The last shelf of the Weapon Arts Section was unlike any other— holding three original External Arts whose very creators had long since abandoned them to time.
These Arts were obsolete, their techniques discarded as the world moved forward.
To any Ranker, to any scholar versed in the ways of Mana and Aura, the term External Arts would only conjure one response—waste of time, irrelevant, unnecessary.
Even the creators themselves had labeled their own techniques as useless, no longer worth practicing.
External Arts, at their core, were pure body-training techniques, designed to shape and develop a specific physique, unique to each Art.
Yet—these methods had fallen into irrelevance.
They lacked any connection to internal energy.
They required years of relentless training before yielding results.
Worst of all—they were helpless against Internal Arts.
