Talk:SYSTEM/@comment-76.22.156.235-20131230102930/@comment-123.211.163.47-20140218124944

The level system is mostly a bunch of abritrary numbers which could easily change from 0-5 to 0-10 or whatever you want. But the point of achieving level 6 isn't to simply give the title to someone, it's to surpass humanity. Put simply, the highest level used to rank espers, be it 5, 10 or 20, represents the highest point for a human. This is why someone with such OP power as Accelerator was "lumped together" with someone like Misaka Mikoto even though the difference between their power was so large, because they're both still human so they're both level 5.

And so a person who has surpassed humanity would be apropriately named a level 6, 11, or 21. It's not a part of the ranking system, it uses the ranking system as a reference point.