Those who ranked among the top hundred in the trial could have their names inscribed on the Golden List and receive the world's gift.
As for what standards the Golden List used to rank them...
The number of enemies killed, killing efficiency, number of troops lost, whether the territory was damaged, and so on could all affect the ranking.
The most important factor was undoubtedly the number of kills.
Naturally, higher-level and higher-grade monsters had higher "kill scores." The specific weighting of these factors was impossible to know, but this was, after all, the Trial Golden List formed by the rules of the Eternal World. It possessed absolute fairness.
The strong rose to the top, and the weak fell to the bottom.
Of course, during the trial, players killed monsters "passively." A powerful new lord's territory might be able to kill a monster tide more quickly and easily, but the number of enemies killed still depended solely on the scale of the siege wave.
If there were too few monsters, even a powerful territory would have no rice to cook.
However, this awkward situation would almost never occur.
The stronger a new lord's troops were, and the more complete and advanced the territory's construction, the wider the area they could explore and sweep. Their own presence would also become increasingly intense. It was like a torch in the night. Some burned with only a tiny flame and attracted little attention, while others were like the torch of dawn, scattering the darkness and drawing countless demons and monsters to pounce on them and extinguish the glaring, dazzling flame.
The struggle for the Trial Golden List had begun from the very start.
Powerful new territories would shoulder greater responsibility and withstand more violent monster-tide attacks, but they were also more qualified to