"Let's start our class with a simple question: What is divine essence cultivation?"
Ans, who was at the second row, raised his hand upon hearing the question. Alex nodded at him, indicating for him to speak.
"Divine essence cultivation is absorbing the elemental divine essence in the atmosphere into our bodies through divine bones. Then we can use this divine essence to cast magic spells."
Alex smiled faintly at Ans's reply. "In a way, what our little friend said is correct, but let me ask you another question before I say anything else."
"You all are excited about awakening your divine bones in a month's time, but have you ever thought about a situation where you fail to awaken your divine bone?"
The entire classroom went silent. After all, they were all 6- or 7-year-old students with big dreams of becoming powerful divine cultivators, so the possibility of failure still frightened them.
"Hahaha..." Alex laughed upon seeing the reaction of the students. "Now, don't be sad. I will tell you a story to cheer you all up."
"Originally, I was supposed to give a lecture to your senior batch during their awakening, but at that time, I got into a fight with someone and suffered severe injuries all over my body."
"Well, it's actually quite embarrassing to talk about being beaten up, but why I told this story to you all is because of a small detail in this incident."
"I, Alex Watson, the one whom your principal just praised as a well-known magician, was actually beaten up to the point of being bedridden for several months by a man who had failed to awaken his divine bone at the time of our awakening, years ago when we were your age."
The entire hall went quiet once again. Edward also sighed with a sorrowful look on his face upon hearing about this incident. It was apparent that he also knew about the man Alex was talking about.
"As a divine essence cultivator, I respect him from the bottom of my heart. Even though he didn't have an inborn divine bone like the others in our class back then, he made up for that shortcoming with his hard work and effort."
Alex smiled faintly after saying this. "The one thing that I can't agree with him is the fact that he chose the wrong path in his thirst for power and fame."
"...Well, forget about him for now. Let's come back to our class. Divine essence can be simply defined as a superior form of energy that is present in the atmosphere. Living beings can absorb this energy into their bodies and obtain powers beyond the comprehension of normal human beings."
"Like how we have to eat food through our mouths, divine essence also needs a medium called the divine bone to enter the bodies of living beings. This divine bone will awaken inside living beings at different times, but we humans have found a way to stimulate the awakening of divine bones by introducing external energy into the human body, as a result of years of research conducted by our predecessors."
"And the people whose bodies don't react to this external energy are the ones with no inborn talent for cultivation."
Alex paused after saying this and looked around at the little children who were listening quietly, with a smile on his face.
Once again, it was our impatient Elen who spoke up when he saw that Alex had gone quiet. "Senior, even if we fail to awaken our divine bone, there is still the other way your friend used to beat you up, right?"
"Hahaha..." Alex laughed and said, "You truly are the impatient one, aren't you? Well, yeah, there is another way, and we are going to discuss that in detail now."
"As you all know, divine essence cultivators are the ones who cultivate divine essence in their bodies, but the misconception you all have is that all divine cultivators are magicians."
"We can classify divine cultivators into two different branches: magicians and warriors. While magicians are people who are able to awaken their divine bones through awakening, warriors, on the other hand, are people who create a divine bone inside their bodies themselves through legacies called weapon bone arts."
"While divine bones have 12 different types of elements that a person can awaken during awakening based on their genetics and living conditions, this is not something a person can decide on their own."
"on the other hand weapon bones can have 10 types of elements, and what element they should have is decided by the cultivator himself. As far as I know, except for the advanced taboo elements of space and time, which don't have any weapon bone arts associated with them, all other elements have more than one type of weapon arts."
"You can even get lesser-level weapon bone arts of the basic elements of fire, water, earth, and wind free of cost from the government if you pass the requirement criteria. But acquiring the weapon bone arts of the advanced elements of lightning, wood, aetherion, and ice will cost you quite a large sum of money."
"As for the basic taboo elements of darkness and light, you can just forget about these two, as they are mostly controlled by royal families, and they won't give these arts to outsiders even if you offer them a sky-high price."
One of the girls sitting in the second row raised her hand after Alex paused his speech.
Alex nodded at her, indicating for her to speak.
"Senior, is it possible for magicians who already have their divine bones awakened to also practice these weapon arts?"
Alex nodded. "That's the question I was hoping for. Well, the answer is a simple yes. Divine bones are awakened in the spine area of the human body, and each person can have at most 6 divine bones."
"Similarly, you can have up to 6 different weapon bones at locations of your hand finger bones, leg bones, arm bones, chest bones, shoulder bones, and at your spine. however for the people who already have there divine bones awakened, it is not possible to awaken the weapon bone at your spine, all the other 5 bones can be used by both magician's and cultivator's equally"