Because the Dragon Team was ranked directly below them, the gap between them was somewhat smaller than the enormous gulf separating them from first place.
So, the first thing they opened was the Dragon Team's score breakdown.
Dragon Team — Total Score: 25 points: 10 points (chose Normal Mode), 15 points (battle progress score)
After reading the Dragon Team's score breakdown, they could not help exchanging glances, their eyes carrying both relief and surprise.
The reason was simple. One only had to look at their own score breakdown:
Lord of Myriad Games — Total Score: 41 points: 20 points (selected and completed Challenge 1), 20 points (Observer Rating), 1 point (battle progress score)
Judging solely by battle progress, the Dragon Team had utterly crushed them!
But when the Lord of Myriad Games team had excavated the elemental gemstones, they had chosen to participate in Challenge Mode, earning themselves twenty points outright.
Then there were the twenty Observer Rating points they had received for no apparent reason.
Relying on those two inexplicable sources of points, they had shot upward in one leap and reached second place.
Under such circumstances, their relief was understandable.
At the same time.
Babaregon had also seen the Lord of Myriad Games team's score breakdown. When it saw that their strategy progress score was only one point, it fell silent.
Yet when it saw that Challenge Mode came with a base score of twenty points, that silence was no longer a placid stagnation. It was like hearing thunder in utter silence, a deafening roar exploding within its heart.
The Lord of Myriad Games team as a whole felt relieved.
Babaregon, however, felt nothing but... regret!
Bitter, irreparable regret!
Earlier, it had believed that choosing Normal Mode was the wise decision after weighing the