Project V17/Powers/Shardless/Esoteric and Abstract Powers/Voice of the World (Tensura)

Voice of the World (Tensura)

Cost: 10 SP (True Dragon (Tensura))

Cost: 0 SP (True Dragon (Tensura))

The Voice of the World is a phenomenon present in all places. It serves to announce important events such as the acquisition of skills, racial evolution, obtaining a demon seed or hero's egg, and the activation of some skills. When active, it will echo within the mind of all parties relevant to the event in question. Skills may make use of the Voice of the World to communicate prompts for activation to their users.

You now have the ability to hear the Voice of the World which grants you the capacity to develop new skills and abilities based on your personal growth. Your skills will be inscribed onto your soul or material body. Once you obtain a skill it may be used instinctively without practice, however practice and experience can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your skills. The Voice of the World will allow you to recast all of your existing powers and abilities as skills.

Intrinsic skills encompass skills and abilities that are common to members of the user's species.

Common skills are relatively low powered and not unexpected to be encountered, such as telepathy or self-regeneration.

Extra skills stand at several magnitudes higher in terms of power and efficiency than common skills. They might exist as intrinsic skills for particularly powerful species or as sub-skills for unique and ultimate skills.

Unique skills stand at the next evolutionary stage after extra skills, and are unique to their user. They are frequently made of a collection of subskills of common or extra rank, or might have a subskill unique to that skill. They are described as the "shape of the mind" and thus require their user to have strong desires to acquire them. Some unique skills may possess potency to rival ultimate skills, the next stage of evolution.

Ultimate skills are the final stage of evolution for skills, in general. They grant their user's ultimate power to control the laws of nature within the confines of the skill. Ultimate skills can be achieved by bringing one's unique skills beyond their limit. Only an ultimate skill can counter specific effects of another ultimate skill.

Resistance skills can be intrinsic skills or acquired through long term exposure to attacks of that type, such as resistance to elemental magic or temperature fluctuations.

World System Skills are skills that allow the user to create a unique world and are exclusively found as subskills of ultimate skills.

Intuitive Existence

As a True Dragon, your existence is unique, even when compared to other True Dragons. As the pinnacle of all bask in the light of creation, your individuality and self-idealized form makes your particularly attuned to the Voice of the World. You will find that the World acknowledges your prowess and abilities more often, making the aquisition of skills an easier and intuitive process for you. Others who find themselves in your presence often enough, even outside the Cardinal World, will eventually become attuned to the Voice of the World, themselves, allowing them to develop skills and possibly eventually even attain higher states of evolution.

Unique Skill: Divine Record

The sliver of divinity that is the Falna, accurately judges and records the fruits of one's actions and rewards them accordingly. This usually takes the form of Excelia which fills and pushes the limits of their soul causing them to grow stronger. Now the Falna provides an equal measure of magicules dedicated to strengthening skills and abilities awarded by the Voice of the World. It is only a matter of time before any skills evolve into more powerful forms, without specific dedication to that evolution. If there are no eligible skills for evolution, then the gifted magicules will instead double the effect of the Excelia gained normally.

World Soul

You have heard the Voice, and taken a piece of it into yourself. This piece, now burned into your essence, does not take up a slot. As a result, the Voice identifies you as "aligned" to it, and as such demonstrates a subtle bias towards you in all things. Skills are gained slightly quicker, chance-based effects resolve a bit more often in your favor, and information it provides you is a little more complete. This bias is subtle, but all-encompassing and constant.

Additionally, your 108 Skills, the source of this alignment, gains greater bias still. You may upgrade any of your 108 through the Voice, increasing its power like any normal skill could be. Upon completing a significant achievement with a slotted skill, such as defeating a stronger enemy while chiefly using it, or crafting a great work with it as the centerpoint, it becomes an Intrinsic Skill, linked to you and no longer taking up a slot.