[This chapter serves as a knowledge regarding novel. The information will be repeated in novel time to time and is duplicated here for ease. As it may also contain small spoilers.]
-General Information:
The Magic:
Few young people are blessed by it. At the age of fourteen to eighteen years old. After being blessed by such gift, They feel overwhelming desire to meet a "Divine being" in their soul known as Grace. Once they succumb to that feeling, they are thrown into a trial arena.
The Trial arena:
The arena created by grace. They are populated with 5 rounds of monsters. Each round increases the power level of monster. These monster somehow relate to the ancient history.
The Powerhouse:
They can be either in form of a object or in a form of a human being. Each powerhouse is protected by a different type of monsters. They can be destroyed.
The Terror:
As a vessel of grace becomes stronger and stronger. They are sent to a terror, A location of complete darkness and horror by grace to achieve better understanding of their abilities and reach new peaks. Each terror is related to a specific grace a vessel has obtained.
The Sorcerer:
People who are blessed by magic and have completed the trial. Each of them possesses different kind of abilities and magic. They have grown a Crystal in one of their body parts. Sorcerer are meant to protect the remaining humanity and defeat the powerhouse created by silverhelm.
Common Terminology:
Citadel:
A fortress where resides ominous creatures and even a powerhouse.
Relic:
A item tied to a Sorcerer. Relic can take physical form.
The shapeshifter:
A magical being tied to Sorcerer. They can take form of any type of weapon to help vessel achieve its goal.
Enchantment:
A quality of a relic.
Boost:
Rare Runes dropped by a creature in a form of shard. Each Boost are of different type , one which enhances Sorcerer abilities for a particular time of period or bless them with a particular type of ability for short period.
Entities:
An copy of a slain creature. They are capable of everything similar to the original creature. They can take form of physical when summoned and work under command of summoner.
Grace:
A divine being resides inside of a one's spirit which is the power source of a vessel. The more you know about the grace , the more stronger you get.
Core:
A physical manifestation in a form of a crystal, which is stored somewhere inside of a Sorcerer body. Sorcerer is immortal until that core is destroyed, Which will reduce the power of Sorcerer by half. A Core can be rebuilt by killing a Sorcerer or creature of a particular level. (By killing 10 creatures of a same rank will result in creation of core, where as killing one above level will decrease it by half and so on. However, Core only lies in a human being where as, it doesn't exist in creatures.)
Essence:
A spirit energy, which resides in core.
Magic ranks:
A measure of power that is based on a power of grace under the hands of vessel. There are 8 ranks:
-Dormant
-Hunter
-Ascended
-Blessed
-Supreme
-Master
-Saint
-Transcendent
Just like humans, there is a ranking for creatures aswell. They have 8 ranks:
-Cursed
-Great
-Corrupted
-King
-Reaper
-Demon
-Tyrant
-Fallen
Tiers:
A estimate to runes potency that is based on its source. Although relic are divided by ranks, based on its abilities and rank. So a Relic of an Corrupted monster, which contains unique ability to destroy soul directly would be ranked as Tier-Five-Corrupted relic. The more unique a ability of a creature is, the higher tier a relic is. Rarity of an ability have 8 ranks:
-Common
-Rare
-Mythical
-Ancient
-Unique
-Mystical
-Divine
-Unknown
-Magic And Abilities:
Magic:
Magical abilities granted by grace but also comes with a flaw.
Attribute:
A passive ability related one's trait.
Magic Ability:
A ability tied to one's magic.
Flaw:
A unique curse placed on a hunter as a result for gaining such ominous abilities.
True Form:
A form granted by grace to those who know every single detail of grace, showing true powers of a hunter.
True Grace:
A divine name granted to a grace, which can be obtained as a title after becoming complete vessel of it.
-Hierarchy:
The rank of hunters increase by the amount of knowledge they have related their grace and amount of creatures they have taken out. Taking out creatures not only helps with increase in energy and power but it also is one way to obtain relics.
There are less then 15 people who are on a rank of blessed. No one has ever reached the rank of supreme. There use to be 100s of powerhouses scattered all around the world but thanks to hunters that number dropped down to 23.