Chapter 244: Earth’s Best Settlent
[“Number of settlents that have accomplished the Ten-Species Competition quest: 65,927. Basic headcount received: 6,592,700.”]
“More than sixty thousand settlents!
“Only one-ninth of all the settlents from Earth won this round?”
Sensing the content of the first piece of information, Ji Ye was more or less surprised.
Considering the phase of developnt of the alien civilizations that the Twin Dragon Mount fort had encountered, the human civilization from Earth wasn’t exactly at the top end, but it still should’ve been more developed than half of the settlents.
It must be noted that the aliens such as the Forest Monsters, the Sludge Monsters, and the Mirage Monsters seed to have just been able to speak and didn’t have a writing system yet.
It ant that from a sociological point of view, they were as developed as human beings thousands of years earlier.
Although several thousand years might not be too long for a civilization that could live millions of years, the knowledge that human beings grasped during the several thousand years, or in particular, the recent two hundred years, was more than what they learned in the million years earlier.
Under such circumstances, Ji Ye believed that the Earth settlents’ odds of success should be higher than average.
Also, it should be much higher than average.
If he rembered correctly, there were about five hundred thousand settlents that welcod beta testers and therefore were qualified to summon heroes at the beginning of the second round!
Plus the last two days of “buffer” ti after the notification, altogether six hundred thousand settlents had received the qualification thanks to the joint efforts of the Confederation Offices in all countries!
But only about one-ninth of the Earth settlents won the Ten-Species Competition.
It was a lot lower than what he anticipated!
“Huh... Right, I forgot sothing.
“The notification only specifies the number of settlents that have accomplished the Ten-Species Competition quest. Those which haven’t are not necessarily beaten by aliens...”
Ji Ye instantly realized that he made a mistake.
Although the ti for the Ten-Species Competition was up, not all the battles among settlents could be over yet.
After all, it was hard to conquer certain alien tribes whose settlents were in tricky environnts. As a result, human beings couldn’t finish the battle even if they had advantages.
However, since Ten-Species Competition was the “main quest” in this round, it was doubtless that only the settlents that accomplished the quest could increase “player headcount” for their species and civilization.
Besides, not only had every “advanced” settlent provided a one-hundred headcount, but there were also “bonuses” if the settlent core’s level was high!
[“Number of settlents that have reached Extraordinary Rank-6: 30,340. Headcount added: 3,034,000.”]
[“Number of settlents that have reached Extraordinary Rank-7: 2,159. Headcount added: 431,800.”]
[“Number of settlents that have reached Extraordinary Rank-8: 99. Headcount added: 39,600.”]
[“Number of settlents that have reached Extraordinary Rank-9: 1. Headcount added: 800.”]
Four pieces of information appeared in the head of every Earth player again.
“Altogether 10,098,900 people... More than ten million?”
In just a few seconds, Ji Ye got the total number through ntal arithtic.
The total of ten million people was ten tis greater than the headcount of the beta testers, which was a million.
However, it was still a tiny proportion of the total population of Earth, which was ten billion (Author’s note: this is a parallel universe). After all, it only took up one-thousandth.
It was not hard to imagine that many people who craved to enter the Land of Inheritance in the third round would be disappointed again.
It seed that the Land of Inheritance, as a ga, was never really going to be publicly released. Although the headcount had been increased each ti, it was because the Earth settlents had advantages on the Land of Inheritance.
Considering the general situation, the number of settlents of each civilization was dwindling after each competition.
If all the Earth settlents on Earth were destroyed soday, they would all lose the qualification to play the ga!
However, it was unlikely to happen.
That was because things were looking good for the Earth settlents on the Land of Inheritance.
Almost half of the settlents had reached Extraordinary Rank-6, a four-digit number of them reached Extraordinary Rank-7, and a three-digit number of Extraordinary Rank-8...
And the only Extraordinary Rank-9 settlent!
On the Land of Inheritance, there were only two ways to upgrade a settlent core.
The first way was to increase the settlent’s capabilities (including the levels of players in it, their rating, and the number of resources).
The second way was to absorb the aliens’ core and resources!
Under normal circumstances, a settlent would be able to reach between Extraordinary Rank-5 and Extraordinary Rank-6 after accomplishing the Ten-Species Competition quest.
Its final level depended on the earliness of the ti when the quest was accomplished and the intensity of the competition.
Take the Twin Dragon Mount fort for example.
From the beginning to the end, the Eagle n had been their only competitor.
So, both parties had tacitly decided to attack the weak aliens before they had a final battle. Therefore, their competition wasn’t really fierce.
The rit of such a situation was that the loss of power of providence would be small.
Also, both settlents had won the first round on the Battlefield of Providence and looted so power of providence.
So, when they entered the City of Humans for the first ti, the Twin Dragon Mount fort’s settlent core had already reached Extraordinary Rank-6!
If it were another settlent that was in fierce competition, for example, one in an environnt where a couple of settlents leveled up to Extraordinary Rank-2 at the sa ti, then all the settlents would have to spend their power of providence to transform equipnt, summon heroes, and generate resources. Their victory would be costly even if they accomplished the quest, and their settlent core might only just surpass Extraordinary Rank-5!
On the other hand, if a settlent didn’t defeat its last rival before the deadline, it might still be stuck in Extraordinary because it hadn’t digested the enemy’s core of providence yet.
Judging from the notification, there were as many Rank-5 settlents as Rank-6 ones.
However, the number of Extraordinary Rank-7 settlents plumted.
Clearly, the only way to raise the settlent core to Extraordinary Rank-7 in the current phase was to enter the Battlefield of Providence and loot power of providence from other human settlents!
Also, their performance on the battlefield must be good enough.
It was even safe to say that the two thousand Extraordinary Rank-7 settlents could largely be called “Excellent” settlents of human beings on the Land of Inheritance.
Of course, where there were Excellent settlents, there were bound to be Superior ones.
It was not hard to imagine that the hundred Extraordinary Rank-8 settlents had the most distinguished performance in this round of Battlefields of Providence. The rewards they received would make them seed settlents that had the greatest potential...
As for the only Extraordinary Rank-9 settlent...
To be honest, it was slightly beyond Ji Ye’s anticipation.
After all, Earth had hundreds of thousands of settlents on the Land of Inheritance, with a wide spectrum of backgrounds including novels, history, myths, gas, etc.
While the Twin Dragon Mount fort was remarkably powerful, it would be outrageous to call it “one of a kind”.
After all, other players might have talents that were as good as “Fusion”, and their settlent might be developing as fast as the Twin Dragon Mount fort.
However, on second thought, the result was rather reasonable.
Although other top Earth settlents might be as good as the Twin Dragon Mount fort, the Twin Dragon Mount fort’s performance on the Battlefield of Providence this ti was simply too splendid.
It wasn’t exactly perfect, but it was barely possible for other settlents to surpass the settlent!
“However, this is not necessarily a good thing.
“In such a case, whatever the Twin Dragon Mount fort does next will attract a lot of people’s attention.
“People may criticize us for sothing trivial that we do...”
Ji Ye slightly frowned.
He was not fretting at all; it was quite likely to happen.
For example, when the incident where he asked Yang Zhi to suppress the new players with Battle Will was spread on Earth, he might be judged as a dictator and a bully.
Also, for forcing the players who played dirty tricks to go to the battlefield during the battle against the Eagle n, he might be decried as a person who disregarded the unity of humankind and sought every chance to expel the dissidents!
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