Matt is the main character of the story. He grew up in the city of Warrington on planet Lilly. His parents were killed in a rift break when he was 8 years old. He spent 5 years at Warrington's Upper East Side Orphanage #3. At age 9 he started training to become a delver. He was awakened at age 13. 

During the rift breaks on planet Lilly, Matt was on the bus to school when a tier 4 turtle/porcupine rift beast attacked and damaged his bus. The bus rerouted toward the more affluent city center where the children waiting in a fancy hotel's ballroom for their parents. Matt's never came for him.

He Awakened with a talent that has a detrimental rating.

He has sandy hair and hazel eyes.

Matt is 5'10" at age 14. At age 16 and a half, he was 6'2". At age 18 he was more than 6'5".[15]

Talent

Tier 1

Primary effect: Mana Regeneration inversely proportional to current mana, directly proportional to Maximum Mana.

Secondary effect: Essence cannot be applied to mana cultivation. Mana Regeneration is decoupled from mana cultivation.

Tertiary effect: Maximum mana set to 1.[1]

Tier 3

Primary effect: Any mana in the mana pool in excess of Maximum Mana will permanently increase Maximum Mana.

Secondary effect: Maximum increase from this Talent in a given Tier is equal to double previous Maximum Mana.

Tertiary effect: Maximum Mana initially adjusted to 10.[1]

Skills

Core Skills

Cracked Phantom Armor

• Cracked Version: Channel mana into the skill to activate phantom armor, which will then block physical and elemental damage depending on the rate of mana channeled into the skill.[26]

• Tier 14 upgrade made a second layer of armor anchored to the first. Must put at least 1 MPs into the base layer of armor. the amount in the base layer is the maximum he can put in the second layer. It is less mana efficient but more flexible.[32]

Personal AI

• Unlike most AIs which reserved mana for usage, his ended up using it in the form of a channeled skill, allowing him to have a weaker AI at the beginning, but a far stronger one as he would rise up in tiers with increased mana regeneration. He had to go make a deal with TrueMind for this copy of the AI.[33]

• Compared to the average physical fighter who were forced to do a split of 70 - 30 (70 in all of physical, 30 for mana), due to his talent, he could invest all 100 in physical. This leads to him being better than his fellow cultivators at the same tier in physical, by a margin of 42.85%, assuming they've followed the same way of cultivation.