"Martial Arts are an inherently different pathway. While the mage pathway is designed to influence the universe outside, the martial pathway is designed to influence the universe within, or to put it more simply: martial arts changes their body from within, causing them to exert tremendous strength and abilities. Basically, while mages use the surrounding aether to create their spells, martial artists uses the energy, or chi, generated from within their body to influence the universe outside. Just like the mage pathway, martial artists also only allows 15 beings to stand at the apex of this path. Although both pathways can make you enter the mystic side of the universe, martialnartosts have it easier to do so, due to the mage pathway requiring innate talent, unlike martial artists, were you can just enter by using medicinal potions and exercises."
Mrs. Hunton, finding herself veering off topic, quickly shook herself back, before continuing "Martial Artists also have ten stages, but due to the law, I can only explain the first three stages:
Body Shaping - In this stage, the primary objective is to cleanse the body and prepare it for advancement along the martial path. Unlike the apprentice stage, where the focus was on filling three pools, each point or node is now associated with a specific body part. The first node is dedicated to refining the skin, the second to refining the muscles, and the third to refining the bones. It is important to note that, unlike the mage pathway, individuals can only have one martial art per node, resulting in a total of three martial arts per stage. This remains consistent until the sixth stage is achieved. In terms of martial arts selection, individuals are limited to basic, foundational arts such as fundamental punching, kicking, and running techniques.
Marrow Cleansing - At this stage, the marrow of the body is refined to whatever attribute, or attributes you could sense from your surroundings. If you have two or more attributes, they will combine into one attribute, which tends to make them stronger than the usual martial artists. In this stage you are allowed to use weapon arts in your nodes.
Blood Exchanger - This is also one of the cornerstone stages. Her your blood is transformed from regular blood to blood which is combined with your attributes which you used to refine your marrows. This will further solidify your connection with your attribute, increasing the lethality in your moves. Just like in the wizard stage, you must have basic foundational knowledge in scientific knowledge, more importantly in your anatomic knowledge, as ascending from here on out will require not only just talent and perseverance, but also knowledge and wisdom.
As I have said before, people find it easier to enter the mystic side using the martial arts pathway, but unlike the mage pathway, they don't tend to have significant firepower in the early stages, relying on technology to do their bidding. Also, this pathway is very money intensive, requiring many more times the medicinal potions compared to the mage pathway." After finishing her speech, Mrs. Hunton grabbed a nearby water bottle, before chugging it within 5 seconds.
Meanwhile, the class remained seated, silence and all, as they ruminate at her words, imagining what it would be like to be a mystic artist.
Out of nowhere, a hand shoots up in the air, frantically waving to her.