Chapter 200: Rank 1 Arena

【You sent back the alliance object; the repatriation cognition rationalization modification is complete; this duration: 25 hours, consumption: Paradise Points × 12,125】

The Great Five Elements Auspicious Beast Scripture only needed 10,000 points, but as Chu Danqing expected, it required an A-level rating.

Chu Danqing had no rating, so this cultivation technique could only go back with Guo Ming.

As for dragon-type materials, the Guo family had once again scouted a dragon suspected of meeting the requirements and was sending people to kill it.

They had already killed several dragons suspected of meeting the requirements before, but the materials brought back didn't meet the Fine quality, so they could only be taken back temporarily in the end.

Secondly, he couldn't keep the dragon-type materials even if he wanted to.

The quality was too high and was still a question mark; keeping it would require a rating.

Then he entrusted Guo Ming to help find Excellent-tier summoning-type equipment.

He originally thought Fine-tier would be enough, but then he thought that the next time they met would be in the trial world.

He would accumulate quite a few Paradise Points again; anyway, it was all at cost price, so rather than choosing Fine-tier, it was better to go straight to Excellent-tier.

As for the equipment on his body, he didn't take it off for Guo Ming; he could only give it away after it was phased out; how could he phase it out while still wearing it?

Chu Danqing looked at his remaining 31,759 Paradise Points and only felt it was a bit difficult to handle.

According to convention, he had to leave 10,000 Paradise Points as reserve resources.

"Xiong Zhigang's consumption is not high; under the reduction of Command basics and Command Mastery, 25 hours only cost 25 points."

"Guo Ming is much more ruthless; 500 points per hour can only be reduced by 16 points, directly taking away 12,100 Paradise Points."

"At this stage, only 21,000 are left for disposal." Chu Danqing muttered.

The remaining fraction was used for purchasing; he had stayed in the previous trial world for so long, how could he not have consumed anything?

He needed to replenish daily necessities to ensure life in the next trial world.

If he could live better, why must he survive in the wild? He wasn't a masochist.

After handling things, Chu Danqing took Da Bao and Da Bai to the skill cabin; he intended to upgrade some skills.

"Dragon Appearance and Phoenix Bearing needs five thousand points???" Chu Danqing first upgraded Dragon Appearance and Phoenix Bearing, only to find that upgrading 1 level required consuming 5,000 Paradise Points.

Chu Danqing could only skip it for now; with the Nine Cauldrons Diagram plus his own charm, he now had 32 points of charm.

He would save it for the next time he used attribute points to convert into skill points to upgrade.

So the target this time was the two skills Shanhe Alliance and Escort.

【Shanhe Alliance (Active) LV. 1→10: Consumption (1/90/900/1800) Paradise Points, summon (1 rank lower/same rank/1 rank higher/2 ranks higher) alliance object to fight for you, consumption per hour during existence (no consumption/1/90/450) Paradise Points, maximum alliance quantity: 11, initial rank limit for signing alliance: Rank 3】 (Consumption: Basic-tier skill crystal × 7 + 2,000 Paradise Points)

【Escort (Active) LV. 1→10: Consume 50% of maximum mana to obtain an equivalent shield, forcibly summon the specified summoned object to your side and make that summoned object obtain a 10% all-attribute amplification, movement speed of all summoned objects moving toward you +20%, lasts 10 minutes】 (Consumption: 9,000 Paradise Points)

【Summoned Object Enhancement (Passive) LV. 10→15: Summoned object five-dimensional attributes +15%, HP +15%, mana +15%, attack +15%, defense +15%, negative resistance +15%】 (Consumption: 10,000 Paradise Points)

"So expensive; the cost of upgrading skills learned before rank-up didn't change because of the rank." Chu Danqing's eye twitched; Level 1~10 only needed 1,000 Paradise Points, but going further, upgrading 1 skill level required 2,000 Paradise Points.

"Perhaps it's because it existed in the body before the rank-up."

"Fortunately, Shanhe Alliance is powerful enough; after upgrading, it reduced the consumption of Paradise Points."

"Each level increase reduces the original cost by 1%, but it seems that except for the maintenance cost of 1 rank lower which can be zero consumption, consumption from the same rank is not 0."

Free-loading certainly wasn't possible; didn't you see that summoning an ally 1 rank lower than yourself was 1 Paradise Point at Level 1, and now it's still 1 point at Level 10, indicating it has reached the limit.

As for the increase of 1 alliance quantity, it was directly ignored by Chu Danqing.

Alliance quantity only increases by 1 position at Level 10; it should be a term that is difficult to improve.

However, Chu Danqing only had 2 allies now; when it would be full was an unknown.

"If only I could find a skill that reduces handling fees." Chu Danqing only felt regret.

Actually, the big expenditure of Shanhe Alliance wasn't summoning, but every transaction.

But this type of skill was probably hard to get; Fine-tier certainly didn't have it, and maybe even Exemplary-tier didn't have it.

It might have to be a special skill or a basic skill to have this effect.

"There are still 759 Paradise Points that can use 59 points; first go to purchase, then go to the arena."

Chu Danqing got up and left the training room, walking toward the Apostle Plaza.

The arena was an internal competition mechanism launched by Paradise after Rank 1.

After reaching a certain ranking, one could obtain corresponding title rewards.

The top three even had rich rewards.

Theoretically, as long as the strength was sufficient, all three rewards could be obtained.

This was considered Paradise beginning to cultivate the PVP ability of Apostles.

The reserve tier was still in the apprenticeship stage; as long as one could enter dungeons for PVE, that was fine.

And after reaching Rank 1, what one had to face next was not just the natives in the trial world, but also competition from the same camp and hostile personnel from the other four camps.

Besides the ranking having rewards, there were also corresponding arena points.

After finishing a match, corresponding points would be given according to the ranking progress.

Losers would also have them, just a small amount of points.

Beyond that, every time a trial returned, corresponding arena points would be issued based on your rating + arena ranking.

Arena points allowed Apostles to exchange for items in the arena shop.

After Chu Danqing finished his purchases, he went directly to the arena.

The number of Apostles in the arena was very large.

After all, after a round of strengthening and learning, most systems wanted to convert into strength as soon as possible, and practice was the best way.

And the arena provided this convenience; not only could one practice, but there were also benefits to be had, so it was naturally a popular area.

After arriving, Chu Danqing opened the corresponding page.

【Rank 1 Arena Ranking Rewards】

【1st Place: Title · Arena Heavenly King, Self-selected Basic Skill Scroll × 1, Basic-tier Skill Crystal × 10, Paradise Points × 10,000】

【2nd Place: Title · Arena Grandmaster, Self-selected Exemplary-tier Skill Book × 1, Paradise Points × 9,000】

【3rd Place: Title · Arena Master, Self-selected Fine-tier True Spirit Weapon × 1 (Enhancement +12 and 10-term True Spirit Full Awakening), Paradise Points × 5,000】

【4th~10th Place: Title · Arena Expert, Random Fine-tier Equipment Matching System × 1, Paradise Points × 1,000】

【11th~100th Place: Title · Arena Fighter】

【101st~1000th Place: Title · Arena Enthusiast】

A total of six tiers; the top three were directly a cliff-like improvement.

"Speaking of which, if I hit 1st place and then drop back to 4th place, can I brush it repeatedly?" Chu Danqing suddenly thought of this matter.

【Arena titles change with ranking position; ranking rewards can only be obtained once】

Paradise had long limited the conditions; don't think about brushing rewards repeatedly; everyone could only take the reward once.

Secondly, there was the rank limitation.

At Rank 1, if you didn't manage to rush to 1st place and promoted to Rank 2, the ranking would be reset to the initial ranking of Rank 2.

The Rank 2 arena had Rank 2 ranking rewards; missed rewards would not be compensated to you.

This meant completely missing the Rank 1 arena ranking rewards.

However, for most Apostles, this was a normal situation.

Let alone the top three, even the "Arena Enthusiast" title for the top one thousand was something only a few people could possess.

The number of Rank 1 dimensional Apostles hadn't been counted, but one could tell from the fact that Chu Danqing could rank into a number close to one billion.

The most important thing was that after an Apostle died, the number would be recycled and reused; even so, Paradise's numbers were constantly growing.

This meant the number of Apostles was steadily increasing.

The number Chu Danqing used belonged to recycling and reuse, not the number added at the end.

Let's put it this way: the probability of meeting an Apostle from a trial world a second time, if not locked by items or contacted, was no less than winning the lottery.

Under the huge base and welfare treatment, the middle and lower levels were indeed not as good as Fantasy City, Nightmare Space, War Territory, and Death Kingdom in terms of individual combat power, but they made up for the gap through numerical advantage.

As for high-level combat power, one-on-one most still couldn't win, but they couldn't stand the fact that Paradise had always been good at numbers.

Not only were there many middle and lower levels, but there were also many high-level combat personnel.

In terms of survival rate and growth rate, Paradise firmly ranked first.

The other four camps would really erase you if you didn't complete the task.

Here in Paradise, even if your Paradise Points were deducted to a negative number, they were willing to give you a chance; the punishment for task failure was even more obvious to all.

So this led to quite a few late-blooming, thick-accumulation-and-thin-outbreak type Apostles.

If changed to the remaining four camps, let alone late-stage power, whether they could survive in the early stage was a problem.

"Let's see what position I can rush to in the remaining few days." Chu Danqing muttered.

He certainly wanted to fight all the way to 1st place, but there was definitely no chance in this trial.

If he wanted to challenge the top three, he had to fight into the top ten.

And from the tenth place onward, it was a matching mechanism; Paradise would match according to your arena points, arena frequency, and winning percentage.

After winning, the ranking would be improved according to the mechanism.

So it was impossible for the last place to challenge the first place.

It was necessary to fight up step by step.

【Arena Points: 0, Arena Frequency: 0, Arena Winning Percentage: 0%】

【Arena Ranking: 99,741,036,584】

【Bai Chushi matching arena opponents】

Chu Danqing looked at the eleven-digit ranking; there were so many Apostles just at Rank 1, and Chu Danqing could be sure that he wasn't the last one; there were more behind.

From this, it could be determined that the number of reserve-tier Apostles would be even greater.

After all, not every reserve tier could successfully live to advance.

Chu Danqing suspected that every rank had more than one area, otherwise how could it carry so many people.

【Matching complete, start entering the arena...】

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 201 =====