Celestia said with a smirk, "That's the fruit of a Stage IV Civilization."

"What do you mean it's the fruit of a Stage IV Civilization..."

When a civilization awakens its intelligence and starts to blossom, it would be considered a Stage I Civilization. Actually, I didn't know clearly the standards for the different stages of civilizations. Some say that the standards were set at the discovery of fire, but in actual fact, there were also some who say that the fundamental criterion was the use of planetary energy. However, it wasn't a confirmed hypothesis.

Anyway, when such advanced intellectuals had set up an information system and network that covered most or the entire planet, they would be considered a Stage II Civilization. In Earth's terms, it would be equivalent to the discovery of the internet and radio waves.

Following that, they would be able to advance to Stage III Civilization when they managed to leave their planet and succeed in interstellar and intergalaxy travels. In the case of my hometown, Earth-34, we only barely managed to reach the moon, so we had yet to advance to Stage III Civilization. We were basically around the peak of Stage II Civilization.

And Stage IV Civilization was...

"Oh, for your information, our Leonhardt Empire is still at Stage III Civilization."

"Hmm? Then wouldn't it be better to take this and research...