Rankings

[Now then, its probably on everyones mind, so lets announce the DP Rankings.]

With [Father]s words, the atmosphere felt strained once again.

[Alright, attention everyone! Ill announce the top ten first! Well, the order hasnt changed the past few years so lets blaze through it!]

The first to tenth places were announce in one go.

There wasnt a change even when comparing it to the time Rokuko last attended.

From 1st to 3rd place was respectively Core 1, Core 2, Core 3. 4th was Core 7. 5th was Core 9 and 6th was Core 6. After that was Haku, Core 89, in 7th place, with Core 5 in 8th, Core 10 in 9th, and Core 8 in 10th.

Roar!

Letting out a roar in vexation, Core 5 breathed his black flames towards the skies.

Most of the top ten was held by cores with single digits. Rokuko felt that Haku, whod made her way into that, was amazing.

Moreover, although the amount of DP the person possessed was displayed alongside the rankingsince Rokuko didnt know how to read digits over one trillion, even though she understood that it was awesome and endless, she couldnt read it.

[Hmm, after all, 1, 2, and 3 are excellent. Im glad. Keep on collecting DP like youve been.]

I am extremely glad to be honored by your praise, father.

Taking a knee, Core 1 gave thanks like a knight would. Core 2 and Core 3 followed suit as though taking his lead. Core 2 and Core 3 were each respectively silver and copper colored knights. Among the first to ninety-ninth cores that were called the First Series, there was talk that [Father] made these three in particular deliberately courteous, so it was taken as natural.

Even so, after accumulating so much DP to the point that it was unreadable and still being told to collect more, Rokuko felt that they were truly in a different realm from her.

[7 and 9, do your best as well. Try to pass Core 3 if youre able alright?]

Yes, Tou-sama.

I will do my utmost.

Core 7 and Core 9 both held female forms and had green and blue hair respectively. They were called [Mountain God] and [Sea God]. Well, Haku was also called [White Goddess], so Rokuko felt they were like her.

[6, 89, 5, your positions allow you to take watch of those who rank lower. Raising them is important as well, thank you.]

Your words are too kind.

Above all, I am happy to please Otou-sama.

Oh father, this immature Core 5 is glad to be of use.

Core 6. A grim-faced man wearing an ominous black armor. Generally referred to as the [Great Demon King], he is the lead of the Demon King Faction.

Core 89. Needless to say, she was Haku. Founder of the Raverio Empire, she was Rokukos elder sister. She was called [Betrayer].

Core 5. As the only one in the top ten to not take the form of a human, he was a black dragon. He did not wish to conceal the appearance he received from [Father] and did not wish to change his form. Many reptile-type cores, Ontentoo included, chose the same. They were known as the Dragon King Faction.

[10, 8. You two have been giving it your best. You have my regards forever, keep on living alright?]

My king, I appreciate for your happiness.

I will answer your expectations with my all, master!

Core 10. He imitated [Father]s outfit, but the vestment that wrapped the old mans body was ornamented resplendently.

Core 8. Contrasting Core 10, the elder merely wore simple clothing and leaned on a cane.

[Well them, next Ill announce everything up to 699th place. Man, theres a lot of swapping around in the lower positions so its pretty fun to watch right?]

A huge landscape-oriented table appeared with much smaller writing on it than the placements for the top ten. If Kehma were here, he probably wouldve said that they were similar to test announcement tables.

It showed all dungeon cores ranking between eleventh and six hundred ninety-nine place.

It also showed what dungeons had died like Core 379. It recorded how much DP they had at that time, but no further changes.

And so Rokuko started looking around the low rankings, looking for her name.

That said, since her earnings increased drastically after Kehma arrived, she was hoping that she might be able to have escaped from the low rankings.

Then, looking from last place up she saw cores that died immediately after being produced and cores that had used all of their DP in their final struggles, going all the way to 0 DP shed looked all the way through to the four hundreds but still didnt see [695]. This continued all the way through to the three hundreds.

There were many 600 Series inside of the three hundreds, practically all of them looked different as they couldnt take human form yet.

Seeing Rokuko browsing, Core 629, an orange rabbit, piped up to Rokuko while rubbing its face.

Nikyu? Whatchu doin there 695? Arenchu at the bottom~?

Eh, ah, no, um My number, its not there. Its strange.

Youere finally forgot by papa?

I-I dont think so.

Then canchu look with the DP column? Wont miss it that way!

Oh, right.

Recalling how much DP she had, Rokuko looked through the DP rankings in front of her.

Three hundredth place, 629. 351,200 DP in possession.

Huh? Come to think of it, how much DP did I have right now? I got a lot of DP as inn fees Haku-anesama, how much was that?

And so, she looked at the DP display on the menu. After she recently put a limitation on the display for how much she could use, it had only shown around 100000 DP the whole time. It had been a long time since she checked how much total DP she had.

729,359 DP.

Un?

She rubbed her eyes and looked again.

It hadnt changed. 729,359 DP.

.. No, no no. No way. Our property should definitely be in the form of gold coins. Just a little while ago, Kehma said that if he turned all of the gold coins into DP itd be more than the DP we have now?

Eh, wait a sec. Doesnt that mean we have double this.?

And Im higher than the 350,000 DP at 300th place?

Whats the matter? Starin at the DP I saved up. I get its envious, but its no good not earnin it yourself~?

Ah, no, its just Un.

And so Rokuko made her way up through the rankings 250th place, roughly 500,000 DP.

Eh. Eh, how far up is it?

Rokuko finally found her number.

210th 695?

She looked again to make sure, but it definitely said 695. Turning around for a moment before looking back, it still said 695.

By the way, two hundredth place had 1,000,000 DP, quickly increasing to 10,000,000 DP at one hundred fiftieth place.

Fueh.

An odd smile made its way onto her face without her realizing it.