The nobles once promoted a ranking system for beginners. According to them, the ranking was based on points awarded for the overall strength of the islands, and the island owner with the most points would be ranked first.
An island's strength includes firepower, personnel, resources, island size, technology, and so on. Using island space for evaluation can ensure absolute fairness.
However, Lin Xu is now certain that the nobles were clearly lying.
After his battle with Chen Shaojie, he had a general understanding of the nobles' island strength.
If the ranking points are based on the islands' pure strength, he feels that if he can't rank first, then something must have gone wrong with the island world.
Because whether it's calculating military strength, wealth, or island potential, his island's characteristics are absolutely overwhelming.
Needless to say, the value of just the Infinite Ore Vein and the Peach Mother Tree alone far surpasses that of all the new nobles currently available.
Even if it were Xiao Xing, Lin Xu didn't think the other party could have the same equivalent resources.
However, he is now ranked only 29th, and the points system for this ranking must be different from what the nobles have advertised.
The current ranking rules must contain some undisclosed secrets that allow nobles like Xiao Xing to climb to the top of the points list.
Rankings aren't the most important thing. What's more important is that Lin Xu can guess that Xiao Xing's group changed the ranking rules so that they could become number one.
But he didn't know why these people were doing this.
Since the ranking of newcomers doesn't offer any real benefits, and there's no indication that Island World gives extra rewards to those who rank high.
It seems that this thing is just a special name, only to make someone famous once.
But Xiao Xing and his group were all nobles. If they wanted to make a name for themselves, they could do so through noble activities. There was no need for them to do this among the common people.
What's even stranger is that it wasn't just Xiao Xing's generation; it seems that nobles throughout history had this need, creating ranking lists each time and trying to get the top spot.
Lin Xu didn't believe there wasn't a secret involved.
Lin Xu stroked his chin, thinking, but couldn't come up with any clues for a while.
After all, he has too little information right now, and he can't guess anything just by imagining it.
At this moment, Tao Yao and Mei Ying looked at Lin Xu with curiosity.
The two girls had originally wanted to watch Lin Xu enlighten the spirit, but now that they found him standing still, Tao Yao reached out and tugged at Lin Xu's sleeve.
"Master, what are you thinking about?"
Lin Xu glanced at Tao Yao and then told her about the ranking of nobles.
Tao Yao immediately looked displeased:
"That ranking is definitely rigged! We are the real number one island!"
Lin Xu touched Tao Yao:
"If a nobleman wants to cheat, he must have changed the rules. Peach Blossom, can you tell what rules he changed?"
Tao Yao blinked, looking a little confused, then crossed her arms and began to frown in thought, it was unclear what was going on in her little head.
Lin Xu watched Tao Yao's actions and thought that this girl probably couldn't give him any more hints. Just as he was about to suppress his thoughts, Mei Ying suddenly spoke up:
"A leaderboard? Ranking everyone in the region together? Isn't this some kind of way to establish authority? Whoever came up with this idea is quite clever!"
Lin Xu raised an eyebrow, looking at the Phantom with surprise:
"What did you say?"
The Phantom crossed his arms and said:
"In the construction and use of power, the most important thing is to find pillars. As long as enough people are gathered and enough pillar identities are constructed, the power will become more and more precious and powerful. These nobles created rankings to treat the island lords in all regions as pillars, supporting them in completing this kind of power-forging ritual. In our generation, some people also did this. But it was a very clever idea for those nobles to turn this into a system!"
"A ritual? So this is the ritual for forging authority?"
It was as if a lightning bolt had struck Lin Xu's mind, and in an instant, everything became clear.
In fact, he had seen the conditions for casting authority on the gold slab.
Ritual is indeed necessary in the forging of authority.
He had always thought that a ritual was something that involved a group of people gathering together and doing some ambiguous actions and activities, which constituted a ritual.
In retrospect, it seems he had preconceived notions.
It turns out that the entire ranking tournament itself is a kind of ritual.
So, to get the number one ranking, there must be some necessary condition for the ritual?
In that case, if he could get the number one ranking, he could seize the core position of this so-called power ceremony and replace the original Xiao Xing.
Lin Xu couldn't help but fall into thought.
Then, he suddenly realized that the real points system for this ranking competition must be related to the power behind it.
According to Chen Shaojie, they are forging a golden scepter, and the forging of this scepter must be related to the gold relics.
In other words, the ranking of those nobles' points is mostly related to the exploration of ruins.
Xiao Xing's high ranking is probably because he explored a lot of ruins.
Only with such achievements can one gain a significant advantage in the ranking process.
Otherwise, given the power of the nobility, it would be impossible for so many people to surpass Lin Xu's ranking.
These thoughts flashed rapidly through Lin Xu's mind, and then he suddenly realized that the nobles held this kind of points ranking every year in every region.
Is it that each time those nobles perform some kind of ritual, they are forging some kind of authority?
Was the power of the nobility achieved through such rituals?
Lin Xu felt as if he had seen through some secrets.
If the competition during the novice period is the cornerstone for forging the power of the nobility, then it's no wonder that the nobles always want to hunt down commoners, but never kill them all.
The presence of commoners could threaten their power-making, but without commoners, their power-making would lack a pillar, and the losses would be even greater.
Lin Xu's eyes flickered.
Xiao Xing and his group's noble operation this time should be the same as every previous batch of newcomers: a noble alliance to exploit the entire newbie zone and then forge a brand new authority.
But this time, he was involved in the event.
Lin Xu was very curious: what if he had intervened in the forging of Xiao Xing's authority, taken the first place among the newcomers, and also completed the collection of the Golden Thread Robe?
Could he then replace Xiao Xing and forge his own authority?
According to the universally accepted view, without noble status, it is absolutely impossible to obtain power.
But if we combine his innate abilities with some other valuable conditions, could we break this rule?
Lin Xu's heart began to burn with fervor.
Regardless of whether his attempt would succeed, he had expectations and wanted to test his plan.
As for Xiao Xing, who's in the way, he should obediently step down from the top spot!
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