Mental Sea

Biodata

Power Progression

Function

Mental Power is likened to water within a lake, while the Mental Sea provides the “container” and internal structure that holds it. Meditation methods draw external energy inward, transform it into Mental Power, and deepen this inner reservoir. 73

Will Runes are the primary stabilizing structures within the Mental Sea. Meditation condenses new runes, refines Mental Power, and improves the efficiency of its circulation. 2 74

Internal Configuration

Will Rune Array

At the twenty-seven-rune stage, nine larger and denser Great Will Runes form the central framework, while eighteen smaller runes orbit them like satellites. 54

• Completing the array creates a self-sustaining cycle that continuously produces and circulates refined Mental Power. 43
• By the later Advanced Apprentice stage, the runes become equal in size and are linked by stable energy circuits. 84
• Under the Starry Sky Rite, eighty-one runes emit silver-white starlight and form part of a vast stellar visualization. 158 172

Spell Runes and Wizardry Models

Mastered spells may appear as independent runic structures around the Will Rune Array. At one point, Ian’s Mental Sea contains runes resembling a hand, intertwined ice crystals, and a constantly collapsing-and-reforming structure; these correspond to mastered spells and can resonate with the Will Runes to nourish the Mental Sea. 54

Wizardry models can also be permanently embedded within the Mental Sea. Such embedding greatly reduces casting time, but remains difficult even for most Advanced Apprentices. 74

Cores and Starpaths

• Star-Moon Phantom — A rotating image that resonates with external stellar and lunar power, providing passive nourishment and purification. 85
• Crystallization Core — A pale-gold crystalline core formed from crystallized Mental Power and later integrated with the Star Seed. 208 264
• Star Seed — A fragment of Astral Rule comprehension that reorganizes the Starry Sky Rite and gradually imparts astral attributes to Mental Power. 255 264
• Three Starpaths — Gravitational, Purification, and Time pathways within a miniature star map; they become central to Ian’s Third-Level breakthrough. 325
• Sun-Moon Twin Cores — The Dream Core converts void energy into moonlight power, while the Sun Core tempers and converts power into refined Magic Power. 390

External Connections

• Abyssal Soul Pact — A dormant mark can extend a thread beyond the Mental Sea and draw contaminated Abyssal spiritual energy inward. 158 172
• Status Panel purification — A silver vortex within the Mental Sea removes chaotic thoughts, malignant information, and contamination from the incoming energy, leaving pure Mental Power and rule fragments for absorption. 158
• Cross-world resonance — The Mental Sea can maintain an extremely faint connection spanning the Endless Void, linking Ian to another world through his projection-related abilities. 216 351
• Dream space — The Dream Core creates an internal moonlit dream world that independently draws void energy and converts it into Power of Moonlight. 390

Threats and Safeguards

Mental Seas can be directly harmed by psychic attacks, mental contamination, rule erosion, and hostile intrusion. The giant faceless entity in the Silent Mountains once left a scarlet mark inside Ian’s Mental Sea, though the Status Panel immediately destroyed it. 66

• Soul Devouring — The Bloodline Purification Art’s effect can consume and purify will-based attacks, mental pollution, and negative emotional fragments entering Ian’s consciousness. 72 240
• Crystallization resistance — Crystallized Mental Power is structurally stable, difficult to shake, and more resistant to external contamination than ordinary Mental Power. 264
• Order Starforce barrier — The Status Panel can form starlight barriers and purification structures inside the Mental Sea to block Abyssal whispers and strip contamination from rule samples. 305 306
• High-level purification — The Status Panel has eradicated a Level Five Abyssal Will intrusion and purified a fragment of the Abyssal Origin Will that invaded during Ian’s Third-Level breakthrough. 312 325

Known Contaminated Mental Sea

Tito Juste’s Mental Sea demonstrates the consequences of advanced Abyssal corruption. Its original time-aligned spiritual structure was reduced to a distorted expanse of tentacles, eyes, corrupted spell-model fragments, shattered defensive arrays, and an active Abyssal tentacle above its Crystallization Core. 300

Ian could only establish small purified zones within Tito’s Mental Sea; each ten-meter cleansing area consumed a significant portion of the Order Starforce contained in the potion imprint. 300