There were clearly three main paths for the Helion Fra. One of them leaned more heavily toward the tal aspects, the second leaned more heavily into fusion and fission, and the last leaned more heavily into light in general.
The connection was clear enough even to a layman. It was all connected with the sun—or more accurately, stars in general.
Stars had enough density and energy to force fusion. That started with lighter particles until their cores literally compressed into heavier and heavier tals. The final stage of most stars was, quite literally, iron.
During a supernova, even heavier tals than that could form.
This was how Grey had managed to turn his tal Body into a Helion Body in the first place. But right now, his actual path was murky.
He had so aspects of his tal body, and his current fra was quite sturdy, but he could also use Solarbrand to heat himself up pretty quickly, and then he could use Solar Regeneration to heal his body.
That was like all three paths of the Helion Fra coming together, but there was no clear direction. It was no wonder it was a bit weaker than his other Fras despite supposedly being perfect.
Back when it was in the Proving Class, his Vampire Lord Fra could cast ntal Abilities that affected even those of higher Fras. But right now, his Helion Fra was only useful against weaklings like that first girl he battled. He didn’t even bother to try and use it against the Syrn.
’Is it because I need to pick one path? Or is it because I only took tidbits of each without a full understanding of the scope I needed?’
Grey’s eyes narrowed and he flipped the page. To make a decision, he wanted to see everything.
After a few minutes, he flipped the page again, and then again, and then again afterward.
Ultimately, there were six main categories, as expected. Though, within those six categories, there were more branching paths.
The first page was for Body Resistance. The next few pages were variations on that. For example, there was one page that focused more on heavier tals, like forming a body of gold.
However, while choosing those more specific paths might lead to more imdiate strength, they pigeon-holed you in other ways.
The only way a star could form gold was through a supernova, so the nuclear reaction you would have to sustain with the Helion Body was a lot greater. aning, you wouldn’t be able to use a sustained, controlled Solarbrand anymore. You would have to use blasts of energy and superheating small or a narrow scope of materials would beco impossible.
Still, the more complicated the to beca, the more Grey’s eyes shone.
Every ti he flipped the page, his body rolled with heat as though it was grasping sothing new.
Maybe Mauve and the others had tried to speak to him, but he didn’t register it at all. He had completely forgotten about the world around him.
’I can see it.’
The searing image of overlapping Neural Circuits filled Grey’s mind. Pulses ca from the Protheus Spirit, its rippling lines responding to Grey’s thoughts as the path of the Neural Fra was etched out in real ti.
Grey didn’t even notice it was happening, but slowly, he was beginning to understand the confusion.
’My Helion Fra was built at random. It ended up becoming a Branching Fra because that was how things happened to land, not because I had the expressed intention to make it like that. But a ton of its Abilities fall into other categories.
’Solarbrand is much more of a Linear Fra Ability. Helstorm and Helion Resonance are objectively Resonant Fra Abilities, Helion Body is probably the only Ability that can fall into a proper Branching Type Fra category...’
A Branching Fra was supposed to be far more flexible. It was great for defense not because it could tank attacks, but instead because it could spread and disperse them. It was good with speed not because it had great straight-line speed, but because it could quickly accelerate, change directions, and switch montum.
If he wanted his Helion Fra to properly fill and display the power it was ant to, it had to truly embody what it ant to Branch.
The greatest irony was probably that if you were going to pick between Fusion and Fission to embody a Branching Fra, shouldn’t you pick Fission? The nuclear reaction that split elents rather than combining them?
However... stars did experience Fission eventually, it just required large enough tals and their death—a supernova.
Grey didn’t want that sort of violent upheaval—at least not continuously.
Luckily for him, even fusion had so aspects of fission, shooting off offshoots of particles and energy.
The understanding grew in Grey’s mind.
Did he understand the science? No. But his talent for comprehending Neural Fra Circuits was simply off the charts. He didn’t need to understand the science to read what was right in front of him and get a feel for it.
And the mont he realized he needed to properly embody a Branching Fra, everything clicked into place one after another.
WHOOSH.
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[Body Resistance, {Helion Body}, has evolved to {Solvmantle}]
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[Body Combat, {Solarbrand}, has evolved to {Solarbreak}]
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[Body Enhancent, {Solar Regeneration}, has evolved to {Stellar Drift}]
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[Mind Resistance, {Living Dawn}, has evolved to {Corona Veil}]
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[Mind Combat, {Helstorm}, has evolved to {Solveign Storm}]
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[Mind Enhancent, {Helion Resonance}, has evolved to {Helion Web}]
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[Perfect Fra, {Helion}, has evolved to Perfect Fra, {Solveign}]
**
Alvin stood in the field with narrowed eyes. Everyone stood around, waiting. Mauve had tried to stall several tis, using whatever tricks she could, but even she didn’t know what was happening.
"Since the First Ranker of your zone hasn’t appeared, you’ll be disqualified." Alvin said coldly.
"Bullshit." Brad said. "If our First Ranker is not here, then we can still participate ourselves. Who died and made you overlord?"
Alvin’s gaze turned ice cold, his staff smashing into the ground.
"Why don’t you co over here and—."
A spear split Alvin’s head in two. It ca out of nowhere, flying through the air like a blazing red sun.
"Shut the fuck up."
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