Earning Points and Leveling Up to LV2!

"Director Ding, what are your instructions?" Zhao Jianyu asked, recovering her composure.

Ding Chang let out a long breath and spoke somewhat impatiently.

"Jianyu, contact Lin Ye immediately.

"Try to persuade him one more time and see if he's willing to join our First Research Institute. Remember... this time, it's only a request. Don't try to pressure him in any way.

"As things stand, our institute is the one asking him for help, while we can't offer him any substantial help in return..."

Ding Chang was being very realistic.

There was no concept of nations on Azure Star, so naturally there were no authorities in the true sense, either. Everyone actually lived under the Firmament's administration.

In other words, apart from their advantage in dungeon technology, so-called organizations like the First Research Institute could offer ordinary people very few "privileges."

And Lin Ye's dungeon technology could be said to be far beyond that of the entire institute. In comparison, it was understandable that Lin Ye had no interest in joining.

"Also, the most important thing is that we absolutely must make sure Lin Ye stays in our settlement.

"We must not let people from other races poach him!"

Ding Chang was growing agitated, and his tone turned serious.

"Jianyu, I think you should understand perfectly well that Lin Ye has aircraft carrier technology. The whole world will inevitably fight over him.

"In the future of Azure Star, whoever gains Lin Ye gains the world!"

"If we let Lin Ye go to another settlement, it would be like sending our compatriots to their deaths."

What Ding Chang feared most now was that Lin Ye would be poached by another race.

On Azure Star, wars were forbidden, and so was any act of personal violence.

Anyone who deliberately harmed another person would be directly punished by the Firmament.

So Ding Chang was not worried about anyone secretly harming Lin Ye.

But the Firmament strongly supported individuals moving between settlements, calling it a way to promote the exchange of dungeon design experience.

Ding Chang feared that when people of other races saw Lin Ye's dungeon design talent and the top-tier technology he possessed, they would start scheming to poach him.

Such things had happened countless times!

Many geniuses among the Great Xia people had been poached this way before, leaving the Great Xia settlement to live in other settlements.

After all, faced with the temptation of a vast number of points, people could hardly be expected not to be tempted.

Zhao Jianyu nodded and immediately went to carry out her task.

She knew full well that, at this very moment, countless races must be trying to win Lin Ye over.

Nearby settlements, such as those of the A San and Goryeo people, had even sent lobbyists to compete for Lin Ye.

There was no time to lose. She could not afford to waste a moment.

No sooner had she stepped out of the institute than she called Lin Ye.

At that moment, Lin Ye had not brought his phone with him at all.

He was jogging around his residential complex, enjoying the feeling of dopamine being released.

Suddenly, Lin Ye noticed that the Firmament Text in the sky seemed to have changed.

Above the Dome, a daily dungeon leaderboard was displayed around the clock, refreshing at midnight every day.

This list was also called the "Heavenly Ranking." It was a dungeon leaderboard in the truest sense.

The Heavenly Ranking ranked dungeons according to how they were cleared each day.

The list disregarded the Firmament's difficulty ratings and looked only at actual results, so the rankings fluctuated constantly.

Lin Ye looked up and saw that his dungeon, [Raging Waves], had leaped past [Blood-Stained Marne River]!

It had become the undisputed leader of the Heavenly Ranking! At that moment, it stood out brilliantly Above the Dome.

At the same time, a notification from the Firmament sounded in his ear.

[Esteemed dungeon designer, the first run of your dungeon, Raging Waves, has ended!]

[No one cleared the first run of Raging Waves. Your dungeon design has earned the Firmament's recognition. You have earned a total of 14,600 points this time!]

The detailed statistics provided by the Firmament began to appear before Lin Ye's eyes.

In the Raging Waves dungeon, 3,000 people had chosen to surrender and submit, losing 20 points each. A total of 7,000 people had chosen to raid Pearl Harbor and were ultimately wiped out by the Nation-Destroying Fleet, with 200 points deducted from each person.

The dungeon had earned a total of 1,460,000 points this time, and the Firmament returned one percent to the dungeon designer.

So Lin Ye received a reward of 14,600 points in total!

Seeing this, Lin Ye could not help complaining about how shameless the Firmament was.

If a dungeon he designed was cleared, a tenth would be deducted from the designer's points, but if it went uncleared, the designer would receive only one percent in return.

This clearly greatly increased the risk of a dungeon designer being wiped out.

And in the end, the Firmament earned the lion's share of those points.

But his annoyance lasted only a moment before Lin Ye laughed it off.

He had only recently transmigrated to this world, so he would certainly still have to follow the Firmament's rules.

What made him happy, moreover, was that 14,600 points were enough to upgrade him from LV1 to Level 2, since the upgrade required only 10,000 points.

Sure enough, the Firmament immediately issued a notification.

[Brave challenger, since your points have reached the required amount, your level has been upgraded to Level 2! We will announce this good news to the entire world.]

[You have unlocked dungeon carry privileges. You can now bring the various weapons from your own dungeon into other dungeons!]

This privilege was crucial to Lin Ye.

Lin Ye now had Exemption Authority, which spared him from being pulled into other dungeons, but the protection lasted only thirty days.

Now that he had the dungeon carry privilege, he was truly on secure footing.

That was because Lin Ye did not believe the military forces in any dungeon in this world could withstand Raging Waves.

During the thirty-day protection period, however, Lin Ye would certainly still have to devote all his energy to dungeon design. He would use those golden thirty days to harvest points in large quantities, then build his own "Five Permanent Members Empire" step by step.

After his jog, Lin Ye returned to his residential complex. As he approached the building where he rented a room, he saw that the area downstairs was already packed with people in all kinds of attire.

There were A San people wearing headscarves, Goryeo people with oppa perms, and Great He Clan members dressed in kimonos...

Lin Ye instinctively retreated to the entrance of the complex, because he knew they had all come for him.

Just then, the roar of a car engine suddenly sounded behind Lin Ye.

Lin Ye turned and saw a woman in sunglasses waving at him.

"Mr. Lin, get in the car, quick!"

Though she was wearing sunglasses, Lin Ye recognized her at once as Zhao Jianyu when he saw the scar on her forehead.