368 Immortal Levels (1/2)
Yale was quite skeptical when he heard his grandfather saying that he would never lose in a battle of pure ability in which strength didn't matter.
”Eh, why do you doubt about my battle prowess? I turned famous due to it, and even the creator of this universe acknowledges my prowess in battle.”
The lack of trust of Yale hurt the Battle God, but he decided to calm down and continued to explain.
”Do you know that I once battled against the creator of your universe in a battle of pure ability and it ended in a tie because neither of us was able to win after a whole year? I admit that if he uses his power, I would have a difficult time, but that is because of our difference in level. Moreover, that battle was soon after the creation of the universe, so I was weaker than my current self, and I bet that in your time in the real world, I am even better.”
That explanation wasn't enough to make Yale trust it blindly, but he was somewhat interested in how he managed to be so skillful. After all, in Yale's knowledge, even suppressing stats, the understanding about the Laws and Essences turned into the major factor in a battle, so it wasn't easy to battle across ranks unless one had a cheat like the Condensed Essences.
”If you are so good, why aren't you at the same level as the universe creator when even my mother managed to reach it?”
Yale's words were like a sharp blade hitting his grandfather's pride.
”That is my greatest shame, but it isn't due to a lack of talent, but because the path I followed differed. Do you know how are established the Immortal Levels in the universe?”
Yale had never heard of any Immortal Level, but he could guess about what his grandfather was speaking.
”I only heard about Law Master, Law God, and Essence God, but I know that there are more.”
In fact, Yale's knowledge about Essence Gods came mainly from the system reward of knowledge about the Condensed Essences, and he didn't remember having met any in the past.
”Right, Law Master is the weakest of the Immortal Levels. Although in the worlds the mortals established names for rankings in lower levels of strength, the creator of the universe, or in other words, the creator of the Origin Path, felt that doing that was useless, so he just used a numeric system from zero to hundred when hundred indicates that one had become a Law Master.”
Yale instantly remembered how the Last Wish System always displayed an Origin Level instead of the name of the ranks and the stars in the Stats Menu, and it fitted perfectly with the explanation of his grandfather.
”You can find different kinds of names and rankings in different worlds of the universe, but after Law Master is the same in all the universe. Law Masters focus on fusing with the Laws that they have understood. Law Gods start to train into the Essences and try to fuse with them. You already know until that point, right?”
Yale nodded his head as that was indeed information that he already knew about Law Masters and Law Gods. He didn't know about the different naming of lower ranks, but that didn't matter.
”Very well. You should know that becoming an Essence God is quite easy and we only consider someone adult after reaching that level. Someone like you who isn't even a Law Master is the same for us as a five-year-old kid for mortals.”
Yale knew that the other party was reading his mind, but he was still inwardly cursing his grandfather for saying that becoming an Essence God was easy. He never managed to reach that level in his past life, and the strongest experts he met were Revgen and the birdman ancestor who were still Law Gods. It was quite humiliating that someone called those at their level kids.
Yale hated the birdman ancestor, but he didn't doubt that he was strong, and it was difficult to consider him a kid, no matter how Yale tried.
In reply to Yale's thoughts, Yale's grandfather laughed.
”Maybe this is too shocking for you, but this is how it works for the top experts of the universe. Usually, even marriage is forbidden before becoming an Essence God because before that the soul empowerment would lose strength which is like offending all your ancestors. By the way, having children without marriage still counts, so you committed a great crime that time, but given your desperation to save your soul and that no one else helped you, I won't blame you by that. However, I hope that you fix that mess someday.”
Yale was the only descendant of the Battle God with full soul empowerment because Ange who should have been the next only received the part from Yale's father and even that part wasn't complete. In the standards of soul empowerment, that was a complete failure.
”I am sorry about that, but I don't even remember that time...”