The paper's core data was the main event.
Under normal circumstances, an ordinary person wearing a standard Flame Spirit Stone naturally absorbed about 0.08% of its total energy each day.
At that rate, fully absorbing a standard Flame Spirit Stone would take a little over three years.
But when combined with the "Limit Arcana" training Chase had devised, the absorption rate could soar to 1.6%.
A full twentyfold increase.
"These figures have been experimentally verified." Chen Siyao flipped to the experimental section. "A sample size of ten thousand..."
"Exactly! Ten thousand people!" Yang Wanqing chimed in beside her. "And not just any random ten thousand, either. Old and young, men and women, all kinds of physiques and ethnicities. This Chase guy was really thorough."
"When did you finish reading it?"
"I read an abridged translation by a blogger here." Yang Wanqing said it without a hint of shame.
Chen Siyao couldn't be bothered to call her out and continued studying the data.
After the ten thousand participants trained using Limit Arcana, their absorption rates showed clear individual differences.
Most people's absorption rates fell between 1.1% and 1.9%—already a very substantial improvement.
But the interesting part was the outliers.
A tiny minority could achieve absorption rates of 3% to 5%.
And among those ten thousand participants, one person... just one... had reached an absorption rate of 8%.
One in ten thousand.
In his paper, Chase had created an entirely new rating system for individuals at these levels.
Ordinary people were C-Rank, covering everyone from 1.1% to 1.9%. Those at 3% to 5% were A-Rank, while the one at 8% was—
SSS-Rank.
"An SSS-Rank genius!" Yang Wanqing's eyes shone. "Siyao, do the math! With an eight-percent absorption rate and Limit Arcana, you could finish absorbing a Flame Spirit Stone in a dozen