Genesis
The ultimate incantation: six stanzas, forty Amplify, and a crater at least a hundred blocks in radius.
Genesis is the ultimate incantation of Slime Art Online: a strike that erases the land. A star of the eight elements falls from the sky, a flash turns everything white, a fireball swells, a mushroom cloud rises, and a shockwave runs across hundreds of blocks. What remains is a crater at least a hundred blocks in radius, rimmed with magma and obsidian. Getting there means reciting six stanzas without ever pausing more than 24 seconds: well over a hundred commands, and minutes of chanting.
Genesis ShapeThe six stanzas
Genesis only answers a complete incantation. As long as something is missing, Genesis Shape is refused with a breakdown of what is missing; the incantation console shows the progress of the six stanzas, in gold while missing, in green once done.
| Stanza | Condition | How |
|---|---|---|
| I The eight elements | at least 3 of each of the 8 elements merged into your cores, and 40 elements in all | Generate …, Merge Element, again and again |
| II Engraved shapes | 10 different shapes spoken while you hold at least one core | Arrow Shape, Bird Shape, Sword Shape… |
| III Flight arguments | all 8 arguments spoken at least once | Fly Straight, Fly Spiral, Fly Arc, Orbit, Scatter, Return, Enlarge Element, Compress Element |
| IV The anchor | the place of the art fixed | Anchor (the point you look at, up to 256 blocks) or a Trace and Unit IDs |
| V Resonance | 6 rounds of resonance of the 8 elements (48 commands) | Resonate Thermal Element … Resonate Aqueous Element |
| VI Amplification | 40 Amplify at least, after Genesis Shape |
Amplify |
Stanzas I to V can be recited in any order; they must all be fulfilled when you say Genesis Shape. Stanza VI comes next, then Discharge.
- Resonate and Anchor require holding at least one element or core.
- A resonance round is complete when each of the eight elements has resonated one more time: saying "Resonate Thermal" six times only counts for thermal.
- Each Amplify draws 4 points of Sacred Power. Before
Genesis Shape, it is refused: "Nothing to amplify: say "Genesis Shape" first." Dischargeis refused until the 40 Amplify are said: "Genesis is not fed enough: Amplify N/40."- Do not say another shape after
Genesis Shape: the new shape would replace it.
A typical incantation
The in-game guide gives the skeleton, for a System Control Authority of 51 or more (7 held elements, 6 cores):
System Call
(Generate … ×7 · Merge Element) ×6 — 42 elements, all eight present, 3 of each at least
10 different shapes — spoken on the cores
Fly Straight · Fly Spiral · Fly Arc · Orbit · Scatter · Return · Enlarge Element · Compress Element
Anchor
(Resonate Thermal Element … Resonate Aqueous Element) ×6
Genesis Shape
Amplify ×40
Discharge
Over 120 commands at the very least, and nearly 500 points of Sacred Power (42 elements at 8, 40 Amplify at 4). While you hold cores, you draw from the 24 surrounding chunks; chant in the heart of a large forest, in broad daylight.
What happens
Genesis strikes the anchored point — or, without Anchor, the traced target.
| Time | What you see |
|---|---|
| 0 to 3 s | a star of the eight merged elements falls from 150 blocks up; the world darkens around it |
| 3 s | the flash: the screen turns white hundreds of blocks away; the fireball swells, white then yellow, red, smoke |
| 3 s onward | the shockwave runs along the ground at 240 blocks per second, with a wall of dust; you hear and feel it (the camera shakes) when it passes, not before |
| about ten seconds | the crater is carved from the centre outward; beyond it, trees and plants are blown away, the ground burns |
| up to 26 s | the mushroom cloud rises, its cap rolls, then everything fades |
Damage
| Zone | Effect |
|---|---|
| Within the crater radius | 1,000 damage: death, for everything alive |
| Up to 3 times the radius | up to 80 × power damage, decreasing with distance (2 at least); thrown far away, blinded |
| Up to 1.6 times the radius | also set on fire 10 s |
Power is (1 + SCA / 50) × (1 + elements / 60). The caster is never hit.
The crater
- A sphere of 100 blocks radius with 40 Amplify; each Amplify beyond adds 1.5 blocks, up to 160 (80 Amplify).
- The floor and rim are covered with a crust of magma, obsidian, blackstone, basalt, crying obsidian, tuff, with flecks of amethyst and glowstone.
- Up to 1.6 times the radius: leaves, logs, grass and glass are blown away; the ground turns to magma and blackstone near the rim, netherrack and coarse dirt further out; fires break out.
- The chunk of the impact stays loaded during the art, even if you are far away.
Genesis earns 1 System Control Authority experience point per 2 elements. Its name appears in large letters for every player within 128 blocks.
Server settings
The thresholds are set in the configuration: merged elements (40), resonance rounds (6), Amplify (40), minimum (100) and maximum (160) crater radius, and block destruction (on).
See also: Merge Element and Grand Arts, Element shapes, Flight arguments.