them personally an accompanied them on missions.

She could not get into the story because the there was a one-sided love triangle between the three young ninja. Ramen Ninja Boy had an infatuation over his female teamate that dated way back when they were still cadets. The female character had no feelings for him. She detested Ramen Ninja Boy because she had a crush on the other male teammate which was the number one graduate cadet. Ramen Ninja Boy was dead last she felt like he was being a nuisance and was out to ruin her life.

It had reminded Cassandra of her painful and heartbreaking past romantic relationships. This was more than enough for her not to follow the story. However, when she heard the words Bloodline Break blurted out from his mouth, her heart froze for a split second. She suddenly felt an ominous feeling within her gut. Every time shelt this way, something bad always happen. The last time she felt this way when she lost the husband she was current wedded to. This was no mere coincidence.

She'd seen many strange seirdr curses and karmas in her life. However, Eddie's karma was linked to the manga he cherished. To her, this was unprecedented.

"Never mind," she sighed. "We can close the Blood Limiter topic. I must quickly wrap up lecture before your batter drains. Back on topic with people being born a mana cultivators. This leads to the final form. Mana Radiant Healers are normally born from a woman's womb.

"They are healers that specializes in healing people and other living creatures. Mana Radian Healers are best known as medics in the cultivation world. They can regrow limbs, cure cancer and ressurect a person back from the dead. They don't have any class, but they have two titles. Divine Doctor and Holy Exalt.

"Title of Divine Doctor is given to a Radiant Healer, if his or hers medical skills reached the top in the cultivation world. The title Holy Exalt is given to Mana Radiant Healers that choose the path of a fighter. They will be able to manipulate the holy element as a offensive skill. Only the strongest are given the title Holy Exalt."

"There is a one to ten star rating to gauge the power of a Mana Radiant Healer. The first star is the weakest. The hugest is ten stars. When reaching the third star, a Mana Radiant Healer can start practicing Holy Arts to become a fighter.

"It is unfortunately that if a person is born as a Mana Radiant Healer, they cannot become Mana Warrior, tempering their bodies just like mages. mana Radiant Healer's are born with what called a Holy Core in the place where your Mana Network is locates. The mana gathered in your network gets a absorbed by the Holy Core. However, there are special cases that a person can be both Mana Warrior and Radiant Healer at the same time such as myself."

Cassandra pointed at Eddie's right cheek. Eddie shrugged, not understanding. However, when he glanced down, part of his shirt was stained with a red color. His complexion became green. He rubbed his thumbed in a crisscrossed motion and there was blood.

"That's about it for today. You can stop the recording."