The Martial Artist System and the Awakened System

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If Ouin Chiyoka had sounded somewhat envious when mentioning Master Level and Limit Level Martial Artists earlier, then when Xi Shenlian brought up Awakened in comparison to Martial Artists, what she displayed was a mix of envy, jealousy, and resentment.

Envy, jealousy, and resentment toward a level she could never reach herself...

This made Xi Shenlian's gaze even more intrigued.

He was eager to hear her assessment of the differences between the two power systems.

Meeting his eyes, Ouin Chiyoka puffed her cheeks in mild irritation before answering honestly:

"Just as Martial Artists are divided into five stages—Amateur, Elite, Expert, Master, and Limit—Awakened are also divided into five stages: Initial Awakening, Mature, Self, Completion, and finally, Sublimation."

"As the monsters among humanity, the group that has ruled this planet since ancient times, the Initial Awakening Stage—the most basic stage for Awakened—generally means that after getting through the initial adaptation period, their physical abilities are already on par with Limit Level Martial Artists. Those with better talent can even be stronger, able to tear through metal with their bare hands and withstand most weapons with just their bodies, with only heavy weaponry posing an effective threat. If they further cultivate martial arts and techniques for additional growth, only banned weapons can truly harm them."

Hearing this, Xi Shenlian grasped the general picture.

If a Limit Level Martial Artist was like a fully maxed-out, fully equipped game account for a normal human, then an Initial Awakening Stage Awakened was like a blank, lowest-level account among Awakened.

Yet, a Limit Level Martial Artist's physical abilities were at best comparable to an Initial Awakening Stage Awakened, and if the latter put in even a little effort... they'd pull ahead by a massive margin.

It was a gap in talent on an entirely different dimensional level...

What did that mean?

It meant that even if an ordinary person had their ancestors' graves smoking with good fortune, encountered countless opportunities, possessed talent like a prodigy, and kept striving upward, they could only barely touch the lower limit of an Awakened...

The situation was akin to the gap between a martial arts world and a xianxia world.

Perhaps out of unwillingness, Ouin Chiyoka added at the end of her statement:

"Of course, since Limit Level Martial Artists usually go through countless battles and are masters of techniques and secrets from countless schools, generally speaking, in a real fight, they can reliably defeat Initial Awakening Stage Awakened."

To this claim, Xi Shenlian remained noncommittal.

It was like a battle-hardened veteran beating up someone with similar physical stats but no combat experience—winning was only natural.

Moreover, Ouin Chiyoka had said "generally," meaning that when facing an exceptionally strong Initial Awakening Stage Awakened, a Limit Level Martial Artist might still struggle.

And Ouin Chiyoka knew this too.

So, after scraping together a bit of face for Martial Artists, she chose to skip the topic and continue answering the earlier question.

"If the Initial Awakening Stage is a level where ordinary people might have a chance to fight back with individual force, then the Mature Stage is basically a level where ordinary people have no hope of resisting with individual force at all."

"In this regard, it's said that the gap between the Initial Awakening and Mature Stages is like that between a baby and an adult. Even if there were thousands of babies, they still obviously couldn't defeat an adult."

"According to data and various research, Mature Stage Awakened likely have movement speeds several times the speed of sound, or even dozens of times it. They can ram through nuclear-bomb-proof facilities with their bodies, and under normal circumstances, even nuclear bombings pose no threat to them. Because while the heat of a nuclear bomb could melt their bodies, their movement speed completely outpaces the spread of the explosion's shockwaves. Explosions and impacts that can't even catch up to them naturally can't cause real harm. Radiation effects can reach them, but those are usually automatically nullified by their alien-like robust physiques."

"In short, unless you drop hundreds or thousands of nuclear bombs simultaneously across a wide area for saturation bombardment, nuclear weapons basically can't hit a Mature Stage Awakened. Similarly, other technological weapons face the same issue—even if their power is enough to break through the target's defenses, accuracy is often an insurmountable problem."

"For example, ten years ago, when a Mature Stage Awakened went out of control in the Sidia Republic, the result was nearly two million deaths in the capital within a few hours—and that was with the Awakened's main attention being occupied by other Awakened."

"If they'd been allowed to kill freely, they could have wiped out the country's entire population of over a hundred million in a single day..."

Hearing this, Xi Shenlian glanced at the "Mature" label on his system panel.

So that was it—he now knew just how impressive he was.

And this was only the second level!

Wasn't he supposed to start as a weakling?

He also deeply understood how remarkably resilient human civilization in this world was.

No wonder the historical records were full of entries like "In XXXX year, a major upheaval occurred, civilization began to regress..."

With a group of Awakened like that around, it was already a stroke of immense luck that this world's Earth hadn't been taken out!

"As for the Self Stage and beyond, my knowledge is also limited."

"I only know that when Awakened reach the Self Stage, they begin to automatically awaken various special abilities or powers based on their traits and talents—controlling lightning, temperature, plants, splitting their bodies, telekinesis, manipulating time..."

"So the Self Stage is a clear milestone within the Awakened group."

"Only the more outstanding ones can successfully reach that stage, and in ancient times, they were often recorded in texts as gods descending to earth."

"Relatively speaking, the Mature Stage is more like a baseline guarantee—a level that every Awakened will inevitably reach through natural development and growth, as long as nothing major goes wrong."

"As for the Completion Stage and Sublimation Stage after the Self Stage, they are unquestionably the top-tier rulers, reachable only by the most exceptional among Awakened!"

"The former can easily control the sovereignty of a conventional country on Earth, while the latter's stability is the fundamental prerequisite for maintaining the surface-level peace of the entire global situation!!"

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