Omnipotlin

== History ==
Supposedly, when the world was first born, Omnipotlin has only two races.
One is the gods.
The other is the demons.
Gods and demons basically appeared on this world at the same time, and they were basically natural enemies and have been fighting all this time.
Unlike demons, who were born with great powers, the gods may also have various kinds of abilities, but compared to demons, gods aren't the kind of race that were born especially for battle.
Gods are capable of doing many thing. They can create earth, and they could create life, but if you just consider fighting power, they're naturally a big behind the demons who were born for the sake of destruction.
Plus, gods as a race are limited in numbers.
Normally speaking, all gods have their own responsibilities. Some govern life, some governs nature, and some governs fate. There are even portfolios such as health, harvest, wisdom, culture, etc. But there can only be so many portfolios, so there's naturally no way for there to be that many gods, and it's even more impossible for there to be multiple gods governing the same portfolio. Thus, the number of gods were set in stone from the start, and only when one god dies could a new god be born.
Therefore, the number of gods are very limited.
Demons on the other hand do not have that kind of limitation. Over months and years, their numbers would grow larger and larger, their tribes more and more varied, until finally, they've completely surpassed the gods.
For the sake of doing battle with such demons, the gods begun to create other races, allowing humans, elves, beastmen, dwarves, etc. to be born. In addition, the gods would give them guidance and aide in their growth, until they were finally able to stalemate the demons.
But demons aren't weak either. Not only did they create magic, they've also created demonic beasts.
Indeed.
Be it magic or demonic beasts, those all came from demons.
Thus, they were named what they were. The word "Magic" even arose from the demons themselves, so it could be easily seen how much more exceptional the demons are in terms of power compared to the gods.
However, putting aside magic for the moment. When it comes to demonic beasts, although they were created by the demons, due to the fact that demons aren't nearly so capable in everything as the gods, the result was that the demonic beasts had fairly low intelligence. Thus, even the demons who created them would sometimes lose control of demonic beasts. Thus, although demonic beasts multiplied rapidly and even ended up spreading to all corners of the world, they weren't tamed. They would indiscriminately attack even demons.
Thanks to that, even though the demons had magic and created demonic beasts, they still weren't able to completely crush the gods. Plus, the gods even created magic forms such as holy magic and support magic, so in the end, neither could do much against the other.
"However, it does need to be said. Compared to the gods, demons are relatively stronger."
Sitting before the just summoned table, the goddess chatted while drinking the aromatic red tea.
"It's for that reason, for the sake of combating the demons, that the gods finally created the Hero Summoning Ritual. To summon from another world a Hero baring special powers to fight the demons, with the final goal of having the Hero defeat the king of the demons – The Demon King."
At the same time she's saying so, the goddess was also reminding Shien, who was sitting facing her and seemed to be concentrating on tasting the red tea.
"We gods may be able to do various things, but the only thing we can't is to directly grant power. Thus, to the Hero to naturally holds the Holy Sword and have an unusually powerful unique skill, we gods hold anticipation and hope that they would one day be able to defeat the Demon King."
Just like that, the goddess explained various things to Shien.
To that, Shien did have a number of questions.
For example…
"Why can't goes directly grant power?"
Shien raised his question.
The goddess also answered without hesitation.
"Because levels and skills are things that were carved into the concept of [Logic], so even gods can't affect it."
That [Logic] is basically the laws of the world, the rule of reality, also known as the [Logic of the World].
"Be it gods, demons, humans or demonic beasts, all have levels and skills. According to each person's status, natural talent, and potential, their growth rate in various directions are all different. Theses things are all carved into the very concept of [Logic]. In other words, they're the rules of the world itself. We gods can affect matter and phenomenons, but we cannot interfere with the base laws of the world itself. We cannot affect [Logic] itself."
The goddess so explained.
"Of course, if it's within what [Logic] allows, some interference is still possible. For example, magic is basically using magical power to interact with [Logic] to affect matter and phenomenons. The final form of that power is what's called magic."
"Also, some magic weapons, items, and even potions also operate under this principle to temporarily increase skill levels and personal ability. Your Holy Sword also belongs to this category."
"However, interference of [Logic] can only be done within the allowed territory. If it's something that destroys the balance too much, then it wouldn't be allowed no matter what."
For example, gods could grant humans weapons or items that can raise their power, and they could grant humans their blessings, but they absolutely have no way to directly raise a person's level.
If not, humans won't need to level anymore, nor would they need to grow. They could just get it granted by the gods.
As for weapons or items capable of directly leveling someone up, those don't exist at all in this world.
"Even now, weapons and items capable of increasing a person's levels is something only the Holy Swords born by you Heroes from another world. This world rules only allow for equipment that can increase the level of a certain skill or raise a certain portion of a person's ability."
The goddess explained.
"That's probably because you weren't existences of this world in the first place, so you end up somewhat diverging from this world's [Logic], right?"
Perhaps the reason that Heroes from another world could awaken extremely powerful unique skills is for that same reason.
That's why gods would want to summon Heroes.
----"You didn't mishear me you know?" The goddess laughed, "There's many other worlds beyond Omnipotlin. The world of your previous life was just one of them. The only similarity between them is that those other worlds are all very peaceful. They have no gods nor demons, nor are there any special powers. Since they're absolutely independent existences, even us gods can't interfere with them. The limit of what we can do is to operate within the limits of [Logic[ to summon those with the aptitude of Heroes."
That really was something Shien never imagined.
However, thinking about it, that seems understandable.
If gods could really just summon people from another world as they liked, then the gods wouldn't have needed to create the various races to fight against the demons. They could have just summoned manpower from other worlds directly.
Although it's said that those who had the potential to be Heroes are unbelievably rare even in other worlds, it's not like that's any different in this world.
Since they won't have the Holy Sword, and not everyone could even have a unique skill. For the vast majority of people in this world, they can only work hard from the bottom up and slowly raise their levels and learn skills, and only then do they have the chance of standing above the masses.
Therefore, when it comes to the matter of manpower, then there's no real difference no matter which world it is.
If the gods could just summon all the people from another world over, then most of those will probably be no different from the people of this world, and they'd have to train up from zero without any real advantages. Only a small portion of them would be able to awaken their own unique skill, and whether of not those unique skills are usable in battle is still an unknown.
Only those with the potential to be a Hero could awaken a powerful unique skill and bear their own Holy Sword.
Therefore, what the gods need is a Hero, and so they can only summon Heroes.
Only, those who can become Hero are rarer than rare.
Since ancient times, the Heroes summoned to this world haven't even reached 10, and every single Hero came from a different world. That basically means that a world would at most have one person capable of becoming a Hero, and for many worlds, they won't have anyone that could become a Hero.
"Plus, even among Heroes, there are differences in strength." The goddess informed, "In the past, the Holy Sword and unique skills that Heroes awakened all varied."
== Description ==
Therefore, in Omnipotlin, the younger one can reach a higher level, the higher their position generally are.
And fighting is the main way to level up, but leveling is for the sake of growth, so only through meaningful battles or training could one level up. If one were to easily defeat their opponents, then their leveling speed with become very slow, so the best way to level is to fight with opponents of a similar or greater strength than oneself, and life or death battles with demonic beasts are the best way to level up.
Besides that, training and practice could also help one level up. So long as there is growth, leveling is possible.
Thanks to that, people of every race could reach a certain level after reaching adulthood. So long as there's no issues with their talent and potential, and no matter which race it is, everyone could hit level 10 after reaching adulthood.
In other words, for human standards, one should have reached level 10 by the time they were 15. For them to reach level 10 at only age 20 should be reserved to people whose with unimpressive potential.
Of course, that alone isn't enough to be surprising.
There are people who can't accept being normal in the adventurer's guild. Even though their potential is low, they still wanted to be adventurers, fight against demonic beasts, and exhaustively raise their own levels. Therefore, human adventurers who only reached level 10 at 30 years old have appeared.
However, for someone to be level 10 but not have a single skill. That is what was surprising.
It must be known that skills are powers with various effects. So long as one has enough talent and fulfill the requirements, then one can gain the skill and use the skill points from level ups to level up their skills.
In this world, the only skills that can't be gained by studying are unique skill and special skills.
Unique skills are something unique to each person, and there are no two skills with exactly the same effects. Besides being born with it, here are some people who suddenly awaken their skill during their growth. The effects of unique skills can be high or low, and there are even unique skills that are completely useless.
Special skills are skills that are gained under special circumstance. The effects vary, and blessings are in fact one kind of special skills.
These two kinds of skills both belong to the type that can't be leveled. They're at their most powerful from the start.
The skills that can be leveled are much like a person's levels, it depends on personal potential and talent which decides whether they can be learned.
Some people could easily learn skills that they have a talent for, and some some skills a person might not be able to learn their whole lives. That's what creates the various different specialties among people.
This is especially true for some very powerful skills. They're very exacting on a person's talents and potential. To learn them, they'd normally need to satisfy extremely stringent requirements, and they need to spend a great deal of skill points before they can be learned, so their acquisition difficulty is self-evident.
Thankfully though, the skill points gained from leveling up also vary among each person, and the gains too depend on personal potential and talent.
The more talented one is, the more skill points one can gain upon leveling up, and the reverse is true too.
Thus, if one's potential is nearly exhausted, the skill points they gain will become less and less. Only by leveling through suicidal training or combat could one gain more skill points than normal, with a maximum of 100 points.
That is to say that whether it be levels or skills, it's not like in games where anyone could rise equally. All things depends on personal potential and talent. That's how reality is.
But, there are hard to learn skills, and there are easy to learn skills.
Normally, no matter how average a person's talents are, practicing with a weapon for a few years will be enough to gain those weapon's skill.
Take Shien's [Two-handed Sword] skill. For normal people, they'd be able to learn it through training for a few years with a two-handed sword type weapon. For those with talent, they could learned it in a few months or even a few days.
Under that kind of circumstance, logically speaking, no matter how terrible one's talent is, they did still managed to reach level 10, so they should have at least one or two skills.
----According to the receptionist at least, not even gods or the Demon King could could get the full 100 skill points with every single level up. At most it might be possible to get the full 100 skill points with a few level ups.
Besides which, Shien learned from the receptionist, different skills, based on their different effects, will require differing amounts of skill points to learn or level up. There's never been someone who could learn any skill with just 1 skill point, never mind leveling them up.
Generally speaking, the more powerful the skill, the more skill points it takes to learn and level up, and the higher the skill's level, the more skill points it takes to get to the next level.
But with Shien's [Heavenly Grace], Shien could not only get the full 100 skill points every level up, but he only needs 1 skill points to learn or level up any of them.
That's something not even the gods or the Demon King could do.