Netheril’s Glory
Chapter 4: The New World.

"half ancient-elves! What is this race... "

Punk wasn't even able to thoroughly spit out his bloodline's weird name, but ancient elves did sound quite magnificent to him.

In fact, this was a unique world where ancient races were more powerful than modern races. Even though, according to the theory of evolution, the latest species should be the best.

But in a situation where ancient gods were still present and modern mortals were living in the dark ages, this meant that either this was the first civilization of this world, or all advanced civilizations were somehow destroyed.

This world was obviously the latter; although this was a new era, the gap between ancient and modern species was not too significant in terms of bloodlines.

Like, Punk's half-ancient elves bloodline. This bloodline's only advantages were- better preservation of vitality, better looks, and high agility, that's all. This so-called "ancient" title proved that this race was destroyed a long time ago.

So nowadays, It might be only useful for exploring ancient runes that require a racial identity check.

Punk was really speechless about his half-ancient elven bloodline, which had a grand name but no actual ancient supernatural power.

In addition to this bloodline, which temporarily had no value, there was one more thing left to him by the parents of this body's original owner,-"inheritance memory," Which seemed broad and profound but actually was very fragmented and messy.

Punk relied on the system to sort out these scattered pieces of information, which took more than a month. While sorting out this information, Punk also gained a preliminary understanding of this new world.

First, he learned about the history of this world. Here "The ancient Netheril civilization" had a profound and long-lasting influence. Their most famous achievement was the simplification and improvement of the meditation technique, which could be cultivated by the mages relatively quickly to the highest possible rank, "Legend."

(After Legend and above rank, an individual needed comprehension of laws for improvement)

And they also distributed this meditation technique to the masses.

Even now, when a mage sees the soldiers starting a life and death battle over a secret battle qi cultivation book that they themselves didn't know if it was genuine or fake, they would sincerely thank the great Arcanist of Netheril.

The Netheril civilization also spread secret information on a large scale, and they implemented a free education system that allowed even ordinary people, who didn't have the qualifications to become professionals, to understand the world.

And because of this, knowledge monopolization ended once and for all. The Netheril civilization thought that it was a massive waste of a civilization's potential to let ordinary people stupidly worship practically high-level professionals as gods.

And right now, Punk was in the Pheren plane. It was the Netheril civilization's birthplace, and they fought a great battle here with the Gods; because of this, this plane had been heavily reinforced.

Thus, most of the gods from the multi-dimensional universe also moved near the Pheren Plane to fight the Netheril, because of the order from the Heaven's will.

So their ultimate fortress, or some might call it their ultimate prison, "The Divine Kingdoms," were also located near the plane of Pheren.

Therefore, the plane of Pheren figuratively became the center of the universe.

As for the survivors of Netheril..... In fact, they had a manifesto: "As long as you adhere to the will of Netheril Civilization, and work toward the rejuvenation of Netheril civilization, you will be a member of the Netheril Civilization,"

Although it sounded loose, Punk felt an indescribable and tremendous cohesion from this manifesto.

Precisely because of this, the name of a destroyed civilization, such as the Netheril, was still an eternal and glorious banner in countless mages' hearts.

"Interesting…! If there is a chance in the future, I will check this Netheril civilization out," Punk thought.

There was also a piece of important information in the "Memory Inheritance" about the power levels of this world:

The lowest level of combatants was 1 to 4, which was the apprentice level.

5-9 was the trainee level, which was a slight improvement compared to the apprentice level; still, the trainee level was several times stronger than the apprentice level.

10-14 was the official level, which was a qualitative leap. Compared with the trainee level, this level was a huge improvement. Any attack below the official level couldn't break through the defense of an official level and above, and an attack from any official level or above can simply ignore any defense below the official level.

This determined that in this world, although someone could challenge across a small realm and still be alive, but if someone tries to challenge across a big realm then no matter how many people there were or how many protagonist haloes they had, there was only one outcome, "death!"

15 ～19 Level was the Master Level, which is an improvement of one small realm.

20 ～39 Level, this was a big realm promotion, it was the Legend realm! (Equivalent to Demi-god)!

After that, although it was still called a legend, the difference in power could be great-

they were divided into three small realms:

40～49 Level —— Morning Star (Low God)

50～59 Level ——Radiant Moon(Base God)

60～69 Level——Brillant Sun ( High God)

70 ~ 79 was another big realm improvement-Divine Throne*!

However, for some unknown reasons, since the destruction of Netheril civilization, the High Gods didn't allow anyone to interfere with anything on the universal scale.

The strictness of this rule was even more significant than Heaven's mandate to the gods. Because of this, most of the powerhouses didn't dare to touch the grace of the Divine Throne, but some people with a strong will, who sought knowledge beyond anything, never stopped. But, after they achieved the Divine Throne, all of them disappeared without any exception.

80-89 level was Transcending-Universe. This was another big realm.

90-99 level was the void realm*.

As for realm beyond 99,

This was an unknown and incomprehensible level.

But there was a metaphor that "If everything in the entire endless void is a fictional story in a book, then after level 99 You can go beyond this book and enter reality".But of course, this was just a Legend.

…..

Only when someone reached the Legend level, they had an endless lifespan and also had the qualification to compete with the will of Heaven.

Legendary Mages would also be qualified to learn the extremely destructive legendary magic, commonly known as the forbidden spell.

From the description, Punk learned that even the lowest level of the forbidden spell had the power that was dozens of times powerful than a hydrogen bomb from the Earth.

"I have to become a legend."

After this, Punk now had a small goal of becoming a legend. In such a turbulent world, he will never allow himself to exist as a weak person.

After sorting out the information about the *power system, Next Punk sorted out the information about the factions.

This world was mainly divided into six factions, they were:

Lawful good faction (the legendary holy maiden),

Chaotic good faction (Heroic outlaw),

Lawful neutral faction (Most regular people),

Chaotic neutral faction (not good people but have a bottom line),

Lawful evil faction (Organized evil forces),

Chaotic evil faction (Psychopathic murderers).

Although there were many ways to distinguish between faction, the difference between factions was mainly judged based on the inner valuesof the parties involved, that was to say,

if a madman from the bottom of his heart to the deepest part of his soul was aware that what he had done was good, then even if he destroyed a world, his would be considered "good."

Therefore, the division of factions was just for reference; if someone regarded it as truth, they would definitely have a miserable end.

In addition to this information, there was also some common knowledge--

For example,

while the high-level professionals of this world almost transcended themselves from the universe,

the ordinary people at the bottom were still living in the Middle Ages.

Also, the world's population was so large that it was practically uncountable. One of the reasons for this was the surface area of the Pheren plane, which was more than forty times the surface area of the sun from Punk's previous life.

There were also some common racial customs and some other scattered memories.

Like, the original body's "parents" were members of a secluded family.

And they were master-level mages. They wanted to gamble and try to reach the legend level. But because of the very little probability of such promotion, they left this knowledge inheritance and created this green egg-like formation to breed their child.

From the outside environment's dilapidated state, it was evident that the original body's parents have failed. And, failure in the breakthrough to such a large realm had always been a do-or-die situation. There was no third result.

Fortunately, the Ancient Elves were also a member of the elves, and they would be already 15-year-old when they are conceived. Otherwise, a little baby's body might be very uncomfortable for Punk.

"I don't know the origins of my body's "parents" and if I have seven aunts or eight aunts! "

While thinking about these, Punk finally found the most critical knowledge in the final part of the memory inheritance: knowledge about the cultivation method of a Mage.

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*Note: True Void class existence has the power to destroy small universes with a wave of their hand, unlike Punk, who got stuck in the void for some unknown reason and couldn't even move around.

*Note: Divine Throne is the name of the realm, not the God. Unless a God is free from the Shackles of divinity, he cannot exceed the legend realm.

*Note: Mostly about mage class, because the source of information was a wizard.