'Raijin is a real crook.'
Tristan glanced at me and smiled.
"They're all stories, though. Don't depend on them too much." He turned back to the ocean, the wind catching his hair. "These stories have existed since before the Calamity eras. So many things would have changed about them — especially during those times. A lot was twisted to satisfy the nature of war."
I narrowed my eyes for a moment.
"Wait, wait…" The pieces were clicking together. "I think I just understood what these tiers actually are. So according to what you're trying to explain — the first era would be an era of mortals, where ordinary men walked the world. Then the awakened era, then elite, then champion, then hero, legend, myth era, and then the era of the sovereigns before the recent era of calamity."
My mind raced ahead.
"Does that mean, in the future, there's a chance the era we're currently experiencing could be transcribed into a new tier and updated?"
