As long as he kept winning, the higher he climbed, the faster his rank would rise.
The gaps between ranks were smaller near the top. The final two tiers, Kings and Sovereigns, held only a hundred people combined.
A King might win three straight matches and become a Sovereign, then lose one and drop right back. Rankings fluctuated wildly.
It had taken Lin Li two months to climb from nothing to Baron, but only five days to reach Viscount.
For placing somewhere in the nine hundred thousands, Lin Li received a Floating Continent from the Star Alliance.
It was the same inverted-pyramid design as Huoling City, with sides a thousand kilometers long and a million square kilometers of buildable space on top.
Though far smaller than Huoling City, it was enormous for a reward given to anyone who reached Viscount.
The top million were all Viscounts. Every hundred thousand places climbed entitled him to a larger Floating Continent, with each side another thousand kilometers longer.
Its built-in systems, materials, energy shields, environmental systems, engines, and base-mounted weapons would all be upgraded accordingly.
That was where Huoling City and the Nomu Civilization's other Floating Continents had come from.
They were prizes won through the desperate efforts of countless pioneers over the years, gradually developing into Floating Cities that each housed billions.
"Lin Li can be a city lord now! Ha! We have the rights to all kinds of servant species—the Little Grey, High Grey Men, Obsidian Race—and modified beasts like Kujy, Terror Apes, Leviathans, and Flying Mica. We'll bring them all in!" Wally laughed.
Adams sighed. "More than a city lord. Back on Earth, he'd be the ruler of a country. He owns an 'Egypt' now!"
At the control center, Luo Yan inspected the next-generation continent's modules in astonishment. "Fully intelligent