----------------- (Please Read half of Volume 2 to understand this, from Chapter 95.)------------------
In this world, there are two kinds of Martial Arts, traditional martial arts and modern martial arts.
In this chapter, I will strongly talk about the traditional ones, the traditional martial arts are invented ages ago, thousands of years, even during the Holy Wars when their uses are at their peak for it is the age of great warriors.
But after the wars ended, the Diviners (gods) enact the Gift Core decree to all humans and begin to slowly eliminate the key strength of any martial arts warriors, the Ki.
As they replace it, the martial arts from the Holy Wars Era slowly decreased in practitioners and effectiveness, making the techniques slowly decreases gradually from many advanced movement and techniques to just basic techniques that could even be taught to children.
The first foundation for gaining power, in the worlds of martial arts (and magic too), is training and sacrifice, without it, no person could ever become strong enough while also cultivating their Ki for a powerful Ki without a powerful body as its vessel will be disastrous as it could result in the body's explosion or many other complications existed in this world.
That's why, martial artists of the past create so many techniques in order to distribute the Ki in their body out, to balance the Input of Ki cultivated inside their body which can only be done by making an equal output of it.
After knowing the basics, we must continue to the types of martial arts that will be the base of the traditional martial arts known to this world. There are technically two types of martial arts. First, is the Divine Type, this martial art is based on the Divine gods themselves, based on their movement that is performed so magnificently, by the Divine, the martial artists follow their graceful movements for it is where the basis of martial arts strategy is formed, based on the gods' footwork during their physical fight against one another or the Deviants (Demons), emphasizing that martial techniques should be used to preserve nature. Second is the Demon Type, this martial art emphasizes on brutal use of Ki. The Demon Type Martial Arts are known to have strong techniques, focused on destruction, they're the type of martial arts that destroys. This martial arts are based on the Deviant Demons themselves, inspired by their simple type of society yet so destructive at the same time that the strongest will survive in their chaotic realm which also can be seen based on how they fight the gods.
Just like anything in this world, martial arts itself was created from a self-observation of other beings' behavior and continued with an imitation of their movements before adding a few more differences to the copied movements.
Hence, the reason Martial Arts were also weakened and restricted by the gods is that they exactly knew how it was created, knowing full well that the mortals create many techniques based on their observation over their constant fights in the universe, making their abilities exposed to their eyes, encouraging them to imitate them in the long term.
" We must prevent the mortals from imitating us even further. "
" We can't let them create more techniques based on our abilities, the probability could be catastrophic. "
Because of their fear of being imitated, the gods tried their best to prevent the mortals from perfecting the martial arts even further, using many ways to persuade the mortals to even abandoned or making them disinterested in learning it in the first place, using the very weakness of martial arts training which is 'lots of processes' and 'it's slow development'.
Thus this is also the factor why the gods decided to give humans a 'Gift Core' in the first place. They knew that humans love instant and efficient methods to gain power, hence they give them that option that gradually succeeds to make humans stray away from one of the things that could increase their existence's potential, ripping out and preventing the mortals from gaining the foundation of martial arts, their Internal Energy, their Ki, for the Gift Core will constantly wipe any Ki existed inside their body.
Due to its very success, humans begin to depend on their Gifts, thus even deeming those who tried to learn martial arts as idiots, foolish people that do some useless things that had slow results in return.
" Martial Arts are for the slow, well I'm fast so I rather make the gods happier to gain more power quickly. "
" Especially since our world is filled with monsters and demons, we can't risk wasting any time on rigorous training. "
" We need quick decisions and actions to survive, the monsters' hoard is always coming for our lives anytime, we must act now! "
From those reasons above, it was understandable why humans decide to abandon Martial Arts, because of the constant threats, even after many victories, the fear of other large monster waves makes them steady without rest, making them throw the time they had to improve themselves first.
While the humans are under constant stress, the Divine gods themselves begin to limit their presence in the mortal world, only preventing some events while necessary for they rather use the mortal followers they shepherd to deal with the constant threats while they see things from above their Divine Domains.
" Now the mortals can be easily ruled with. "
" Thanks to our success in promoting the Gift Cores, we make them depend on us even more, ripping their need to improve their very insignificant selves. "
" Look at them, working hard for us, killing the demons for us for free. "
" With this, we can shepherd the mortals on whatever we wish, as they now had no choice but to rely on us or face the consequences from both us and their own kind, as their society had been shaped to our design. "
" For any mortal that decides to make their own way to even learn martial arts and those other things that predated mortal made will be punished by their society, as we already instilled our very norms in their minds for ages and ages to come. "
" With this, they will no longer be able to stop us. "
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This is the sad truth of Martial Arts in this world, despite its great concept and creation, if it was deemed dangerous by the higher beings, it will always be destroyed to preserve their ideals. But despite all of that, there are some that still preserve what's left of the ancient Martial Arts, keeping many scrolls and scriptures from the Divine and their followers, preserving the very Martial Arts Culture until now like the [Hive Stinger Clan].