Power Systems:
Talents are ranked from lowest to highest:
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Heroes/Villains designation is based on how powers are used
"True Hero" title reserved for those with exceptional contributions (like the war goddess Celestia Lancaster)
Stats as of chapter 43
[Name: Ambrose Rothschild]
[Level: 1]
[Species: Half-Spirit]
[Physique: Weak Body (Level 1) (Still can't increase physical stats, stop asking)]
[Title: Rothschild's Heir (+10 Charm), One who leapt through Space & Time (Space-time Talent), One who gazes (+10 Intelligence)]
[Talent: Mind's Eye - Semi Awakened, Space-time]
[Health: 100/100]
[Mental Strength: 250/250]
[Intelligence: 125]
[Stat Points: 0]
[Experience: 0/10]
[Tip: "You don't need to be smarter - you just need to think faster." - War Goddess Celestia]
[Overview: You actually managed to make yourself even weaker? Then again, thats to be expected of you...]
Skills:
[Observer's Intuition - Transcended](Intrinsic) - Through deep understanding and countless observations, this natural talent has evolved beyond its enlightened state, reaching a transcendent level that fundamentally alters how the user perceives and processes reality. This evolution grants supernatural insight into both the physical and metaphysical realms, allowing for observation and analysis that transcends normal human limitations. (Subskills: [Mind's Eye](S), [Heightened Perception](A), [Pattern Recognition](A), [Thought Transmission](A), [Detail Retention](B), [Focus State](B))
[Mind's Eye](S) - The pinnacle of observational ability, granting the power to perceive the true nature of all things. This supernatural sense allows the user to instantly analyze and understand the complete information of any person or object they focus on, including stats, skills, abilities, history, and hidden properties. For living beings, it can reveal their true nature, current state, emotional condition, and potential futures. For objects, it unveils their composition, purpose, magical properties, and even their past. The depth of information scales with the user's mental strength, and prolonged use on powerful subjects can cause mental fatigue. At its peak, this ability can even perceive conceptual information like fate, destiny, and metaphysical properties.
[Heightened Perception](A) - An advanced enhancement of the user's sensory capabilities that approaches supernatural levels. Visual acuity is increased by 300%, allowing for crystal clear vision up to 500 meters and the ability to track hypersonic movements. Hearing sensitivity is improved by 250%, enabling the user to detect whispers from up to 150 meters away and perfectly distinguish hundreds of overlapping sounds. The sense of smell has evolved to track specific individuals across vast distances and detect subtle emotional changes through pheromones. This heightened state can be maintained indefinitely without strain.
[Pattern Recognition](A) - Accelerates the brain's ability to process and connect information to supernatural levels. The user processes visual patterns and sequences 400% faster than normal, instantly spotting irregularities in behavior and environment that others would miss entirely. This skill grants an almost prescient ability to link seemingly unrelated pieces of information, making it invaluable for complex problem-solving and prediction. The user can analyze multiple pattern streams simultaneously without mental strain.
[Thought Transmission](A) - An evolved form of mental communication that approaches true telepathy. The user can transmit their gathered information telepathically to multiple willing recipients within a 500-meter radius, complete with full sensory details from their observations. They gain near-perfect sensitivity to mental transmissions in their vicinity, able to detect, intercept, and even redirect telepathic communications within 300 meters. This sensitivity extends to reading surface thoughts and emotional states of those around them.
[Detail Retention](B) - Dramatically enhances the user's ability to retain and process observed information. The user can perfectly recall visual and sensory information from the last 24 hours, maintaining clarity of up to 500 specific details simultaneously. This ability excels at remembering exact positions, expressions, movements, and environmental changes, while also granting enhanced analysis of inconsistencies in remembered information. The retained information can be mentally categorized and cross-referenced instantaneously.
[Focus State](B) - Enables the user to maintain supernatural levels of concentrated observation indefinitely. The user can maintain unwavering attention for up to 24 hours with no degradation in performance, with a 90% reduction in the impact of external distractions. This state eliminates mental fatigue during observation tasks entirely, allowing for continuous detailed investigation. The user can maintain awareness of multiple focal points simultaneously while in this state.
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[Mathematician](Unique) - A rare talent that fundamentally alters the mind's processing capabilities, granting exceptional mental powers and analytical abilities that transcend normal human limitations. This supernatural mathematical insight allows for complex calculations and analysis far beyond ordinary comprehension, enabling the user to perceive and manipulate abstract concepts through pure mathematical understanding. (Subskills: [Rational Mind](S), [Mental Fortress](S), [Perfect Recall](S), [Thought Acceleration](S), [Parallel Processing](S), [Time Perception](A))
[Rational Mind](S) - The pinnacle of logical processing, this ability maintains perfect clarity of thought regardless of circumstances. The user remains completely immune to emotional manipulation and can think clearly even under extreme stress or fear. The ability to separate emotions from decision-making becomes second nature, while also preventing mental breakdown in even the most traumatic situations, ensuring consistent rational thought processes.
[Mental Fortress](S) - Creates an impenetrable defense system against all forms of mental interference. The user gains complete immunity to hypnosis and mind control attempts, 95% resistance to illusion-based abilities, and 90% resistance to mental-type damage. The skill also eliminates mental fatigue entirely, allowing for indefinite peak mental performance while providing rapid recovery from any mental strain that does occur.
[Perfect Recall](S) - Transcends normal memory limitations, granting supernatural retention and processing capabilities. The user gains eternal perfect retention of all experienced events, with instant access to any memory at will. Information can be analyzed, categorized, and cross-referenced instantly across infinite data points, enabling complex pattern recognition across all stored memories simultaneously.
[Thought Acceleration](S) - Elevates mental processing speed to supernatural levels, accelerating thought by a factor of 1000. This extreme acceleration enables instant analysis of complex situations, perfect tactical assessment, and instantaneous problem-solving capabilities. The user experiences time in extreme slow-motion during accelerated thinking, allowing for exhaustive analysis in split-second situations.
[Parallel Processing](S) - A supernatural ability that allows the mind to operate multiple independent thought streams simultaneously. The user can completely isolate and compartmentalize different mental processes, enabling them to pursue multiple complex analyses or tasks at once with no loss of efficiency. Each thought process operates with full access to the user's mental capabilities, allowing for true multitasking rather than rapid task switching. The number of parallel processes scales with mental strength, though each active process consumes a portion of the user's mental strength pool.
[Time Perception](A) - Enhances the brain's ability to process information in real-time to an advanced degree. Users gain enhanced ability to track dozens of events simultaneously, along with exceptional situational awareness and greatly superior reaction time to observed events. This skill also grants improved prediction of immediate outcomes through enhanced temporal processing.
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[Spatial Dominion](Intrinsic) - This rare inborn talent has fully awakened, granting the user profound understanding and significant control over space itself. What was once a limited connection has evolved into a deep communion with spatial principles. (Subskills: [Spatial Omniscience](SS), [Spatial Displacement](S), [Pocket Dimension](S), [Spatial Harmony](A))
[Spatial Omniscience](SS) - A dramatic evolution of spatial awareness that grants comprehensive understanding of all matter and energy within the user's domain. The range has expanded significantly (typically 100-150 meters) and scales with mental strength. Within this sphere, the user perceives everything with perfect clarity: every movement, position, and the subtle fabric of space itself. The user can instantly detect spatial anomalies, dimensional distortions, and even cloaked or phase-shifted entities. Most notably, the user can now "remember" the spatial arrangement of areas they've previously observed, allowing them to sense major changes when returning to familiar locations.
[Spatial Displacement](S) - The evolved form of Blink that grants vastly improved teleportation capabilities. The user can now teleport themselves and objects up to 100 meters with pinpoint accuracy, and can transport other willing creatures through touch. The mental strain has been significantly reduced, allowing for multiple sequential teleports before exhaustion. The user can now also perform partial displacement, such as teleporting just a hand through a barrier to unlock a door, or displacing incoming attacks to miss their target. Each use still consumes mental energy proportional to distance and mass moved.
[Pocket Dimension](S) - A powerful ability that allows the creation of a personal dimensional space existing outside normal reality. This pocket dimension initially spans about 20 cubic meters but expands with mental power and continued use. The user can access this space through a spatial rift they create within 5 meters, and can selectively allow others entry. The most remarkable aspect of this evolved ability is the selective temporal control within the dimension. The user can designate specific items or areas within the pocket dimension to experience different time flows - accelerating time to rapidly age wine or preserve perishable items by slowing their temporal progression to near zero. This temporal manipulation requires significant mental energy that scales with the size of the affected area and the degree of time distortion. Typically, the user can manipulate time for a few cubic meters of space, with greater distortions requiring exponentially more mental strength.
[Spatial Harmony](A) - The passive affinity for space has evolved into active harmonization with spatial forces. The user gains near-immunity to disorientation effects and complete resistance to minor spatial distortions. They can instinctively stabilize unstable spatial phenomena within 30 meters and can navigate naturally through spatial anomalies that would trap or harm others. The ability also grants a subtle influence over surrounding space, allowing for minor alterations like slightly expanding or contracting distances within a small area.
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[Lord's Covenant](Unique) - The sacred other half of the blood oath, marking the lord's acceptance of their knight's eternal loyalty. This talent creates an unbreakable bond between lord and knight, enabling support and communion across any distance. (Subskills: [Blood Revival](SSS), [Soul Link](A), [Lord's Voice](B), [Blood Sense](B), [Knight's Beacon](C))
A/N - This skill does not "belong" to Ambrose, its the other half of the blood oath and mainly has benefits for the blood knight rather than Ambrose himself. Though one could argue that he benefits as the blood knight benefits but...
[Blood Revival](SSS) - The ultimate expression of the lord's commitment to their knight. Should the Blood Knight fall in battle, the lord can revive them by offering their own blood as sacrifice. The revival requires a significant amount of the lord's blood (approximately 30% of their total blood volume) and leaves the lord severely weakened for several days. However, the revival is guaranteed as long as the lord lives and has sufficient blood to offer. This ability can only be used once per month due to its severe toll on the lord's body.
[Soul Link](A) - Establishes a deep spiritual connection between lord and knight. The lord can share their knight's senses at will, experiencing what they experience. This includes sight, hearing, and even general physical sensations, though the lord can control the intensity of sensation to prevent overwhelming input. Extended use causes mental fatigue for both parties, and intense pain experienced by the knight can feedback to the lord in a diminished form.
[Lord's Voice](B) - Creates a permanent telepathic link between lord and knight, allowing instant communication regardless of distance. The communication is completely secure and cannot be intercepted or blocked by normal means. The link also allows for the transmission of emotional states and simple mental images, helping convey complex information quickly. This connection remains active even when one party is unconscious.
[Blood Sense](B) - Allows the lord to sense their knight's general condition and location at all times. The lord maintains constant awareness of their knight's physical state, including severity of injuries and blood loss. They can also sense the general direction and approximate distance to their knight, making separation nearly impossible. The accuracy of this sense increases with proximity.
[Knight's Beacon](C) - Enables the lord to act as a spiritual anchor for their knight. The lord can guide their knight through mental interference, dispel confusion effects, and provide clarity in times of blood frenzy. Additionally, the lord can emit a spiritual signal that only their knight can sense, helping guide them back when lost or disoriented. This ability activates automatically when the knight is under mental duress.
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[Fragile Beauty - Level 1](Natural) - A deceptive natural trait born from extreme physical weakness. This innate characteristic turns the user's apparent frailty into a powerful defensive mechanism, unconsciously affecting those around them. (Subskills: [Vulnerable Charm](SSS))
[Vulnerable Charm](SSS) - A potent psychological effect that unconsciously triggers in those who witness the user's apparent weakness or vulnerability. Similar to how predators become inexplicably captivated by an injured prey's struggles, observers become entranced by the user's fragility. This charm effect is particularly powerful when the user is in genuinely vulnerable situations (injured, ill, or physically exhausted). Those affected experience an overwhelming urge to protect rather than harm the user, often acting against their original intentions. The effect is strongest against those who initially perceived the user as an easy target, making it an incredibly effective defense against opportunistic attackers. Even those who resist the charm effect often find their aggressive intentions dulled or hesitant to cause serious harm. However, the effect weakens significantly against those who already know about this ability or those with exceptionally strong wills. The ability also has reduced effectiveness when the user attempts to deliberately appear vulnerable, working best in genuine moments of weakness.