Levels are something that's both simple and complicated.
Magical beasts evolve.
Between a Mosquito Rat lv20 and a Grand Geiger Serpent lv1, which is stronger?
Obviously the latter.
The fact that level resets to 1 when evolving shows that you can't judge someone's strength by level alone.
'People'.
That is, humans, elves, dwarves are even more difficult.
They don't evolve.
Therefore, it seems their strength could be judged by level.
But that's not quite right either.
Because there's something called 'real combat experience'.
In the case of princes and nobles, they often level up for free.
They level up by hunting controlled monsters in controlled hunting grounds.
Then if a level 30 'Sickly Prince' fights a level 20 'Experienced Rogue', who would win?
Obviously the latter.
You can tell just by looking at how weak Phili is compared to his level.
