One Forever: The Odyssey of Sayden

Rial Family And Classification

Let me introduce Pynial's story now.

Pynial Rial was a seven years old kid who lived in Olka City with his family. His grandfather, Bruce Rial, was a martial artist and a retired soldier. Bruce personality was a rough one which matched with his proud and stern face. He followed rules and traditions very strictly and punished his family members if he needed to teach something.

On the other hand, Natasha Ford, Pynial's grandmother was quite a gentle lady who came from a noble family with military background. Her presence neutrilized Bruce's domination. Unfortunately, she didn't have much a big role in this world.

Robert Rial, Pynial's father and Dolores' husband, he was the first son of Bruce Rial. He was also a great martial artist like his father but he wasn't a war lover. He had been trying to build his own business for years but success wasn't getting close to him. He was also handling the farm left by his ancestors without having any high education qualification.

The Destro Realm had a different education system than Sanjay's world or Earth-C. In Destro Realm, education was divided into four degrees which were Basic, Advanced, Master and Ultra.

The Basic Degree was consisted of ten years of study which was like the schooling system of Sanjay's world.

Pynial was only in third grade which meant he had two years of Basic Degree. But his father faced a lot of trouble during Basic Degree. Robert failed in fifth grade first time. His intelligence wasn't higher but the education system of Destro Realm was strict.

Only rich kids could get 10 years of Basic Degree and higher education because they had their rich parents in buying the degree. But if you have a brain to score higher than 70 percentile than you would not need to use cheap tricks.

Right, students had to get 70 percentile to pass a grade. This rule was applied from fifth grade to eighth grade. In ninth grade, 80 percentile was needed to pass and 90 percentile was compulsory to pass tenth grade.

Robert had eight years of Basic Degree which he completed in 15 years. He failed exams for 7 times. Whereas his wife had ten years of Basic Degree and two years of Advanced degree.

But the fate of Dolores was not much different from Natasha Ford. These women didn't change their surname which showed that women in Destro Realm wasn't insignificant. They chose their own path. If Dolores chose an occupation then Robert would not hate her but support her. But there's no need to do a job since Dolores knew how rich his husband was.

William Rial, first child of Robert and Dolores, he had great ambition above anyone else in the family. He wanted to become a very powerful martial artist. He was a responsible kid who knew what was good for him.

Anna Rial, William's little sister, she was most adorable member of Bruce's family. Her beauty was already famous in the whole town. She was also the smartest child of Robert. After all, she inherited a lot of good genes from her mother.

Chris Rial, third child of Robert and Dolores, he was sharing his room with Pynial for seven years. He was cute and two years older than Pynial. He might not be good in martial arts like William or smart like Anna but his amiable personality made people happy.

And the last family member, Pynial Rial, he was a smart and quiet kid. His marks never dropped from A-grade.

In education system of Destro Realm—

S-grade meant 91-100 percentile

G-grade meant 81-90 percentile

A-grade meant 71-80 percentile

B-grade meant 61-70 percentile

C-grade meant 51-60 percentile

D-grade meant 31-50 percentile

E-grade menat 11-30 percentile

F-grade meant 0-10 percentile

Pynial had been training martial art for two years but he didn't get acknowledgement from his martial art teacher.

A martial artist of Destro Realm could not depend on martial arts only. Power was necessary too.

And this so-called power was gained through cultivation, using specific a breathing technique to harness the breath which existed between heaven and earth and known as “Genuine Breath".

Pynial wouldn't be considered an official martial artist unless he breakthrough in cultivation, at least once.

It is said that every human in Destro Realm born with 1000 years worth genuine energy. It is called Inborn Genuine Force which would keep a human alive for at least 100 years.

Martial artists used their inborn genuine force to cultivate the genuine breath and gain more genuine energy. However, they didn't how to add the cultivated genuine energy into their life force. So cultivation didn't always increase lifespan.

We will know more about it later. For now, we should know the cultivation system of Destro Realm.

The cultivation levels in Destro Realm—

Level 1 - 500kg force (stage 1-10)

Level 2 - 1000kg force (stage 11-20)

Level 3 - 2000kg force (stage 21-30)

Level 4 - 4000kg force (stage 31-40)

Level 5 - 8000kg force (stage 41-50)

The above mentioned classification was based on a standard scale. So not every level-1 martial artist would have force equivalent to 500kg. Some may have lower force and some may have higher force than standard scale.

Each level of cultivation was divided into ten stages. A breakthrough was necessary to achieve to pass a stage in cultivation.

I mentioned that a level 5 cultivator or level 5 martial artist could have force of 8000kg in Destro Realm.

But don't forget, we can't do our best in every moment of our life.

So a level 5 martial artist may not be able to release force equivalent to 8000kg everytime. Lot of things had to be considered to strike with such a large force.

Bruce Rial was at level 4 in the cultivation system of Destro Realm. But he could not release force more than 2000 kg even he did his best. Because his control over his own strength much lower than real martial masters.

There was another thing that should not be excluded from cultivation system of Destro Realm.

Each level had ten stages which meant a cultivator could breakthrough ten times in every level of cultivation. But most cultivators could only breakthrough three times.

The logic behind this situation wasn't known by Pynial yet. Actually, very few experts knew about the reason in Destro Realm.

So I am not going to describe it for now.

Now, let's talk about martial arts.

The classification of martial artists wasn't based on their genuine energy only but also the mastery over a specific martial art.

The classification of martial artists by mastery on a specific martial art—

(from lower level to higher level)

Martial Apprentice/Rookie

Martial Junior

Martial Seeker

Martial Senior

Martial Expert

Martial Master

Martial Grandmaster

These were official titles for martial artists. Unofficial martial artists were known as “Martial Errants" which was a lower title than “Martial Rookie".

Pynial was a martial errant because he hadn't made any breakthrough in cultivation yet.

Whereas Bruce and Robert were martial seniors. Even Dolores and Natasha were martial seekers. So the Rial Family wasn't a weak family, not in town at least.