Chapter 3229: Inner and Outer Realms
"The Forest of War teaches them to harness their talent for harmonizing with nature for combat," she explained with a patient expression. "It forges the warriors that allow us to protect ourselves and join the ranks of great civilizations."
Rui pondered aloud. "When you say talent, what threshold are we talking about? What is the condition that an elf needs to achieve to be admitted into the Forest of War?"
"Only those elves who have achieved the Gate of Harmony are permitted into the Forest of War."
Rui grew even more curious at those words.
The Gate of Harmony.
He had heard Mother Pruschilia mention it before to him in their first conversation. It was the first stage of harmony with flora, giving them basic control over nature; it was the first step down the Nature Path.
"The elven warriors who have thrust past the Gate of Harmony will then have the opportunity to cultivate the Hymn of Mind and Soul," Veruschia explained. "This is a process where elves harmonize the sum totality of their conscious and subconscious mind with nature in an extraordinarily lengthy process. And only after they have completely harmonized with nature in mind and soul can they achieve the Singularity of Flora and become a Mother of Nature."
It was a fascinating progression that was extremely different from the Martial Path.
From her words, it seemed that the Nature Path had fewer ’ranks’ of power than the Martial Path, even excluding the Transcendent Realm. In the first place, it seemed like a mix of discrete ranks and a continuous slope. However, even if he tried to translate the potential harnessed of the Nature Path into the Martial Path, it seemed that they only harnessed the Apprentice Realm, the Master Realm, and the Sage Realm equivalents.
"What about the body?" Rui asked with a curious expression. "Don’t the elves harness the potential of the body. I know that elven bodies are very different from human bodies, but you should still have immense potential hidden within your bodies."