"If you stay among the top three for a whole month, you'll get a reward from the National Awakened Federation. I don't know what the reward is, though, since they keep changing it every month," August explained.
"That's a thing? Did you bring that in this month?" Daniel asked, sounding intrigued.
"This system already existed and has been active in more developed cities for a long ti. Luckily, three weeks ago we managed to implent it here too. What do you think? Want to give it a shot?"
"Of course, why not," Daniel said without hesitation. He wanted to test his current limits by fighting Zargort and Nariok.
But if a system like this existed, there was no harm in trying it—especially if there was a reward involved.
"Alright, then let's go," August said with a smile and started walking ahead.
His goal in introducing this program was to raise the city's reputation. He had no doubt Daniel could easily beco one of the top three.
After all, this program had nothing to do with ranking. Everything was based on raw power and talent. Opponents were generated according to each participant's strength.
It didn't take long for them to arrive at another building. Daniel noticed it was extrely crowded—strangely crowded, even.
"So crowded..."
"Yeah, well, most of them are here to get their nas into the rankings," August nodded.
Daniel looked at the long line. Clearly, you had to register first to get in—but luckily, he didn't have to deal with that.
As soon as he entered with the president of the Awakened Association, they walked over to the registration desk. The person at the desk, seeing the president had personally brought an Awakened, imdiately gave them the next slot, ignoring the others waiting.
Everyone noticed and threw Daniel dirty looks.
"What a lucky bastard. We all have to wait forever, but he just knows soone powerful and walks right in," so people in the crowd muttered.
"Wait a second… him? Isn't that the guy who cleared the Colosseum Dungeon?"
"Now that you ntion it, he does look exactly like him!"
"Damn, I'm seeing the genius who pulled off sothing even the capital's best couldn't do!"
As people recognized him, chatter quickly spread through the crowd. But Daniel and August ignored it and passed through the gate.
As they stepped through the threshold, they entered a large hall. Below them were five glass rooms, and above was a massive monitor displaying the nas of the top 200 across the country.
"You can go in once one of them opens up," August said, glancing at him.
Daniel nodded and turned his attention to the leaderboard. He scanned the nas to see if he recognized anyone.
And he did—not just one, but three familiar nas. The last nas Rhaegar, Everlight, and another, each with an eight-digit score next to them.
Rhaegar was ranked 7th, and Everlight was 9th.
'If I'm not mistaken, she should be Naya's older sister, and the other guy is the oldest son of the Syronblade Guild leader. I saw him here just last month,' Daniel thought as he gave them a brief glance and shifted his focus to rank four.
Rank four was very familiar—Jas, an old acquaintance.
'Didn't expect that bastard to be fourth. Looks like he's way better than I thought,' Daniel mused.
But on second thought, it made sense. After all, Jas managed to join the strongest guild in the country, and apparently they were treating him quite well.
That alone showed how talented he must be to earn that kind of treatnt from the top guild in the nation.
"What's the ranking based on?" Daniel asked, turning to August.
"It's not just based on one thing. It takes into account your average ti to defeat each opponent, the number of opponents you've beaten, and the amount of damage you did to defeat them. All of that gets added together to form the number you see next to the nas," August replied after a short pause.
"I see. So the more damage we do, the better," Daniel muttered.
"Basically. It's set up that way to evaluate your combat power compared to your level. Because when you go in, your first opponent is exactly your level, and they gradually get stronger—depends on how many levels above you you're able to beat."
"Then shouldn't people with higher ranks get more privileges?" Daniel asked with a bit of doubt.
Because if that's how it worked, then a rank A defeating another rank A would get way more damage points than Daniel, even if he defeated soone stronger than himself.
"No, the damage is asured based on the difference between your strength and your opponent's. It doesn't matter that much. Just go in and beat your opponents—the system will handle the scoring," August said with a smile.
The scoring system really could be confusing. Even when he first learned about it, it took him a while to fully understand how it worked. But after reviewing the system's performance, he got the hang of it.
In the anti, to kill ti, he ssaged Joe to check in on him. He was pretty sure Joe had already returned to the capital by now.
But it wouldn't hurt to check in, especially since Joe had sent him a bunch of ssages that Daniel hadn't responded to—mainly because he'd been inside the Celestial Domain.
Luckily, it didn't take long for Joe to reply. His ssage simply said:
"What the hell were you doing for the past month?"
"...."
Daniel wanted to reply, but just then, one of the rooms beca available, and without wasting a second, he stepped in.
"Hope you break the record," August said, eyes fixed on the scoreboard. He couldn't wait to see Daniel's na in the top ten.
He had no doubt a monster like Daniel could easily make it.
"Oh? Hoping soone breaks the record?" A beautiful feminine voice snapped him out of his thoughts.
"What are you doing here?"
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