"Honestly, I don't know how you survived the mana destroying your entire genetic makeup."
"Over the past four years, we have discovered humans are extremely sensitive to mana and have to assimilate with it over a long period of time before the body can be reinforced with it. An early discovery we made with humans is how only people below the age of 20 could reinforce mana inside their DNA and surround the various structures within their body with it. After that age, people could no longer assimilate with mana."
"Okay, okay, don't give me that confused expression, I will explain what mana is and how it came to be in your world. Mana is the essence of creation and controls and buffers the different elements to coexist with one another. If mana did not exist, then the various elements would clash with one another and create a timeless black hole which would consume everything in its path."
"Mana not only keeps the different elements from clashing but also empowers them. Mana opens the path to strengthen mana, expand it, compress it, and various other things. Mana can acts as a bridge for creation for the various elements if they are not present for the mana to pull from."
"When the first of our species travelled through various spatial rifts, our goal was to mine the various mana veins in your planet. Your planet had an extremely thin layer of mana keeping the elements chained back from one another when we arrived and the tectonic plates within the Earth were still intact and hadn't budged for ages."
"I hate to say it, but our species is the reason for why only roughly 8% of the population still exists. We arrived in the depths of your seas and used some exotic relics to implant large amounts of mana into the tectonic plates. When the large amount of mana made contact with the plates, the plates began to activate after being dormant for thousands of years. Mana began to surge through the entire earth from the plates and the thin layer of mana keeping the elements at bay were broken once the mana reached a threshold causing each element to clash and catastrophic events to occur."
"The humans of Farm 873 explained to me how the place they came from had a massive wave descend on the entire earth, which was only one of the many catastrophes that occurred. In some parts of the Earth, lightning as large as 1000 miles in diameter struck and left craters reaching deep into the earth. Massive tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes which left gaping crevices in the earth, molten lava erupting from dormant volcanoes, mini-black holes, and sound waves which broke matter are only some of the few events that occurred."
"Our late realization of how ancient the tectonic plates were was the reason why the world became the way it was. Mana veins of different concentrations and rarity grew at unprecedented rates than we had ever known as the elements continued to clash until finally the mana began to form a large enough buffer to wrangle in the elements."
"We mine mana veins for mana cores which help increase the mana concentration within the body which allows us to increase the control and manipulation of element specific mana. Mana also allows us to increase the durability and strength of our bones, muscles, and various other organs. Increasing the concentration of our mana also increases the lifespan of any species if enough concentration is gathered.
"As I just mentioned, mana has different levels of rarity. Each increase of rarity of mana has a massive increase in concentration of mana. The mana vein rarity is categorized based on its color. The order of quality of mana goes blue, green, orange, yellow, white, purple, and black. According to the records of excavation of this planet so far, a black mana vein has not been spotted yet and only a handful of purple veins have been found."
"Of those white veins to be found, only one white vein has had their crystal extracted due to the unnatural amount of corrupted creatures created from the spawning of mana veins. Without a certain amount of mana stabilized, any lifeform can become corrupted by an overload of mana assimilation from simply being near the mana vein. Some lifeforms will die and rot because of the overload; however, some creatures and lifeforms mutate and can have a range of abilities."
"Mana allows for the creation of certain elements. Some elements are more difficult to create compared to other elements. The more complex the element, the harder it is to learn and control such element. Every life form is born with some affinity to certain elements to different degrees and certain affinities also have their own rarity, but you will learn more in the future about the different elements which can be controlled, manipulated, and created."
"This sacred flame you see right before us was created by an individual with a high affinity in the fire and light element. Not only does the fire produce light under water, but it also is able to have a lifespan of three months before disappearing and needing to be replaced. The sacred flame also keeps many levels of corrupted creatures away. The creation of elements has different effects on the individual based on the capacity of mana which a person is able to hold and the current concentration of mana within the body."
"When increasing one's own mana, there are a few ways to cultivate it. The first important step is building a foundation of mana and having your body become accustomed to it. Once this is accomplished, a mana core must be formed within your body. The mana core is generally located at your sternum and takes time and effort to construct. Usually time spent around large accumulations of mana is necessary for the body to both become accustomed to the mana and for the core to form."
"Once the core is formed, the mana can then be refined and concentrated within the core. The core is where mana is produced and where elemental mana and manipulation originate from. There are three ways which mana can be refined which are: isolated cultivation, mana-assisted cultivation, and mana crystals."
"Isolated cultivation can occur anywhere but is the slowest of the processes. The reason this process is the slowest is due to the low amount of mana in the atmosphere and if too much mana is taken from certain spots in the atmosphere, then elements can clash and injuries can occur to the individual cultivating."
"Mana-assisted cultivation is similar to isolated cultivation but the person absorbs the energy indirectly from the flowing mana veins. Like I mentioned earlier, as the rarity of the mana vein increases, so does the speed and concentration of mana being cultivated."
"The final form of cultivation is directly absorbing the mana crystal within each mana vein. This method takes time but is the most lucrative in receiving refined and concentrated mana. The issue with extracting the mana core from a rare mana vein is once the core is taken away, the mana vein is downgraded randomly to a lower rarity and no mana crystal can ever form again."
"As you saw earlier, creatures and lifeforms that become corrupt can also form mana crystals within their body sometimes. People also choose to avoid using mana crystals to cultivate because many of the rare mana crystals can be transformed into relics like the Compass you see before you. The Compass allows voices to automatically become translated and projected to a targeted individual or audience as well as connect the user to a wider network of people. For example, the people within Farm 873 were able to communicate with me despite the distances between the two different Compasses. A Compass is only able to access other peoples' Compass by creating a direct link with permission from both users."
"Relics are created through combination of manipulation of elemental mana and tech which us Agronians brought from our planet Agora."
"The reason why you are such an interesting outlier compared to the rest of the human race is your attunement to mana and survival of a blue vein's pure mana despite having no form of mana injections. Most Agronians are born with foundation already in mana and we only simply have to form a mana core while humans have next to no foundation at all with mana when they are born. If humans were to be near mana sources, the body can reject the mana greatly to the point of death based on the concentration of mana."
"Based on recent reports I've heard from Everknight, through various trials on potential human Explorers we have learned 10 different injections of 25% blue mana over a 10 month period can complete the foundation for the humans safely."
"The only reason I think you survived the amount of blue pure mana poured on you is because of the years of isolation near the mana vein. I believe your body naturally built a foundation to mana over time and hell, you may have even formed a core unconsciously if the mana vein was strong enough."
"I know all this information is a lot to take in and I haven't given you much time to keep asking questions, but I need to make my way back to Everknight to report the status of Farm 873 and turn in the accolades I have scavenged in my trip."
"One final thing I have to say is you should think yourself lucky I didn't take you with me when I originally took the other young humans. You were in such a shape where I didn't think you would survive the trip to Everknight."
"Also, each one of those humans had been guinea pigs in establishing the current system we have in forming a foundation for humans..."
After this statement from Fange was made, he finally stopped spilling out information and paused before whispering, "So none of them are alive today."