F rank beings were the baseline of existence, common mortals with no connection to mana or the deeper energies that the world was made of. An average office worker, a laborer, a civilian, even a soldier or a trained martial artist, all of them belonged to the F rank.
At best, a peak F rank could display extraordinary physical prowess through sheer discipline and training, but they remained bound by human limitations. They could bleed, tire, age, and die like anyone else. They had no access to the hidden layers of the world.
But once someone crossed the threshold into E rank, they became Awakened.
This was the first true step into the supernatural. Their mana pathways unlocked, and their bodies began to resonate with the latent world energies around them, mana, elemental forces, spiritual qi, blood essence, or even divine or abyssal power or any of the numerous world energies.
