Darius woke up the next day and headed to the library once again. The pursuit of knowledge was paramount to everything else, for the educated man was the most powerful man in the world.
He t the chipper young miss on his way there after he had taken his bath and breakfast, courtesy herself and so other servants. Portia had her own studies to attend to, so her ability to care for Darius was reduced as the days went by.
This pleased Darius and depressed Portia, but she rejoiced in the fact that they spent the whole day together discussing a wide range of topics. Portia quickly found that Darius was far more mature than anyone she had t, his insight into many things making her pause.
As for Darius, he first used his daily CP to make so more valuable conversions.
[Would you like to change the blank paper into a House Portal scroll? This will cost 0.5 Conversion Points.]
Darius changed 8 of them, making a loss of 4 CP. He also converted one his empty books into another spell manual, which took 5.9 CP as well.
Just like two days ago, he was down to 0.1 CP!
However, Darius was unbothered as he had now settled down and was in no rush to execute phase 3. Today, he continued what was leftover of History and combined it with Geography to fill in the blank spots he had encountered in his previous readings.
Darius was partially speechless to find out that the Valkyrie race were not even a big deal in Elysium, rely the exotic foot soldiers of Odin's church. From what Portia told him, the first founder of Fraterina was a high ranking warrior who had discharged herself well during the war and was granted leave to explore the world.
Why did this sound like a slave owner releasing a hardworking slave as a reward for their suffering, mostly in order to motivate the other ones? Portia made it sound like that Valkyrie ant sothing to Odin, but that was what the history books wanted her to think.
Darius found himself slightly more intrigued. Now that he was aware of the history of Andrato and the various continents around the world, he next needed to discover the system of power in this world.
It was imperative, crucial, and important that he did. As such, he first read through the combat theory books as well as corroborated his findings with Portia to see what she knew.
Apparently, Caesar hadn't been pulling the wool over his eyes. In the world of Faust - not just Fallon or any specific continent - there were the sa Ranks the Artificial Intelligence ntioned.
Amateur, Journeyman, Adept, Master, and Grandmaster. There were legends of a level above that one, but the people of Faust had no idea what it was called. It seed that for now, only Darius knew about the Supre stage, which was a great advantage.
They did not have the concept of 'levels', that level 1-20 was Amateur and level 21-40 was Journeyman, and so on. How they did differentiate was by the life level of the target.
Darius scrunched his forehead when he heard the term. It seed a bit strange for a world like this, but he continued reading to find out more.
Life level simply ant the quality of power, lifeforce, and acuity any being possessed. This made Darius raise his eyebrows, for it sounded like they had a way to sense/asure the Strength, Endurance, and Intellect of any person and used that criteria to asure their power.
Darius thought that calling it 'power level' would be cleverer than 'life level', but he decided to keep his opinion to himself.
As it seed, the denizens of Faust were not able to raise their stats or strengthen themselves in a way that allowed them to beco stronger. It seed that a person needed to undergo a special occurrence called a 'Spark'.
When their 'Spark' occurs, they would then climb into the Amateur stage and be a different type of organism from those who haven't. They would be able to explore dungeons and kill the monsters within to strengthen themselves through the passive absorption of life force from slain foes.
Darius raised an eyebrow once more. Wasn't that basically killing monsters to gain experience points? Darius felt like he was beginning to understand how things worked in Faust, but continued to read on.
Faustians shared this sa system of power no matter where they resided. However, the book made no ntion about how one beca a deity, only that the Gods and Demons/Devils had existed long before man could first write.
There had never been any new Gods or churches, as it was believed that they were a different form of life. Gods and Demons could reproduce with lesser species, but not with each other, making their pure-blooded mbers finite permanently.
This rang a bell in Darius' mind as so data he had absorbed from the history books finally made sense. Why the Gods and Demons had fought what was a proxy war using their descendants.
Of course, they wouldn't dare to fight, they were limited in number! One gone was one dead for eternity, with no hope of replacent!
This also answered the question Darius had, which was; 'is the Supre stage the sa as being a deity/god?'
The answer - as far as he could verify - was no. Gods were born at the pinnacle of the Grandmaster stage and existed sowhere between Grandmaster and Supre.
The book didn't know about the na of the Supre stage, but there were so writings that described this ultimate stage as such: "The highest of the highest, the God of Gods and the Demon of Demons. The greatest existence in the history of, and for the future of, Faust."
This excited and depressed Darius, for once he beca a Supre, the whole world would be his for the taking.
Naturally, on the flip side, becoming a Supre would likely be more difficult than what Caesar hinted at.
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