Chapter 2580 Prestige and Access
Leonel doubted they'd have the balls to come back for years, and that was only if one of them had a particularly potent daredevil side to them. For all they knew, the Pavilion had already been taken over by another Race and they just couldn't be bothered to deal with the humans below. In fact, now that he thought about it, they probably assumed that the Gathering of Kingdoms was precisely that method to "deal with them".
The Human Race had been immune to the Gathering of Kingdoms since its inception. Considering how far they had fallen from grace, there likely weren't even legends or folktales remaining.
Plus, even if they did come back, this was Leonel's domain. He could crush even the Sun Demon Emperor if he was stupid enough to step into this place.
Leonel led Aina by the hand into the very same Pavilion he had taken the Life Tablet from. Soon, they had entered a familiar world of white with a glass counter that extended toward both sides into infinity. This time, however, there was no honey trap-there wasn't even a person on the other side.
With a wave of the hand, a long list of materials appeared and a ranking appeared above.
[Vast Dream Pavilion] [Rank: 101] [Prestige: 0.1]
Leonel smirked.
The Prestige ranking was a multiplier that ranged from 0.0 to 1.0 most often. Though, there were some that could go above 1.0 and some that were in the negatives.
Unsurprisingly, the Vast Dream Pavilion got the short end of the stick. Even after this recent success, half of their points were still earned countless generations ago, causing the graph at 0.1 to not even look like it was moving at all, it just looked like a flat line infinitely close to 0 Access on the y-axis.
But that wasn't the only thing plugged into the formula. The list was so long and convoluted that Leonel couldn't be bothered to go through them all, but there were even things like number of disciples, how talented said disciples were, then there was a plugin for current strength of disciples versus potential strength, then there was yet another just for current strength.
Each one was yet another ding that caused the unique graph of the Vast Dream Pavilion to be by far the worst maybe in the existence of this system.
Essentially, if Leonel were to summarize, "Prestige" was just a surface number while the real important metric was "Access" which went from 0 to 9.
And right now, the Vast Dream Pavilion's Access wasn't even 0.1, and as a result what they could trade for was frighteningly limited.
There was also one other thing to mention, and that was the fact that Prestige was also a multiplier for the worth of your Contribution Points. Having 0.1 Prestige meant that everything they bought would cost ten times more than it should.
Quite frankly, Leonel was surprised they didn't go with something even more exaggerated than this, but it was probably because they felt the rest of it was enough of a kick to the balls.
Still, Leonel looked at the obscenely long formula with a sneer on his face.
The thing about exponential graphs was that you didn't need to go very far before your returns were suddenly far more than you bargained for, but that was a thought for another day.
It didn't matter much to Leonel. He could trade for the lower level Mortal items, and then use Anastasia's Cleansing Waters to raise them to God items. Although he couldn't trade for any elaborate, high level stuff right now, raw resources wouldn't be a problem at all.