"The number one student on the hierarchy owns the building at the very top of the skyscraper, closest to the sky."
"The second student owns the second floor, and like that, ownership goes downward. Of course, there are some students who will have to stay on the same floors as others..."
"Why is the top one on the hierarchy list placed on the topmost floor, you may ask?"
"Well, we all know one thing a cultivator cannot do without, and that is Apex Energy!"
"This is where your hierarchy comes in."
"You see, that shimmering curtain of blue you see is an artifact that absorbs Apex Energy from the surrounding area for thousands of kilometers."
"And it acts as a blackhole that sucks Apex Energy, distributing it to whatever is placed within its boundary, which is the dorm room."
"But the skyscraper itself is built with special materials such that the top of the skyscraper is constructed with a metal that absorbs the largest amount of Apex Energy."
"The concentration of that metal decreases downwards."
"That means at the utmost top, holding the greatest concentration of the Apex Energy-absorbing metal, the concentration of Mana is at a full 100%, as it is always absorbing the most mana from the Apex Energy curtain."
"The only person worth staying in that building is the one who is number one on the hierarchy."
"The second floor of the Apex structure holds the second-highest concentration of the Apex Energy-absorbing metal, and therefore also absorbs the second-highest amount of concentration. But this concentration is half of the first block."
"That means the second-best amongst you only uses 50% of the total concentration of mana as the guy on the first floor."
"This continues halving and halving until the last unfortunate guy on the ranking..." The man said with a chuckle, but the geniuses didn't find it funny at all. The reason was simple.
"So yes, as you can all guess, the cultivation speed of the guy in the number one floor will be thousands of times faster than, say, the guys on the 100th to 250th floor!"
"Even if he is using a crappy cultivation technique, he would still make no problem cultivating just as fast as you guys using the best cultivation technique."
"And if he also just happens to have a good cultivation technique, then the chances of you guys ever catching up to him decreases based on how low on the floor plane you are."
"There is already a disparity of strength amongst you all, but not that wide. You all are almost as strong as the other."
"But I'll say, in just a few weeks from now, some of you will be given so much gap that you'll never be able to catch up to your mates until eternity..."
"Now, I wonder if there are some of you regretting not having taken the hierarchy test a bit more seriously. Hehehehe..." Instructor Ferdinand said as some of the students clicked their tongues.
Of course, there were some of them that didn't want to attract too much attention and did not go all out, but now, that will be costing them so much...
"Fuck!" Ryuk himself thought in his head.
It had never occurred to him that the hierarchy test would hold so much weight.
Thankfully, he had gotten lost in the battle and had moved faster than he had thought, ending up in the top ten. It would have been way worse if he had ended up in the top 30 like he was formerly planning.
"But hey, It isn't like the guy ranked last on the hierarchy won't have mana in his building at all."
"He would actually have, in fact, perhaps even greater than the best cultivation rooms in the other grades. Grade A is the most powerful and highly concentrated mana area in the entire Endearth after all."
"So even if you're the last, your cultivation speed would still increase at a jawdropping level compared to those in the other grades. Although, it will be nothing compared to the top of the top in this place..." The man said, perhaps to help those who were feeling sad, but it didn't do much.
"And besides, this hierarchy ranking of you guys is not completely set in stone. In a month or two from now, there will be another hierarchy test, where you all will be given an equal chance. Perhaps that time, you would take better advantage of it."
"With the dorm room having been said, let's check out the next most important building in the entire place, and it is called the Apex Store!" Sir Ferdinand said and moved the platform higher in the air, making the various buildings seem clearer.
"You all look at that rectangular building..." The man said, pointing to a rectangular building at the side, and they all turned to see the black-looking structure made of some mysterious gem stone that seemed to absorb all the light onto itself, making it shiny and incredibly eye-catching.
"That is the Apex Store, and what does it do, you all may ask?"
"Well, it is the second-best place to be after your dorm room, as within it lies the best of the best cultivation techniques Endearth has to give. Battle techniques that can split an entire world in half, and even some domain techniques that can freeze up time and space itself..."
"This Apex Store contains all you need for anything to do with a cultivator being powerful."
"And I already know some of you are thinking in your hearts that,
'Well, I'm a genius from the top ten most powerful families of Endearth. My family's cultivation techniques are superior to whatever may be inside that..."
"Well, then I'm sorry to burst your bubble. To compare your family's cultivation techniques to the cultivation techniques in this place is to compare a diamond with an ordinary stone..."
"Trash still wouldn't do justice to your family's cultivation technique compared to the Apex Store..." The man said with a cold humph and pride as the geniuses shifted their eyes away in suspicion.
"And there's only one way to acquire all of these incredibly powerful cultivation techniques and battle techniques..."