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"If you are interested in that child, take him away!"
"Don't worry. I am Chun Ji's superior god after all. I will never tell anyone about the child's abilities. Doing so will only increase the risk to the child."
Ishtar was a little nervous, but also vaguely relieved.
Haruhime's magic level increased... it was a miracle that even she was amazed at.
During the magic period, the level of the person being blessed will be raised by one level. If this ability is exposed, the Ishtar clan will be destroyed in an instant.
That was a miracle that allowed the Istar Familia, which was barely considered a first-rate Familia, to have hope of defeating the Freya Familia. Apart from Loki and the Freya Familia, other Families were not worthy of it.
Since this happened to the Istar clan, it makes sense.
Although she felt a little aggrieved, she was not unable to give up Haruhime now that she no longer needed to defeat Freya's family.
Su Qing looked at Ista and sighed softly.
"...Didn't you notice?"
The corner of Ista's mouth twitched slightly. Su Qing's look as if he was looking at her like a fool made her very uncomfortable, but she chose to follow her heart and shook her head slightly.
"...I remember that in Orario, many top adventurers have the special ability to improve their attributes by half a level to one level." Su Qing said.
"But that's nothing compared to the abilities of that kid Haruhime." Ishtar seemed to be worried that Haruhime wasn't worth enough.
"No, what I mean is..." Su Qing said, "Increasing the level is completely different from increasing the attribute by about one level. Now that I've said this, you should have thought of it, right?"
Ishtar was slightly startled when he heard this.
Su Qing sighed, shook his head slightly, and looked at Ista with eyes full of disappointment that the child was incorrigible.
"It's not uncommon to improve an attribute by about one level. All you need to do is understand that the person has this potential hidden in his body, and then use skills or magic to forcefully stimulate himself and burst it out."
“But moving up a level—that’s the rank.”
Su Qing asked back: "Level, what exactly is it?"
Attributes are attributes, some are strong and some are weak. If you increase your strength a little or increase your speed a little, that is a definite improvement.
But level...how do you calculate this?
Su Qing looked at Ishtar: "Is there such a thing as level in the world?"
Ishtar was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "No... It seems that I have been plotted against for a long time."
Su Qing snapped his fingers.
"That's right. There is no such thing as level judgment in the world."
The adventurers in the world of Dicuo have gone from level 1 to the current highest level 9... These are just simple numbers, symbolizing the breakthrough of the adventurer's own 'tool'.
Each breakthrough requires the adventurer to have accumulated enough experience and have accomplished enough great deeds to advance.
But these are not hard indicators. After the adventurer has accumulated enough, he or she does not have to break through. Instead, he or she can continue to go to dungeons, fight monsters and level up based on the existing attributes, until no further progress can be made.
Adventurers can upgrade from when their attributes reach the standard to when they accumulate to the limit.
As long as the great deed is accomplished, whether it is defeating the boss on the 17th floor or assisting the boss on the th floor, as long as the great deed is real, it will be fine.
The so-called "level" of adventurers is just such a broad thing, without clear standards.
If compared with the sand tray, there are clear dividing standards from four-digit numbers to three-digit numbers, and from three-digit numbers to two-digit numbers.
If you don’t build a complete worldview, it will be four digits; if you don’t break away from the constraints of the sandbox, it will be three digits.
As a result, there are some people who are able to cross that line but just don't touch it. The combat power of four-digit players is not inferior to that of three-digit players.
There is a clear boundary between four-digit and three-digit numbers in the box garden - if a power emerges to help others erase this boundary, Su Qing can still understand it.
Of course, Su Qing didn't expect Chun Ji's ability to have such an effect, that would be too fantastical.
The point is that the ability to transcend what already exists is possible, even if it is difficult.
Crossing over something that never existed in the first place?
If it doesn't exist, how can we cross it?
Before God's grace, there was no so-called class distinction in the world.
The world of Dicuo is not a world of fantasy novels. It has actual level divisions such as Qi training and foundation building. Each level requires different training methods. Even if there are geniuses who can challenge higher levels, it is only because they have trained perfectly in the previous stage.
In the world of Dicuo, growth at each level is training yourself. Moving will increase your speed, attacking will increase your strength, and using magic will increase your magic power.
Apart from "great deeds", there are no distinguishable criteria for different lvs, and there are no clear requirements for great deeds. As long as it is difficult and great enough, everything is possible.
Su Qing said calmly: "God's grace does not provide power to the people in the lower world, but only guides the possibility of adventurers?"
"Among the 'possibilities' of the lower world people, is there a possibility of interfering with the so-called 'levels' set by the gods?"
"Are you kidding me?"
It is possible to awaken an ability that can stimulate others and bestow it on adventurers of different levels, which can almost have the effect of increasing their strength by one level.
But awakening an ability that can allow adventurers to level up?
Su Qing wanted to laugh.
This is like saying that in an urban world, someone awakens supernatural powers such as controlling water and fire and strengthening the body, and is recruited by the government to enjoy high positions and generous salaries.
…Then, you awakened the ability to get promoted.
It can still be bestowed upon others. As long as you bestow this ability upon others, anyone else will be promoted one level in a short period of time.
This ability is not in the same style as the abilities of controlling water and fire.
Products such as water and fire are part of the world, regardless of whether humans exist or not. They exist objectively, but humans name them water or fire.
Promotion is something that completely depends on the existence of human society.
Superpowers such as controlling fire and water can be considered to be hidden in human genes and are the potential of human beings themselves.
But is it possible for human beings to develop the ability to get promoted?
Who is the person who can give people promotion?
In other words, in the world of Dicuo, what can determine people's level?
is God.
What troubles adventurers in upgrading is the so-called great feat. Once the great feat is achieved, they can upgrade.
Great deeds are completely determined by the gods. Even if the adventurers have experienced the same fierce battle, the difference between defeating the enemy and killing the enemy may be simply the difference in where the final blow hits the enemy, which is completely different in the standards for determining great deeds.
Great deeds are the subjective judgment of the gods. If the gods think it is a great deed, then it is a great deed. If the gods think it is not, then it is not.
——Although this criterion has nothing to do with the gods of Orario now, most of the gods in the clans would like their children to be able to upgrade without having to do great deeds.
The detailed criteria for determining great deeds were determined by the gods in heaven before they descended to the mortal world.
It is possible to have the ability to transcend something that already exists in reality, such as an adventurer awakening an ability that improves an attribute by approximately the same level as level one.
The specific properties of this ability improvement vary with the adventurer's own strength. Sometimes it is equivalent to level one, sometimes it is equivalent to level one and a half, and sometimes it can only increase the strength by about half a level.
But the ability to cross over something that doesn't exist in reality in the first place... that's impossible.
At least, there is no such power in the bodies of people in the lower world.
From a human perspective, there is no such thing as the potential to 'level up'.
The one who can do all that——
It is only possible from the perspective of God.
Ishtar's face showed a trace of bitterness, and he said, "It is said that Haruhime was originally a noble from the Far East. She ate the tributes that the guests gave to Amaterasu, and was disowned by her father and kicked out of the house."
"But Haruhime herself said that it was the guests of the Dwarf Tribe who framed her. The Dwarf Tribe kidnapped the homeless Haruhime and abandoned the burdensome Haruhime after they encountered the monster."
"Haruhime was rescued by a thief, who bought her to Orario... and then she met me?"
Ishtar smiled bitterly and said, “Where on earth did these come from, and were they intentional?”
"And..." Ishtar gritted his teeth and said, "How on earth did that ugly woman Amaterasu manage to give Haruhime the vision of a god!"
Su Qing shrugged: "That's what I want to know too."
It is absolutely impossible for humans to awaken the ability to upgrade their levels, because the so-called levels are determined by God.
Let’s use the same example again. In the urban supernatural world, the ability to control fire and water is awakened. That is the potential of the person himself.
The ability to promote someone's career has been awakened... that has to start from the collective consciousness of humanity. The person involved has gained the ability to manipulate the collective consciousness of humanity, and can only manipulate concepts related to 'promotion', and cannot manipulate any other similar concepts.
It's almost impossible.
But to look at it from another perspective - if it weren't for superpowers, there are many people in the world who have the ability to get promoted.
For example, presidents of various countries?
The president can only manage the affairs of his own country and not other countries, but God's Grace is just a system built by the gods. To upgrade, you only need to pass the judgment of God's Grace.
Ishtar couldn't help but sigh.
Chun Ji is not a god in disguise, she does have some vision.
Moreover, even the gods themselves cannot allow their followers to advance to a higher level without great deeds.
But if it is not a god but a person with the power of a god, it is possible to do it.
This is already a miracle for the gods.
Thousands of years ago, some gods degraded their power into immortal spirits, which assisted human heroes in their growth - it was not that the gods did not want to bestow divine power on humans, but that humans simply could not bear the divine power.
Moreover, the gods' manipulation of power is too rough, so the gods can only degrade the power to the level of immortal essence, and then let human heroes digest it bit by bit, instead of doing it in one step, skipping the step of immortal essence and directly degrading the divine power to the level that humans can grasp.
However, the level of immortal spirits is definitely not enough to judge the "level" of adventurers from the perspective of gods.
Ishtar thought that in the system of God's Grace, Haruhime's race was a foxman, but in the judgment, divinity might occupy more than half.
Only humans with divinity can awaken the ability to "level up", which does not guide the potential of adventurers, but affects the judgment of the God's Grace system.
Ishtar really wanted to curse now. It was not that they gave humans the power of immortal spirits, but that they directly gave humans the power or nature of gods... If this could have been done thousands of years earlier, the monsters underground would not have waited for the gods to descend to the world, and would have been killed by heroes in the heroic age.
Haruhime's ability must belong to someone...or no longer someone.
Amaterasu must have spent countless efforts to make this experiment a success.
It would be strange if Amaterasu didn't protect Haruhime very well.
It must be a conspiracy that Haruhime was kicked out of her home, came to Orario, and then was seen and bought by her.