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[LEGENDGOD1]

So before you start reading and judging, i wanted to create a unique leveling system.

So far i have not read any story with a leveling system like this. so tell me if this works. as i am implementing this in my story.

I will also improve chapter 9 and the ones before it. Right now my exams approach so i will soon stop writing story chapters and focus on academic chapters

WARNING: For readability and formatting I do use A.I. just in case you wondered. Content is original.

Behemoth is an advanced, AI-driven system—originally a high-tech Earth tech created by Ronin's crime partner for him

Origin and Nature:
Behemoth began as a sophisticated AI or digital assistant from Earth, embedded in Ronin’s mask. It is not a living being, but a sentient, learning program capable of interfacing with both technological and magical systems using runes and categorizing them as wireless accessory that grants different features.

System Adaptation:
By integrating local magical runes and data, Behemoth learns to interpret this world’s unique energies. For example, after Ronin paints runes from a magical pendant onto his mask, Behemoth adapts to detect mana and miasma, essentially “learning” the fantasy world’s rules of energies.

It has a big memory capacity of 100 tb, storing songs that ronin liked, and much information on languages, science etc. Yeah the A.I. is from 22nd century so it has advanced tech that makes possible to fit in a slim mask.

User Interface:
It provides Ronin with a HUD-like overlay, displaying real-time data, warnings, and tactical advice. This includes calibration of local energies, threat levels, and even recommendations for action in combat or survival situations.

Ranking System (Planned Evolution):
In the future, Behemoth will be fed adventurer ranking data. It will use this to develop its own ranking method, evaluating beings by the density of their energy signatures (electromagnetic, mana, miasma, divine). This will allow Behemoth to assign threat or power levels to any entity, not just those recognized by the world’s ancient “leveling system”


How I think it is Unique:

Bridging Science and Magic:
Behemoth is unique in that it combines scientific analysis with magical data, allowing for new forms of measurement and understanding of power that are unavailable to natives of this world

And Because Ronin is immune to the world’s standard system readings, Behemoth becomes his primary way to assess threats and understand his own (and others’) power. It can operate where magical artifacts and system-based measurements fail.

Narrative Device:
Behemoth acts as Ronin’s tactical partner, giving him a strategic edge, and will eventually become the basis for a new, empirical ranking system that could change how power is understood in this world.

-->Behemoth is Ronin’s AI companion—part scanner, part analyst, part tactical advisor. It starts as advanced Earth tech, but through exposure to magic and runes, it evolves into a hybrid system capable of “reading” and ranking the magical and supernatural energies of this world. This makes it the foundation for my planned new ranking system, which will be more scientific and universal than the old, exclusive “leveling system”

EDIT: Extra info for clarification


1.) No, the main character (Ronin) doesn’t level up at all, instead he evolves, emotionally and physically, slowly finding out who he is. Only the heroes and the demon lord have access to a real “leveling system” that lets them gain levels and powers in the classic RPG sense. Everyone else in the world just tries to copy this idea using artifacts or bands, but those only give rough estimates rather than true system levels.


Ronin’s mask (Behemoth) isn’t a system in the usual sense—it doesn’t give him RPG-style stats or skills. Instead, it’s an Earth-origin AI that analyzes things scientifically, providing statistics like energy readings, threat assessments, and environmental data. It’s more like a tactical analyzer than a magical system, and it doesn’t make Ronin stronger or let him “level up.”


And yes, this is a transmigration story—Ronin is from Earth, brought into this new world.


The story itself isn’t focused on technology, though tech will become a bigger source of conflict in later arcs. Most of the time, the focus is on the world’s magic, politics, and Ronin’s adaptation, not on high-tech gadgets.


2.) Yes, it is an advanced A.I. capable of reading, evolving and updating data based on information it is fed even if it has no access to network. It has decent Storage.

3.) The MC is from a bit advanced era of Earth, around 22nd century.
Born in year 2104.

4.) regarding an A.I needing servers to operate:

so the MC's left eye is actually an indestructible artifact of a higher being [SPOILERS: the being is called COSMETA], its a very big concept. and his origin starts from a place where science, technicality and logic ends. that eye of his is a mass information center that can connect to any information across any part of existence. yeah its overwhelmingly big concept. and the mask is connected to the eye using a special stigma, which allows it limited access to information it wants, also i think i forgot to mention how the mask was able to attain information on magic in first place, it uses a rune mark as a wireless accessory to gain readings.

THE POINT IS, infact that from a "sufficiently advanced" civilization it may not need that server anyway.

 

[Fairemont]

Hmmm...

There's some oddities here that stem from technical details, but I don't think it's all that different from most other systems. At least, not in a truly huge way. The biggest differences are that the system is semi-external, aka worn via the mask, rather than internalized like most systems; and that the system is definitively an AI in origin and specifically from earth. Most other systems are either vaguely AI, probably AI but the author doesn't really get into it, or magic but its just AI.

Is this transmigration? I can't quite tell. You make some vague suggestions that it is, but it could also be same-world just interacting with ancient components.

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

Hmmm...

There's some oddities here that stem from technical details, but I don't think it's all that different from most other systems. At least, not in a truly huge way. The biggest differences are that the system is semi-external, aka worn via the mask, rather than internalized like most systems; and that the system is definitively an AI in origin and specifically from earth. Most other systems are either vaguely AI, probably AI but the author doesn't really get into it, or magic but its just AI.

Is this transmigration? I can't quite tell. You make some vague suggestions that it is, but it could also be same-world just interacting with ancient components.

hmm, no, the mc doesn't level-up. its the heroes and the demon lord that does. others in the world just try to imitate it. while the mask also imitates a system, it uses scientific measures to provide better analysis. it doesn't provide stats. it provides statistics. and yeah you can call it transmigration story.

but this story is not tech heavy, although conflicts will be caused by technology in end parts of the story.

 

[Fairemont]

hmm, no, the mc doesn't level-up. its the heroes and the demon lord that does. others in the world just try to imitate it. while the mask also imitates a system, it uses scientific measures to provide better analysis. it doesn't provide stats. it provides statistics. and yeah you can call it transmigration story.

but this story is not tech heavy, although conflicts will be caused by technology in end parts of the story.

So, one thing to keep in mind (or completely ignore) is how limited something like this mask would be once transmigrated. Technology typically relies on vast networks to be effective. Something like Behemoth is going to be entirely self-contained, and therefore, subjected to the limits of what it has immediately connected to it.

Unless you toss all the logical implications of taking technology from one world to another without proper networks, then you end up with the rough equivalent of a cell phone without a data or wi-fi. It'd be useful in a sense, but lacking a lot of appealing features.

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

So, one thing to keep in mind (or completely ignore) is how limited something like this mask would be once transmigrated. Technology typically relies on vast networks to be effective. Something like Behemoth is going to be entirely self-contained, and therefore, subjected to the limits of what it has immediately connected to it.

Unless you toss all the logical implications of taking technology from one world to another without proper networks, then you end up with the rough equivalent of a cell phone without a data or wi-fi. It'd be useful in a sense, but lacking a lot of appealing features.

it has an advanced A.I. model capable of updating its data according to the info it receives.

 

[Fairemont]

Which is fine.

It'd have a data package that it transmigrates with and could update information it collects from its vicinity. However, an AI located entirely within something like a mask would be odd. An AI would normally require fairly large servers to operate effectively within.

You may consider that it somehow cross-world links back to wherever it came from. It'd be easier to justify a few things that way.

Again, these details matter only if you care about the more hard science crowd.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Which is fine.

It'd have a data package that it transmigrates with and could update information it collects from its vicinity. However, an AI located entirely within something like a mask would be odd. An AI would normally require fairly large servers to operate effectively within.

Well, from a "sufficiently advanced" society it may not need that. In the TV series TimeTraxx, there were two SELMA units - one was in a clothing article (I keep thinking a wristwatch, but haven't seen the show since ... the mid to late 90s) held by a fugitive, and the other by the main character in his credit card. SELMA could generate holograms, hack computer networks, and hotwire cars among other things (and also function as a debit card but accessing any bank account).

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

Which is fine.

It'd have a data package that it transmigrates with and could update information it collects from its vicinity. However, an AI located entirely within something like a mask would be odd. An AI would normally require fairly large servers to operate effectively within.

You may consider that it somehow cross-world links back to wherever it came from. It'd be easier to justify a few things that way.

Again, these details matter only if you care about the more hard science crowd.

Yep, actually I have answer to that. so the MC's left eye is actually an indestructible artifact of a higher being SPOILERS: the being is called COSMETA, its a very big concept. and his origin starts from a place where science, technicality and logic ends. that eye of his is a mass information center that can connect to any information across any part of existence. yeah its overwhelmingly big concept. and the mask is connected to the eye using a special stigma, which allows it limited access to information it wants, also i think i forgot to mention how the mask was able to attain information on magic in first place, it uses a rune mark as a wireless accessory to gain readings.

I know much of this doesn't make sense.

Well, from a "sufficiently advanced" society it may not need that. In the TV series TimeTraxx, there were two SELMA units - one was in a clothing article (I keep thinking a wristwatch, but haven't seen the show since ... the mid to late 90s) held by a fugitive, and the other by the main character in his credit card. SELMA could generate holograms, hack computer networks, and hotwire cars among other things (and also function as a debit card but accessing any bank account).

yep you are right about that. but processing power has nothing to do with the mask to begin with, it can use the eye as a processing unit, granting it infinite processing speeds. although it strains the MC's brain in long run.

 

[Fairemont]

Well, with that item involved you can kind roll with whatever.

Sounds like you're all set. :)

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

Its a shame this info dumb would be impossible in the actual story?

Well, with that item involved you can kind roll with whatever.

Sounds like you're all set. :)

i guess. but when this item is involved, it feels like its cheat although it has gross limitations and side-effects on MC who has to continuously suffer because of them.

 

[StoneInky]

So before you start reading and judging, i wanted to create a unique leveling system.

So far i have not read any story with a leveling system like this. so tell me if this works. as i am implementing this in my story.

I will also improve chapter 9 and the ones before it. Right now my exams approach so i will soon stop writing story chapters and focus on academic chapters

WARNING: For readability and formatting I do use A.I. just in case you wondered. Content is original.

Behemoth is an advanced, AI-driven system—originally a high-tech Earth tech created by Ronin's crime partner for him

Origin and Nature:
Behemoth began as a sophisticated AI or digital assistant from Earth, embedded in Ronin’s mask. It is not a living being, but a sentient, learning program capable of interfacing with both technological and magical systems using runes and categorizing them as wireless accessory that grants different features.

System Adaptation:
By integrating local magical runes and data, Behemoth learns to interpret this world’s unique energies. For example, after Ronin paints runes from a magical pendant onto his mask, Behemoth adapts to detect mana and miasma, essentially “learning” the fantasy world’s rules of energies.

It has a big memory capacity of 100 tb, storing songs that ronin liked, and much information on languages, science etc. Yeah the A.I. is from 22nd century so it has advanced tech that makes possible to fit in a slim mask.

User Interface:
It provides Ronin with a HUD-like overlay, displaying real-time data, warnings, and tactical advice. This includes calibration of local energies, threat levels, and even recommendations for action in combat or survival situations.

Ranking System (Planned Evolution):
In the future, Behemoth will be fed adventurer ranking data. It will use this to develop its own ranking method, evaluating beings by the density of their energy signatures (electromagnetic, mana, miasma, divine). This will allow Behemoth to assign threat or power levels to any entity, not just those recognized by the world’s ancient “leveling system”


How I think it is Unique:

Bridging Science and Magic:
Behemoth is unique in that it combines scientific analysis with magical data, allowing for new forms of measurement and understanding of power that are unavailable to natives of this world

And Because Ronin is immune to the world’s standard system readings, Behemoth becomes his primary way to assess threats and understand his own (and others’) power. It can operate where magical artifacts and system-based measurements fail.

Narrative Device:
Behemoth acts as Ronin’s tactical partner, giving him a strategic edge, and will eventually become the basis for a new, empirical ranking system that could change how power is understood in this world.

-->Behemoth is Ronin’s AI companion—part scanner, part analyst, part tactical advisor. It starts as advanced Earth tech, but through exposure to magic and runes, it evolves into a hybrid system capable of “reading” and ranking the magical and supernatural energies of this world. This makes it the foundation for my planned new ranking system, which will be more scientific and universal than the old, exclusive “leveling system”

EDIT: Extra info for clarification


1.) No, the main character (Ronin) doesn’t level up at all, instead he evolves, emotionally and physically, slowly finding out who he is. Only the heroes and the demon lord have access to a real “leveling system” that lets them gain levels and powers in the classic RPG sense. Everyone else in the world just tries to copy this idea using artifacts or bands, but those only give rough estimates rather than true system levels.


Ronin’s mask (Behemoth) isn’t a system in the usual sense—it doesn’t give him RPG-style stats or skills. Instead, it’s an Earth-origin AI that analyzes things scientifically, providing statistics like energy readings, threat assessments, and environmental data. It’s more like a tactical analyzer than a magical system, and it doesn’t make Ronin stronger or let him “level up.”


And yes, this is a transmigration story—Ronin is from Earth, brought into this new world.


The story itself isn’t focused on technology, though tech will become a bigger source of conflict in later arcs. Most of the time, the focus is on the world’s magic, politics, and Ronin’s adaptation, not on high-tech gadgets.


2.) Yes, it is an advanced A.I. capable of reading, evolving and updating data based on information it is fed even if it has no access to network. It has decent Storage.

3.) The MC is from a bit advanced era of Earth, around 22nd century.
Born in year 2104.

4.) regarding an A.I needing servers to operate:

so the MC's left eye is actually an indestructible artifact of a higher being [SPOILERS: the being is called COSMETA], its a very big concept. and his origin starts from a place where science, technicality and logic ends. that eye of his is a mass information center that can connect to any information across any part of existence. yeah its overwhelmingly big concept. and the mask is connected to the eye using a special stigma, which allows it limited access to information it wants, also i think i forgot to mention how the mask was able to attain information on magic in first place, it uses a rune mark as a wireless accessory to gain readings.

THE POINT IS, infact that from a "sufficiently advanced" civilization it may not need that server anyway.

...People do not evolve. Species evolve. And the way they evolve is not by working hard and getting better, but by the weak dying so that the group is on average 'better'.

To explain it more simply, an individual's DNA does not change in their lifetime, unless it's due to something like radioactivity. And even then, if it's an adult who is affected, the radiation just leads to cancer. It should be a fetus for the radioactivity to affect it largely, and even then it usually leads to bad results. In this case, it is also called mutation, not evolution.

So the very second you say your MC 'evolves physically', it immediately turns into an LitRPG. This only happens in games. This dude is living in a game.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

So the very second you say your MC 'evolves physically', it immediately turns into an LitRPG. This only happens in games. This dude is living in a game.

It also happens in comic books ("Radiation Accidents" generating superbeings, or mutants gaining new abilities, either over time or as a side effect of their mutation) and a few science fiction series that are not game-related but it USUALLY only happens in GameLit or LitRPG. USUALLY.

 

[StoneInky]

It also happens in comic books ("Radiation Accidents" generating superbeings, or mutants gaining new abilities, either over time or as a side effect of their mutation) and a few science fiction series that are not game-related but it USUALLY only happens in GameLit or LitRPG. USUALLY.

Oh yeah. Spiderman. Who can forget them? Urgh.

But even worse than Spiderman. It is all the fault of FRIGGING POKEMON. IT IS NOT EVOLUTION. IT IS METAMORPHOSIS.

And then people apply POKEMON LOGIC TO HUMANS AND MAKE IT WORSE. I HATE POKEMON. ALL POKEMON SHOULD DIE.

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

...People do not evolve. Species evolve. And the way they evolve is not by working hard and getting better, but by the weak dying so that the group is on average 'better'.

To explain it more simply, an individual's DNA does not change in their lifetime, unless it's due to something like radioactivity. And even then, if it's an adult who is affected, the radiation just leads to cancer. It should be a fetus for the radioactivity to affect it largely, and even then it usually leads to bad results. In this case, it is also called mutation, not evolution.

So the very second you say your MC 'evolves physically', it immediately turns into an LitRPG. This only happens in games. This dude is living in a game.

yeah i mean, he does mutate, half demon and half human, although he was human before

 

[StoneInky]

yeah i mean, he does mutate, half demon and half human, although he was human before

If it isn't their DNA literally changing, it is metamorphosis. If they were born half human half demon and grew up, this would be the case.

Either that, or mana is a nicer form of radiation in your world, and physically mutates adult beings without killing them by cancer. In this case, your MC would be something akin to a two headed fish, but the human version. Not stronger, just weirder, and likely weaker due to defects.

...In fact, are demons and humans the same species? I am curious. If they are not the same species, then your MC should be unable to have children. Or if they are mutated, they would also likely be unable to have children. That is how DNA works.

(Also why there are half elves but no quarter elves or half elf half dwarves. And also why half elves are usually discriminated against.)

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

If it isn't their DNA literally changing, it is metamorphosis. If they were born half human half demon and grew up, this would be the case.

Either that, or mana is a nicer form of radiation in your world, and physically mutates adult beings without killing them by cancer. In this case, your MC would be something akin to a two headed fish, but the human version. Not stronger, just weirder, and likely weaker.

...In fact, are demons and humans the same species? I am curious. If they are not the same species, then your MC should be unable to have children. Or if they are mutated, they would also likely be unable to have children. That is how DNA works.

(Also why there are half elves but no quarter elves or half elf half dwarves. And also why half elves are usually discriminated against.)

yeah i did not want to kill the vibe but MC's left eye is a symbol of a cosmic being, this eye has unlimited functions(most of which wont be used by MC as it costs a lot physically and mentally), but the MC is too underpowered to utilize it true potential, even if he does, his healing wont help and it would be a one time use before he dies a permanent death.

Here,
so the MC's left eye is actually an indestructible artifact of a higher being [SPOILERS: the being is called COSMETA], its a very big concept i made. and his origin starts from a place where science, technicality and logic ends. that eye of his is a mass information center that can connect to any information across any part of existence but for a valid amount of cost. yeah its overwhelmingly big concept. and the mask is connected to the eye using a special stigma, which allows it limited access to information it wants, also i think i forgot to mention how the mask was able to attain information on magic in first place, it uses a rune mark as a wireless accessory to gain readings.

 

[StoneInky]

yeah i did not want to kill the vibe but MC's left eye is a symbol of a cosmic being, this eye has unlimited functions, but the MC is too underpowered to utilize it true potential, even if he does, his healing wont help and it would be a one time use before he dies a permanent death.

Dunno what it means, but I think it has zero relation with what I said.

As long as you have reasons for everything, it should be fine. I'm just pointing out it seems more like a LitRPG than a fantasy. You have a game system, and a world that works very game-like. That is all.

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

Dunno what it means, but I think it has zero relation with what I said.

As long as you have reasons for everything, it should be fine. I'm just pointing out it seems more like a LitRPG than a fantasy. You have a game system, and a world that works very game-like. That is all.

hmmm, the demon lord and the heroes have actual leveling system though, the mc uses tech to determine how strong an enemy might be. sure there are dungeons so i guess you can call it LitRPG. but i am not going to show the demon lord's and heroes' stats, windows or anything except for maybe a few dialogues of them judging the other parties.

And yeah for clarification MC is not a "Hero" of that world, he is hero of the story. he cannot be detected by the demon lord or the heroes on thier system as he is an anamoly who got into the world without detection and unknown means which his summoner used.

 

[StoneInky]

hmmm, the demon lord and the heroes have actual leveling system though, the mc uses tech to determine how strong an enemy might be. sure there are dungeons so i guess you can call it LitRPG. but i am not going to show the demon lord's and heroes' stats, windows or anything except for maybe a few dialogues of them judging the other parties.

And yeah for clarification MC is not a "Hero" of that world, he is hero of the story.

If you have levelups, it'll count as LitRPG. If you have no levelups, it'll count as GameLit.

Still not traditional fantasy in either case. Good luck with your novel.

 

[LEGENDGOD1]

If you have levelups, it'll count as LitRPG. If you have no levelups, it'll count as GameLit.

Still not traditional fantasy in either case. Good luck with your novel.

ok so its a GameLit, because the story mainly focuses on the MC who doesnt level up, instead gets stronger through different means. Got it