Talent Sequence

Biodata

Power Progression

• Lower-rank physical benchmarks are approximate: Rank F is roughly two to three times an ordinary person’s strength, Rank E five to ten times, and Rank D fifteen times or more. Final rankings are comprehensive evaluations rather than pure physical measurements 33.
• Known conventional advancement requires the correct subsequent sequence. Taking an incompatible sequence can cause immediate madness or death 114 646.
• Promotion may require a secret medicine, mastery of the prerequisite sequence, and—at higher levels—a specific ritual 105 1726.

Background / History

An early fragmented manuscript attempted to organize known talents into a “Talent Sequence Periodic Table.” Its author identified nine basic Rank F sequences, proposed the repeating numerical arrangement of families, and named the system after a suggestion by Elunsk 114.

The Federation restricted public access to Talent Sequence information, with search systems filtering extraordinary knowledge from ordinary users 114. He Ao later shared the Periodic Table’s principles with Li Cheng and the Research Institute, where the discovery was regarded as knowledge capable of changing an era 646.

According to Andawier, “Talent Sequence” is not merely a local term: every race that discovers its laws uses an equivalent name determined by Truth 1544.

System Mechanics

Manifestation and Extraction

Talent Sequences are extraordinary abilities that remain after an extraordinary’s death rather than vanishing. They precipitate from the corpse and can be collected before they merge with nearby objects 111.

• Uncollected sequences may fuse with environmental objects and become extraordinary items known as Contaminants, which continuously interfere with their surroundings 111.
• Auxiliary materials can accelerate precipitation; powdered Soul-Soothing Flower, for example, hastens the recovery of Talent Sequence 9: Listener 111.
• Extracted sequences can be formulated into secret medicines with main materials, auxiliary materials, and preparation methods 327 684.
• Talents must be anchored through their proper names. Deviating from a talent’s name risks distortion and madness 97.

Promotion and Mastery

Secret medicine transforms the user’s body and soul into a form compatible with the next sequence. Greater mastery of the prerequisite sequence improves the stability and success rate of promotion 105 115.

• A higher sequence can overwrite its lower prerequisite in the user’s status while preserving and strengthening the lower sequence’s abilities 115.
• The soul’s proficiency affects how completely a sequence fuses with the body, allowing experienced users to master a familiar sequence rapidly 441.
• At Rank B and below, reason, soul, ritual, prerequisite mastery, and the original body can restrain a sequence’s alienating force 1360.
• At Rank A, the sequence fully alienates the user’s body. A total collapse of reason can solidify the user into a monstrous Mythological Form 1360 1374.

Multiple Sequences

A physical body normally cannot safely contain two Talent Sequences. Attempts to do so have consistently produced monsters 1372 1560.

• Talent Sequence 272: Super Memory is an anomaly: it is bound to He Ao’s soul rather than his body, allowing it to coexist with a physical Talent Sequence 1372.
• Super Memory advances by devouring or completing lower stages of its associated path rather than following the normal single-sequence bodily progression 115 1372.
• Yang De’s simultaneous Warrior and Officer sequences required external suppression to prevent their mutual interference from consuming his body 1560.

Documented Secret-Medicine Constraints

Documented Promotion Pathways

Periodic Laws and Indicators

• Sequence families repeat cyclically by number. Adjacent or closely numbered sequences often arise from adjacent prerequisite paths 314.
• Sequences from the same Rank F family appear to share a characteristic blood-energy color. The Rage Warrior family, including Fighter, Thug, Martial Artist, Warrior, and Hunter, is associated with red 311 800.
• The systematic pattern is clear from Rank F through Rank D, but the correct Rank D-to-C branch cannot be derived from a universal numerical rule 114 754.
• Incorrect advancement is especially dangerous at branching points because incompatible power can drive a user into madness or death 114 754.

Divine Hierarchy

• The Angel-level Main Table contains 72 sequences, while the Pseudo-God-level Extended Table contains 144 1937.
• Pseudo-Gods and gods on the same pathway are natural rivals: gods eliminate and consume related Pseudo-Gods to prevent being replaced 1942.
• A god may rule several Angel and Pseudo-God pathways; Truth, for example, governs the Angel pathways connected to Scholar and has consumed the related Pseudo-God Creator 1942.
• Reaching Pseudo-God status is therefore not a final refuge, but a state that attracts conflict with the god occupying the same divine pathway 1942.