With forty minutes of stay time remaining, Qi Si rose from the high-backed chair, crossed the hall painted with murals of the gods, walked to the temple's bronze doors, and pushed them open.
Since it was not any special day, there were far fewer people in the Ruins of Sunset than last time. This time, he was not teleported to some remote corner, but appeared directly beneath the ranking monument beside the World Tree's trunk.
The three major rankings—[Newcomer Ranking], [Comprehensive Strength Ranking], and [Guild Power Ranking]—stood silently. Qi Si gave the rankings a cursory glance and found that the [Unnamed Guild] he shared with Lin Chen had suddenly shot up by a large margin.
It had risen from its former rock-bottom rank of 2,397th to 217th.
It was not that the Unnamed Guild's strength had improved much in such a short time, but rather that most guilds in the lower ranks existed in name only.
Many guilds had been established during the chaotic period when the game first descended. After thirty-six years of unchecked growth, either everyone had died, leaving behind only a name as proof that they had once existed;
or they had all become business-oriented players who coasted through life, spending their days investing and running side businesses to earn points, without entering a new instance for years.
The craze for creating guilds had already passed. Although many players still chose to join guilds for mutual support, their choices were basically limited to the top-tier guilds, with hardly any players being diverted to guilds ranked below one hundred.
As a result, the Unnamed Guild, which still had two active living members, stood out from the bloated mass of bottom-ranking guilds.
According to research on the forums, the Guild Power Ranking calculated a guild's total number of members,