I feel like this reaction is kind of exaggerated considering she just fought a being capable of:
Reality warping
Omnipresence
Time control
Transmutation
Energy control
Regeneration
Precognition
Etc
just feels a bit fake, but hey it's your story and you can right it however you want
worm had an incredibly wide variety of abilities who's strength varied greatly. But Cradle powers are just as varied. time control is a lot rarer but when it pops up it's very high end. Transmutation doesn't as far as I remember, but precogs are a lot more common; no precogs on Contessa's level that we see, but honestly Contessa was just broken and the ones the do have can see major disasters years in advance. in terms of power….. let me lay it out.
Every acknowledged adult in cradle should be at least low gold (4th advancement) with a few exceptions due to environmental factors and accidents keeping them from advancing.
Even a low gold on a path that is useless to combat could go through a dozen regular humans with bats swords or spears like they aren't even there. Simply because their body is that much better. That's the bare minimum power level and a lot of people hit it before they turn 18.
But that's the low end of the scale lets look at the upper end. Worm had Endbrings Cradle has Dreadgod's. The highest tear attack we see (ignoring conceptual bullshit) is a dreadgod blowing a chunk out of the moon from the planet surface. That's of a scale with or greater than Scions Golden Fuck You beam. The Endbringers don't stack up. Although ziz would probably do the best out of her siblings if she can predict most people from cradle which is very much debatable because she runs on such a different system.
For top tear humans. Worm had the triumvirate, fairy queen, a few others. Depending on the Path? Probably a number of Overlords (8th stage) can fight on that level. Maybe a handful of underlords (7) though ai doubt they could fight on that level for long do to the limits of their energy reserves, and I'd bet on a majority of Archlords (9) cradle probably has a few thousand people in the lord realm at a minimum. Probably a lot more considering even minor kingdom's have at least a half dozen or so and minor city states tend to have one leading them.
Sage's and Heralds are a step up in different ways from the Lord realm and we see them rip holes in space, manipulate time and launch conceptual attacks. I think it came up awhile back but there are in excess of 100 people on that level. Can't remember how many. And of course the Monarchs are just broken.
Monarch verses Endbringer bet on the Monarch wouldn't even be close. Monarch vs Scion...
Word of God is the fight goes to the entity. But that was from earlier in the series before we really found out how tough Monarchs are before the author realized how tough he was making them probably.
If you had a group of Monarchs working together? If you had one with a focus on death or execution and one focused on spacial manipulation working in tandem they MIGHT be able to pull off a lethal strike against his main body but that's iffy because of differing methods science for shards and conceptual bullshit for cradle. Against a smarter entity that's got it's head on straight instead of throwing a planet ending tantrum. I'd say you need a whole team of Monarchs but conceptual bullshit verses sufficiently advanced science bullshit makes that a debate where people point at each other and shout nah uh but can't actually back up there arguments with anything because at that point it's down to what power the author wants to win.
Summary, in cradle everyone had powers, they are almost or just as varied, and the upper end of power a human can wield is much much higher.
