Chapter 17: Rankings

Now, The Second World had already become the center of humanity, a new battlefield. Unfortunately, the organization behind Huang Yi was severely damaged, and as the number one person in the organization, he must shoulder the burden at this critical moment. With his current strength, he was obviously of no help; in fact, he would be a drag.

"[System Announcement]: United States player [Pope]has taken the lead in establishing the Guild [Heaven], rewarded with 1000 Public Prestige points and receiving the [Unique Achievement]—[The First Guild], United States National Honor Points +1."

The first guild was established!

This announcement was tinged with an undercurrent of tension. Huang Yi had only been in The Second World for a few days, but announcements were being issued one after another. First, Chinese player Dao Feng completed his first Job Change, and now United States player Pope had created the first guild, filled with a sense of rivalry.

A sense of urgency rose in Huang Yi's heart; he must accelerate his level grinding. Only then could he secure a foothold in the rapidly changing Second World and lead the organization to grow and strengthen.

He opened the system leaderboard to take a look, which was the most direct method to understand the current situation.

The first thing that caught his eye was the China Region level leaderboard:

1st Place: Dao Feng (Level 55)

2nd Place: Dragon Spike (Level 55)

3rd Place: Unbeaten (Level 53)

4th Place: Nonexistence (Level 53)

5th Place: Dragon Dominates the World (Level 53)

6th Place: Ice Wind Water Soul (Level 53)

7th Place: West Undying (Level 53)

8th Place: Eternal Road (Level 53)

9th Place: Void to Nonexistence (Level 53)

10th Place: Thunder God (Level 53)

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Dazzlingly, Dao Feng was in first place, the first player in the world to complete a First Transformation and now also the top of the level leaderboard for the China Region, a true master among masters.

The second-place Dragon Spike was no simple character either. He was the only player closely following Dao Feng's level. After him, the leaderboard was uniformly filled with Level 53 players, clearly not in the same class as these two.

As Huang Yi continued to read, he briefly glanced over the succeeding ranks. Suddenly, he twitched at the sight of a familiar name—

103rd Place: Qin Shiyu (Level 52)

Qin Shiyu, that was name number 9 in The Second World, and the very reason Huang Yi was rushing to Dragon City was to find her.

The image of number 9, beautiful and stubborn, surfaced in Huang Yi's mind. They had grown up together like peas in a pod, and Huang Yi knew her well. She had always been a girl who hated to admit defeat. It was not surprising that she ranked so highly.

After reviewing the level leaderboard, Huang Yi looked at the other leaderboards. The rankings included a wide variety, covering every aspect, such as equipment rankings, prestige rankings, achievement rankings, weapon rankings, guild rankings, warrior rankings, mage rankings, alchemist rankings, tailoring rankings, and so on.

After some time, Huang Yi suddenly saw a leaderboad shining with golden light, standing out like a crane amongst chickens among the many leaderboards, extremely dazzling!

China National Honor Value Contribution Leaderboard—

1st Place: Dao Feng (2 points)

2nd Place: Dragon Spike (1 point)

3rd Place: Dugu Lengcang (1 point)

4th Place: Desire Arises from the Heart (1 point)

5th Place: Second Brother Who Studies Medicine (1 point)

6th Place: Yang Yuheng (1 point)

7th Place: Instakill (1 point)

Huang Yi's name was prominently listed, ranking 7th!

In this leaderboard, above each name, there was a circle of Dragon Qi swirling, shimmering with gold, vastly different from the other leaderboards. And Dao Feng in first place was even more dazzling; he had contributed 2 National Honor Points, with dual dragons circling above his name, shining brilliantly.

This leaderboard was different from the others as it only had a few names, but its significance was the heaviest among all, because it represented the strength of a nation—each National Honor Point could permanently enhance the attributes of that nation's players by 1%.

So far, China had a total of 8 National Honor Points, meaning all Chinese players' attributes had been permanently increased by 8%, an extremely terrifying increment! If there were wars between nations in the future, Chinese players would have an immediate 8% attribute advantage over weaker nations!

But obtaining National Honor Points was harder than Ascension; it required being the first to complete some earth-shattering feat, earning a Unique Achievement.

So far, Huang Yi had only witnessed the acquisition of National Honor Points three times.

The first time was by Dao Feng, as he was the first player to undergo a Job Change, earning 1 National Honor Point.

The second time was by himself; he killed the Level 250 Hydra Death Scales, becoming the first player to kill an NPC more than 200 levels above himself, earning 1 National Honor Point.

The third time was by United States player Pope, who was the first to create a guild, earning 1 National Honor Point.

None of these three feats were simple, and to compete among a player base of ten billion, the difficulty was greater than winning a gold medal at the Olympics!

90% of the countries still did not have even 1 National Honor Point.

It could be said that anyone who managed to gain a National Honor Point would immediately become a hero in their country, beloved by the nation. And someone like Dao Feng, who had obtained two National Honor Points, was even more like a divine figure.

In that period, Huang Yi was a person in the eye of the storm.

Ever since he killed Hydra Death Scales and broke the world record, whether it was on television or online, in newspapers or magazines, everywhere was talking about it. At every corner and during casual conversations, one could hear the name Instakill, with all of China seeking this national hero. Yet nobody knew who Instakill was, where he came from, or even how the Xinhua News Agency's reporters could interview him.

Nobody knew that their hero was in prison.