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Chapter 1 Seiya is currently rated as Island level because he created a crater. Due to in-universe mechanics, we assume the feat was atomization-based, since it was stated that the Saints targeted and shattered the atoms of the objects that they wanted to destroy.
However, there are several things to consider here:
1. In the exact same scene where atomic shattering is mentioned for the first time, Marin picks up a nearby rock to demonstrate the ability and we can clearly see that she does not even come close to atomizing it. She partially disintegrates it, leading to debris flying everywhere, which instantaneously invalidates the idea that she literally destroyed it on an atomic level.
It can be argued that she simply weakened its atoms via hax, in such a way as to make it collapse, or something similar to that, but certainly not that she destroyed it on the atomic level. I am not denying that they do show the ability later on in the series, but not by Chapter 1.
2. We can clearly see during the aftermath of the crater that Seiya creates that there was no atomization going on, since there's a metric ton of debris inside and all around the crater. This other instance showing anothercrater in the process of being created is often used to support the idea that there is no debris, but one can clearly see that there is plenty of rock being ejected out of the crater and flying upwards in the same panel, before crashing back into the ground by the time the full crater is created. So the idea that he atomized the entire volume of either of these craters or even a significant portion of them is not supported in the work itself.
I suggest we revise that crater to pulverization, or something similar, while still giving Chapter 1 Seiya durability negation via Cosmos, which, in my view, is fair enough of a compromise.
However, there are several things to consider here:
1. In the exact same scene where atomic shattering is mentioned for the first time, Marin picks up a nearby rock to demonstrate the ability and we can clearly see that she does not even come close to atomizing it. She partially disintegrates it, leading to debris flying everywhere, which instantaneously invalidates the idea that she literally destroyed it on an atomic level.
It can be argued that she simply weakened its atoms via hax, in such a way as to make it collapse, or something similar to that, but certainly not that she destroyed it on the atomic level. I am not denying that they do show the ability later on in the series, but not by Chapter 1.
2. We can clearly see during the aftermath of the crater that Seiya creates that there was no atomization going on, since there's a metric ton of debris inside and all around the crater. This other instance showing anothercrater in the process of being created is often used to support the idea that there is no debris, but one can clearly see that there is plenty of rock being ejected out of the crater and flying upwards in the same panel, before crashing back into the ground by the time the full crater is created. So the idea that he atomized the entire volume of either of these craters or even a significant portion of them is not supported in the work itself.
I suggest we revise that crater to pulverization, or something similar, while still giving Chapter 1 Seiya durability negation via Cosmos, which, in my view, is fair enough of a compromise.
