Frankly speaking, after learning more about the situation, Bai Zhi increasingly understood why people said that Players below level 25 had not truly left the Newbie Village.
Level 25 was not only a crucial point for building a Player's Core Talent, but also when the class system became available.
A Player's self-constructed Core Talent, combined with Class Traits and related modifiers suited to that talent—the difference in strength between Players above level 25 and those below it was simply worlds apart.
During this Large-scale Campaign Quest, the Otherworld Players had all been restricted from using their Core Talents. In other words, Talents and related Class Traits could not be used on them; that was a rule set by their world as the host.
But just how strong were those Otherworld Players once their Core Talents were released in the Final Instance?
In fact, one could see a thing or two merely from the final Contribution Points ranking in the Final Instance.
If Bai Zhi's staggering 100 million Contribution Points had not been so overwhelmingly ahead of everyone else, drawing most people's attention, they would have noticed that eight of the top ten spots on the final Contribution Points ranking were occupied by Otherworld Players.
—Those Otherworld Players' Contribution Points far exceeded theirs.
It could also be said that if Bai Zhi had not received 2,000 Points in world rewards due to his 100 million Contribution Points, there was a high chance that the top spot on the final Points Ranking would have been taken by an Otherworld Player.
For example, the top three on this Points Ranking were Bai Zhi in first place, Cloudfall Illusion in second, and Two Lives Cycle in third.
But from that perspective, the final system reward Points were rather open to question... Bai Zhi suspected