"The leveling system transcends the gods. It was here before the dawn of this world and it will be after it is gone. The level in system generally means number of skills one can possess but I think it is the capacity of a soul. As you may have read on my paper, I have found 3 individuals who had more skills than their level would indicate. Is it a mistake by the system? I don't think so. Then why do the level and number of skill becomes same in almost all individual. What does levelling up increase? "
"That is the question we must ask ourselves. We are individual at forefront of system research. We have found countless secrets on system and skills that was thought to be unknown. We have moved forward the way we view the status screen. We have found out that the system hasn't been the same through the ages."
"With that being said I would like to put forth my hypothesis on the meaning of level. I hypothesised that the level indicate the strength and capacity of one's soul. As one's level increases so does their soul. The experience we gain from combat is a part of deceased soul fused into the victor's soul. Due to this we cannot level from defeating one's with lower level, as the quality of soul is different between them. So I concluded that if we can increase our soul strength and capacity independent of leveling we can house more skill than the level. In lieu to this I also hypothesise that skills are stored in soul."
-A lecture by an unknown scholar on unknown world
"...and intervenes not out of power, but necessity. The Protector, as the fragments describe, is not a god nor a ruler. They are something older. Something bound not by divinity, but by responsibility. Their role was not to shape the world, but to guard it, from what, we are not told. Only hints remain, etched into ruins lost to time, where reality flickers and the system's laws fray at the edges."
"Some scholars say the Protector watches over the cracks between worlds, ensuring that what lies beyond never seeps in. Others believe the Protector is the one who maintains the System itself, a caretaker rather than a creator. They operate not on emotion, not on faith, but on purpose."
"And yet, the Protector is absent. No scriptures tell of their fall. No monuments mourn their silence. Only the oldest and most fragmented of texts suggest that they exist, not as a savior, but as a judge, when the balance is truly broken."
"And if the System really is a construct of all thoughts and souls across existence…Then maybe the Protector is not a being at all but a consequence."
- Palsik of Madness