The Tier 3 secret realm, "Eternal Suppression Abyss," had been completed. Lu PingAn's overall rating was "D."
Looking at that rating, Lu PingAn felt somewhat conflicted.
It was not that he thought it was too low. He had only scraped through the first layer and defeated one challenger, so he suspected the score might have been a little inflated.
Parting words from the Secret Realm Master (Rust Knight virtual personality): Those who commit injustice in the name of justice deserve punishment. I look forward to your future, young man.
Those words made Lu PingAn understand.
The Secret Realm Master—the virtual personality incarnation of that deity—had a personality, so naturally it had its own preferences.
Yet constrained by the rules, they could probably only stretch them slightly during the evaluation phase governed by their "subjective judgment."
"So Sir Knight raised my rating? Combined with the bonus for my first secret realm trial, the reward should be pretty good, right?"
Among the six major categories of talents and supernatural abilities, pure rule-based abilities were the rarest and also the weakest in the early stages.
Unlike other abilities, which provided substantial combat boosts early on and could serve as the foundation for one's own ability combinations, rule-based abilities were the most useful in secret realm exploration.
One major reason rule-based users grew at such astonishing rates was that they could often gain greater rewards and undergo safer trials in secret realms.
But clearly, there was no such thing as love without reason in this world.
"The relationship between flowers and bees?"
Secret realms and their masters could not act. If they wanted to interfere with something or accomplish anything, they needed "bees" capable of acting independently.
Just like the Tier 1 secret realm belonging to the Maiden of the Forest—it had gone with