77: The points earned are already very profitable.

"Raging Sea has demonstrated an extremely high level of Dungeon Designer skill this time. Your dungeon design has received high recognition from the Sky Curtain, earning a total of 1.93 million points!"

"..."

"Esteemed Designer, the Sky Curtain has clear rules for point rebate ratios. Point rebates are calculated based on a tiered system:",

"For total points not exceeding 100 million, the Sky Curtain rebates 1% to the Designer."

"For total points exceeding 100 million but not exceeding 1 billion, the Sky Curtain rebates 0.1% to the Designer."

"For total points exceeding 1 billion but not exceeding 10 billion, the Sky Curtain rebates 0.01% to the Designer."

Seeing the change in points, Lin Ye took a big gulp of cola, feeling a surge of comfort throughout his body, a sense of exhilaration from head to toe.

Lin Ye was too lazy to bother with the peculiar and complex calculation method for these points; he certainly wasn't going to rack his brain trying to figure it out.

He would take whatever the Sky Curtain gave him; it wasn't like he could argue with the Sky Curtain. Moreover, the Sky Curtain itself was a high-level AI, so there was no way it could make a mistake in such calculations.

He also knew that the Sky Curtain would definitely deduct a significant amount, a realization Lin Ye had prepared himself for since the end of the previous dungeon.

The main source of points for this dungeon actually came from the 400,000 Air Force and Navy led by Yamamoto Thirty-eight and Tominaga Yasuyuki who launched the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This was the largest headcount; although their individual strength wasn't great, they provided a lot of experience.

Each of them had 1,000 points deducted, and with such a large number of people, they formed the core part of this dungeon's point rebate.

As for the massive points deducted from the Emperor and Ito Hidekazu individually later on, although one was 100,000 and the other 1 million... under the 0.01% rebate ratio for amounts over 1 billion, they would be significantly reduced and were simply not worth considering.

Lin Ye also discovered that the Sky Curtain's mechanism clearly had a point threshold, which was 2 million points. Because a total of 1 billion points, when converted, resulted in a rebate of 1.9 million points, and beyond that, the rebate rate would drop to 0.01%, making the quantity extremely scarce.

It was virtually impossible for any Designer to obtain more than this amount of points in a single dungeon.

This could be said to be the maximum value of the dungeon rules set by the Sky Curtain. From the Sky Curtain's perspective, it certainly did not want any Azure Star person to gain points too quickly.

Therefore, Lin Ye was truly satisfied with this result.

He had originally exploited a loophole in the Sky Curtain's system and taken advantage of it, so Lin Ye was afraid that the Sky Curtain would directly go back on its word and impose other restrictions on him.

Now that he could get all the points, it was already a huge gain!

In dungeons before Raging Sea, the maximum number of participants was only a few thousand, with point deductions not exceeding one thousand. The points obtainable each time were certainly far less than two million.

Perhaps getting 10,000 or 20,000 points each time was already considered top-tier. Two million points, for their point acquisition, was an exaggerated and abnormal amount.

Lin Ye, in one day, had effectively covered the distance that those powerhouses would take a year, or even several years, to cover! Wasn't that abnormal enough?

Moreover, he was well aware that after this dungeon ended, the Sky Curtain would definitely implement more stringent weakening measures for Raging Sea.

Lin Ye didn't know how it would be forcefully adjusted; it might be an adjustment in the number of participants, or perhaps the point amplification mechanism would be directly canceled.

But what was certain was that the Sky Curtain would definitely not allow him to earn points so comfortably again.

So, with such things, each time you earn is one less time; cherish it while you can.

"Sky Curtain Tip: Due to the Designer's point increase, your ranking on the Sky Curtain Hero Ranking has also improved. Please check it yourself, Designer..."

Lin Ye went directly to the window and looked at the position of the Sky Curtain Hero Ranking.

"NO. 48 Singh; Race: Asan Clan; Level: LV3; Dungeon Works: "Clash Royale," "The Radiance of the Ganges"!"

"NO. 49 Lin Ye; Race: Great Xia Clan; Level: LV3; Dungeon Works: "Earth Online - Raging Sea"!"

"NO. 50 Katerina; Race: Celtic; Level: LV3; Dungeon Works: "Whirlwind Blade"!"

"NO. 51 Kim Geun-seok; Race: Korean; Level: LV3; Dungeon Works: "The Chaebol's Grandpa"!"

...

Lin Ye had originally thought he would have a significant rank increase, but upon checking, he had only moved up one spot.

Last time he was 50th, this time he was 49th. This shows how difficult it is to level up at the LV3 tier.

It also showed that at this level, there were clear diminishing returns. At lower levels, 10,000 points were enough to ensure a person's comfortable survival, but at this level, 10,000 points were practically worthless, with extremely low cost-effectiveness.

Young Designers who wanted to upgrade to this level either needed significant Settlement support, gathering the strength of many people to barely reach the LV3 threshold.

Otherwise, they needed to be a heaven-sent genius like Lin Ye, and also know how to dance within the Sky Curtain's rules.

Ordinary people simply couldn't reach this level.

And to go further, considering the Sky Curtain's point acquisition rules, even with faction support or financial group protection, it would be futile. To upgrade, one would have to wait for a very long time.

According to Lin Ye's previous calculations, for a powerhouse like the Emperor to upgrade from LV3 to LV4, it would take at least ten, or even several decades, of accumulation.

So, without exception, all those at LV4 were middle-aged or elderly, revered seniors in their Settlements.

However, none of these were problems for Lin Ye, because Raging Sea was not his only dungeon, and Lin Ye did not intend to rely on this one dungeon to rest on his laurels and retire.

The Five Great Powers had two other major dungeons waiting for him to release onto Azure Star.

The difficulty of those two dungeons was even higher than Raging Sea!

Once this round of wool was shorn, he could shear the Sky Curtain again with the next dungeon.

Besides his own rank improvement, Lin Ye also noticed something very interesting.

He had pushed out Katerina and Kim Geun-seok.

Lin Ye remembered that last time, Kim Geun-seok was ahead of him, and Katerina was in fifty-first place.

It was clear that Kim Geun-seok and Katerina were very close in points, and then Katerina might have just overtaken Kim Geun-seok yesterday, and with his own ascent today, he directly pushed that little Korean out of the top 50.

It was quite interesting.