The Primal Hunter

Chapter 654

Jake instantly understood how the list was full when he laid his eyes on the first wall, which displayed the top ten individuals of the ninety-third universe.

Nevermore Leaderboards (C-grade): 93rd Universe.

1. Holy Templar – Low Tier

2. Holy Knight – Low Tier

3. Holy Priestess – Low Tier

4. Holy Ranger – Low Tier

5. Holy Knight – Low Tier

6. Holy Mage – Low Tier

7. Holy Duelist – Low Tier

8. Holy Mage – Low Tier

9. Holy Knight – Low Tier

10. Holy Templar – Low Tier

They were all shit scores. For reference, there was no actual display of points; people were just placed into a “tier” based on their performance, with the lowest being the Low Tier. After that was Middle-Low Tier, High-Low Tier, and then Peak-Low Tier. Then from there, one moved into the Low-Mid Tier, Mid Tier, High-Mid Tier, and so on and so forth.

All of this is to say that Low Tier was the bottom rung. Jake was still a bit surprised, especially when he saw the list dominated by people who chose to remain anonymous and only post the archetype of their classes. Moreover, they were all from the Holy Church based on their names.

The reason he found it weird was that having “completed” Nevermore already shouldn’t really be a thing, right? To complete it would require one to spend the full fifty years inside, which would be at least a year or two, even with great time dilation by getting to the lower floors, something these people clearly hadn’t. Jake had only managed to reach C-grade recently, same with the others, and this list was only for people from the ninety-third universe.

Perhaps there were some beasts and whatnot already inside, but the final score would only appear on the Leaderboard after one was done in there… so how had the Holy Church managed to speedrun the place? Jake wasn’t the only confused one.

“Have I misinterpreted how Nevermore functions? I believed one would have to spend their full term inside before the score displays?” the old man asked.

Jake was about to comment as Dina spoke. “It’s normal.”

“Could you elaborate?” the Sword Saint looked at her while smiling.

She nodded enthusiastically as she explained.

“The Holy Church always does this. Every new era, the Wyrmgod changes up the dungeons, and the Church sends in C-grades from the new universe to effectively scout it out for their later, more talented parties. While those who get through it can’t relay any direct information, through different methods, the kind of environments, mana types, and of course, the general sizes of the floors can be determined. They even often wear equipment capable of tracking distances traveled through subtle means,” Dina explained quite articulately. “To see the new version within the first decade, one must bring along at least one person from the new universe too, so that is why they are on the list.”

“Huh,” Jake said. “But how did they complete the dungeon that fast already? They can’t have reached C-grade that long ago…”

Dina looked at Jake before she gazed back at the old man, and it was only after he nodded she answered.

“They don’t try to complete it… they just get helped by four far more powerful individuals to the first city layer. There, they then enter a time dilation chamber just to wait out the time and get their names on the Leaderboards. They do this to communicate they have knowledge of the floors and try to recruit people and sell intelligence,” Dina explained.

“That… sounds like such a waste?” Jake said, confused.

“The Church often does things that seem like a waste… and I am sure they also got other parties going to the floors after the first city layer. They usually only bring one member who is getting helped by the four others, and then that person is abandoned for someone they deem actually talented for the floors that provide actual challenges.”

Jake nodded as he kept staring at the Leaderboard. “So they are pretty much sacrificial pawns?”

like it,” the Sword Saint said with

didn’t deny it

that much?” Jake asked. “Or the by having a bunch of low-tier scores on

a bunch of C-grades aren’t worth

level to C-grade quickly, ignored trying to get Perfect

because they viewed them as a dime a dozen. Either way, it left a bad taste in Jake’s mouth, and he looked at one of the other Leaderboards that showed the scores from those of the 92nd universe to try and better his mood by seeing the performances of

make

Leaderboards (C-grade):

Yore

of the

Templar

Hand of Umbra – Pinnacle

Chosen of the Blightfather – Pinnacle

Warrior of Valhal

–

– Pinnacle

Life –

Prince

settled on number one. Yip of Yore. It seemed that even in C-grade, he had been at the top of his game. As for the others, Jake didn’t care much. Most chose to just name themselves something representing their factions and not themselves as people. The one exception was the top two, which did make Jake wonder who this Altius of the Blade was. Not

Leaderboard before only displayed individuals native to the ninety-second universe, this one displayed every single

while it shouldn’t have been unexpected, he saw a

(C-grade):

Yore – Era’s

Monk – Pinnacle

-

Altius of the Blade –

Anonymous -

6. Champion of Valhal

7. The Eldritch Dancer

Anonymous -

Regalflight – Pinnacle

Chosen Son of Gwyndyr –

geniuses for billions of years. Yet Yip of Yore still found himself at the top, recognized as the Era’s Pinnacle. Jake was also surprised to see that the guy called Altius of the Blade managed to come in fourth overall, making it seem like there were two supreme geniuses in that era. Jake wondered what happened to that guy… though the most likely explanation was that he failed to ever become a god. In fact, Jake got the feeling that

his head as he looked at the final

(C-grade):

in 615

to find it empty. No one had gotten on it yet, as it wasn’t even open yet, but even if it had been open, Jake didn’t imagine many top geniuses would have had time to get Pinnacle scores, which seemed to be the norm for the top geniuses. Jake felt determined to, at the very least, put his name towards the top of that list

arbitrary, though perhaps it did have a deeper meaning Jake wasn’t aware of. Or it was literally just a random number chosen by the Wyrmgod based on how

maybe it has something to

the top spot, even for a moment, rewarded a special title or something, then it made sense to not allow people like those chumps from the Holy Church to just claim it. Jake also reckoned that even if you completed your Nevermore run before the Leaderboard opened, you would still be rewarded

the four Leaderboards, one thing

no all-star Leaderboard? One for the

this once before, and he explained to me that while there was one in the past, it was eventually done away with. The issue is that each era tends to be too different to directly compare their scores, so the Wyrmgod believes

“So, what is the unofficial

if you aren’t worthy of placing yourself on it, then you aren’t worthy of knowing about it either,” the Sword Saint said with an amused smile. “I do still think

in the slightest. They

proper. We shall claim the top places of this Leaderboard and stand here next in admiration of our

disagree with heading off. However, just as Jake

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