The First Month's Ranking (3) [Seeking Follow-up Reads!]

"Punching force exertion level: 4.2. Congratulations, trainee Ren Ze. Your combat power amplitude is now 4.2."

The electronic voice carried no emotion whatsoever.

Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, fifth layer!

That was right! The fifth layer's 4.2x force exertion!

As early as the day he signed the agreement, Ren Ze had not waited for the first two sets of rewards to be issued so he could get the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade for free. Instead, he had directly spent one billion through Extreme Home to purchase the manual for the first five layers of the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade.

The five billion from his wager agreement with Limit Dojo had already been transferred into Ren Ze's account. Combined with the monster materials he had sold, his account balance had long surpassed ten billion, and his contribution level had also reached three stars.

However, he had been so immersed in training that he could not pull himself away. If he was not practicing his blade techniques, he was hunting monsters. He simply had no idea how to spend it.

After obtaining the fifth-layer manual, Ren Ze had quickly understood the method of exerting force over the past month by breaking down and analyzing the fifth layer's moves. He simply could not yet apply it fluidly in actual combat. But for testing his punching force exertion level, it was perfect.

After all, in a real life-and-death battle, neither monsters nor enemies would wait for him to adjust his stance, build up power, and then take the blow head-on.

"Let's begin. Let's see how many levels I can clear!"

Ren Ze entered the Trial Tower and appeared out of thin air on a vast grassland.

"Trainee Ren Ze, the trial is about to begin. Please prepare yourself."

The electronic voice echoed across the entire grassland.

Ren Ze's expression remained calm as the monster horde appeared.

Over the past month, he had already learned about the trials and passing requirements for every level of the Trial Tower. Each level had three stages, and the difficulty of each stage was not merely an increase in the number of monsters—stronger monsters would also be mixed in.

Once the beast horde had a leader, it was no longer a disorganized rabble. The combat power it could unleash multiplied, and the difficulty of passing increased accordingly.

"Come on!"

Holding the Blood Shadow War Blade, Ren Ze charged straight at the monster horde. The first two levels posed no threat at all. Even though this virtual body was far weaker than his real one and he was not yet accustomed to it, he had no trouble dealing with them.

Third level of the Trial Tower, a wilderness. Of the one-hour time limit, only the final ten minutes remained.

"Third-level A-stage trial. Trainee Ren Ze, your objective is to kill one hundred elementary beast general-level Golden Vultures within thirty minutes. Good luck!"

The moment the electronic voice fell silent, a vast black mass of avian monsters appeared overhead.

Golden Vultures, famed for their savagery among vulture-type monsters—even the weakest Golden Vultures were elementary beast general-level.

Because Ren Ze had not fully adapted to this virtual body, and also lacked experience fighting avian monster hordes, he had wasted a great deal of time on the third level.

This was already his second attempt at the third level. During his first attempt, he had been unable to kill efficiently while dodging, and the trial had ended when time ran out.

"Caw!"

A piercing cry rang out.

The Golden Vultures dove from the sky. The dense flock of avian monsters descended upon Ren Ze like golden clouds, no wonder so many War God instructors had remained stuck on the third level.

The flock instantly engulfed Ren Ze, and the slaughter began!

Although he had failed to clear it before, those brief dozens of minutes of intense dodging and fighting had greatly improved Ren Ze's control over this virtual body. He had finally found the trick to killing avian monsters—the instant the Golden Vulture flock swooped down was both a crisis and an opportunity to kill them!

"Die!"

Each time Ren Ze dodged the Golden Vultures' assault, his figure trailed sheets of blade light behind it. The Golden Vultures swept by the blade light plummeted one after another.

"Time used: 4 minutes 26 seconds. One hundred elementary beast general-level Golden Vultures killed. A-stage passed. Congratulations, trainee Ren Ze."

A crescent-shaped slash swept through the air. As the final Golden Vulture fell from the sky, the synthesized electronic voice echoed across the scorching desert.

After the synthesized electronic voice finished, all the Golden Vulture corpses in the wilderness vanished, and Ren Ze's stamina was fully restored.

"Would you like to begin the third-level B-stage trial?"

"Begin."

Ren Ze answered swiftly. There were only five minutes remaining.

"Third-level B-stage trial. Trainee Ren Ze, your objective is to kill one hundred and ninety elementary beast general-level Golden Vultures and ten intermediate beast general-level Golden Vultures within thirty minutes. Good luck!"

In the final second before the trial time ended, Ren Ze killed the one hundred and ninety elementary beast general-level Golden Vultures. However, the remaining ten intermediate beast general-level Golden Vultures flew faster, and he had run out of time!

"Luckily, I still have one assessment attempt left..."

Having just been kicked out of the virtual space, Ren Ze entered the Trial Tower once more!

Ren Ze's final Trial Tower level was 4.0. He spent ten minutes completing the B-stage, while for the C-stage, he had only managed to find an opening just before the thirty-minute limit and strike with the fifth layer's force exertion from the Nine-Layered Thunder Blade, finally killing the last high-level beast general Golden Vulture!

Having confirmed that he could obtain the "Black God Set," Ren Ze did not choose to continue with the fourth-level trial and exited the virtual space.

Meanwhile, the world outside the Trial Room had gone mad!

At 21:31, when Ren Ze finished testing his force exertion level and received a combat power amplitude rating of 4.2, his name appeared in 66th place.

"OMG!"

"Oh my God."

All the trainees and instructors were dumbfounded.

Yet before they could recover, Ren Ze's ranking changed every three minutes, climbing from 66th place all the way to 19th before temporarily stopping.

From 66th to 19th—wasn't that leap far too outrageous?

For a moment, the nearly hundred trainees gathered there erupted into an uproar. This leap in ranking was simply too unbelievable.

A trainee immediately shouted, "Cheating! This has to be cheating!"

They simply could not believe it. A newcomer making it into the top 100 was already astonishing enough! How could someone possibly enter the top 20 in their very first month?

"It's not cheating. He's in the Trial Room right now!"

"He's in the Trial Room. We watched him go in at 21:30."

It was several trainees who had come from the Nine-Layered Tower speaking up.

At once, the previously noisy group of genius trainees all fell silent. What kind of monster was this?

Since the Elite Training Camp had been established, no one had ever heard of someone reaching the top 20 in their very first month after joining!

Just when they thought the rankings would not change again, the list shifted once more a few minutes later. Ren Ze's name appeared in eighth place.

"My god!"

"He's still challenging the Trial Tower!"

Everyone, whether trainees or instructors, stared blankly at the ranking list on the Black Dragon statue.

No matter what, Ren Ze looked as though he was about to create a miracle this time. Everyone waited to see what the final result would be.

When the time reached 22:45, Ren Ze cleared the third floor's B-rank stage with a Trial Tower score of 3.6, and his ranking had astonishingly risen to second place.

At that moment, over a hundred people stood in utter silence before the enormous Black Dragon statue.

Not a single person left. Some trainees even called over more companions to wait for the final result together.

Another thirty minutes passed. At 23:15, everyone silently watched as the ranking list changed once again.

This time, only the top two rankings changed. The original first-place holder had been pushed down to second.

And in first place stood, unmistakably, "No.1 Ren Ze (561001)"

It all seemed to make everyone wonder whether they had witnessed a miracle.

There were still forty-five minutes left until the final deadline at midnight.

The possibility of the rankings changing again was practically nonexistent.

In other words, Ren Ze taking first place on the Black Dragon Ranking List for October had become a fact.

Inside that residential building three kilometers away.

"What am I seeing? Is he God?"

The European man's eyes widened as he stared at the rankings displayed on the screen on the wall.

At that moment, intelligence agents from organizations, family conglomerates, and even mercenary groups from all over Hongning Base City—

The instant they saw the final refreshed rankings of the Elite Training Camp's Black Dragon Ranking List, every person in charge frantically contacted their headquarters!

A newcomer ranking in the top 100 during their first month was already a super genius.

But now, a newcomer had charged all the way to first place in their very first month. This could no longer be described with the word genius.

On the night of October 28, 2056, the nineteen-year-old Chinese youth had thrown the highest circles of the entire world into complete upheaval!

When the clock hand passed twelve, it became October 29.

The points ranking list that had drawn the attention of nearly every organization and power in the world's five great nations finally stopped changing.

No.1 Ren Ze (561001)

No.2 Renatus Bridge (530321)

No.3 Zhu Qiang (540601)