Chapter Twelve Rankings
Yesterday when he logged off, Zhang Yang's level was at least top ten among all Chinese players. But after a night of intense leveling by other players who took advantage of the fewer people online in the middle of the night to level up, Zhang Yang arrived at Warrior's House from the teleportation array and saw no less than twenty level 10 players along the way!
After entering the main city, there is also an additional content on the game interface: rankings.
There are many contents in the rankings, such as character level rankings, glorious achievement rankings, death mode copy first pass rankings, death mode copy clearance speed rankings and so on.
This list is based on regions.
"Miracle" divides the global players into eight major regions: China, Japan and South Korea, India, Europe, Africa, South America, North America, and Australia. Among them, the Australian region also includes many Asian countries, such as Indonesia and Singapore.
Each of the eight major regions has its own server, with a separate ranking list. The servers of these eight major regions also share data, making cross-regional warfare possible and allowing the entire game to be in a unified environment.
Currently, most of the rankings are empty, and the relatively popular rankings are probably only the Character Level Rankings and the Brilliant Achievements Rankings.
[Glory Achievement List] (China Region)
1. Player (name hidden) achieved the first kill of outdoor 15-level Black Iron boss "Black Panther King" (August 23, 9287 Continental Calendar).
2. Player (name hidden) was the first to complete the hidden task and achieved a "Perfect" rating (August 23, 9287, Continental Calendar).
Zhang Yang took a look at the Character Level Ranking List again, wondering what level the current leveling experts had reached!
Character Level Ranking Chart (China Region)
1. Powerful Cleric, Ogre Magi, Frost Mage, Level 11
2. Humble gentleman, human, frost mage, level 11
3. Hunter of Beauty, Gigamoth, Shooter, Level 11
4. Slender waist, agile, Flame Mage, level 10
5. Overlord Chicken, Beastman, Berserker, Level 10
6. Blazing Fireball, Human, Flame Mage, Level 10
7. Frosty Night, Elf, Assassinate Thief, Level 10
8. Wu Tian, Dwarf, Shield Warrior, Level 10
9. No face-punching, dwarf, guardian knight, level 10
King of Assassins, Beastman, Battle Thief, Level 10
Mages are indeed the leveling kings in traditional games, with four of them ranking among the top ten! Of course, choosing a profession at the beginning of the game is not the key point, what matters most is online time or having strong backing support! For example, all members of a guild work together to beat down monsters to low health and then leave the final blow to a designated person.
According to the settings of "Miracle", the player who deals the final blow to a monster will get 50% of the experience value in non-team mode. Therefore, if a guild is willing to sacrifice the interests of some players, it can easily pile up one or a few people's levels, and rich people can also spend money to ask others to do so.
For a guild, being able to cultivate a high-level representative character into the rankings also has a great benefit for enhancing the guild's image, with an excellent publicity effect!
Zhang Yang let out a sigh, his level was a bit low! However, he didn't necessarily need to climb to the top of the character ranking list, as long as he didn't fall behind, what's important was the progress of the Death Mode dungeon!
In "Miracle", the most important indicator for measuring a guild's strength is its instance progress! After all, there are only so many wild BOSSes, and their refresh times can be as long as several days or even a month. The competition is fierce and the resources are scarce, making the equipment dropped not enough to go around!
But the copy is different, as long as you have the strength, everyone has the opportunity to push BOSS and get top-notch equipment! Joining a guild with fast progress in the copy means that the chance of getting good equipment is greatly increased. For most players, it's natural to know how to choose.
Zhang Yang's plan was: First, use his control over the game's future trends to hoard and sell raw materials for a huge profit! Second, strive to be the first to clear most of the副本 (instance) death modes, make a name for himself, and then form an ultra-guild. Third, find powerful teammates, establish his own team, dominate the S-level professional league, and achieve his dream from his past life!
For now, he doesn't have much capital, so naturally he can't hoard raw materials to be a profiteer. Therefore, his attention is focused on the secondary copy - the Death Mode of Banga Cave.
Bangan Hole is the first instance in the game, with a level span of 10-15 levels, and allows up to 10 people to enter. In "Divine Sign", all instances have three modes: normal, difficult, and death.
Normal mode is quite simple, and clearing it a few times will get you through the game. Of course, the equipment dropped isn't great, about one tier lower than hard mode, but it allows casual players to experience the thrill of battling BOSSes, making it the main choice for relaxed players.
The hard mode is indeed very difficult. Even if the team members are familiar with each other and have a good understanding, they will still struggle to pass the level when exploring for the first time. Forming an impromptu team to play hard mode is equivalent to asking for trouble.
Death mode is even more cruel, and a slight mistake can make the whole team collapse immediately, but the reward is high. Not only does it drop the best equipment, but also has hidden BOSS exclusive to death mode, dropping various commercial skill diagrams!
These three modes are not related, and you don't need to clear the normal mode to enter the difficult mode, or clear the difficult mode to enter the death mode. As long as you complete the pre-task of entering the instance, all three modes can be freely chosen.
The first team to clear the Death Mode instance will be ranked on the Death Mode First Clear Ranking, and the server will also send a world announcement. It's extremely prestigious, whether for individuals or guilds, it's a huge promotion and honor.
After that, the death mode clearance speed competition will start, and the record breaker will be on the death mode copy speed list. The server will also send a global announcement. However, the speed list stipulates that if there are players in the clearance team whose level exceeds the upper limit of the instance level, then the score will not be counted. Otherwise, what's the point of having a few 100-level players breaking the record of a 10-level instance?
The first pass and speed of Death Mode will be the focus of competition for all guilds in the future, extremely important!
Zhang Yang has set his sights on the hidden BOSS, Mo'Mor Mo, in the Bangadeer Cave Death Mode. This BOSS has a chance to drop a blueprint for a shield that is of Bronze quality and is considered the best shield for all Shield Warriors and Guardian Knights before level 20.
He wants to make his first bucket of gold with this drawing, and then the money will breed more money, rolling like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger!
Zhang Yang found a female NPC with the title "Aini, Warrior Mentor" on her head in the Warriors' Home. She had golden hair and green eyes, a large chest and buttocks, wearing a suit of shining golden armor that was designed to be extremely sexy, barely covering her high-pitched chest and the base of her thighs, revealing a large area of snow-white skin, looking extremely seductive.
Even if they know this sexy babe is just a virtual character, there are still many male warrior players staring at this NPC with drooling expressions!
Zhang Yang also found the beauty in front of him more pleasing to the eye than Farlian, this middle-aged uncle with a sharp tongue. He opened up his conversation with the NPC and learned the level 10 Shield Warrior skills "Shield Defense" and "Taunt".
【Shield Defense (Passive)】: Strengthen defense with a shield, reducing all damage taken by 20%. In combat state, gain an additional 1 point of rage per second and increase the hatred value of all attacks by 20%. Requires: Shield.
Taunt: Taunts the target, forcing it to attack you for 2 seconds. Cooldown: 10 seconds.
Thinking of the main task in the task log, Zhang Yang decided to hand it over first and see what the next step would be. He found an NPC guard and asked him where the great wizard Anthony Phelan was, then came all the way to the Mage Tower in the city center.
"Warrior, you don't belong here!" Two NPCs wearing mage robes blocked Zhang Yang's path.
Zhang Yang said: "I have an urgent matter to report to Lord Anthony Filen!"
"Is that so?" The two NPCs hesitated for a moment, and one of them said, "Alright then, Lord Phiren is on the highest floor of the Mage Tower!"
If there wasn't that main quest on his body, these two NPCs shouldn't have let him pass, right? Zhang Yang thought to himself as he entered the Mage Tower, climbing up the stairs to the highest floor - the ninth floor.
An old man with a white beard hanging straight down to his chest was intently staring at a crystal ball, his back facing Yang, his body slightly hunched over. Before Yang could even open his mouth, he said: "Young man, I already know the purpose of your visit!"
【Great Magician Anthony Phelan】 (God-level Leader)
Rank: ???
Health Points: ???
In "Miracle", each main city has a divine leader, and this white-bearded old man is the strongest in White Jade City. In his previous life, Zhang Yang had personally witnessed this old man single-handedly wiping out millions of demonic monsters with one forbidden move during the demon's siege on the city, truly awe-inspiring!
Unfortunately, this powerful wizard was assassinated by the demon's assassin in the plot battle. And for a god-level BOSS like him, once he dies, he will never refresh again!
"Lord Fiel, what should we do now?" Zhang Yang replied casually, after all, the plot had to be developed, and subsequent tasks had to be received.
"Alas——" Fillion sighed, turning around, his face filled with sadness and sympathy. "Corinna was once a great hero, but... the people she swore to protect betrayed her, her soul has been suffering from the torment of betrayal, I can feel it!"
He paused for a moment and said: "Perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope to free her soul!"
Zhang Yang's eyes lit up, as long as it wasn't a kill quest for Corina, this main storyline task would be much easier to complete!
"Young one, I need you to gather three items for me. Once they are collected, I can create a magical artifact that will lift the dark influence of the Demon King from Korina and restore her soul!" Phiren said in a low tone, "This task is extremely perilous, are you willing to take on this responsibility?"
Is there still a choice? Zhang Yang immediately nodded and said: "Sir, I am willing!"
"Ding! You have accepted the task: Gather materials for crafting equipment! This is a main storyline task, and upon completion of the final task, you will receive a huge reward!"
Materials for Crafting Firearms (Task Difficulty: S-Class)
Task Description: Philen needs you to collect three materials to create a powerful artifact, dispel the dark influence on Corinna! The three materials are Black Dragon's Heart, Unicorn's Horn and Undead Tribe's Immortal Scripture.
Completion degree: Collecting Black Dragon's Heart 0/1, Unicorn God Beast's Horn 0/1, Undead Holy Scripture 0/1
Why bother, might as well go straight to promoting Colina! Zhang Yang couldn't help but loudly despise the three task items that needed to be collected.
