Sweat began to form on his forehead, not because of the pain, but the panic.

He was sucking the mana at such a rapid speed that, if he weren't in the Author's halo state, he would have died already, or it would have taken him a year just from a core.

'Wait... is that…?!'

After what felt like eternity, he finally saw a hope, the huge, solid mass of mana inside him started to contrast, slowly taking the form of an actual core.

Its size went smaller and smaller, until just a little round object remained there.

He finally reached the Core Formation Realm.

But when he looked closer, this was different from the type of cores he had introduced in his novel.

For starters, the core is actually like a storage, where people gather the kind of mana that is familiar to them.

Meaning the mana of elemental affinities that they are born with.

Some gather fire elemental mana, making their mana seem bright and red, and some gather water elemental, making their mana blue like the sea.

There is also the factor that few people have various elemental affinities, which actually changes the natural elemental mana.

Those people actually require more mana than average because they have to cultivate for different elements.

Noah was already prepared for that.

He not only had one elemental affinity, but actually had every elemental affinity.

That meant, he had to cultivate for each and every affinity possible, making his mana pool the biggest in the world.

Even among these things, there is also the concept of the quality of the mana core.

The higher the quality, the purer the mana and the more mana you can gather.

It also meant, you can grow infinitely stronger.

Normally, in this world, the core was divided into the lower 3 classes based on purity and your grade of affinity, which included.

Bronze core, awakened by low-quality mana and lower affinity, normally ranging from F rank. You are better off being a mortal than becoming a knight or a mage.

Silver core, not much different from bronze, but you can at least join as a servant-level soldier in an army.

Gold core, considered average as most of the people awaken this core. An average soldier at the front line, so they can die early.

After this are some decent grades ones, if you have them, you have a good future ahead.

Unique core. From this, you can use most of the spells or skills from your elemental affinities. That's why it was named Unique, different from the lesser cores.

Rare core. This is the baseline for you to become a fairly decent mage or a knight. You can be proud, you are strong.

Legendary core. If there were no concept of geniuses. Then this would have been the epitome of strength. You are at the edge of being called a genius, only to remain as a stepping stone in their path.

Even awakening a Legendary core is a great deal. Not many can awaken a Legendary core. This is also the requirement for graduating from Arcania Academy.

If you did not even awaken a Legendary core, then you will be expelled.

One of the reasons why the graduation rate of the academy is so low.

They can enter the academy, but it's not certain if they can hold onto that status.

That's a training facility, if you can show your potential, they will train you. If not then... There is no point wasting their time on trash.

After this are what are called the real geniuses.

Supreme core. Only those with pure mana and very high affinity with their element can awaken this core.

If you have this, then no need to fear anything, you are destined for greatness. Someone who will be revered.

Even now, when there is no path to move to realms further than the Doman stage, you can still reach Soul Forging or even Arcane Ascension, if you have time and resources.

But once the path opens, you can rise much higher. Still, there is no possibility that you can enter the God hood even with this core.

It is only in this world that this core is hailed as a good core, but outside this planet. It's only considered average.

If you feel sorry for Legendary core awakeners, then you are mistaken, Supreme core awakeners are the most pitiful.

They can only see the greatness before them, but whether they can reach it... It depends only on luck.

But not for the ones after this.

Mythical Core. One of the rarest cores, in all worlds. Hardly a few have this core in this world, and they are already the strongest beings here.

People with this core have the chance to reach the god hood, not just stare at it.

Transcended core. This is the peak of this world till now. Almost everyone who has reached the Arcane Ascension realm, which is only a few, has this core.

As its name implies, it transcends everything, making the user gain anything they wish.

Alas, this is the height that anyone can reach with a natural method.

There is one more core, above everything. Be it concept, laws, or that core is above all.

Not a single living creature has this core, at least not through the natural process. That core is...

Primordial Core.

A core which can never be formed. People are born with it, ah no, actually, people were born with this.

The beings born from the first light of the universe, were the only ones who were born with this Primordial core.

Anyone who came after that, their descendants, they all awakened Transcended cores at best, but none of them ever came close to having a Primordial core.

Not until the first war happened, which shook the world, did the balance of the world change.

One of the reasons why every life form still hates each other.

It was during that war that something changed forever: the first beings, the Primordials, fell.

This resulted in an even more chaotic fight for supremacy.

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