Many Magic Cores are scattered across the world, each a potent source of immense power. These vital artifacts grant their bearers extraordinary abilities, while the machine analyzes each core and generates unique skills optimized for its host. Choosing the right core can shape a bearer's strength, specialty, and path to destiny.
Magic Cores can be extracted and fused with compatible human hosts. When a core successfully bonds with an individual, it awakens its magic within them, transforming the human into its bearer. The machine evaluates each core and its abilities to determine what kind of System the bearer will receive. Whoever possesses any of the cores can gain powers or traits derived from the supernatural or superhuman being it contains.
System Agents may attempt to extract and fuse multiple cores, but doing so puts their lives in grave peril. If they succeed, adding and fusing an additional core can grant new powers or enhance existing abilities, though control depends entirely on the bearer's strength, will, and adaptability.
Martial Core – A core forged through combat-focused magic. It grants the bearer the ability to conjure weapons, tools, and combat equipment suited for battle, along with mastery over them. The core enhances the bearer's strength, endurance, reflexes, accuracy, and precision, while providing advanced proficiency in weaponry. Through continuous training and combat experience, the core further refines the bearer's combat abilities and arsenal.
Mecha Core – A core that controls or serves as a power source for advanced technology and mechanized power. It grants the bearer access to and control over advanced devices, weapons, and machinery. The core acts as an enhancement, enabling the creation and customization of robotic constructs suited to the bearer's combat style. Its effectiveness depends on the bearer's innovation, allowing them to dominate the battlefield with technological precision.
Elemental Core – A core infused with the raw forces of nature. It grants the bearer the ability to control elements such as water, wind, earth, fire, lightning, ice, nature, lava, and other natural manifestations. The core is versatile, allowing the bearer to inherit unique abilities and traits linked to the element it contains. Its power can be used in many different ways.
Covenant Core – A core centered on bonds and partnerships. It grants the bearer the ability to form magical contracts with creatures, beasts, spirits, or mythical entities. The bearer can fight alongside these beings, combining their abilities, and can form contracts with multiple partners if they wish.
Psionic Core – A core born from concentrated mental energy. It grants the bearer control over psionic abilities and mental combat. The bearer wields their mind as a weapon, attacking and manipulating the thoughts of their opponents while harnessing the full extent of their imagination and focus.
Abyssal Core – A core imbued with darkness, corruption, and forbidden energies. It grants the bearer mastery over shadows, decay, curses, and other forbidden dark magic that defies natural law. The core constantly tests the bearer's will and control, tempting them toward corruption while amplifying their power in battle.
Radiance Core – A core infused with divine light and purity. It grants the bearer mastery over light, holy, and protective magic. The bearer can heal allies, shield them from attacks, dispel darkness, and channel radiant energy to smite foes. The core strengthens with the bearer's faith, morality, and selflessness. The bearer's very presence becomes a beacon of divine power, illuminating hope and purging darkness wherever they go.
Nexus Core – A mysterious core that defies conventional magic systems. It grants the bearer access to extraordinary and unimaginable abilities capable of bending and reshaping reality, surpassing the limits of natural law. Its powers are unpredictable and often shaped by the bearer's creativity and skill. Through the Nexus Core, the bearer can alter reality itself and make impossible things happen.
Ascension Core – A catalyst core that grants no power on its own. Instead, it forces any other core fused within the bearer to evolve, pushing their abilities beyond natural limits and potentially granting godlike power. The process is brutal, often tearing apart the body and mind as the cores struggle to adapt. Many who attempt ascension lose control, suffer irreversible mutations, or die before the transformation is complete. Only those with extraordinary will, strength, and adaptability can survive and command the evolved power.