Hierarchical cept

  Luo Le scratched his head and said:

  "Acc to the setting, the GTB anization has unified and rahe level of human individual assion and daandards."

  "Using Greek letters as the markers: from Alpha to Omega, a total of 24 levels."

  Lu Run scratched his head: "Why not use FEDCBA, Super A, SSS frading, much simpler."

  "…I don't know what you're implying, but as far as I know, the main reason is that the patent rights for using Greek letter ratings haven't been cimed. The pany avoid property rights fees and legal battles."

  Luo Le ughed:

  "That's iing, I've never seen a pany as stingy as Qiqiao work."

  "So, is this rating system useful?"

  "Very useful, as you noticed, the pyer's panel has a 'Total Level' that adds up the levels of the main profession and sub-professions."

  As the video was still loading, Xue Nian decided to take a break and introduce the game background to Lu Run, preventing him from being overwhelmed during work.

  "There are only six fas for main professioru, Dominance, Craft, Eerie, Plunder, and Redemption."

  "The Destru fa is known for physical output aructive power, with [Strength] as the main attribute. Initial professions include [Warrior], [Ranger], and [Assassin], with low entry barriers, suitable finners."

  "The Dominance fa, represented by Li Aozi, uses psychic abilities, akin to superheroes with various powers. Their main attribute is [Charisma], and the initial profession is [Mutant]."

  "Craft fa's main attribute is [Intelligence]—choosing Craft verts the [Will] attribute to [Intelligence]. Although Blue Star only offers initial professions of [Biochemist] and [Meic], other ps have [Magi] and [Architect] legacies."

  "The Eerie faostly deals with ghosts and evil spirits, not for the faied. Their main attribute is [Will], with initial professions of [Medium] and [Shaman]."

  "The Plunder fa includes [Gambler] and [Plunderer] as initial professions, with [Agility] as the main attribute, characterized by periodically stealing others' strengths."

  "The Redemption fa prises healers and tanks, excelling in [stitution], with initial professions of [Doctor], [Priest], and [Inquisitor]."

  "So my task is quite simple, just o shoot a [Mutant]."

  Lu Ru relieved, imagining the workload if he had to shoot all four professions of the Craft fa.

  Suddenly, he realized something was off, suspeg Xue Nian was iionally wasting time. He quickly asked:

  "Hey, you talked a lot, but what's the retioween professions and hierarchy?"

  "Don't rush." Luo Le leisurely said, wanting to sck off a bit more. "You'll uand soon."

  "In traditional games, higher levels = stronger bat power, but not in 'Star Abyss.' The level of the main profession impacts bat power more thaal level, but even more crucial is the hierarchy."

  Xue Nian expined slowly:

  "For instance, Luo Le's total level is 20, with a main profession of Destru—lv.8 [Warrior], and a sub-profession lv.12 [Hacker], making him seem like a level 20, but his bat power is only that of a lv.8 Warrior."

  "Iy, since leveling up in 'Star Abyss' is very challenging, a high total level might be from multiple low-level sub-professions, making it deceptive. But the hierarchy doesn't lie."

  Xue Nian pondered and said:

  "In the game, roughly every 20 levels form a tier, as the main profession unlocks a 'Tier Assion' quest at level 20. pleting it allows oo asd a tier."

  "Of course, 'Star Abyss' has no level cap; if you want and have time, you grind to thousands of levels."

  "As for why hierarchy is important, you check the GTB dots: they view hierarchy as a symbol of an individual's step into transdence."

  "Ordinary professional soldiers impnt a military-grade prosthetic, using it once a day before the brain 't hahe putational load. But an Alpha-tier Warrior easily impnt two sets, using them five or six times itle."

  "A regur Meic racks their brain but 't master plex meical knowledge and physius, whi Alpha-tier Mei uand at a gnce."

  "This assion based on main attributes brings about more severe dahan ordinary people."

  Xue Nian poi Li Aozi ia proje:

  "This guy has at least Beta-tier bat power, roughly equivalent to the threat level of a reinforced meized pany in Frost-Pted."

  Lu Run, unfamiliar with military terms, instinctively said: "That doesn't sound to?"

  Xue Nian gave him a strange look:

  "—The tter includes 140 professional soldiers with military-grade impnts, averaging level 15.

  Each equipped with a 5.8mm automatic rifle as the main on, disposable anti-armor rocket unchers, exoskeleton power armor to resist standard rifle bullets, four heavy mae guoon, frenade unchers, with officers carrying 0.48 caliber high-stopping power smart pistols.

  Frost-Pted has no light infantry, all mobilized by BRM 'Wolverine' armored personnel carriers, moviremely fast. Besides infantry, there are two artillery ptoons, four 125mm self-propelled gu 88mm recoilless rifles, an engioon, and a 12-man medical team."

  As a veteran, Xue Nian articurly sensitive to such things. After reading a few Frost-Pted recruitment materials, he kheir armament i.

  But for the purely ignorant Lu Run, he was dumbfounded, not grasping the cept.

  "Only 140 people, doesn't seem that strong."

  "He doesn't uand. Outsiders don't realize the bat power of professional military forces."

  Luo Le smirked, bluntly expining:

  "Simply put, a Beta-tier individual destroy the city you live in."

  "Hierarchical ratings, though based on bat power, actually indicate threat capability."

  "The mentioned force cause serious pani a ty or city of 50,000 people. If he wants, by attag water and power facilities, he force these people to flee their homes."

  "Vilges might fare better, being self-suffit, but cities ck that capability. Individual as are hidden and hard to detect."

  "Thus, the actual situation could be more severe. If a Beta-tier expert unches a terror attack, they achieve their goal before the military responds, destroying Xue Nian's mentioned ford esg."

  "As for Alpha-tier experts, they single-handedly take on SWAT and riot squads. Imagihe impact if a few of them infiltrate a protest or strike."

  The danger level suddenly became clear to Lu Run.

  "If Beta-tier is this powerful, how terrifying are ultimate Omega-tier experts?"

  If Alpha-tier's danger level causes vilge-towru, Beta-tier causes ty-city level disruption.

  Gamma-tier, by extension, could devastate a city, causing mass evacuation, turning it into scorched earth.

  Delta-tier would mean province-level disaster, dispg millions, unimaginable in scale.

  Aier would be national…

  "It's not that extreme; destroying a nation is very difficult. Besides, there are a-tier her experts on Blue Star."

  Xue Nian joked:

  "A nation, however small, has millions of people. Even killing that many pigs would take days. High danger level still requires time to act—alright, break's over, let's watch the loaded video."

  Time o act… but it's still possible, right?

  Lu Run thought, it's just a game, why worry?

  Anyway, he could respawn. The idea of an individual endangering a nation seemed far-fetched—but then again, there are differences among nations.

  The Four Nations and small tries are all nations. If individuals were s, yet the Four Nations still stood, it meant national power remained reliable.

  FAL