"Congratulations Nicola !!! I knew you would be able to reach level 20 quickly." She said with happy eyes and gave him a hug. "I haven't introduced myself to Master Ogume yet, I was waiting for you to go together. I knew you wouldn't let me wait too long."
"We are going together then, it is still early so we can go to the forge. I think we have enough things to talk to him about." Nicola replied and pointed to the smithy and walked with her side by side.
Ogume was at the forge, hammering something that looked like a breastplate of armor, his students did not interrupt the process and waited for him to finish forging the equipment.
"It seems that the two of you managed to reach the silver level, this is a barrier that many have not been able to achieve throughout their lives, congratulations." The teacher said congratulating the students with a proud expression on their faces.
After talking about his life and death experiences trying to break through the level, Ogume asked. "So you certainly developed the golden core right? Everyone who passes that level develops something like that. I will explain to you its usefulness for the forge," He said.
Nicola omitted the fact that the core he developed was a core variation from normal and continued the conversation as if he had acquired only a common golden core.
"When we reach level 20, spiritual mana is converted into elemental mana and transformed into the golden core or something like that within our bodies, your two paths have the development of therse cores, the others paths create differents types of things to use as nucleus."
"That is the main difference between the levels, the quality of elemental mana is unmatched by spiritual mana. attack and defense it is practically impossible for those with lower levels to resist this type of power, in short, elemental mana opens a path of possibilities much more powerful than the previous one."
"This stage is where the cultivation journey really begins, the energy for leveling up previously could only be acquired by killing monsters or special pills. But after that cultivation could be done through meditation and accumulation of energy as well."