The Way

The Way is the name given to the ancient technique discovered among ancient ruins on Kings Island. Users can manipulate their own spirit to perform many supernatural feats, from forming spheres of spiritual energy, detecting the emotions of others, to manipulating the weather itself.

Origins
Text regarding the Way were first uncovered by Nick accidentally while exploring ancient ruins on Kings Island. With further investigation by Isasis, along with Fadi's decoding magic, he determined that the Way was a kind of religious technique used by the ancient peoples on the island, who used it to affect life to benefit themselves through a variety of ways. They believed that using the Way allowed them to manipulate "the will of One", a entity that they believed encompassed all of the souls and experiences of all living things.

Usage
The exact way the Way works is relatively unknown to its users, but Isasis has attempted to determine its full extent by categorizing it into 6 types of techniques, according to the 6 main uses the ancient peoples used this technique.

Increasement (Enhancement)
Techniques that focus around "increasing" the spirit of a user. Users can do this by entering a special mental state, allowing "everything to flow through". Depending on the user, this will cause spiritual energy to emit outside of the user's body like a sphere, and can become larger the longer this is held. Over time, increasement can even cause changes to the environment, such as cracking the ground, forming winds, and even blowing away rain and bullets. This can also be used to generate invisible projectile waves that can push away objects, depending on the amount of spiritual energy that they have. Increasement is also used to be able to perform all of the other techniques to a greater degree.

Holding increasement for too long can be fatal, as the user's spirit could potentially burn itself out trying to over exert it's size. According to Isasis, increasement was originally used to bolster one's spirit, as a way to levitate physical and emotional pain

Defense
Techniques that focus around using the spirit to protect the physical body of the user. More specifically, users use their spirit to manipulate their cells, keeping them in place or only letting certain cells go. To a greater degree, this allows users to take no damage to their body when getting attacked, but they can still feel the pain their body feels. The stronger the force is, the greater amount of spiritual energy is needed to keep the body intact.

According to Isasis, defense techniques were originally used as a form of birth control, as male users could prevent sperm cells from traveling into the womb during pregnancies.

Healing
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Manipulation
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Connection
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