The Power System of Fragment
Explained by Kael
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Aether
Aether is the living energy flowing through all existence within Fragment.
It exists in the air, living beings, dimensions, memories, and even emotions.
Unlike normal energy, Aether possesses intent.
It responds to:
- emotion
- willpower
- instinct
- mental state
- destiny
The stronger the will, the stronger the synchronization with Aether.
This is why emotionally unstable individuals often become extremely powerful… or catastrophically dangerous.
Aether can strengthen:
- the body
- the mind
- weapons
- elemental abilities
- dimensions themselves
Every awakened human manipulates Aether differently depending on their:
- attribute
- personality
- soul resonance
- core type
- Resonance mark
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Void Resonance
Void Resonance is the similar to aether but it's not like natural aether it's more of corrupted personal aether . Natural aether acts like a ten times multiplayer to create more damage when using your attributes . Personal aether is the aether you use to activate your attributes .
Aether represents existence, harmony, and evolution…
Void Resonance represents:
- collapse
- corruption
- instability
- entropy
- dimensional decay
- destruction
- hatred
Void energy often originates from:
- failed Collapses
- dimensional fractures
- corrupted entities
- dead dimensions
- ancient sealed beings
- emotion (feelings of hatred mostly)
- Absorbing too much aether
-Absorbing corrupted aether from monsters
Humans exposed to Void Resonance may:
- mutate
- lose sanity
- gain corrupted abilities
- become Hollowborn
- evolve into monsters
However…
Rare individuals can survive Void synchronization.
Those individuals are considered anomalies.
And anomalies are feared by gods and even the System itself.
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Resonance Core
Every awakened monster possesses a Resonance Core.
The Core is the spiritual center where Corrupted Aether now known as void energy gathers and evolves.
It is usually located near the heart or soul-space.
The stronger the Core becomes:
- the more Void energy it can contain
- the greater synchronization becomes
- the more corrupted the user becomes
A damaged Core can:
- cripple an awakened permanently
- corrupt abilities
- destabilize emotions
- kill the user
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Core Types
Elemental Core
Controls natural elements.
Examples:
- fire
- lightning
- ice
- wind
Most common core type.
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Sovereign Core
A rare Core capable of influencing:
- territories
- minds
- pressure
- large-scale battles
- more demanding attributes
Often found in future leaders or monsters.
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Abyssal Core
A corrupted Core born from Void Resonance.
Extremely dangerous.
Users often become unstable over time.
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Divine Core
A mythical Core tied to higher laws and ancient authorities.
Very few beings possess one.
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Fragmented Core
An unstable Core type often found in anomalies. It is also rumoured that beings with fragmented cores posses elemental cores , or abyssal cores meaning that they have two cores to absorb Aether and use abilities differently or separately
These users evolve unpredictably.
The System struggles to categorize them.
It is rumoured that Arthur and Sunny both possess signs of Fragmented evolution due to them being vessels.
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Human Evolution System
"The Path of Eternity"
Humanity evolves by climbing the Path of Eternity.
Each stage represents a deeper synchronization with Aether and reality itself.
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1 — Dormant
The Core awakens.
The individual begins sensing Aether.
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2 — Awakened
True synchronization begins.
Abilities manifest.
The body evolves slightly.
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3 — Ascended ( Warden)
The body surpasses normal human limitations.
Aether becomes stable.
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4 — Transcendent (Hereld)
Abilities begin affecting reality itself.
Cities can be destroyed during battle.
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5 — Sovereign (Devil)
The individual gains influence over territories, pressure, weather, and weaker minds.
Most nations fear Sovereigns.
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6 — Saint ( Ghost )
The individual partially transcends mortality.
Conventional armies become meaningless against them.
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7 — Divine
The individual approaches godhood.
Reality itself begins responding naturally to their existence.
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8 — Celestial
The individual can manipulate:
- dimensional forces
- natural laws
- higher concepts
Very few beings ever reach this stage.
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9 — Eternal
The final known stage.
Beings at this level transcend cycles, fate, and ordinary existence itself.
At this point…
Reality merely tolerates them.
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Beast Evolution System
"The Descent Into Ruin"
Monsters evolve differently than humans.
Where humanity climbs upward…
Beasts descend deeper into corruption.
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1 — Lesser Beast
Mindless predators driven by instinct.
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2 — Ravager
Faster, stronger, and more aggressive.
Capable of wiping out small settlements.
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3 — Nightmare
Develop intelligence and unique abilities.
Hunters of awakened humans.
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4 — Calamity
Capable of destroying entire cities.
Most kingdoms collapse if one appears unprepared.
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5 — Corrupted
The turning point.
These entities:
- speak
- think
- manipulate emotion
- infect minds
- understand fear
Simply seeing one can traumatize weaker humans.
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6 — Hollow sovereign
Things begins warping around them naturally.
Entire regions become corrupted.
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7 — Abyssal King
Ancient monsters tied directly to failed Collapses and dimensional wounds.
Some have existed for thousands of years.
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8 — Throne of ruin
Existences partially detached from reality.
Traditional attacks become nearly useless.
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9 — The Endwalker
The final stage.
Civilizations disappear when these beings awaken.
Some are capable of ending dimensions entirely.
If one fully awakens…
The System itself begins preparing for extinction.
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Final Truth
Power in Fragment is not fair.
The stronger someone becomes:
- the more isolated they become
- the more unstable reality becomes around them
- the more attention they attract
From monsters.
From gods.
From demons.
And from things far older than all of them.
It is rumoured that some monsters can become human again and people can become monsters due to a having a vow although the requirements of obtaining a vow are near impossible to complete and are brutal .
Resonance Mark
Among all phenomena recorded since the beginning of civilization, few are as mysterious as the Resonance Mark.
No scholar has discovered who created them.
No god has openly claimed ownership over them.
Even the System itself has never fully explained what they are.
The only certainty is this:
Every Resonance Mark is unique.
No two marks have ever been identical.
Each mark is born from the deepest part of its owner's existence—their soul, memories, identity, desires, fears, convictions, and the path they choose to walk. For this reason, many ancient civilizations referred to Resonance Marks as "The Language of the Soul," believing that the mark was a physical manifestation of a person's true self.
Unlike abilities, Resonance Marks cannot be learned.
Unlike skills, they cannot be taught.
Unlike artifacts, they cannot be stolen.
They simply...
Awaken.
No one knows exactly when.
No one knows exactly why.
A person can spend decades searching for their Resonance Mark and never awaken one.
Another may awaken theirs completely by accident while living an ordinary life.
There are no rituals.
No techniques.
No secret methods.
No amount of meditation or training guarantees its appearance.
It simply chooses its moment.
This unpredictability has baffled researchers for centuries.
Some Awakened have manifested a Resonance Mark as children, long before they even understood what Aether was. Such individuals are considered extraordinary, with only a handful appearing throughout recorded history.
Others awaken theirs much later.
It has been observed that Resonance Marks tend to appear more frequently as an Awakened grows stronger. Many believe reaching a sufficiently high rank increases the likelihood of awakening one.
However...
No one has ever determined which rank acts as the threshold.
Some awaken theirs before becoming ascended.
Others not until they stand among Saints.
Some Transcendents have lived their entire lives without ever receiving one.
Because of this, the Resonance Mark remains one of the greatest mysteries in existence.
What is known is that the moment it awakens, the individual's Aether changes forever.
The mark is engraved directly onto the body.
Its appearance differs from person to person.
Some resemble ancient runes.
Others take the form of flowers, wings, flames, chains, eyes, stars, beasts, or symbols unknown to any language.
Many continue to evolve as their owner changes.
The mark is not merely a tattoo.
It is alive.
As the owner's understanding of themselves deepens, the Resonance Mark evolves alongside them.
If their convictions strengthen, the mark grows clearer.
If they lose sight of who they are, it may fade or fracture.
Those who succumb to Void Resonance often witness a horrifying transformation—their Resonance Mark twists into something corrupted, becoming a reflection not of their true self, but of the ruin consuming them.
For this reason, Resonance Marks are often considered mirrors of the soul.
They do not grant entirely new powers.
Instead, they resonate with what already exists.
They amplify an Awakened's natural talents, abilities, combat style, and affinity with Aether, allowing those qualities to reach levels that would otherwise be impossible.
Two swordsmen may possess Resonance Marks.
Yet one may gain unmatched precision, while another gains overwhelming destructive force.
Neither mark is stronger than the other.
They are simply different.
History has shown that no two Resonance Marks follow the same path.
The oldest surviving records contain a single sentence regarding these mysterious symbols:
«"Abilities are gifts. Skills are earned. Power is cultivated. But the Resonance Mark is truth made visible. It does not reveal who you wish to become... it reveals who you already are."»
Classification of Resonance Marks
Although every Resonance Mark is unique, researchers eventually discovered that they could be classified.
Not by appearance.
Not by power.
But by Resonance Potential.
To simplify decades of research, scholars created the Alphabetical Resonance Classification System.
Every newly awakened Resonance Mark is assigned a letter after careful examination.
The known classifications are:
F → E → D → C → B → A → S → SS → SSS
Beyond these exists a classification spoken of only in myths.
Its existence has never been officially confirmed.
As a result, the World Council and the System have never acknowledged it.
The letters represent potential, not current strength.
An Awakened possessing an F-Class Resonance Mark may still defeat someone with an A-Class Resonance Mark through greater experience, intelligence, combat skill, or mastery over their Aether.
Likewise, an S-Class bearer is not invincible.
The classification merely reflects how deeply the Resonance Mark can resonate with its owner's soul and how much room it has to evolve.
However, one of the greatest misconceptions among inexperienced Awakened is believing that people who share the same letter possess similar abilities.
This is completely false.
Two people may both possess A-Class Resonance Marks.
One may command storms.
The other may strengthen their body.
A third may manipulate sound.
A fourth may possess no obvious offensive ability at all.
Their Resonance Marks are fundamentally different because they are born from different souls.
Even identical twins have never been recorded possessing the same Resonance Mark.
The only thing two people with the same classification truly share...
...is the estimated potential of their Resonance.
Nothing else.
This uniqueness has made Resonance Marks almost impossible to predict.
Researchers can determine how extraordinary a mark may become.
They cannot determine what it will become.
For this reason, every newly awakened Resonance Mark attracts enormous attention from kingdoms, academies, noble families, and military organizations.
A single individual with an unknown Resonance Mark could reshape history.
An old proverb among veteran Awakened perfectly summarizes this mystery:
«"Never judge a Resonance Mark by its letter alone. The alphabet measures potential... the soul decides everything else."»
The Collapse
Long before kingdoms rose.
Long before the first Awakened.
Long before history was ever written...
There was the Collapse.
No one knows when it first appeared.
Some ancient records claim it has existed since the dawn of mankind.
Others believe it is even older than humanity itself.
Whatever the truth may be...
One fact has remained unchanged throughout history.
Every ten years, the Collapse returns.
Without warning, enormous black vortices appear across the world.
They descend from the heavens like wounds carved into reality itself, swallowing everything caught within their reach.
Cities.
Forests.
Mountains.
People.
Nothing has ever proven completely immune to the Collapse.
Despite thousands of years of study, no civilization has discovered what the black vortices truly are.
No one knows who created them.
No one knows why they appear every ten years.
No one knows where those they consume are taken.
Every explanation remains nothing more than speculation.
Some believe the Collapse is a punishment from the gods.
Others claim it is the world correcting itself.
Some whisper that the vortices are living beings, endlessly searching for something they have long since forgotten.
None of these theories have ever been proven.
What is known, however, is that being consumed by the Collapse is considered the most agonizing experience known to mankind.
Survivors—those extraordinarily few who have somehow returned—describe an indescribable sensation.
It feels as though every part of their existence is being pulled apart at once.
Their bodies.
Their minds.
Even their very souls.
It is not simply pain.
It is the terrifying feeling that one's existence itself is being unraveled.
Many who survive are never the same again.
Some lose memories.
Some awaken strange abilities.
Others descend into madness.
The Collapse leaves scars that no healer can mend.
The number of people taken by the Collapse has never been consistent.
Some cycles claim only a few thousand lives.
Others erase entire nations from history.
The reason for this fluctuation remains one of the world's greatest mysteries.
Yet every generation agrees on one terrifying truth.
The most recent Collapse...
Was unlike any before it.
For the first time in recorded history, nearly ninety percent of humanity vanished within a single day.
Entire continents fell silent.
Civilizations disappeared.
Governments collapsed overnight.
What had once been humanity's greatest mystery...
Had become its greatest catastrophe.
Even more frightening than the number of lives lost...
Was the realization that the Collapse seemed to be growing stronger with each passing cycle.
Whether this was coincidence...
Or a sign that something far greater had begun...
No one knew.
But every surviving civilization reached the same conclusion.
If another Collapse of this magnitude were to occur...
There might not be a humanity left to witness it.
Vows
Among all phenomena known to mankind, none are more mysterious than Vows.
Even the oldest civilizations possessed little knowledge about them.
The System has never fully explained them.
The gods refuse to speak of them.
The demons understand them all too well.
A Vow is neither a skill, an ability, nor a blessing.
It is a law imposed upon one's own soul.
Unlike abilities granted through Awakening, a Vow cannot be trained for, inherited, purchased, or discovered.
It can only be forged.
And the conditions required to forge one are so impossibly difficult that many scholars believe they were never meant for mortals in the first place.
Throughout thousands of years of recorded history, only a handful of authentic Vows have ever been confirmed.
Many kingdoms have existed for centuries without witnessing a single one.
For this reason, most people dismiss them as myths.
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The Impossible Conditions
No one truly knows every condition required to obtain a Vow.
Every recorded case has been different.
Yet they all share one terrifying similarity.
The individual must reach a moment where their very existence revolves around one absolute conviction.
Not determination.
Not ambition.
Not simple desire.
Absolute conviction.
A belief so overwhelming that the soul itself abandons every other possibility.
At that moment, the soul presents itself with a single question.
"Are you willing to pay any price?"
There is no second chance.
No negotiation.
No mercy.
If the answer is no...
Nothing happens.
If the answer is yes...
The soul accepts.
And the Vow is born.
Because reaching such a state is almost impossible, most Awakened live and die without ever coming close to obtaining one.
Even Saints and Transcendents may never awaken a Vow.
Strength alone is meaningless.
Only conviction matters.
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Every Vow Has a Price
The world does not grant miracles freely.
Every Vow demands payment.
The greater the Vow...
The greater the sacrifice.
Some lose years of their lifespan.
Some lose cherished memories.
Some lose their emotions.
Others lose their names, senses, or even pieces of their humanity.
The cruelest part...
The price is never revealed beforehand.
One accepts the Vow without knowing what will be taken.
Only after it has been forged does the cost become known.
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Humanity and Monsters
Perhaps the greatest mystery surrounding Vows is their relationship with monsters.
History has shown that a Vow possesses enough power to alter the very nature of existence.
A human who becomes completely consumed by their Vow may slowly cease to be human.
Their body twists.
Their Aether changes.
Their instincts overwhelm reason.
Eventually...
They become a monster.
Not because they were evil.
But because the Vow became more important than their humanity.
Likewise...
Though so rare that many scholars deny it entirely...
There have been records of monsters becoming human.
A monster capable of abandoning the obsession that created it, rediscovering compassion, purpose, or self-awareness, may slowly reclaim its humanity.
Whether this is redemption...
Or simply another form of transformation...
Remains unknown.
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The Soul's Greatest Gamble
Unlike Resonance Marks, which reveal the soul...
A Vow reshapes it.
Unlike Flow State, which calms the mind...
A Vow binds it forever.
Unlike Void Resonance, which corrupts from the outside...
A Vow changes a person from within.
For this reason, many ancient texts describe Vows as "the purest and most terrifying form of power."
Not because they are the strongest.
But because they demand something no ordinary person is willing to give.
The final line of an ancient manuscript, discovered within the ruins of a forgotten kingdom, reads:
«"Abilities are awakened."»
«"Resonance Marks are discovered."»
«"Flow State is attained."»
«"But a Vow..."»
«"...is negotiated ."»
«"And once agreed , there is no turning back ... it stays with you forever."»