"Responding to Host query: Host has discovered an affinity to charm laws. Charm laws require a spiritual force at the third level as a minimum requirement before they can be understood," responded Trippy in a robotic voice.
"Charm laws…interesting. What are these?" Jody thought to himself.
"Remember when I told you about that power your father used on your mother underground?" Sly's cold voice suddenly rang in Jody's mind. "What your grandfather referred to as a disservice."
"Ah! Noted," Jody understood, then wholeheartedly tuned back in on his mother's lesson.
The neo-life and dawn-life principles! The gateway to the creation and the origin point of the laws as we know them. He wondered if this was all fact or his mother's personal understanding. Either way, he would set his foundation with this knowledge!
"…Creation is an electromagnetic system, and it is polarized. Energy flows from the dawn pole to the neo pole and back and then repeats. This doesn't just happen between lovers during synergy. Neon and Dawn also balance each other in our individual bodies," Isis didn't feel out of place mentioning these things to her boy, as he had pretty much bottomed out the House Library as a toddler.
What could she even hide from him?
However, Jody was more interested than Sylvester would've liked in his mother's usage of the word synergy. He felt he had learned an important distinction just now, one that she couldn't possibly go out of her way to explain, and he didn't dare to ask.
"However, this is not an absolute, as our forces cannot enter full stasis, or we will fall sick. Energy must flow, or it will slowly turn cancerous. The balance must tilt a bit toward one direction or another. Learning how to control this tilt is the first step in comprehending laws. Especially the laws of serenity and calamity, the neo and dawn principles."
Lady Isis continued to lecture Jody on the creation of life and the origin of laws, teaching him many things he couldn't have learned from the books in the family library. This lasted for a little under two hours. After finishing, lady Isis forced Jody to spend the next twenty minutes summarizing what his mother just explained to him in as much detail as possible.
If he failed, the lesson would end here!
Jody thanked the heavens that he had [Pharaoh's Law] active this whole while. Remembering wasn't tricky at all with third-level spiritual force. Merely, why was his mother so crazy?
He only got about 89% of it down precisely, but Isis was more than satisfied with this result as she filled in the blanks for him. This boy had such good memory and comprehension speed! He had been this way as a baby. It was awe-inspiring to Lady Isis, her other disciples couldn't even compare. Well, none of them except Sophie, who was also a freakish genius.
Normal kids Jody's age would have been able to repeat less than 40%, due mainly to not understanding most of what was said. Besides, the pure volume of information was enough to overload even a scholar child. However, Jody had barely asked her any questions. He was like an information sponge. Isis decided to turn it up a notch in the future. She had once again underestimated this child.
After Jody finished speaking, the practical part of the session was about to begin!
"The only thing left for you to do in this rank is to activate your last force baptism and develop a Nascent Concept. This means you must develop your comprehension of the primary force laws. This will set the foundation for you to further develop force in the future," Lady Isis had a bit of a worried look in her eyes, "It is your good fortune that you possess twilight force. However, the path to utilizing it is arduous, and some are even eternally stuck in the Scholar realm because they cannot create a nascent force concept for the principles of chaos."
"But ma…" Jody started, earning a sharp glare from his mother. "Um…but master teacher mom, what is chaos force? How is twilight a chaotic force? What makes it different from the other primary forces?"
"Well, this is a good question," Isis let out a gentle smile for the third time today, as she patted her son's head. "The primary force laws of the heavens and the earth are, in reality, a result of the natural fusion of many principles within particular laws. These specific laws of the land, also known as World Power, resonate with the requirements of the heavens or the Holy Ennead, and thus they fuse together naturally. Both Magic and Voodoo forces are born from life and death laws, respectively, but from within the first sky. They resonate deeply with origin. Pure force is taken from the laws of fate and destiny, which resonate with Worldly True Essence when in tandem; and finally, there are the chaotic forces, which are a bit more challenging to explain.
"Are you listening to me, Josiah? What does pure force consist of?"
"Responding to the teacher master, pure force is the primary force that is a fusion of true worldly essence in the second sky and the respectively heaven and earthen laws of fate and slaughter!" Jody was entirely studious, as he was eager to know more about these abilities.
This was the path he must take to find the answers he sought!
"Primal Chaos is the most ancient force in existence. The universe was born in the Primal Chaos. However, the twilight force is nothing quite so extreme, though it originated from chaos which is the source of all. Twilight force is in resonance with the nine skies themselves. It is a result of the fusion of the four prism rank laws we just discussed and all natural laws," as Isis finished speaking, she floated over the lake, releasing an aura that had purple, pink, and silver.
She looked like a celestial goddess of serenity. The lake's surface was slowly freezing into a silver sheet of ice as Isis continued her lecture, "To form twilight force, you must first master the other forces to a certain extent."
"Mother master teacher, what's the difference between legend rank and gold rank when it comes to laws?" Jody was mildly confused by this part, as his mother only casually mentioned these terms without explaining.
"Yes, I suppose you won't know of this. It is merely how we organize the laws based on the tier of their power. Legend rank should be the highest in most circumstances. The next tier down is the prism rank and then the gold rank. Magi are also ranked in this way, among many other things," Lady Isis was used to her son's inquisitive nature, as well as his smart-ass quips, so she merely explained whatever he asked her patiently.
She wouldn't allow him to get a reaction from her while she was teaching.
"So in this way, sensei mom, are there also silver rank laws or lower?" asked Jody with a cheeky smile.
Lady Isis frowned, and the temperature in the surroundings plummeted.
Jody swiftly straightened his face and posture.
"Silver-tier laws… are actually the lowest tier of laws. However, they are not to be underestimated. Any law can become terrifying once it's part of a Truth," both Isis' voice and face were now emotionless.
"One with the Truth? A true law? What do you mean by this, 'the Truth'?" asked Jody, as if he had no idea what the truth was.
He really didn't have such a firm understanding of this. This was the reason why he asked his mother in this way. He wanted to learn it fresh from scratch.
"This…ask me again once you've become a mage or a great saint. You are not worthy of such concerns yet," replied Isis indifferently.
Jody smiled wryly since his plan failed and just nodded, as he felt his mother's words were most reasonable. He didn't even know how to become a Mage yet, so obviously, this was something he could worry about later.
His mother floated higher over the lake as she spoke to him, "Walk over this way, my heart."
Isis floated serenely over the frozen lake surface, like a moon goddess visiting this planet. Even her almond-shaped, sapphire eyes seemed to glow with silver light in the moonlight. Jody didn't hesitate as he stepped out on the ice and skated over to his mother, which was also the center of where the Neodawn fish circled each other in eternal harmony despite the water being frozen.
Wherever the dawn fish swam, the ice would instantly melt, and the neon fish seemed to be utterly unhindered by the ice. In fact, it was continually mending the melted serenity ice.
"Lotus position," commanded Isis.
Jody immediately crossed his legs and sat down.
Lady Isis touched a ring on her left hand, and a 10-pound lump of shiny crystal that glowed in pink, purple, and pale blue, like a strange rainbow, released a startling chill in her hand. Jody recognized this crystal as the first gift his father had given him!
"This is the D-grade serenity crystal that your father gave you. You spend many nights sleeping next to this crystal, so I believe it will most suit you to meditate over."
Lady Isis tossed the D-grade serenity crystal to Jody, who caught it and asked, "D-grade?"
"Yes, whenever someone refers to the grade of something, it will almost always range from F-grade to S-grade, with S-Grade being the rarest and most exquisite. The crystal you brought for me today was of this exquisite grade." Isis had slight excitement and anticipation in her voice when discussing that crystal.
On the other hand, this information left the kid in white dumbstruck.
Jody felt like a lightning bolt just struck him.
S-Grade?
Is the rarest grade possible?
Didn't Eureka only convert a mid-grade magic stone? So, for mid-grade magic stones, he could get S-grade neon crystals? Jody suddenly remembered Sylvester's earlier words, dollar signs flashing in his eyes. Sylvester's knowledge was from a different era, so he couldn't take it so seriously all of the time. However, his mother just said the same thing! In that case, what would happen with high-grade or top-grade origin stone?
Jody couldn't even imagine!
This kitten of his would make him rich!!
"Okay, Jody, you are lucky to have a serenity force genesis. Because of this, we can take a sort of shortcut towards your developing of a nascent concept. The Neodawn fish form a natural magic array formation when they are paired such as this. This natural formation increases your ability to perceive laws!" Lady Isis' glamorous and seductive body glowed with purple and golden light as she recited an incantation, her words directly turning into runes instead of sound and scattering into the surroundings before merging into the void like raindrops in a glass of water.
Jody didn't know what was happening, but it was always amazing to watch.
"Because of the S-grade neon diamond, I will allow you to stay here for the week. You will sit there and discover the mysteries of this serenity crystal's inner force. No one other than you and I can enter or exit this area. However, following this, you will continue your trial in the next few weeks! Unless you cannot demonstrate magic, voodoo, or ghost force to me by the end of the week. In this case, you will automatically fail. Do not disappoint me, my love," Isis landed gently on the ice and held Jody's little face in her hand by the cheeks, "The last thing I will teach you today is what to do after your force genesis reacts to your comprehension, baptizing your body in that force. This step will be crucial."
Jody thought to himself a bit. After a conversation with Sylvester, he ultimately decided that he shouldn't keep certain things from his mother any longer, and mumbled through his pinched cheeks, "Mom, are we really alone?"
Isis was startled by this sudden question from her son.
However, she subconsciously trusted the boy's instincts.
She quickly swept the surroundings with her spiritual sense before responding, "We are indeed, my heart. Well, apart from your little girlfriend in your shadow. Why do you ask?"
"Well... there are some things that you should know." Jody stood up and dusted himself off as he spoke.
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