Beyond Grade A

Biodata

Power Progression

Origins and Terminology

Before the First Ones appeared, Calamity Grade had remained the highest known level of individual strength for countless years. Near the end of the Exploration Era’s wars, an Esper broke through that boundary. The appearance of an individual capable of challenging powerful armies shocked the civilizations, and the deterrence created by Beyond Grade As became one of the factors behind the Three Universal Civilizations’ eventual ceasefire 371 722.

After the war, power above Grade A received more detailed classifications, beginning with Grade S. Nevertheless, “Beyond Grade A” remained the collective name, preserving the historical significance of the original breakthrough. Higher subdivisions such as S+ did not constitute another fundamental transformation comparable to entering Beyond Grade A itself 371 880.

Advancement

Beyond Grade A Seeds

• Recognition: Seeds are prodigies judged capable of eventually reaching Beyond Grade A. Their potential attracts the attention of star cluster civilizations and intelligence organizations 660.
• Not equivalent to the realm: Before his breakthrough, Han Xiao’s seed status acknowledged his dominance among Calamity Grades—not equality with genuine Beyond Grade As 705.
• No guaranteed success: Heber described the boundary as a life limit for which luck could matter even more than talent 722.
• Population: Around three thousand seeds existed in the Explored Universe at the time of the Return of the Scattered Stars—more than twenty times the number of contemporary Beyond Grade As. A Star Field generally contained over a hundred seeds, with denser concentrations in the Central Galaxy and regions occupied by Super Star Cluster civilizations 1268.

Species Metamorphosis

• Biological transformation: Advancement perfects molecular structure, strengthens organs, alters metabolism, and sublimates the individual’s life level. Beyond Grade As are consequently described as effectively becoming a new species 722 760.
• Combat energy threshold: A reading of 33,000 Ona triggered Han Xiao’s Species Metamorphosis. His level of 240 documents his own breakthrough, rather than establishing a universal level requirement 760.
• Individualized results: Han Xiao became a member of the Black Star Race, receiving attribute compensation based on that race’s inclinations 760.
• Duration: Beyond Grade A metamorphosis normally took at least a century. Hila’s special Grade S Esper ability shortened her development substantially; she completed her breakthrough after approximately twenty years of training away from home 994.
• Alternative methods: Silver Shadow sealed himself inside the core of a dying star for a century, emerging as a new lifeform after completing his transformation 994.

Grade S Bonuses

Han Xiao’s interface recorded the following Grade S bonuses, replacing his previous Grade A bonuses 760.

• Specialty choices: Physical resistance, psychic resistance, power bonus, status enhancement, health, burst power, and energy 760.
• Power bonus: Increases the strength of abilities, including Mechanical Force bonuses, and contributes to Beyond Grade A destructive power 760.
• Separate metamorphosis benefit: Han Xiao’s Species Metamorphosis additionally granted an Endurance conversion bonus of +100; this was distinct from his Grade S rank bonus 760.

Further Development

• Energy accumulation: Building Energy remains a major source of improvement after entering the realm. Han Xiao’s Lv25 Energy bonuses were approximately ten times as effective as his Lv15 bonuses at his initial breakthrough 1191.
• Divine Transformation: Peak Beyond Grade As investigate their genes and the nature of their superpower systems to unlock further sublimations. Each stage grants additional power 1031.
• Foundation matters: Han Xiao concluded that insufficient preparation could leave a Peak Beyond Grade A unable to meet later advancement requirements, permanently obstructing further evolution 1031.
• A higher breakthrough is dangerous: Attempting the next major realm can cause malignant mutation and death. Han Xiao’s advancement conditions included assistance from the other four superpower systems and Beyond Divine Remnant Power as a catalyst 1382.
• Beyond God Grade: After succeeding, Han Xiao promised to share an advancement method once he had developed a reliable approach 1391.

Abilities and Combat Role

Enhanced Lifeform

• Physical capacity: The breakthrough produces a vast increase in attributes and survivability. Immediately after advancing, Han Xiao possessed over 2.5 million health 760.
• Longevity: Forty years represented roughly six or seven ordinary human years for a typical Beyond Grade A. Special abilities could make that interval even less significant, as with Hila’s authority over death 1249.
• Perception: Beyond Grade As can possess exceptionally refined senses; those examining Silver Shadow adjusted their vision to a microscopic scale to inspect the enchantments on his body 995.

Concentrated Individual Power

• Planetary destruction: Beyond Grade A capabilities exceed the surface-devastating power associated with Calamity Grades. Hila at her peak could harvest every living soul on a planet within seconds 364.
• Fleet penetration: Their combination of small size, mobility, and concentrated power allows them to breach fleet formations and conduct decapitation strikes 851.
• Strategic endurance: Without an equivalent combatant, an enemy may have to sacrifice fleets merely to delay one. Repeated engagements can become unsustainable because the Beyond Grade A recovers faster than the enemy replaces its losses 1175.
• Assassination: Beyond Grade A attacks on civilization leaders were a major threat during the Exploration Era. Protection against such attacks was one purpose of the Psionic Energy Restriction Belts surrounding the Three Universal Civilizations’ home planets 1182.

Class-Dependent Capabilities

Limits and Differences in Strength

• Not fleet replacements: One Beyond Grade A does not match the destructive efficiency of a regular military fleet numbering in the millions. Their value lies in roles that exploit individual power and flexibility 851.
• Reduced impact in extreme warfare: On enormous battlefields saturated with advanced spatial, dimensional, and strategic weapons, frontal assaults become dangerous and opportunities for guerrilla tactics shrink 1358.
• Large internal disparities: Han Xiao and Kasuyi, both Peak Beyond Grade As, overwhelmed six ordinary Beyond Grade As whose combat energy levels were below 52,000 Ona 1194.
• Not invulnerable: Beyond Grade As can be killed or captured. The Crimson Dynasty’s possession of four Arcane Church prisoners became a major interstellar event 866.
• Equipment still matters: Revived Mechanics who had lost their weapons were especially weakened compared with their former peak condition 1350.

History and Political Role

Independent Powers and Civilization Allies

Beyond Grade As could establish powerful organizations, deter civilizations, and impose cohesion on large armed forces. Han Xiao regarded a sufficiently powerful leader as the factor determining an armed organization’s upper limit: without Heber, the War Realm’s competing Calamity Grades would lack an authority capable of holding them together 364 688.

Their allegiances varied. At the Meeting of the Gods, more than seventy Beyond Grade As attended; over forty were allies of the Three Universal Civilizations, most of the remainder operated independently, and a few served Super Star Cluster civilizations. Some also belonged to the Ancient Ones, held Infinite Financial Group shares, or protected the Interstellar Black Market 1007.

• Allied autonomy: Universal civilizations generally consulted allied Beyond Grade As about operations rather than simply issuing compulsory orders, except when an operation was critical 887.
• Direct affiliation: Each Universal Civilization maintained a Peak Beyond Grade A as its leader’s personal guard: Clottey for the Crimson Dynasty, Oulu for the Federation of Light, and Urnos for the Arcane Church 1069.
• Hidden practitioners: Not every breakthrough was recorded. Some Beyond Grade As withdrew from public life, including a group that settled deep within the Secondary Dimension World 1263.

Formation of the Beyond Grade A Association

Han Xiao’s gathering provided an unusual opportunity for Beyond Grade As divided by geography and allegiance to build personal ties. The Shattered World subsequently offered a shared region where their organizations could establish branches and exchange resources 1006 1008.

The Development Federation—the Beyond Grade A Association—created a platform for collective interests and mediation across factional lines. Its advocates did not have identical goals: Manison sought greater collective bargaining power, while Han Xiao emphasized reducing internal casualties and preserving the Explored Universe’s strongest combatants 1068 1083.

Control of knowledge became a major source of independence. By the association’s fiftieth anniversary, none of the newcomers from the preceding forty years had joined the Three Universal Civilizations. Private knowledge exchanges had undermined the civilizations’ ability to recruit allies through their monopoly on Ultimate Knowledge 1248 1249.

Sanctuary Revival and Suppression

Sanctuary Revival transformed the class’s political position by making death reversible. Han Xiao argued that Beyond Grade As needed independent control of revival; otherwise, advanced civilizations could revive only obedient individuals and permanently eliminate opponents 1205 1213.

He arranged for the Association to operate publicly while the Sanctum Organization sheltered individuals in secret. The prospect of revival also encouraged seeds to seek guidance and join established organizations, culminating in the large-scale migration called the Return of the Scattered Stars 1213 1263 1268.

• Civilization fears: Bader regarded the continuing growth of the Beyond Grade A population as a future threat to universal order and anticipated that a purge would eventually become necessary 1006.
• Recruitment suppression: The Arcane Pope proposed eliminating promising Calamity Grades and nationalizing lower-level Super knowledge to cut off future Beyond Grade As 1261.
• Sanctions: The Three Universal Civilizations demanded reductions in the Association’s armed forces and imposed restrictions on faction members’ credit, travel, docking, and financial activity 1278.
• Public hostility: After Sanctuary Revival became public, the civilizations encouraged resentment between ordinary people and Supers 1308.

Recognition, War, and the Super Sanctuary

The Association eventually gained official recognition rather than remaining merely a private organization. This protected its legitimacy and allowed Supers to join without fearing exclusion from interstellar society 1318.

During the World Tree War, Han Xiao organized intensive training for promising Calamity Grades and existing Beyond Grade As. Trainees who advanced were required to participate in the war. Later, the Three Universal Civilizations placed their affiliated Beyond Grade As under his command for the assault on the World Tree 1365 1435.

After the war, the Association established the Super Sanctuary, an immigrant civilization recognized by the Three Universal Civilizations. Its Beyond Grade As became members of the Council of Elders, formally uniting their organizations under a common political banner 1445.

• Advancement rights: Citizens who reached Beyond Grade A entered the Council of Elders directly and received free Sanctuary Revival protection 1445.
• Shared institutions: The civilization provided Super knowledge, customized training, and optional Netherland protection for full citizens 1445.
• Leadership: Han Xiao led the principal decision-making group, with Aurora serving as his deputy 1445.

Documented Ascensions

Public Reputation

• Living legends: Ordinary citizens regarded Beyond Grade As as distant, almost godlike figures. Defeating or capturing one could establish another combatant’s reputation throughout the universe 861 866.
• Personal titles: Their nicknames commemorated legendary achievements. Han Xiao’s included “Undying Body,” “Indestructible Black Star,” and “Black Star Army Commander” 854.
• Veyne Cards: Beyond their exploits, personalized card decks helped make Beyond Grade As widely recognizable celebrities 1006.
• Secondary Dimensions: Their reputation extended beyond the main universe; a Void Lord immediately recognized the significance of Han Xiao’s Beyond Grade A energy fluctuation 1072.
• Player encounters: Players could receive Grade S survival missions for lasting against them. Sparring through faction contribution and favorability offered a safer way to complete advancement requirements involving a Beyond Grade A opponent 775 845.