Alright back, anyways the cosmology blog you linked again doesn't really explain that deeper worlds have stronger concepts than the shallower ones. Hell the scans imply the opposite.
This is completely incorrect. I seriously doubt you actually read the cosmology blog if you think this.
Order
The various laws that make up the world, or the power of the gods that keep these laws normal. There are various orders such as “time”, “creation”, and “destruction”, and the same number of gods control them.
"It is the reason why this world is the world it is. Why is a bird a bird, why is a demon a demon? The heavens send down rain to moisten the earth and nurture the trees. If you draw a magic circle and put magic power into the magic formula, the light will come on. These are what we call the laws of nature, the laws of magic, the order that makes this world what it is."
Order is the laws and concepts that define and maintain the world. You're nit-picking that the word "concept" is never mentioned, but it's directly stated that order is the reason birds are birds and demons are demons for example, which is how concepts (universals) work. Any knowledgeable verse member will tell you that order = laws and concepts, because that's how it's portrayed in the story.
Silver Water Holy Sea
An area that encompasses many "worlds", that extends outside of these worlds. Each world exists in a hierarchy, and the deeper the world, the stronger its order, and the more powerful its inhabitants appropriately are.
"The World's depth is the strength of the World's Order. It refers to the great influence the Small Worlds have on the Silver Sea. Magic power flows from the Shallow Layer to the Deep Layer, and the Order exerts its power from Shallow to Deep."
The spherical blackboard must have been a magical tool as it was transparent and what appeared inside were silver bubbles.
It seemingly imitated five Shallow Layer Worlds and one Deep Layer World.
"Let's say, for example, that the Shallow Layer Worlds have a magic power of 10 and the weight of their Order is 10. The same goes for the Deep Layer World."
'Shallow Layer World: Magic Power: 10. Weight: 10'
'Deep Layer World: Magic Power: 10. Weight: 10' was added.
"According to the Order of the Silver Sea, magic power flows to the deep layer and the Order exerts its power to the depths. The magic power of the Shallow Layer World shifts by one, same for its Order."
One magic power and weight are subtracted.
It was rewritten as 'Shallow Layer World: Magic Power 9. Weight 9'.
"The magic power and Order are given to the Deep Layer World, turning it into power."
From each of the five Shallow Layer Worlds, one magic power and weight are transferred for a total of five magic power and weight, which are added to the ones the Deep Layer World originally had.
There, the Deep Layer World becomes 'Magic Power 15, Weight 15'.
"It's actually not that simple, but this is the basic principle of the Silver Sea's Order. A small world that possesses numerous magic power and a strong functioning Order is heavy and sinks into the depths. Thus, it is considered deep."
"Because it's inefficient to measure all of the small world's order and the amount of magic power it possesses, we'll use the amount of fire dew it possesses to determine the hierarchy. The more fire dew a small world has, the deeper it is located."
Location is not a matter of place, but of the strength of order in that world.
"In this small world, which exists deeper than your small world, the power of everything is in another dimension. Strength, speed, toughness, magic power, everything. Even the resistance of a grain of air would be a weight to you. If you unleash your shallow, world-destroying magic, you will not be able to destroy a single ship here."
"Hmm. It seems that the magic power is flowing in from somewhere?"
"It's from Balandias."
Ottlulu, who was standing behind me, said.
"Magic power flows from shallow to deep. The 7th of Elenesia is a world located deeper than Balandias. Therefore, the order of Balandias works. This includes magical laws."
The Militia World is temporarily layer 0.
There is no world shallower than that, so only the order of that world could work.
However, the deeper the world goes, the more the order and magical laws of another world get mixed in.
It must be very chaotic at the bottom.
"Can the magic of a deeper world not be used in a shallower world?"
[...]
Every small world has certain common magical laws, and magic that use them can be used without problems.
"Deep magic that can only be used with the order of a deep world cannot be used in a shallower world. However, this is also not absolute. There exists a reverse formula."
"Is the magical laws of the deep world flowing to the shallower world in the opposite direction?"
"Yes. If a deep magic incorporates a reverse formula, it can be used in a shallower world."
[...]
"You inhabitants of the bubble world have only one chance of defeating us, the twenty-first layer world of Tiger Castle Academy, and that is to acquire a twenty-second or beyond layer of deep magic and use the reverse formula."
"You said that our students can use it, but Deep Mark <Drum> is a magic that uses fire dew as a catalyst, right? If you were to improve it to not use fire dew, wouldn't you need an enormous amount of magic power, just like Anos?"
"Kakaka, of course, it's not as effective as when you use fire dew. Deep Mark <Drum> needed fire dew because it was used for attribute conversion, in addition to its role of magic power amplification."
[...]
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A formula that views the depth of magic as an ocean and dives magic into it. Therefore, shallow magic becomes deeper."
[...]
What about Deep Attack <Zels>?"
"Only the Dark Lord was able to master that one.
It is similar to diving magic, but instead of magic, it causes strikes and sword attacks to reach deeper. Its usage is similar to Armament Strengthening <Adesin>, but he said it would consume a large amount of magic power. Would you like to hear the opinions of the Demon King's right hand man and the hero?"
It is literally basic verse knowledge that the deeper a world goes, the stronger it becomes. It is stated multiple times that the strength of order (laws and concepts) increases the deeper a world goes. The overall power of a world and its inhabitants also increases the deeper a world goes, and we are directly told that shallow world-destroying magic cannot destroy an ordinary object in a deeper world. It is again directly stated that the "power of everything" is greater in a deeper world, and "everything" is later explained to mean "Strength, speed, toughness,
magic power,
everything.", i.e. it literally means everything.
It is also explained that magic power and order flow from shallow to deep, and by applying just a little bit of basic maths to the given explanation, we can come to the conclusion that the overall power as well as the strength of laws and concepts in deeper worlds are at least innumerably greater than that of shallower worlds above it. Sure, innumerable is just an unquantifiable amount, but we are shown plenty examples in the story where this unquantifiable difference essentially means that deeper world inhabitants can withstand and resist shallower world attacks and magic.
Balzarondo's explanation is evidence that deeper world inhabitants can withstand shallower world attacks, and the
Anos vs Yzak fight is evidence that deeper world inhabitants can resist shallower world magic. Anos had to deepen Bebesd, which is a purely conceptual attack (i.e. not related to AP in any way), because it couldn't destroy Yzak's source (concept) and was useless against Yzak's power, which is conceptual in nature because it's related to Yzak's order, before it was deepened. Bebesd could easily destroy shallower world inhabitants' source and conceptual powers, but couldn't do the same in a deeper world until it was deepened.
We are even told that the only way shallower world inhabitants can defeat deeper world inhabitants is for them to acquire magic from a world one or more layers deeper than the relevant deeper world, so it is made clear that any shallower world magic is useless against deeper world inhabitants, and that magic from only one layer deeper than the relevant deeper world can make shallower world inhabitants stand a chance against deeper world inhabitants.
If this was seriously a higher scaled hax ability then the deeper worlds should affect the shallower ones by this logic, but it doesn't, it just mentions that only the magics on the specific worlds only work on their respective worlds unless the reverse formula's done. Also doesn't help that with Qliphoth's translation in the blog mentioning it being more AP focused than hax focused (though that can also just be another "it only works on that world" schtick) and the fact having stronger magic means your stats are better and your magic is more varied it doesn't really back up the layered hax argument.
This is also completely misinterpreting and nit-picking a statement.
Deeper world magic can very easily affect shallower worlds, and Anos' Egil Grone Angdroa is a very good example of this, but they cannot always function when used inside shallower worlds because some, not all, deeper world magic requires more "complex" (mixed) order and magic laws to function, therefore they can definitely still affect a shallower world, but if the deeper world magic requires deeper world order, then it cannot function when used inside a shallower world that lacks the deeper world order. This is in no way some kind of counter argument to the layered hax argument.
This just says they can cast more spells with the higher magic power they have, not that the potency of their magic gets stronger.
You are once again nit-picking an explanation.
The amount of magic power an individual has not only determines the amount of spells they are capable of casting, but also determines their overall power, like strength (attack potency), toughness (durability), and rarely even their speed.
Any knowledgeable verse member will tell you that if character A and character B are fighting, and A wants to overpower B, either physically or magically (hax), that A would just infuse more magic power into either their body or magic.
In any case, not all of Anos powers are supposed to be layered, especially not 99 layers. To keep things simple, the only things that should be considered to have 99 layers are probably his magic eyes (and Venuzdonoa ofc), and even then probably only the existence erasure, power nullification, logic manip, law manip, and concept manip would be layered.
