“ | All I desire is all I be; currently, I perceive not the slightest austerity when gazing upon my soul. | „ |
~ Manuscript 11 |
“ | Born so blessed, in my youth, I believed strength was the might of the blade, the power of a hurricane, the crushing force of Will bent to my command. I sought to conquer the world through violence, to break those who stood against me, for that was the path of the 'true strong man'. But as the years weighed upon me, and as I unraveled the threads of sorcery and life itself, a deeper truth emerged, one far more elusive than any spell or incantation.
The title of 'Strongest' belongs not to those who wield power as a weapon, but to those who wield it as a tool of creation, of knowledge, of understanding. In the end, the greatest force under heaven is not the crushing hand, but the open one. Only in such gentleness can one truly be strong. That path was the one that guided me to be the one with the most liberty in the world. |
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~ Manuscript 14 |
Summary[]
Spicta is a historical figure in Phanerian history and the original developer of the didactics of Visualization.
But Who is Spicta?
Perhaps the record holder for the multiplication of the technique of Visualization of the adepts of Will, perhaps a famous male prophet of the first century after the rise of the Empire, perhaps a peasant woman who fell for the wrong man... Spicta did not know who Spicta truly was, which makes all these titles both fitting and unfitting.
Born in the outskirts of the Phaneric Empire at the year 28 of the First Era, the records of the past only make mention of an individual whose teachings became the cornerstone for the many early schools of the practice of improving one's Will and giving shape to its power.
With no real identity tied to the name, we can assume that it was, at first, a nickname or alias. Spicta simply means "traveler". Being a traveling healer, priest, philosopher, sorcerer or trader of any sort wasn't rare back then, as the vast expanse of lands meant that knowledge often came from outside your own hometown. Thus, the one called Spicta came across hundreds of cultures, peoples, religions and dialects.
"Spicta" was a synonym for change; an identity hijacker who impersonated already existing characters in order to advance his own agenda. Being the deceased daughter of a religious leader for a week, the exiled poet of another settlement for a year, and so on, and so forth. All paths leading to the same goal: attaining an understanding of the world by immersing oneself in multiple cultures, languages, belief systems and ways of life; the act of understanding oneself by going through dozens of lives until you find the true essence of your very nature, thus, by extension, achieving a complete visualization of the self and thus gaining enlightenment and power.
It is a mystery what came to happen to this mysterious wanderer, whether they succumbed to old age or died by some other means, but they left a legacy that stands today, over nine hundred years later. The teachings of Spicta and his improvement of Visualization became the fundamentals of the technique and the manuscripts with his methodologies were scattered throughout the age and found themselves into the hands of many powerful figures of history, including the founders of the original branches of the pre-3-hour-mayhem's Will Academy that evolved into the disciplines that exist today.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: 7-A, High 6-C via Fully Charged Bow of the Sun Deity
Name: Spicta, The Wanderer
Origin: The Firefly Chronicles
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Classification: Human, Author, Philosopher
Powers and Abilities:
- Will Manipulation (Raw Manipulation and Visualization; Spicta is the Saint of Visualization and one of the anomalies in the world of Will. His knowledge of Will was almost unreachable compared to other mortals, and his affinity with the energy was further amplified by his philosophy of “knowing the world through other people's lives”)
- Improved Accelerated Development (Training, Battle, Passive; Physical Statistics, Intelligence, & Abilities; In a world of combat geniuses, Spicta was described as "Unreachable, a strong man that learned through others and whose physicality, even at its zenith in life, was still constantly developing". He could copy combat skills in a short period of time, quickly adjust to unfavorable circumstances, and adapt perfectly to totally new personalities and lifestyles on the spot)
- Improved Instinctive Action (Capable of reacting to some attacks without even needing to acknowledge them in the first place. Could instinctively dodge fatal attacks after being blinded and having his other senses halved. Spicta himself noted how his mastery over Will had seemingly turned him nearly untouchable under normal circumstances, and the Eclipsar could only bypass this through several status effects, Will drainage, and numerical advantage)
- Magic
- Subjective Reality
- Dimensional Storage (Via Spicta's Infinite Bag; Infused with a Spell that allows Spicta to store any object in it as long as it passes through its entrance)
- Shapeshifting & possibly Memory Manipulation (Via's Spicta's Ring; Infused with a Spell that allows Spicta to impersonate any person he touches, storing their form to shapeshift into. It is implied that his Spell handling was so abnormal that he was also capable of receiving the memories of the copied body to a certain extent, which is backed up by the fact that Spicta was able to impersonate the personality and mannerisms of individuals almost indistinguishably from the original targets)
- Limited Self Age Manipulation (Having further enhanced his knowledge and understanding of his own abilities during his final battle, Spicta became capable of negating the effects of Abina's aging by using “Impersonate” to mimick his own body and return to his youthful self through multiple copies of it)
- Possibly Immortality (Type 1; Should be capable of indefinitely reverting to a younger version of himself through "Impersonate" as many times as he may want to)
- Perception Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, & Illusion Manipulation (Via Phantom Emperor; Spicta's primary blade allows him to generate an overwhelming irrational fear aura through it, powerful enough to affect even Will Grandmasters. Generates horrifying hallucinations upon direct contact with the blade)
- Defense Negation (Via Veilbreaker; Spicta's secondary blade allows him to bypass any kind of physical defense, shattering them upon contact)
- Death Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, & Regeneration (Via Maiden; Mid-Low. Spicta's tertiary blade allows him to siphon the enemy's vital energy by stabbing them, passively transferring said vitality to his body to quickly heal minor injuries he may have for as long the target stays alive or under the influence of the spell)
- Light Manipulation & Danmaku(Via Bow of the Sun Deity; Spicta's complementary weapon allows him to coat arrows in pure light to deal near unavoidable piercing damage to his target. Spicta can sacrifice full-charging in order to generate hundreds of smaller, fast-producing, yet still powerful arrows)
- Magic Nullification (Via Angel's Eye; allows for the deflection of any kind of magical or supernatural projectile, regardless of nature, as long as Spicta successfully parries it)
- Superhuman Physical Characteristics
- Genius Intelligence
- Martial Arts (Spicta was not only a natural-born combat genius, but also an individual who accumulated a myriad of fighting styles and martial techniques over the course of his multiple short lives as different identities. Regarded as the strongest/most experienced human fighter in phanerian history, and was so unfathomably proficient in physical combat that few people could ever compare to him in said aspect)
- Pressure Points & Paralysis Inducement (Via Serpent Style; Has an innate knowledge of the pressure points of the human body and has been declared as capable of quickly deducing the weak points of other types of creatures. Can paralyze the members of an opponent through precise movements)
- Stealth Mastery, Limited Invisibility, & Limited Darkness Manipulation (Via Shadow Step; Allows the user to blend seamlessly into the darkness, as well as allowing one's bodily movement to make the person essentially invisible to unfocused eyes)
- Limited Air Manipulation (Via Order of Tempest; His slashing movements, both bare-handed and with a weapon, were capable of generating air projections that could easily cleave through people)
- Pain Manipulation & Limited Illusion Manipulation (Via Phantom Hand; Can cause intense pain to one's body that lingers even after the targeted part is ripped off)
- Weapon Mastery (Although primarily a swordsman, Spicta is historically described as "a master of a hundred weapons", which isn't exactly an oxymoron considering his countless lives in different social strata)
- Power Mimicry & Information Analysis (Spicta was capable of analyzing, dissecting, and mimicking the physical capabilities of the subjects he impersonated, as well as copying fighting styles to a professional level by simply fighting with their respective users for a short period of time)
- Social Influencing (Has most likely manipulated hundreds of people during the course of his life. One of his impersonations was that of a well-known leader of a large settlement)
- Enhanced Senses (He could hear enemies approaching from kilometers away. His perception was so abnormal that he could see even the slightest of deviations in a person's movements during battle, as well as immediately spot a tiny Golem approaching him. His supernatural vision was considered to be one of the main points of focus in the plan devised by the Eclipsar, and for this reason, a specific poison had been chosen to neutralize this strong point of his)
- Acrobatics (Hypermobility, Surface Running, & Self-Momentum; Can react and dodge attacks mid-air, as well as easily run on vertical surfaces while in constant motion)
- Free Movement (Can walk on water)
Resistance to:
- Mind Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation, & Soul Manipulation (As one of the strongest Will users to ever exist, he should accordingly be extremely resistant to mental and soul-related effects)
- Information Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, & Law Manipulation (As one of the strongest Will users to ever exist, he should accordingly be knowledgeful on how to protect his narrative to some extent)
- Partial Power Nullification (the Raw Will techniques [Subjugation, Visualization, Pact Creation, and Raw Applications] of Grandmasters and those above them are unaffected by the effects of any kind of Anti-Spell, as well as being capable of using those techniques in places they should not be able to, the sole exception being a true vacuum due to the lack of breathable Will Particles)
- Fear Manipulation, Perception Manipulation, Illusion Manipulation, & Death Manipulation (As one of the strongest Will users to ever exist, he should accordingly be extremely resistant to the effects of Subjugation. Could walk straight trough Ripples of Subjugation coming from a strong sorcerer without much of a reaction)
- Fire Manipulation & Temperature Manipulation (Was unaffected by having his body set ablaze, and continued fighting while completely ignoring the flames that surrounded his frame)
- Pressure Points & Paralysis Inducement (Spicta himself states in one of his manuscripts that, at the time he copied the Serpent Style, the self-admited "most annoying fighting technique I've encountered to this age", from its respective master martial artist, he adapted to learn how to successfully hide his weak points in order to mitigate the nerve damage dealt by the fighting style)
- Extrasensory Perception (The Shadow Step can cloak a person's presence while in darkness, making them virtually undetectable and even allowing them to bypass Will Detection to a certain extent)
- Age Manipulation (Having further enhanced his knowledge and understanding of his own abilities during his final battle, Spicta became capable of negating the effects of Abina's aging by using “Impersonate” to mimick his own body and return to his youthful self through multiple copies of it)
- Poison Manipulation (Although poison was a fundamental point in Spicta's weakening and subsequent execution, it took exorbitant doses of the substance injected into his body to effectively affect him)
Attack Potency: Mountain Level+ (Regarded as one of the strongest non-transcendental sorcerers in history, and the strongest human to ever exist, which should put him above Evan [60 megatons]. It is historically accurate that of the ten Eclipsar responsible for Spicta's execution, an order of assassins known as the “Deity Killers”, only four are counted as survivors of the incident. It is implied that he was responsible for creating the Peace Passageway [594.68 megatons]), Higher with Visualization (Visualization not only multiplies one's speed by a specific number, but also gives a minor boost to one's attack potency), Large Island Level+ via Fully Charged Bow of the Sun Deity (Instantly obliterated the body of one of the Eclipsar upon contact, dispersed the clouds, illuminated the night sky, and generetad a quick flash of light upon exiting the phanerian atmosphere. Noah, nearly a thousand years later, put the Bow of the Sun Deity as one of the relics capable of feasibly hurting The Progeny of Evil. Is a thousand times stronger than a smaller Light Arrow [594.68 Gigatons]), Ignores Durability via Serpent Style and Phantom Hand.
Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Should be somewhat comparable to Transcendentals. Dodged a hypersonic hidden blade from 10 centimeters away [Mach 503.98], and was quick enough to consistently fight against all of his attackers, albeit partly because of Visualization), Relativistic with Visualization (Spicta had the single highest Visualization multiplier across Phanerian history by a large margin, reaching an astounding 213x [Mach 107348.1]), Speed of Light via Bow of the Sun Deity.
Lifting Strength: Class T (Should be somewhat comparable to Transcendentals. Is regarded as the strongest human in phanerian history, which should put him above Liam)
Striking Strength: Mountain Level+ (His strikes are mainly physical. Capable of cutting a mountain in half with a single slash of his blade), Higher with Visualization.
Durability: Mountain Level+ (Should be comparable to his AP. Ultimately, a 10-member assassin brigade was essential for Spicta's execution, and even then, he had to be poisoned and have his abilities halved in order to be taken down completely in the end)
Stamina: Superhuman (Should be comparable to Transcendentals to a certain extent. Was still perfectly capable of fighting several individuals even as a decrepit old man. Even after being poisoned, mutilated, losing an arm, his lower jaw, blind from both eyes and having his physical abilities halved, he was still capable of fighting with a surprisingly good pace and fending off four trained assassins until his inevitable demise. His willpower was such that it had been compared to the gift of immortality, since even with all the wounds and lacerations on his body, Spicta only seemed to have died, in the end, of his own volition, allowing himself to pass from the world of the living to that of the dead)
Range: Extended Melee Range physically, Kilometers through slash projections (the air projections generated by his strikes were capable of cutting, from end-to-end, entire mountains in half), Thousands of Kilometers via Bow of the Sun Deity (its arrow presumably only fully dispersed after leaving the phanerian atmosphere)
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Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Spicta had, remarkably, one of the greatest intellects in the entire history of Phaneri. A man who lived dozens of lives in one, his genius was not restricted to just one area, but spread across countless branches of knowledge; from a leader's social and administrative knowledge to a farmer's application of agricultural techniques, his life's mission was, succinctly, to absorb as much knowledge as possible in order to better understand his self. His intellect when it came to combat was essentially divine in the era in which he lived, and he developed the first applications of Will's pedagogy on his own in a time when knowledge was scarce and hard to come by. Spicta's manuscripts describe scientific analysis, social themes and meditations on the world advanced beyond the time in which they were written, as well as extensive dissertations on the nature of Will and its applications)
Standard Tactics:
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Weaknesses: As strong as he was, Spicta was remarkably too curious and carefree for his own good, easily impressed by his opponents' skills and carried away by their possible applications. He had the habit of educating his opponents not only in the applications of his abilities but also on their own, refusing to keep hidden information about the usage of Will, although this seemed to be restricted to individuals whom he considered to be "harmless but promising".
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Visualization: Visualization is, in short, a technique of the Adepts of Will in which, in a difficult act of pure abstraction, an experienced adept visualizes something faster than himself, a bolt of lightning as a basic example, and creates within themselves a mental image of that thing in motion, making it as precise as possible. When the image is complete, the user must imagine it reaching out and phasing through their body, becoming one with it, and taking on the properties of what has been imagined. Completing a Visualization gives the user a large increase in speed (10 times or more) that lasts a fraction of a second, which is for a single effective action or a quick burst of movement. Spicta is seen as the most notorious Visualization user in Phaneri history, as well as the current record holder for the technique's multiplier, managing to multiply his speed by 213 times the original value. Additionally, he was able to make use of the technique much more frequently than most other individuals, going so far as to further evolve to be able to visualize the perfect image once every twenty - thirty seconds in his final moments in the battle against the Eclipsar, nearly reaching the technique's "Zenith".
- Shadow Step: Fighting style copied in his final battle against the Eclipsar. The Shadow Step allows the user to make precise movements to become one with the shadows in their environment, becoming indistinguishable within them and concealing any forms that might make them detectable by an outside force. Alternatively, should darkness be an unavailable element, the user still moves in such a way as to become invisible to the eyes of those not sufficiently focused.
- Serpent Style: Fighting style copied at some point during one of his lives. Through fluid movement, anatomical knowledge, and attacks on specific points of one's body, the user is able to overcome resistance and paralyze an individual's limbs with their attacks, like the venom of a snake. Spicta uses his innate intellect to deduce an opponent's weak points in an instant, even if they are anatomically completely different from the human body's; a game of trial and error where he eventually gets it right.
- Phantom Hand: Fighting style copied at some point during one of his lives. Slow, methodical spear-shaped blows make the user able to manipulate an individual's pain receptors, causing immense pain upon contact that lasts even after the targeted individual loses the affected part/limb. The blows delivered by a Phantom Hand user usually take weeks to stop aching, if not more, depending on the level of expertise.
- Order of Tempest: Fighting style copied at some point during one of his lives. Dance-like combat style that allows for the usage of both weapons and bare hands to generate projections of wind slashes through powerful cutting movements. A pseudo-manipulation of the air around the user, turning it into a lethal weapon that can hit the opponent even from long distances.
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Notable Matchups[]
Takahiro Genji (The Shadow of Revenge (Verse)) Takahiro's Profile (Speed was equalized, and Fight took place in an empty, indestructible ruined city with both starting 50 meters away from each other. The New World Arc Takahiro was being used, and neither had any prior knowledge of each other)
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Discussions
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