Chapter 302: Hidden Rating
"Little guy, you still have a more precious offering on you, why not offer it up together?"
The Goddess narrowed Her eyes, seemingly in a very good mood after receiving five consecutive B-Grade Singularities. However, She still greedily wanted more, especially that more precious [Information]. That kind of delicacy was not easy to obtain normally.
"Lady Goddess, I want to know what level my current hidden rating in the Space is roughly at?"
This was another piece of secret intelligence he obtained from Ten'i.
All Reincarnators knew that to enter the [Goddess's Residence], one must hold a [Singularity]. The [Singularity] was the threshold for entry.
After entering, most of the time, the Goddess would only interact with Reincarnators within the limited options. Reincarnators could ask various questions and make requests, but the Goddess would only answer based on the Reincarnator's [Authority] and [Rating].
The so-called [Ordinary Reincarnator], [Star Reincarnator], and [Title Reincarnator] were special ratings assigned by the Goddess based on the level of Singularities the Reincarnator could provide.
Kaito Shirogane maliciously equated this behavior to luxury goods salespeople in the real world, issuing different VIP cards to customers based on their financial strength and providing different services.
But very few Reincarnators would test exactly what level of information each rating could obtain from the Goddess.
This was something only some sufficiently "idle" or sufficiently "meticulous" Reincarnators would do, and it required giving a large number of Singularities for trial and error.
Kaito Shirogane now belonged to the 2-Star Reincarnator category among [Star Reincarnators]. The Goddess's interaction with him was obviously much more lenient.
He also learned that at his level, he could actually get some valuable "hints" from the Goddess.
Just like the Goddess previously hinted to Kaito Shirogane that he didn't need to wait for his talent to naturally anchor. Many times, talents directly molded by Her formed faster and were equally powerful.
Ten'i's[Rat] talent confirmed this point.
At this moment, Kaito Shirogane actively hoped to get a "hint."
The reason why Reincarnators were always in crisis while executing missions in the Space and found it difficult to enter extremely low-difficulty worlds to "farm points" was that the Space had created an evaluation system for every Reincarnator.
The better the Reincarnator performed, the higher this evaluation would be, and the higher the difficulty of the next mission world entered would be. Of course, in high-difficulty worlds, there would inherently be higher-level resources.
Conversely, Reincarnators with average strength obtained very few rewards and wouldn't easily be sent to high-difficulty worlds to become cannon fodder.
The Space squeezed every Reincarnator to the limit within the scope of their own strength.
This evaluation system gave birth to two special situations.
The first was the farming team. Because when Reincarnators acted as a team, the deployment would comprehensively measure the team's combat power and performance. Therefore, the consistent practice of farming teams was actually to continuously capture newcomers and then continuously lose newcomers in mission worlds.
The team's average income was average, but the real income was all taken by the farmers. This "cancerous" model allowed farmers to survive relatively easily, but the team's comprehensive strength was extremely poor, making them very prone to team-wipe crises in team battle worlds.
The second situation born was special newcomers like Kaito Shirogane, whose true combat power was extremely high and growth rate was too fast, causing large fluctuations in the Space's evaluation system.
Taking Kaito Shirogane as an example, after entering the Space, his completion rates in the Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, and The Boys worlds were all quite high. Moreover, he had performances of successfully escaping from veteran Reincarnators like the Balrog and Moon Demon, and frustrating [Kai] and [White Face].
Therefore, the Space's evaluation of Kaito Shirogane was greatly raised, far exceeding Kaito Shirogane's true rank of [Bing] (Parallel).
So he was deployed to the [One Piece World] and encountered an incomparably cruel super-large-scale team battle mission. Furthermore, in that world, Kaito Shirogane was placed in the weakest first echelon.
This meant that in the Space's judgment, the "Morning-class newcomer" who had frustrated [Strong] Rank elites like [Kai] and [White Face] was a Reincarnator with comprehensive strength stronger than the second batch of elites like [Moon Demon] and [Balrog].
The Space believed that Kaito Shirogane, combined with that rabble who fought among themselves at the start and were instantly killed by Enel, could truly confront teams like [Balrog], [Glazed Scholar], and [Critical Sniper].
However, in that world, due to the intrusion of the [Black King] and the appearance of God Hand · Roland, Kaito Shirogane's mission completion rate was extremely low, and his clearance evaluation was not high.
Therefore, after this world, the Space lowered its assessment of Kaito Shirogane's strength. His next mission world entered a more peaceful team cooperation mission, and the mission world timeline selected was the weakest point in the Naruto world where Six Paths level characters had not appeared, and even Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama were dead.
The "hint" Kaito Shirogane wanted at this moment was to what extent his rating had been raised after experiencing the bountiful harvest in the Naruto world.
This could to some extent judge the danger of the next mission world.
"What a not-so-smart guy. Didn't I hint to you since you came here..."
The Goddess didn't say it directly, but Kaito Shirogane understood.
"You are dangerous, quite dangerous."
The Goddess extended a finger. That huge finger seemed to be cast from white jade. As it touched Kaito Shirogane's body, the Fire Dragon Scales on Kaito Shirogane's back instantly appeared and stood up one by one.
That was an extremely terrifying sense of crisis.
Kaito Shirogane's heart beat like a drum, and his body swelled up in an instant. The violently beating heart caused a large amount of lightning power to gather in his body, with electric light swimming on his body surface.
But this sense of crisis was fleeting, and the Goddess returned to that lazy posture.
Kaito Shirogane frowned. He increasingly realized that perhaps everything this Goddess did had a special meaning.
He looked at his talent.
[Talent: Anchoring Anomaly, Re-anchoring...]
This state had lasted for a whole mission world without any change. Ever since he entered that wonderful state in the One Piece world, the two similar descriptions previously anchored by the talent had disappeared.
"Lady Goddess, my talent..."
[Querying this information requires payment of D-Grade Singularity * 1. Do you wish to pay?]
Just a question actually cost a Singularity. Kaito Shirogane became increasingly curious about the root of his "madness."
[You lost D-Grade Singularity * 1]
Only then did the Goddess speak at the right time.
"In this world, everyone's talent is a strange stone, a piece of beautiful jade, each with its own shape, advantages and disadvantages, and uses."
"But a very small number of people have special talents different from others. Their talents are unpolished stubborn stones, uncrafted unpolished jade."
"To make a stubborn stone useful, to make unpolished jade reveal its form, naturally requires constant carving."
"If a Great Being like Me were to do it, it could naturally be completed quickly. But if a mortal like you wants to rely on your own endowments to carve it, heh..."
Clouds drifted, blocking the Goddess's smile, but that mocking tone was very clear.
Kaito Shirogane automatically filtered out the other party's tone and obtained the information he wanted from it.
In other words, if he wanted to rely on himself to make the talent manifest, he had to constantly use it and impact it.
And in the Naruto derivative world, because there were not many dangers encountered, he didn't enter that state many times.
After understanding this principle, Kaito Shirogane had found his direction.
He turned and left without using up the remaining Singularities at once because this time there were many hot-selling items in his stall, which might very likely be traded for useful abilities and traits.
At that time, before the next mission deployment, it wouldn't be too late to come back for enhancement.
Kaito Shirogane turned and left the Goddess's Residence. Just as he returned to the Public Space, he received a message.
[GA99954770 (Crazy Potter) sent a contact: The vehicle you wanted has been completed. When do we trade?]
(End of Chapter)
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