Monsters

Basic Monster Logic
All monster life From Minion to Monarch Follows some basic principles:

ABILITY LEVELS
Most monsters are ranked based on their powers from Minion to Monarch with sub-classes in between. Each subclass can be considered several times stronger than the one before and the highest of each class is several times weaker than the weakest of the next class. Weak minions being able to easily defeat a level 1 novice tier mage

LIFE CYCLE
All monsters obey 4 stages of their natural growth: Infancy, Childhood, Maturing and Adulthood. During every step of Growth, the monsters in question will gain a massive growth in power and a change in physiological appearance. But the power level that each monster has when it reaches Adulthood varies by species. For non-unique monsters, the highest class recorded that is attained by average members of a certain species upon reaching Adulthood is Commander.

All monsters are capable of growing past the power level they attain at adulthood, through rigorousness combat with other monsters or Humans. Monsters will continually change in power, but adult monsters of the same species will only change in appearance when they change to a new level.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
A monsters power level is measured by their capabilities in their own preferred environment. As such, monsters with a high elemental affinity (a.k.a. sea monsters) will be much weaker than mentioned below when taken out of such environment.

As a general rule, land monsters are weaker than sea monsters; both are weaker than polar monsters.

EVOLVING FACTORS
Once a monster reaches the state of evolving within whatever level its in, it only requires a strong power source (like holy spring in season 1 or a soul from a higher level) to evolve to the next level. The evolving sub class monsters can be considered members of the next class upwards as the evolving minion in season 1 took an insane amount of novice tier hits without it being injured and some evolving commanders couldn't even be killed by 1 blow of spirit species super tier magic.

Minions Level
Minion Level Sub-classes: Weak Minions, Minions, Strong Minion and Evolving Minions.

The classification is just a guideline. Every Monster, even a Minion level should be taken seriously and differently base on their abilities. Generally a Minion slave is the cyclop rat hunted by Mo Fan's Hunter Team in his first hunter mission, a normal slave would be the one eyed wolves the protagonist group fought during the attack on bo city while a Strong Minion is the Spirit Wolf during his Practical Test and an Evolving Minion is the Wolf that wouldn't go down even after taking an insane number of hits from the Hunter Team, Mo Fan and Yu Ang during Season one. It is to be noted that the concept of Weak and Strong Minions were not part of official classification.

Giant Monster, Monster Wolf, Black Cattle, Ghost Wolves, White Armor Jade, Rock Devil, Eggs Demon, Shadow Wicked, Cave Slave, Diamond Blood, Lizard, White Eagle, Day Eagle, clawed rat, white ghosts, sea monkey monster, white head monkey, Yin Hong mummy, dust storms, the eagle demon, demon bird, fire crown lizard, blade magic spider, storm dog, Corpse horse, snake scorpion strange, sea hook black demon, crawler

Monsters are naturally stronger than humans after all.

Novice Mages are Minion Monsters equivalent. However, usually takes a group of Novice Mages to defeat 1 Minion monster.

Warrior Level (战将级)
Warrior Level sub-classes: Small Warrior, Standard Warrior, Great Warrior and Evolving Warriors. Also called Leader of the pack.

While gap between Warrior level monsters are greater than Minion level. Small to Great Warriors are still possible to take down with average Mid-Tier Magic. For Evolving Warriors, they are considered Demi-Commanders and mages should not attempt to hunt without a High Tier Mage.

Spur riffs, blood turtles, cursed animal demon, scales skinny demon, faint storm wolf, pestle wolf, serrated green demon, pseudo-monster, giant lizard, rock trolls, confuse magic spider, Tiger, white sand demon soldiers, three skins python, knife ax corpse, the Division of the night knight, karmic demon, brown tail beast, banyan general, Blizzard spirit, monster bone will, wrapped cloth corpses, Ghosts, poisonous corpses, the scars, blood red skeletons, guardian stone figurines, red Ling demon, snake scorpion demon, white weeping demon, hunting shark demon, bone knife mummy, gray cloth iron corpse, golden gryphon, Ban on the stone magic, the sun black bats, golden ape, sand fox, poison fire scorpion, silver giant rhinoceros, brutal sword dead paternity, poison gold mummy, black tree fine, ghost priest, white pupil giant wolf, Magic, dark helmets mummy, evil scales mummies, giant mummy, mummy, Snake scorpion banshee, pretty rhinoceros, hunters, iron hoofed killing beasts

Warrior Level monsters are practically immune to Novice Magic and usually requires a group of Mid-Tier Mages to defeat one.

Commander Level (统领级)
Commander Level sub-classes: Lessers Commanders, Commanders, Great Commanders and Evolving Commander. The gap between Commanders is very wide.

Winged Wolf, the corners of the monster, the giant lizard puppet dragon, hamster lizard, swine poison thousands of ghosts, four claws magic wolf, fir tree fir, white quiet Guinhen, sarcoma corpse, blood skull bone,, Red crack demon, the virus snake scorpion, the blue valley from the beast, the death of poisoning mother, white tigers, sea mammoth, Wuhai pseudo-dragon, wind and snow thunderbolt, blue star Titan, flying wolf, , The spirit of the prison demon, white rock sub-dragon, Eagle Jazz, the earth evil insects, insects, evil corners of the ghosts, Greek copper beast, agate head spider, cold spell Cerberus, cold and hell three dogs, Eagle, bronze mountain people, four life lizard tiger, black ax ominous, general Wu Yan

Commander level monsters are immune to Mid-Tier and below Magic. They usually take a group of High Tier Mages to defeat however, due to the vast difference between each human, there are cases where a single High Tier mage can fight a Commander Monster. The difference is especially notable between Commanders and Great Commanders, where a single maxed high tier mage can kill a commander but a whole squad of average high tier mages couldn't significantly damage a great commander to a point where a super-tier mage had to intervene.

From this level onward, it has been shown that a select few creatures can create many more slave and warrior class creatures with the correct ingredients like a factory, even while in battle.

It is common for monsters of this level to exhibit intelligence, it is very common for command class creatures will ignore mages that they deem not worth their time and that they will retreat if they deem themselves outgunned, but only if un-supervised by monarchs. This makes dealing with commanders and actually killing them entirely different matters. But they are still subject to emotions and petty squabbles, as 2 different demi-commanders which were being harassed by 2 different mages decided to fight to the death when they came face to face.

Monarch Level (君主级)
Monarch Sub-classes: The difference in strength between each Monarch subclass are so great that each can be considered a class of its own. The only consistent thing about a Monarch caliber is the fact that they can only be harmed by Super Tier Magic.


 * Fake Monarchs are a transitional level for monsters, but it still warrants a Super Tier Mage defeat it.
 * Lesser Monarchs are considered full fledged Monarchs, they requires a couple or more Super Tier Mages to defeat.
 * Small Monarchs are enough to threaten a large city. It will usually take more than a couple of Super Tier Mages to defeat them
 * Medium Monarchs are the standard, they require a party of Super Tier Mages to have a chance to defeat them.
 * Great Monarchs onwards are serious threats, sometimes, it is better to strike up a deal with a Great Monarch than fight them
 * Supreme Monarchs is the highest official ranking for monsters of these class, Most prominent Supreme monarchs includes, Ocean Skeleton King, Orochi, Shark Chiefs, injured greek death god Hayla. Most Supreme Monarchs requires a Half Forbidden Curse Mage to fight off.

Monarch included Totem mysterious snake, giant silver eagle, silver dome, ghosts tyrant, skeletal brake Ming main, mountain zombie, Mount angle ghost Lord, Yin Cao scorpion, totem Pa, sand thief, dark sword Lord, silver month Titan, Jinyao Titan, poison Guzheng Jun, Ming beast bones, Sphinx, Bola, Totem Moon E Phoenix, Queensland overlord, day crown purple linden tree, Ming Jun frog, evil scales Pharaoh, Scorpion Medusa, Scorpion man Sand, ghost commander, agate dead, sheep head demon, red skull master, ghost 魖 king, nine quiet, Squid King

At this level, the monsters start to think strategically, this was shown when a standard ruler deployed its forces in such a formation that it reached the edge of a city without being attacked.

At this point, it was stated that if the armor/skin of a monarch was broken by super tier magic, large focused quantities of high tier magic can be used to inflict lasting damage.

Emperor Level (帝王级)
According to the author, just the lands near human civilizations: The Five Great Continents (North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Africa) can have as many as 40 or more Emperor level lifeforms and we should assume there are over 3 times more Emperors in the Sea. However, the difference in strength and capabilities between Emperors are huge. This is not including territories with threat level labeled as Black, which is more dangerous than Purple Zones. Most of the Black Zones are so dangerous that humanity have very little knowledge.

During the livestream celebrating the end of Versatile Mage, Author confirmed for the last time, the strengths of Emperors. He divided Emperors into 3 Grades when he was asked about them and Forbidden Curse. He said the Level beyond Forbidden Curse is God, but quickly retconned it, stating that the concept of god does not exist in their world. Everything above Emperor and Forbidden Curse are Plane Dominating (位面主宰)

Low Level Emperors: Holy City's Gold Dragon, the Titan Apollo, all National Beasts and Deities, Totem Beasts such as Baxia, Mysterious Snake, Khufu, Zhan Kong, Michael, Uriel, Mo Fan, possibly the multiple Emperors who rules the Amazonian Forest (Note: Their Levels are not confirmed), all the Emperors who participated in the Siege of Shanghai. Almost all Emperors known to humans can be assumed to be Low Level Emperors.

Low-Medium Level Emperors: Khufu, Zhan Kong, Michael, Mo Fan and the Azure Dragon have been placed between Low and Medium level by the Author. He explains that Khufu, Zhan Kong, Michael and Mo Fan have potential to get stronger. While Mo Fan was placed lowest among the Low-medium levels during the livestream because he has much to learn, the newly ascended Magic God had recently defeated Khufu with a single fist strike launching him back to Netherworld. Azure Dragon is the closest to Medium Level.

Confusion: While it is true that Uriel felt that there was not even any contest between him and the Azure Dragon, it isn't to say that the Holy City cannot defeat the Azure Dragon. Uriel's gauge was actually: a 16-Wing Seraph cannot defeat Azure Dragon. If there is a need, the Archangels together with the full force of the Holy City is capable of destroying the Azure Dragon. However, it will be quite costly for them. Uriel and the rest of the Archangels gave up when they saw the Azure Dragon because the combined might of Mo Fan, Archangel Gabriel/Shaka, Mu Ningxue, Ye Xinxia, Totem Snake, Totem Turtle and Parthenon is relative to the might of the Six Archangels and the Holy City's armies, adding the Azure Dragon would cause the Holy City to be overwhelmed.

Medium Level Emperors: They are described as extremely powerful beings. Cold Lunar Eyes and the Emperor in Kunlun was confirmed by the Author to be examples of two Medium Emperors. Cold Lunar Eyes was implied by the Author to have existed for tens of thousands years and maybe impossible to be killed. Kunlun's Emperor is a Fox and it is extremely powerful. While all Medium Emperors are described as 主宰 which can be translated as Dominates or Beings who wields absolute power. A Totalitarian Dictator who controls every aspect of your life, a Tyrant or Center of the World. They can be seen as a Force of Nature necessary to exist for the continual survival of the world and humanity. Not all Dominates 主宰.are Medium Emperors. This is to show how high level they truly are.

The author confirms that it is possible for humans to achieve Medium Level Emperor in strength. They are extremely rare and considered exceptional cases, throughout tens of thousands years magic history of humans, two have achieved this level. They are the Founders of Holy City and Parthenon who continues to be the leading forces in the world today. The Founder of Holy City was often referred to as the Old Angel and the Founder of Parthenon is stated to have become the Holy Spirit in order to pass the power of Resurrection down. Mo Fan has the potential to become a stronger Medium Emperor than these two if he can master all 19 Elements (excluding Devil) beyond the level of Forbidden Curse.

Author had confirmed that no National Beasts (which Azure Dragon belongs to) has ever reached the Level of a Full Fledged Medium Emperor.

High Level Emperors: The Author's final confirmation was the world has two High Level Emperors. They are Antarctica Emperor and Sahara Emperor. To qualify as a High Level Emperor, they must be impossible to be killed by any means known to humanity and existed for over hundreds of thousands years or up to million years and that it is impossible for any humans in existence to ever achieve this level. There is a very clear example of what an Emperor of this level can do in the Novel. The Antarctica Emperor was able to change the world as he pleases with a single spell. It took almost all of the world's best Mages to come together in order to undo his spell and even then, parts of the world has been terraformed and could not be undone.

Confusion: The author had stated that Bermuda's Emperor was comparable to Antarctica and Sahara Emperors in the novel back when the concept of Low, Medium and High Level Emperors was not even a thing. However, during the latest confirmation, he states that Bermuda's Emperor was weak and is only a Low Level Emperor. Therefore, Bermuda Devil was retconned to Low Level.

Plane Dominating (Unofficially it's God): The level beyond Forbidden Curse and lifeforms transcending Emperor levels are classified as Plane Dominating by the Author. This was never mentioned in the Novel and only made canon by the author himself. The only known being qualified to be placed here is the Dark King who was able to use Forbidden Curse Mages and Emperor levels like chess pieces and toys in a game. During his imprisonment in the Holy City, Mo Fan hinted that the Summon Plane might be even bigger than Dark Plane and existence of beings who can make Emperor levels into minions and playthings are likely to exist.

Monster vs Human
It was stated many times in the novel that a monster will need multiple humans of same level to defeat.

MINION:

 * Weak minions
 * Normal minions
 * Strong Minions
 * Evolving Minions

WARRIORS:

 * 1) Weak Warriors
 * 2) Standard Warriors
 * 3) Strong Warriors
 * 4) Evolving Warriors

COMMANDER:

 * 1) Lessers Commanders
 * 2) Commanders
 * 3) Great commanders
 * 4) Evolving Commanders

Monarch:

 * 1) Inferior Monarchs
 * 2) Monarchs
 * 3) Medium Monarchs
 * 4) Great Monarchs
 * 5) Supreme Monarchs

EMPEROR:

 * 1) Lesser Emperor
 * 2) Emperor
 * 3) Low Level Emperor
 * 4) Medium Level Emperor
 * 5) High Level Emperor