"I guess I will open these first thing in the morning since I got this whole manual to go over!" He said to himself, seated on his futon, clothes off, covered with a blanket. He reached into the bag beside him and pulled out a thick scroll. "Guess I need to catch up sooner than later." He said to himself, leaning on his shoulder and opening the scroll with one hand.
"Updated Grading System." He read the title that popped up while opening the scroll, sighing. "Let's see..."
He began reading to himself, slowly but indeed trying to understand everything.
"Phantoms or Unintelligent Evil Spirit's ranking system rages from F to S. An F rank spirit can harness negative energy but cannot reproduce such power. In addition, most F ranks are physically and mentally incapable of demonstrating human behavior and anatomy. However, on rare occasions, they can have a physical appearance similar to a human's body parts. F ranks have shown firepower that could take down an entire one-hundred-square-foot building. An F rank can defend against, attack, and destroy at the maximum of a small building level. Finally, F ranks tend to fuse with one similar in status, and once the fusion completes, the F ranks move to an E-rank spirit. Harness, but cannot reproduce negative energy. Physically and mentally incapable of demonstrating human behavior and anatomy, but can naturally form some and small in number human parts."
Hakai looked around the text pieces, ensuring he hadn't missed anything.
"E-rank attacks can destroy an entire large building and defend against similar attacks in power. But, E ranks cannot fuse. Physically, mentally, or lawfully unable to fuse is the question we ask and encourage the Gods of Earth to answer."
"Hahhhh!" Hakai took a deep breath after a long reading session. "Info drop!" he called, placing his eyes back on the table and separating each rank, its capabilities, and information.
"D ranks phantoms are physically and mentally incapable of demonstrating human behavior and anatomy, but can naturally form some and small in number human parts. D-rank spirits can attack and destroy a small city block of large and small buildings. Their defensive powers are equivalent to their attack powers. Cannot fuse."
"This is so longggg!" Hakai cried out, noticing he might have to stay up all night to get caught up.
"C ranks phantoms anatomies, and the upper list to be mentioned matches those of D, E, and F ranks. However, some with high negative energy can produce more than one human part and numerous identical human parts. C ranks can demonstrate powers that could destroy a medium city block of large buildings. Their defense is equivalent to their attack powers. Any rank above F cannot fuse."
He kept reading, a little more interested this time as this information and scale differed much from the older one he had gotten used to.
"B-rank phantoms are amongst the top of their type and usually possess more power than the bottom tier list combined. However, they're incapable of demonstrating intelligent behaviors. They can withstand attacks that could destroy multiple city blocks of large and small buildings. Their attack powers are equivalent to their defense and output the same amount of Negative energy."
"According to the Hakai God of Destruction, an A-rank spirit, Bat Phantom, could demonstrate fire-maneuver-heal behavior. Slight signs of evolution and awareness. This information could tip the balance of our research and knowledge of the higher-ranked spirits. The A-ranking spirits are strong enough to destroy small towns of 17-27 square miles. Their defense potential is equivalent to attack powers."
"A+ ranking spirits are more potent and possess more destructive capabilities. For example, they can erase a medium town of up to 28-39 square miles of land. Their defense capabilities are equivalent to their attacking powers. It is still unknown if they can demonstrate the same awareness and cognitive behavior as the bat phantom."
"S-ranking phantoms tend to be on the higher spectrum and have portrayed cognitive behavior according to The God of Thunder. Abilities include negative beams, large massive bodies, access to a large negative energy reservoir, and enhanced combat skills. We have concluded that they can destroy an entire city almost up to the size of Tokyo."
Hakai was nervous hearing all of this. He knew little about how mere phantoms could pull off these feats.
"The New Type Scaling."
He read another title that appeared as he opened the long scroll.
"We cannot disclose the number of destructive powers a New Type potentially harnesses, but these are the ranks they can fall into: F, E, D, C, B, A, A+, S, or SS."
"Demons fall into three divisions created by Satan. We obtained this information thanks to the work of many Gods and Knights alike. Division one of the demons falls into ranks of C-, B-, A-, and S-. These tend to be the lower ranks. The in-between is division two, consisting of ranks C, B, A, and S. The third division is likely stronger and possesses potential we will yet encounter. The obtained ranking was that most would fall into grades C+, B+, A+, S+, and SS."
"Lastly, we have learned that The God of Fear has formed an army of monsters, established on and fed upon negative energy produced through fear. Such beings' location, potential, and composition are not yet possessed. Until then, we will give our word to release any newly obtained information for the benefit of all."
"Damn it. These are so different!" Hakai shouted a little upset that he now had to remember all this.
"Good grief, conflict will inevitably occur at any given moment. Yet, I'm still not strong enough, still not good enough. I need to keep going!" Hakai sighed while closing the scroll and placing it by his head. He was lost. He had no idea where he wanted to be or what to do. "A Warrior of Humanity? Is that truly what I want?" He told himself as his eyes closed.