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So a while ago I wrote a chapter for King's Examination. Initially it was just a side thing but I ended up imagining a whole lot for it, so here we are.
To explain in VERY short what this is about: in King's Examination, students compete for the title of the King and teachers are called Kingmakers. The story offers specific scenes of students studying or solving questions but HYPED. That was the initial plan. Now we have come to the Aura system. Do note that this is nothing supernatural; it is very realistic, or at least within the story it is realistic.
When a student has an Aura, it is specific to their abilities. Aura is the showcase of individual specific strengths. When a student qualifies any of the undefined requirements of becoming a King, their Aura shifts into a Divine form, and that's the King's Aura. That was also what I had initially.
What I have now is an expansion to the existing system. Enter Auradomes. When an individual's Aura reaches a threshold where it can manifest itself in a confined area and effectively affect the physical world, the individual manifests their Auradome. "Auradome Manifestation," which is basically "Domain Expansion."
What I want is to stack up some Auradome ideas. If you have any suggestions, I'd love them.
I have made two for now: one is for Aurelia Medici (a high-ranking candidate), the other one is my version of Hakari... because why not! You do not have to worry about keeping the Auradome real and logical because I trust my ability to explain any supernatural thing... somehow.
This story has somehow become: Blue Lock + Classroom of the Elite + Jujutsu Kaisen
To explain in VERY short what this is about: in King's Examination, students compete for the title of the King and teachers are called Kingmakers. The story offers specific scenes of students studying or solving questions but HYPED. That was the initial plan. Now we have come to the Aura system. Do note that this is nothing supernatural; it is very realistic, or at least within the story it is realistic.
When a student has an Aura, it is specific to their abilities. Aura is the showcase of individual specific strengths. When a student qualifies any of the undefined requirements of becoming a King, their Aura shifts into a Divine form, and that's the King's Aura. That was also what I had initially.
What I have now is an expansion to the existing system. Enter Auradomes. When an individual's Aura reaches a threshold where it can manifest itself in a confined area and effectively affect the physical world, the individual manifests their Auradome. "Auradome Manifestation," which is basically "Domain Expansion."
The concept abuses the human tendency to imagine and sense things. The Aura is the imagination of people, collective imagination to be precise. The Auradome is the pressure other students feel when near (inside an Auradome) another student. Thus everything stays realistic, so while the Aura system is fictional and supernatural, it really isn't.
What I want is to stack up some Auradome ideas. If you have any suggestions, I'd love them.
I have made two for now: one is for Aurelia Medici (a high-ranking candidate), the other one is my version of Hakari... because why not! You do not have to worry about keeping the Auradome real and logical because I trust my ability to explain any supernatural thing... somehow.
This story has somehow become: Blue Lock + Classroom of the Elite + Jujutsu Kaisen
While Auradomes work exactly like JJK domains, this is a quick overview of what an Auradome is and how it works:
Individuals emit Aura constantly, but when this Aura becomes so condensed that it interacts with the environment, the student achieves Auradome Manifestation.
It is basically "someone whose presence is so intense the room shifts."
An Auradome is the territory where the student's cognitive advantage becomes absolute.
When an Auradome manifests, three things happen:
Environment Bias
The environment conforms to the student's strongest study trait.
Opponent Debuff
Inside the Auradome, the opponent's confusion rises, cognitive load increases, memory retention weakens, focus fractures, etc. In some complex designs, the owner of the Auradome can even deprive opponents of their Aura pool (note nothing is supernatural, crazy).
Study Technique
Different types of Auradomes offer different advantages. These are broadly classified into types. Compression Auradomes affect efficiency, Flow Auradomes affect focus, etc. Complex designs may have Anti-Auradomes, those that nullify the debuffs of an Auradome.
It is not about combat, it is about pressure, dominance, and cognitive competition.
Individuals emit Aura constantly, but when this Aura becomes so condensed that it interacts with the environment, the student achieves Auradome Manifestation.
It is basically "someone whose presence is so intense the room shifts."
An Auradome is the territory where the student's cognitive advantage becomes absolute.
When an Auradome manifests, three things happen:
Environment Bias
The environment conforms to the student's strongest study trait.
Opponent Debuff
Inside the Auradome, the opponent's confusion rises, cognitive load increases, memory retention weakens, focus fractures, etc. In some complex designs, the owner of the Auradome can even deprive opponents of their Aura pool (note nothing is supernatural, crazy).
Study Technique
Different types of Auradomes offer different advantages. These are broadly classified into types. Compression Auradomes affect efficiency, Flow Auradomes affect focus, etc. Complex designs may have Anti-Auradomes, those that nullify the debuffs of an Auradome.
It is not about combat, it is about pressure, dominance, and cognitive competition.
Sanctorium Vitae "The Sanctum of Life"
This is a territory shaped by medical supremacy. In this Auradome, Aurelia's medical precision becomes overwhelming.
Surroundings shift into a white sterile surgical theatre (a mental reconstruction and collective imagination). Everyone inside the Auradome is suddenly dressed in white-green surgical drapes. Overhead white lights appear.
Effects:
1. Anatomical Cognitive Breakdown
Anyone inside her Auradome will feel like their mental processes are being dissected. She can now read patterns, weaknesses, and stress points with 100% precision.
2. Focus Multiplier
Her Aura sharpens into focus beyond her potential, trespassing human boundaries. No human can attain similar focus even with the hyperflow state.
3. Clinical Detachment
Emotional pressure—stress, intimidation, fatigue—becomes null.
4. Opponent Debuff
Opponents feel extreme pressure, feel dissected, exposed, and mentally invaded. Their thoughts scatter. It feels like you are on her operating table. Anyone in her Auradome is no longer a challenger; they become case studies.
The broken part about her Auradome manifestation is that it requires relatively less Aura threshold, meaning she can cast it multiple times in a single exam sitting!
This is a territory shaped by medical supremacy. In this Auradome, Aurelia's medical precision becomes overwhelming.
Surroundings shift into a white sterile surgical theatre (a mental reconstruction and collective imagination). Everyone inside the Auradome is suddenly dressed in white-green surgical drapes. Overhead white lights appear.
Effects:
1. Anatomical Cognitive Breakdown
Anyone inside her Auradome will feel like their mental processes are being dissected. She can now read patterns, weaknesses, and stress points with 100% precision.
2. Focus Multiplier
Her Aura sharpens into focus beyond her potential, trespassing human boundaries. No human can attain similar focus even with the hyperflow state.
3. Clinical Detachment
Emotional pressure—stress, intimidation, fatigue—becomes null.
4. Opponent Debuff
Opponents feel extreme pressure, feel dissected, exposed, and mentally invaded. Their thoughts scatter. It feels like you are on her operating table. Anyone in her Auradome is no longer a challenger; they become case studies.
The broken part about her Auradome manifestation is that it requires relatively less Aura threshold, meaning she can cast it multiple times in a single exam sitting!
House of Fortune
This is one of the broken Auradomes. The Auradome reflects the user's love for gambling with probability.
Surroundings shift into an infinite casino room, flashy, lined with slot machines, roulette tables, and many probability fractals. Inside the Auradome, the user's clothes shift into gold-black dealer clothes. The user becomes the House and everyone else becomes the Players.
Effects:
1. Entry Fee
Upon initiating manifestation, everyone pulled inside the Auradome needs to pay 20% of their current Aura to the House. This Aura is used to keep the Auradome active. The more the players, the stronger the Auradome's effects.
2. Distraction
Because of how flashy the casino is, it directly affects focus. All the players will lose a lot of their focus, and those with relatively low focus will practically have no way to continue attempting the test.
3. Probability Manipulation
Upon manifestation, the next multiple-choice question has an increased chance of being correct at 100%. The second has 75%, the third has 50%, and the fourth onward the rates return to 25%. This gives a high chance to the user to get questions correct when he does not know the answers. This resets after every ten minigame wins.
4. House Bias
All probability rolls inside the casino are slightly biased in the House's favor with a +25% difference. This makes it difficult to win against the dealer.
5. Minigames
Every player inside plays a mini gamble every time they attempt a question inside the Auradome against the dealer. If they win, the Auradome is disrupted. If they lose, the dealer takes some amount of Aura, again adding to the Aura pool to keep the Auradome active. Minigames include dice rolls, blackjack, and coin flips. Every ten wins resets the probability of guessing a question back to 100%.
6. World Roll
This is the one gamble that isn't tilted in the House's favor. This is devoid of any bias. Every 30 seconds, all the players and the dealer roll a D100. If the majority of the players roll a number higher than the dealer's, the Auradome is disrupted. If the dealer rolls higher, all the players collectively lose some Aura which again contributes to keeping the Auradome active for longer.
7. Jackpot
On the world roll D100, if the dealer rolls a 100, then the dealer hits the jackpot. Upon hitting a jackpot, infinite Aura surges through the Auradome and it becomes permanent for the rest of the exam. Every minigame becomes a 100% win for the dealer, and every world roll now rolls 100 for the dealer, keeping it active till the end.
On the other hand, if a player rolls a 100 when the dealer doesn't, the Auradome disrupts and all the Aura (from the Auradome and the user's pool) is transferred to the player who rolled 100. This also makes the dealer lose all Aura, leading to the next question he attempts being wrong 100% of the time.
The probability of the dealer rolling higher numbers decreases as the number of players increases, making it easier to disrupt the Auradome when there are more players. Thus, while more players mean more advantage, it also comes with high risk. The theme is High Risk High Reward.
The aura threshold required for this auradome manifestation is very high. After it has been disrupted once, it cannot be used again for a long time.
This Auradome is broken because it is self-sustaining and can run forever, giving an infinite advantage to the user, which is different from most Auradomes that have a time limitation or work only until Aura reserves deplete.
Lastly, let's explain Aura because this probably sounds like Aura is a type of energy system. Aura is basically the visible manifestation of the positive points of a student. Losing Aura means losing confidence, forgetting things, and all the negative effects that can happen during an exam, while gaining Aura means the opposite. Thus, when hitting a jackpot and gaining a tremendous amount of Aura, it actually benefits the students by making them more confident, more focused, and increasing the chances of attempting questions correctly. It also helps because they can unleash their own Auradome, since winning the jackpot probably refilled their reserves enough to reach the threshold.
This is one of the broken Auradomes. The Auradome reflects the user's love for gambling with probability.
Surroundings shift into an infinite casino room, flashy, lined with slot machines, roulette tables, and many probability fractals. Inside the Auradome, the user's clothes shift into gold-black dealer clothes. The user becomes the House and everyone else becomes the Players.
Effects:
1. Entry Fee
Upon initiating manifestation, everyone pulled inside the Auradome needs to pay 20% of their current Aura to the House. This Aura is used to keep the Auradome active. The more the players, the stronger the Auradome's effects.
2. Distraction
Because of how flashy the casino is, it directly affects focus. All the players will lose a lot of their focus, and those with relatively low focus will practically have no way to continue attempting the test.
3. Probability Manipulation
Upon manifestation, the next multiple-choice question has an increased chance of being correct at 100%. The second has 75%, the third has 50%, and the fourth onward the rates return to 25%. This gives a high chance to the user to get questions correct when he does not know the answers. This resets after every ten minigame wins.
4. House Bias
All probability rolls inside the casino are slightly biased in the House's favor with a +25% difference. This makes it difficult to win against the dealer.
5. Minigames
Every player inside plays a mini gamble every time they attempt a question inside the Auradome against the dealer. If they win, the Auradome is disrupted. If they lose, the dealer takes some amount of Aura, again adding to the Aura pool to keep the Auradome active. Minigames include dice rolls, blackjack, and coin flips. Every ten wins resets the probability of guessing a question back to 100%.
6. World Roll
This is the one gamble that isn't tilted in the House's favor. This is devoid of any bias. Every 30 seconds, all the players and the dealer roll a D100. If the majority of the players roll a number higher than the dealer's, the Auradome is disrupted. If the dealer rolls higher, all the players collectively lose some Aura which again contributes to keeping the Auradome active for longer.
7. Jackpot
On the world roll D100, if the dealer rolls a 100, then the dealer hits the jackpot. Upon hitting a jackpot, infinite Aura surges through the Auradome and it becomes permanent for the rest of the exam. Every minigame becomes a 100% win for the dealer, and every world roll now rolls 100 for the dealer, keeping it active till the end.
On the other hand, if a player rolls a 100 when the dealer doesn't, the Auradome disrupts and all the Aura (from the Auradome and the user's pool) is transferred to the player who rolled 100. This also makes the dealer lose all Aura, leading to the next question he attempts being wrong 100% of the time.
The probability of the dealer rolling higher numbers decreases as the number of players increases, making it easier to disrupt the Auradome when there are more players. Thus, while more players mean more advantage, it also comes with high risk. The theme is High Risk High Reward.
The aura threshold required for this auradome manifestation is very high. After it has been disrupted once, it cannot be used again for a long time.
This Auradome is broken because it is self-sustaining and can run forever, giving an infinite advantage to the user, which is different from most Auradomes that have a time limitation or work only until Aura reserves deplete.
Lastly, let's explain Aura because this probably sounds like Aura is a type of energy system. Aura is basically the visible manifestation of the positive points of a student. Losing Aura means losing confidence, forgetting things, and all the negative effects that can happen during an exam, while gaining Aura means the opposite. Thus, when hitting a jackpot and gaining a tremendous amount of Aura, it actually benefits the students by making them more confident, more focused, and increasing the chances of attempting questions correctly. It also helps because they can unleash their own Auradome, since winning the jackpot probably refilled their reserves enough to reach the threshold.
The sheets fluttered as students scribbled on them, filling in rows and rows of circles. The exam hall was quiet, as quiet as it could get. The type of silence only academic pressure could create.
Rows of students hunched over their OMRs as the clock slowly ticked. Time passed at its regular pace.
Tick... Tick... Tick...
Luke's right leg bounced under the desk. His feet were jittering. He was barely containing the tremor of agitation. His OMR sheet was filled less than half, as he had barely attempted the test. It wasn't as if he was struggling with the questions, the questions that were perhaps too easy for a King's candidate. Instead he was struggling with himself.
His breathing quickened, uneven, breaking into shallow gasps at times. His pupils jittered like dice rolling in their sockets. He kept glancing sideways, left, right, front, checking the other students, calculating, attempting...
I need more...
More pressure, more risk, more tension. I need more... Aura.
The countdown was grinding every student down. The exam reached its critical point, with not much time left. This was the moment every student valued the most, the time that could decide if one would pass or fail.
But the pressure didn't weigh him down. It was winding him up.
His fingers tightened around the pencil until, clack, it slipped out of his hand and hit the floor.
A couple of eyes turned, glancing his way, some looking down, some mildly annoyed, but the majority were cautious, for they knew very well that this King's candidate was an avid gambler.
It was then it hit him.
A surge. A snap. A flood of Aura that felt like every atom in the room had suddenly turned to gold dust vibrating in his bloodstream. The greed of going, of keep going, of not stopping until you win. As the greed took over, Luke leaned back in his chair, his eyes rolling upward for a moment as a wave of euphoria washed over him. His heartbeat synced with the ticking of the clock.
Tick
Tick
TICK
He straightened, sitting upright with a grin on his face. An imaginary, illusory silver coin seemed to appear between his fingers as it rolled along. The students watching him shifted uncomfortably in their seats, for they knew very well what was about to come.
And then, positioning the coin at his thumb, with enough force to bend reality itself, he flicked the double-headed coin as he spoke softly:
Auradome Manifestation : House of Fortune
The OMR sheets fluttered. The lights flickered once, then twice, as they shattered into prisms that froze midair.
The world fractured.
The exam hall unfolded like a deck of cards snapping open. The desks dissolved into roulette tables as the floor fragmented into a checkerboard of gold and silver, warping into an endless casino floor stretching in every direction. The chairs transformed into velvet-backed gaming seats. A giant roulette spun overhead, forming spiraling constellations above.
Luke's uniform shifted into a sharp black-and-gold dealer's coat. His eyes glowed with a shimmering probability fractal. The dome sealed. Everyone felt it as their Aura stripped off of them, the entry fee being torn away.
Every student had a sign floating above them: "Player." At the center, where Luke stood, above his head, the letters spelled "The House."
He flipped the silver coin again, but this time it split into dozens of copies mid-flight as they vanished into smoke. A flashy, vibrant casino and an eye-catching dealer. The students felt it as their focus fractured, their attention deteriorated as time passed.
"Let's begin," Luke said, his voice dripping with amusement. "Place your bets."
Every student in the dome felt it. The pressure surged through like rippling waves.
Their Aura siphoned, their odds skewed, their fates tilted against them.
The exam had been turned into a war of probability. Every question they attempted came with a bet, a rigged system that always favored the House. Every choice was risk.
Meanwhile Luke was glowing with ecstasy.
He stretched his arms out. The entire exam bent to his rules, his odds, his House.
"After all," he smirked, snapping his fingers as multiple dice collectively rolled, one for each player and one for himself, "in here, the House always wins."
Rows of students hunched over their OMRs as the clock slowly ticked. Time passed at its regular pace.
Tick... Tick... Tick...
Luke's right leg bounced under the desk. His feet were jittering. He was barely containing the tremor of agitation. His OMR sheet was filled less than half, as he had barely attempted the test. It wasn't as if he was struggling with the questions, the questions that were perhaps too easy for a King's candidate. Instead he was struggling with himself.
His breathing quickened, uneven, breaking into shallow gasps at times. His pupils jittered like dice rolling in their sockets. He kept glancing sideways, left, right, front, checking the other students, calculating, attempting...
I need more...
More pressure, more risk, more tension. I need more... Aura.
The countdown was grinding every student down. The exam reached its critical point, with not much time left. This was the moment every student valued the most, the time that could decide if one would pass or fail.
But the pressure didn't weigh him down. It was winding him up.
His fingers tightened around the pencil until, clack, it slipped out of his hand and hit the floor.
A couple of eyes turned, glancing his way, some looking down, some mildly annoyed, but the majority were cautious, for they knew very well that this King's candidate was an avid gambler.
It was then it hit him.
A surge. A snap. A flood of Aura that felt like every atom in the room had suddenly turned to gold dust vibrating in his bloodstream. The greed of going, of keep going, of not stopping until you win. As the greed took over, Luke leaned back in his chair, his eyes rolling upward for a moment as a wave of euphoria washed over him. His heartbeat synced with the ticking of the clock.
Tick
Tick
TICK
He straightened, sitting upright with a grin on his face. An imaginary, illusory silver coin seemed to appear between his fingers as it rolled along. The students watching him shifted uncomfortably in their seats, for they knew very well what was about to come.
And then, positioning the coin at his thumb, with enough force to bend reality itself, he flicked the double-headed coin as he spoke softly:
Auradome Manifestation : House of Fortune
The OMR sheets fluttered. The lights flickered once, then twice, as they shattered into prisms that froze midair.
The world fractured.
The exam hall unfolded like a deck of cards snapping open. The desks dissolved into roulette tables as the floor fragmented into a checkerboard of gold and silver, warping into an endless casino floor stretching in every direction. The chairs transformed into velvet-backed gaming seats. A giant roulette spun overhead, forming spiraling constellations above.
Luke's uniform shifted into a sharp black-and-gold dealer's coat. His eyes glowed with a shimmering probability fractal. The dome sealed. Everyone felt it as their Aura stripped off of them, the entry fee being torn away.
Every student had a sign floating above them: "Player." At the center, where Luke stood, above his head, the letters spelled "The House."
He flipped the silver coin again, but this time it split into dozens of copies mid-flight as they vanished into smoke. A flashy, vibrant casino and an eye-catching dealer. The students felt it as their focus fractured, their attention deteriorated as time passed.
"Let's begin," Luke said, his voice dripping with amusement. "Place your bets."
Every student in the dome felt it. The pressure surged through like rippling waves.
Their Aura siphoned, their odds skewed, their fates tilted against them.
The exam had been turned into a war of probability. Every question they attempted came with a bet, a rigged system that always favored the House. Every choice was risk.
Meanwhile Luke was glowing with ecstasy.
He stretched his arms out. The entire exam bent to his rules, his odds, his House.
"After all," he smirked, snapping his fingers as multiple dice collectively rolled, one for each player and one for himself, "in here, the House always wins."
