The difference between the fourth and third tiers might seem like only one rank, but that single rank was the gap between ascension and non-ascension.
Just as the Civilization Council often discussed the issue of whether unascended species could truly be considered intelligent life.
Or whether civilizations below Level Four should be expelled from the ranks of "civilization," or perhaps labeled "ant civilizations," "sub-civilizations," or something similar.
The reason this blatantly discriminatory issue kept appearing was simple.
Because the gap between the two was truly that vast!
What shocked Dragonkin Baltor were two things. First, there were actually such low-level creatures in the "Vault of Ten Thousand Mirrors."
Second, these low-level creatures had actually ignored the life-field suppression of an ascended species and charged over with claws and fangs bared.
What was this? Don Quixote charging at a windmill?
While they were stunned, several dragonkin almost instinctively increased the strength of their life fields.
It was like encountering an ant on the roadside. If a passerby was in a bad mood, they would probably stomp on it.
Having gained nothing for so long, they were feeling somewhat irritated.
In an instant, a living force-field purgatory, ruled by the dragonkin's will, took shape.
The dragonkin's magnetic field distorted light and space. In the players' vision, the dragonkin's true forms became blurry and warped, as if separated from them by a boiling curtain of water.
More terrifying was the complete deprivation of direction. The enemies fell into absolute disorientation. Front and back, left and right, up and down all lost meaning, and even gravity became suspect—as though they might be flung into the endless void the next second.
Several careless idiot players were instantly reduced to white light before they could even enter fusion mode.
These were Level 90 players at full