Within the World Sea, a tower floated silently. In the control room on its upper floors, someone sat before a screen, quietly reviewing the progress of each world.
"So Paradise's people are still the fastest? In the world with the highest difficulty cap, they were the quickest to conquer their native world."
The man in white sat there and sighed. "The Spaces really have become much gentler over the years."
"My lord, this sort of competition can't prove the overall strength of the Spaces. When it comes to ninth-tier Explorers, the Spaces still have more."
The maid beside him spoke, her eyes also fixed on the contestants from each Space displayed on the screen.
It was called a competition, but the contestants did not interfere with one another. As the Paradise contestant had said, the stage that had the greatest impact on such a competition was actually the initial world-selection phase.
If one chose a world that could potentially yield a high score, then as long as one was capable enough, one could obtain a score that crushed all competitors during the final settlement.
But if one chose a world close to one's own strength, then even if one conquered it faster than anyone else, one might not score many points.
Just like the world the man in white was watching right now. Inside was a large Adventure Group from Ancient Wilderness Space. Their conquest was very fast because the world they had chosen had the lowest difficulty to begin with. On top of that, they had many people and a group-based conquest process.
Thus, less than two months after entering that world, they had already conquered it.
Because the flow of time differed from world to world, the competition used the time experienced by the contestants as its reference,