Power systems are always something that interest me in stories, and I always have a fun time trying to quantify them in a way that makes sense to my brain. I think I've come up with a way to do that with this power system and I wanted to share it here to see if it was in line with how others looked at it.

To establish a baseline using numbers, let's say that the average mundane person is about a 10 on their own. A particularly frail person might be around a 3 or a 4 while an elite soldier might be at a 19 or 20 when just considering their own physical ability. In my mind, it makes sense that, upon becoming a sleeper, the new "baseline" becomes 100 and closer to 200 after fully saturating their soul core.

This scale continues on with each new rank, establishing baselines of 1,000 at awakened, 10,000 at ascended, and so on. Essentially, each new rank increases your baseline by an order of magnitude, and fully saturating your soul core doubles that baseline. So, in the case of beings who possess more than one soul core like Sunny, that gives way for more improvement. So if we were to look at an ascended being with 3 fully saturated soul cores, the baseline for their power would be around 40,000 and, on a more extreme end, a divine being with 7 fully saturated soul cores would be around 8,000,000,000.

Considering all of that one also needs to look at the other abilities a being has as well as their equipment, and the way that I view this is that each ability or memory provides a flat bonus to that number proportionate to its own rank and tier; perhaps not on the same level as a fully saturated soul core of the same rank, but enough to be a statistically significant boost at that rank. For example, a 150 'power' sleeper who comes into possession of an ascended tier 1 memory might receive a boost to their combat ability equivalent to 1000, which would put them on a level where they could reasonably manage awakened enemies and at least challenge an ascended one.

Naturally, this might not be as meaningful at higher levels, as the gap between 1 million and 10 million is much wider than the gap between 100 and 10,000, which we've seen to be relevant considering what's been said about mundane armed soldiers being able to reasonably manage dormant creatures or even awakened ones, but not much more than that.

I also believe that abilities are added separately from the saturation of the soul cores purely because I struggle to imagine a dormant titan losing to an awakened beast. This would also help to explain Sunny's ability to challenge beasts of higher ranks through the use of his shadow augmentation, since each shadow provides a multiplicative boost to the power of whatever it's attached to.

I'm sure there's a lot more depth and nuance to be considered to make a breakdown like this truly accurate, but at least this is what goes through my head when I try to comprehend how this power system works!