With a single scan of his spiritual field, Gavin absorbed and understood all the information contained within the books.
The Warrior and Knight inheritances provided training methods up to the 6th Rank, equivalent to the Bronze Rank in shamanic cultivation.
Warrior Progression Path:
- 1st Rank Warrior → Learn one low-level fighting skill.
- 2nd Rank Warrior → Master one low-level skill or learn three low-level skills.
- 3rd Rank Warrior → Master three low-level skills or learn one intermediate-level skill.
- 4th Rank Warrior → Master three intermediate-level skills or learn one high-level skill and two intermediate-level skills.
- 5th Rank Warrior → Master two high-level skills or learn three high-level skills.
Each level required a progressive refinement of combat techniques, ensuring that warriors developed both breadth and depth in their fighting abilities.
To advance to the 6th Rank, simply learning or mastering new skills is not enough. A warrior must realize the potential of the world.
When one realizes the world's potential, they gain the ability to manipulate spiritual energy—even without exceptional bloodlines, innate talent, or prior spiritual power.
At this stage, a warrior's internal energy, known as fighting energy, is formed by pushing their body's potential to the limit. By the peak of the 5th Rank, they reach the absolute threshold of physical strength and fighting energy.
Breaking the Limit
To surpass this threshold and advance:
1. Resource-Based Breakthrough – Using rare elixirs, treasures, or external aids to strengthen the body beyond its natural limits.
2. World Potential Awakening – By comprehending and aligning with the world's natural spiritual energy, a warrior can surpass their body's limits without external resources.
Most warriors lack the ability to store spiritual energy, making it impossible for them to generate magic energy like shamans. However, by using world potential to channel spiritual energy into their bodies, some of this energy lingers—slowly nourishing and strengthening the body over time.
The warrior inheritance provided by the Wright family contains 20 combat skills:
- 10 Low-Level
- 7 Intermediate-Level
- 3 High-Level
However, Gavin refuses to let his tribe learn these skills, as they are tied to the God of Killing and Warrior. Instead, he plans to extract the fundamental principles behind these techniques and develop original skills suited for his people.
For now, though, he shifts his focus to the Knight profession.
### The Knight Profession
Like warriors, most knights lack the talent to form magic energy. Their training begins with body-refining exercises, which require the blood of beasts to accelerate their growth.
Both warriors and knights generate fighting energy, but there are key differences:
- Warriors can expel fighting energy from their bodies at the 5th Rank.
- Knights gain this ability much earlier, at 3rd Rank.
Using beast blood, knights absorb spiritual energy to nourish and strengthen their bodies.
Knight Inheritance
The inheritance includes:
- A body-refining technique: Barbarian Bull Method (usable up to 6th Rank Knight)
- Three Knight Skills
Gavin knew his tribe members wouldn't be able to practice the Barbarian Bull Method, but that didn't concern him—he never intended for them to practice it anyway. Instead, he would analyze its principles and develop a new technique suited for his people.
As he studied both the warrior and knight inheritances, a new idea formed in his mind.
In his spiritual world, Gavin separated 100 of his thoughts into individual avatars. He assigned each avatar to practice the skills, and in no time, he mastered a low-level warrior technique.
Through this process, he uncovered a pattern—the core essence of all these skills was body strengthening. However, each technique only focused on specific body parts, such as the hands and legs, leaving the rest underdeveloped. The only method that trained the entire body was the body-refining exercise.
Gavin scanned the bodies of every tribe member, comparing them to the knowledge he had gathered. Using this data, he began crafting a unique body-refining method for his people.
This technique would allow the entire tribe to cultivate up to the limit of the Spirit Blood Realm, which, in the human profession system, was equivalent to the 5th Rank Warrior.
However, there was a problem—he was unable to develop the next stage, the path to Bronze Rank. Though his method worked up to 5th Rank, the breakthrough required something more.
Then, a realization struck him—his clone's physical attacks stirred the spiritual energy around it. Every time the clone attacked at full strength, the surrounding spiritual energy trembled.
Curious, Gavin commanded his clone to perform a full-strength attack using its front claw. The clone executed the strike nine times, and each time, the energy around it fluctuated in response.
In his spiritual world, Gavin divided his consciousness into 100 wolf avatars, each one dedicated to practicing the nine-claw technique of his clone.
Through relentless training, he mastered the technique, refining each movement until the attacks reached their peak efficiency. Then, as his understanding deepened, something new emerged—a Tenth Claw Move was born.
Eager to test this evolution, Gavin had his clone execute the Nine Claw Strike again. Each claw strike landed on a tree, tearing through its trunk with precision.
Then came the Tenth Claw Move.
The clone swiped its front claw, but this time, a phantom claw materialized in the air. The attack didn't just shatter the tree in front—it obliterated four more trees behind it, their trunks splitting apart as if an invisible force had torn through them.
This was it. The key to breaking past the 5th Rank lay in mastering techniques that resonated with spiritual energy.
Gavin's eyes gleamed. He had found the foundation for advancing to the Bronze Rank.
In his spiritual world, the wolf avatars shifted, their forms morphing into the shapes of tribe members, each one representing a different psychic ability. These avatars began practicing the claw technique, but this time, Gavin fused it with the body technique he had created.
At first, their movements were rough and unrefined, but as time passed, the technique gradually adapted to the unique physiology of the Three-Eye Race. Eventually, the once wolf-exclusive claw technique could be performed flawlessly by his people.
With this breakthrough, Gavin structured the new technique into ten progressive moves, each designed to guide hunters toward the Bronze Realm:
- First to Third Moves → For ordinary hunters, serving as their foundation.
- Fourth to Sixth Moves → For Blood Awakening Hunters, enhancing their combat potential.
- Seventh to Ninth Moves → For Spirit Blood Hunters, pushing them to their limits.
- Tenth Move → The final step to advance to Bronze Rank, the true threshold of power.
With the technique complete, Gavin manifested a stone monument at the main training field, near the tribe's edge. With a wave of his will, he engraved the technique onto its surface, ensuring that it would be accessible for generations to come.
To maintain discipline and steady progression, he sent a message to the tribal elder:
> "I reward the tribe with a cultivation method up to bronze rank hunter. The method is imprinted in the stone monument I created in the main training field."
> "Tribe members may touch the stone monument to receive the training method. However, the technique is divided into four stages—only by mastering the first stage will they unlock the next."
With this, Gavin had laid the groundwork for his tribe's ascension—a system that could elevate even ordinary hunters to extraordinary warriors.