The Firmament's Hero Ranking!

Inside the Creation Space.

Lin Ye was still concentrating on refining the details of Dragon Country's and Bear Country's territories in Earth Online.

Without realizing it, he had lost track of time.

At that moment, a system notification suddenly sounded in his mind.

[Congratulations, Designer. Your dungeon [Earth Online: Five Permanent Members' Raging Waves] has successfully passed the Firmament's review!]

[Dungeon rating: Purgatory-level!]

[You may now open the dungeon at any time and designate some of the challengers who will enter it!]

It had passed!

Raging Waves had passed the review outright.

Lin Ye let out a long sigh of relief.

What was more, the system had rated the dungeon Purgatory-level!

Dungeons in this world had difficulty ratings. Besides determining whether a dungeon could be released, another major purpose of the Firmament's review was to assign it a difficulty rating.

The Firmament rated a dungeon's difficulty based on criteria such as its capacity, difficulty, technological innovation, and playability.

From easy, normal, and hard to Hell-level, those were the known difficulty levels.

As far as Lin Ye knew, no Purgatory-level dungeon existed in this world. The highest rating of any existing dungeon was only Hell-level.

And Hell-level dungeons were exceedingly rare.

Now, Raging Waves had been rated Purgatory-level outright, breaking this world's record.

In other words, Lin Ye's first dungeon was first-rate in both difficulty and challenger capacity!

As long as a dungeon of this caliber could be released, it meant that the crushing victories to follow were a foregone conclusion!

The raging waves Lin Ye was about to bring to this world were already sweeping in.

[Congratulations, Designer. You have created this world's first Purgatory-level dungeon. The Firmament hereby awards you a 30-day R&D Acceleration Card!]

[R&D acceleration: technological and military research and development in the dungeon will proceed five times faster, greatly shortening dungeon creation time.]

The reward was quite practical. It could speed up construction of Earth Online's map and help Lin Ye complete his other upcoming dungeons faster.

Together with his 30-day exemption from challenges, it gave Lin Ye an excellent golden period for development.

During this month, Lin Ye would complete his Five Permanent Members Empire!

But for now, the more important thing was to designate challengers and fully open Raging Waves.

"Firmament, how many challengers can I designate to enter the dungeon at once?" Lin Ye asked the Firmament directly.

[Dear Dungeon Designer, here is a detailed explanation of the dungeon opening rules.]

[1. Every battlefield dungeon on Azure Star has a cooldown period of 24 hours, meaning each battlefield dungeon can only be opened once per day.]

[2. Each time a dungeon opens, the designer may designate 20% of its capacity as challengers. The remaining challengers are randomly selected by the Firmament!]

[3. After a dungeon opens for the first time, challengers may sign up before its next opening. When it opens again, if the number of volunteers does not meet the opening requirements, the Firmament will make a random selection!]

[4. A Dungeon Designer may make minor adjustments and corrections to dungeon content at any time. Afterward, the Firmament will rate it again.]

The Firmament gave another highly detailed explanation. It was concise and comprehensive, and Lin Ye quickly understood the rules.

Dungeon openings were divided into the first opening and subsequent openings.

For the first opening, participants were entirely designated by the designer or randomly selected by the Firmament.

For subsequent openings, challengers could sign up of their own accord.

This made it possible for organizations and groups to join forces to conquer certain difficult dungeons.

Such group assaults on dungeons were fairly common in this world. To acquire technology from other people's dungeons, some ethnic groups chose to act together.

But... none of that was something Lin Ye needed to worry about.

As long as Raging Waves could be released, there was nothing to fear!

The combat power of Eagle Sauce at its peak against a world still stuck in the S1 era—that was a gulf numbers simply could not bridge.

No matter how many people came afterward, their only fate would be to perish beneath the rolling waves.

What Lin Ye had to do now was designate challengers.

He could freely choose 20% of them. In a dungeon with ten thousand people, he could specifically designate two thousand.

What this choice meant to Lin Ye was that he could keep his compatriots out of his own dungeon.

He had no control over 80% of them, but he could at least ensure that none of the other 20% were his Great Xia compatriots.

In this brutally cruel world where the strong preyed on the weak, that was all Lin Ye could do for his compatriots at his current stage.

"Firmament, I want to designate challengers!"

[Opening the Firmament's challenger list...]

[The Firmament's challenger list is open. Please review it, Designer!]

As soon as the Firmament's notification ended, an enormous screen of light appeared before Lin Ye, shining with dazzling golden light.

It contained a directory of every challenger on Azure Star.

Rather than a list, it was more of a ranking! A roster of this world's top overlords.

Lin Ye took a closer look.

[No. 1: Fulangche; race: Gaul people; level: lv4; Dungeon Works: "Blood-Stained Marne River," "Les Misérables"]

[No. 2: Ivan Tyulenev; race: Gray Bear people; level: lv4; Dungeon Works: "Frozen Ground Highlands"]

[No. 3: Adolf; race: Aryan people; level: lv4; Dungeon Works: "Steel War Chariot"]

The ranking listed each challenger's name, level, race, and representative works.

The highest-ranked member of the Great Xia people was in seventh place.

[No. 7: Long Yuan; race: Great Xia people; level: lv4; Dungeon Works: "Underground Dragon Palace"]

After that, there were no more members of the Great Xia people in the top twenty.

That was normal enough. Azure Star had a far greater variety of races than Earth in his previous life, giving it something of the feel of rival heroes vying for supremacy.

Under such intense competition, it was already quite good for a race to have even one person in the top twenty.

That was because the top twenty challengers were all at least lv4!

Lin Ye himself was only an lv1 challenger. He could not even imagine how many points one needed in reserve to reach lv4.

It was a level Lin Ye could not yet imagine.

But one thing was foreseeable: anyone who reached that level would certainly have more than enough points, and the points deducted for failure in a dungeon would barely sting.

They were all powerful figures who had mastered the art of survival under this world's rules.

Lin Ye quickly searched through the challenger list and soon had a plan for whom to designate.

He would start with the Great He people, who had always prided themselves on naval warfare.