Those who reincarnate must die.

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Just as everyone was discussing, the sound of machinery starting up suddenly came from around the square. (Google search reading)

With the sound of gears meshing and metal rubbing together, thirty high platforms emerged from the darkness and formed a circle around the square. Below each platform was a number, ranging from one to thirty.

Immediately afterwards, clusters of orange flames lit up on each platform, and soon many reincarnators were teleported there.

"They're veteran heroes!" Wang Defa exclaimed. "They're coming to select people for altars one through thirty!"

"Is it finally about to begin...?" Zhang Lang put on his mask and glanced at the thirty altars.

There are at most twenty or thirty people, and at least ten or so. The average number is estimated to be less than twenty, which is less than Zhang Lang's estimate.

It's important to know that a hero selection is held every few months on average, with about two hundred novice heroes selected. Divided among each altar, that's roughly six or seven people. These aren't clueless newbies; they're all top performers who have successfully navigated the Sacrifice Zone and Trial Missions!

Even with this rate of reinforcements, the number of people at the Heroic Altars isn't very high, indicating that the dimensional battlefield is still quite fierce.

Incidentally, Zhang Lang also saw several familiar faces among them, such as the maned wolf from the seventeenth altar, as well as Olissis, Zhao Ying, and other heroes who had participated in the Nine-Level Underground Palace. They had all found their respective altars.

Among them, the one who left the deepest impression on Zhang Lang was Thunder, who had always acted as his backpack. This guy was still wearing that power armor, but it seemed to have been modified and upgraded. He was now standing on the twelfth altar, the altar with only four people left, including him, making it the smallest group.

As the thirty altars were in place, a tall, middle-aged man with a thick beard stepped forward on the platform of Altar No. 1.

"That's Zeus!" Wang Defa whispered, introducing him, "The leader of Altar Number One, known as the strongest hero of the Shen Clan, the God of Reincarnation! No one knows how long he's been in the altar, or how many worlds he's experienced... It's said that the leader of Altar Number Four, Luo Wei, the founder of the Blood Gloves, once challenged him, but couldn't withstand three moves..."

"Stronger than Luo Wei, huh..." Zhang Lang glanced at the King of Bounty Hunters standing at the very front of the fourth altar, then turned to look at Zeus, the strongest hero high above.

"At least three more moves..."

Zeus raised his large, broad hand and pressed it on a huge button on the platform.

At the same time, the torch in the center shone brightly.

"The hero selection is about to begin. This selection will consist of three rounds of assessments. The specific assessment content will be determined by voting at the thirty hero altars according to your needs."

"After the assessment, the altar will comprehensively evaluate the contestants' performance, taking into account factors such as the amount of enhancements they received at the sacrificial altar and their mission completion rate, and then score and rank the contestants. Each hero altar will then select the contestants they wish to recruit based on their scores and performance."

"The top three finalists have an unlimited number of veto rights. They can refuse when chosen, until they are chosen by the altar they want to join."

"The fourth to sixth ranked contestants have three veto rights and can refuse a maximum of three times when selected."

"The seventh to ninth ranked contestants have two veto rights and can refuse a maximum of two times when selected."

"The contestants ranked tenth to twelfth have one veto right and can refuse once when selected."

"Contestants ranked thirteenth or lower have no right to veto when selected."

"Now, we hereby announce the current achievements of this year's contestants. The statistics are up to the time before the trial missions began, and the performance in the trial missions and the novice hero altar are not included."

Then, the light screen changed, and a huge leaderboard appeared in front of everyone.

The leaderboard lists four metrics: total number of enhancements held, main quest completion rate, number of matches required to qualify for advancement, and preferred combat style.

In addition to these four items, there is also a total score, which is a value obtained by multiplying the total number of enhancements by the completion rate and then dividing by the number of sessions.

The leaderboard defaults to ranking by total score. Of course, when viewing the rankings at the various hero altars, users can also re-rank the results using other criteria to filter for the talents they want.

At the top of this leaderboard is Ning Chengyu, who has a total of forty-nine enhancements, a 100% mission completion rate, and has advanced in ten matches, with a final score of 9 points.

The second-ranked player is Alicia, the female elf mentioned by Wang Defa. She has a total of 42 enhancements, and the last two are the same as Ning Chengyu's, resulting in a final total score of 2.

The third and fourth are respectively the Chosen One Soros and the Strong Zep, both with a total of thirty-two enhancements and a total score of 2.

Zhang Lang looked down and quickly found himself in the sixth position.

It showed that I had 29 thousand-point bonuses, a 90% task completion rate, and a final score of 61.

Only twenty-nine? Zhang Lang was slightly taken aback, but after thinking for a moment he understood.

This only counts the enhancements he obtained through the altar, and doesn't include those that have already been used or returned. Thinking about it carefully, most of the rewards he redeemed at the altar were returned. Especially after acquiring the ability to price items, it was 8,000 points for each reward, so even with a considerable number of points, the rewards weren't that many. Plus, he used the "zero-deposit" method in the last few worlds, so the points were mostly used to exchange for attributes. In the end, he only has less than thirty points left.

Even so, Zhang Lang still made it into the top ten, attracting considerable attention.

Continuing down the rankings, starting from eleventh place, the scores begin to be less than 1.

The top ten all had high task completion rates and were all experts who advanced ten times. The main difference in ranking was the number of enhancements. Starting from the teens, the number of enhancements became uniformly ten, while the number of advancements began to increase steadily.

This is the dividing line of strength. In this year's Shen Clan Heroes, only the top ten advanced through ten matches. According to Wang Defa, this year's competition is full of talent; in previous years, only five or six top players advanced through ten matches.

Even if you advance after playing more than ten games, you won't be able to obtain the top-tier missions, and the rewards you receive after advancing will be less than those before, further widening the gap.

This is the cruelty of the altar; if you fall behind even slightly, there's no chance to catch up...

It's worth mentioning that at the very bottom of the list is Wang Defa. Although this guy has twelve enhancements, his mission completion rate isn't very high, and with nearly sixty matches played... he truly deserves to be ranked last.

The players were discussing the rankings enthusiastically, and the veteran players on the platform were also analyzing them.

"That hunter only has less than thirty enhancements?" Ning Yi at the Third Altar looked at the leaderboard. "According to the rules of the Heavenly Punishment Mission, one hundred and thirty enhancements wouldn't be excessive for him. Is he hiding his data? Or is he preferring quality over quantity, using all his points to farm high-level enhancements?"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at Rowe at the fourth altar next door.

Luo Wei learned of Zhang Lang's appearance through the Blood Gloves used to escape the Heavenly Punishment mission, while Ning Yi found the Hunter's true identity based on the descriptions of Ning Chengyu and others... Therefore, only he currently knows that the Hunter is the Reincarnator Killer, and he has not released this information for recruitment purposes.

Luo Wei probably doesn't know that the Reincarnator Assassin has come to participate in the selection, and the other altars also don't know that this sixth-ranked hunter is the biggest dark horse of this year's competition...

Thinking this through, Ning Yi secretly considered that perhaps he could choose this hunter in the first round… After all, the fact that Ning Chengyu was his son was no secret among the hero-level beings, so no one should be willing to take him away from him, and even if they did, he could refuse. But this hunter absolutely had to be recruited to the Third Altar!

"That Reincarnator assassin didn't come..." Luo Wei's gaze swept over the two hundred-plus people below, not recognizing Zhang Lang in his black armor, and he felt a little disappointed. "Could he be like that bastard Wang Defa, trying to hide in the sacrifice area? That shouldn't be the case; his enhancements should have already exceeded the limit..."

The other altar leaders were also analyzing and planning what kind of assessment to take.

Soon, the time for consideration came, and the altar released the available assessment options.

There are about twenty options in total, covering all aspects of the reincarnator's abilities.

Looking at these options, the various hero altars began to discuss how to vote, and the players also discussed how to pass these bizarre tests.

"Are these options the same every year?" Zhang Lang asked Wang Defa, who was sitting next to him.

"It's different." Wang Defa adjusted his glasses. "Although the direction of the assessments is similar, the specific tasks and the worlds we need to go to are different each year..."

"For example, look at the fifth option: cross the Karaman Mountains as quickly as possible. This is clearly a test of the reincarnator's off-road mobility. But last year, the test of mobility was crossing the Gam Jungle. The specific tasks were different, and the worlds we went to were also different."

"This is partly to reduce the impact on the mission world, and partly to prevent participants from the previous year from leaking the questions. After all, there are countless mission worlds; changing the setting is just the same thing."

Zhang Lang nodded.

At this point, the results of the first round of voting at the various altars were released.