prynovel Chapter 4143 Scoring Rules
Chapter 4143 Scoring Rules
Chapter 4143 Scoring Rules
“Montedan?” Gray Porcelain was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized something: “Ah, you’re the Montedan who left us a message saying we used a cheat to beat the game?!”
Montessane looked a little embarrassed and nodded slightly.
The rabbit girl then added, "It's also that Montedan who was hiding nearby, eavesdropping on our conversation."
Montedan didn't understand what it meant at first, until Angor used illusion magic to create a row of words in front of him—
"Montedan has slightly changed his opinion of you."
"Points +10"
Montedan instantly understood, a hint of embarrassment flashing across his gray-black face.
“I…” Montedan wanted to say that he hadn’t eavesdropped. But seeing the rabbit girl and Gray Porcelain staring at him with “let’s see how you make this up” looks, he hesitated for a moment and said quietly, “I wasn’t eavesdropping.”
"I listen openly and honestly! I observe openly and honestly!"
After saying this, Montedan's expression became increasingly self-righteous, and his words seemed to carry more weight: "The great power of the Fairy Realm has given me the 'right of approval' to exercise discretion. If I don't observe you, how can I give you a score?"
“Like this sentence.” Montedan pointed to the line of “Points +10” text that Angor had created with illusion: “It is because I observed you that I can give you points, isn’t it?”
Rabbit Girl and Gray Porcelain were speechless after being refuted by Montedan's righteous words.
Moreover, upon reflection on what the other person said, it seems... to make some sense?
Angell: "Hey, the point isn't about observation and eavesdropping, but isn't the score you gave us a little too low?"
Gray Porcelain then realized what was happening and puffed out her chest, saying, "That's right! We clearly cleared the level, but you only gave us ten points and accused us of cheating. Isn't that too little?"
Montedan's eyes darted around: "...The power of the Fairy Realm gave me discretion. How I score, and how many points I give, is my right."
Gray Porcelain sneered: "Then it's our freedom not to tell you how we cleared the level!"
"Besides, can't you observe? If you want to know how we cleared the level, go back and observe it yourself!"
Montedan was silent for a moment, then said softly, "I can only go back to the illusion, but I cannot go back to the real Nereid Pass."
At this point, Montedan also felt somewhat helpless.
He never imagined that "Rabbit Hole" could clear the real-life Nereid so quickly, so he went to observe other teams' Dream Challenges. If he had known "Rabbit Hole" was so amazing, he would have secretly followed and observed them all along.
Now, because he doesn't know the whole process, he can't even give a rating.
Without a rating, the Wonderland Powers cannot generate settlement information.
Even though the powers of the Fairy Realm didn't "speak," the fact that they directly sent Montedan to the sanctuary platform made their urging quite clear.
Of course, Montessori could just give it any score and pass, since he has the discretion to approve it.
However, Montessane himself is not a casual person.
Just like the topic that Gray Porcelain and Rabbit Girl discussed before: He is a person who pursues procedural justice.
He needs to know the process in order to give his honest evaluation.
But now, with Grey Porcelain adopting a "I won't cooperate" attitude, Montedan is somewhat at a loss for what to do...
Ultimately, it all comes down to my underestimating the strength of the "Rabbit Hole" team.
After some thought, Montedan decided to take the initiative to admit his mistake and sincerely explained his predicament and the truth behind the current rating.
Two minutes later.
After hearing Montedan's sincere apology, Gray Porcelain's eyes and attitude softened noticeably. However, he knew very well that he couldn't make the decision, so he silently stepped back and gave the spotlight to Angel and the rabbit girl.
The rabbit girl didn't say anything, but just silently looked at Angel.
Angell understood her meaning, cleared his throat, and looked at Montedan: "So what you're trying to say is that the Fairy Realm's power isn't providing settlement information because you're dragging your feet on scoring?"
Montessone looked ashamed and nodded hastily.
Angel raised an eyebrow: "You insist on knowing the process before you'll give a score?"
Montedan's lips moved slightly, and he said softly, "I can give a score directly, but I don't want to give a score arbitrarily while being misled. That would be irresponsible to my work as an observer."
Even if Montand insists on delaying the scoring, he must pursue procedural justice.
This surprised Angell somewhat.
He thought for a moment and asked, "So, if we tell you the process, will you re-acknowledge our scores?"
Montessori nodded: "Okay, I will re-evaluate your scores according to the established process..."
After a moment's hesitation, Montedan added, "But it won't be a perfect score."
He hadn't originally intended to add that sentence, but since he had already laid it all out, he decided to make everything clear.
"Why can't it be a perfect score?" Gray Porcelain, who had already retreated, poked his head out from beside Angel after hearing Montedan's words.
Montedan clearly anticipated their questions and calmly explained, "My approval score is a composite score from both battles."
"I've already scored the normal difficulty level for you, according to my plan."
Montedan pointed again to the illusionary text that read "Score +10," indicating that this was the regular score he gave Rabbit Hole.
“My standard is that the maximum score for the normal difficulty is 30 points, while the maximum score for the perfect version is 20 points.” Montedan: “So even if I approve of your challenge this time, I will only give you a maximum of 20 points.”
Upon hearing this, Gray Porcelain immediately expressed his dissatisfaction: "That's not right, the Perfect Challenge version of Nereid is so difficult! And your perfect score is only 20 points?"
"The Dream version of Nereid is so simple, yet you gave it a perfect score of 30. That's so unfair!"
Montedan said calmly, "This is the standard I set from the beginning, because only a few people can perfectly complete Nereid."
"After learning about the mechanics of Nereid, I even speculated that by the time the countdown to the Sandbox Wonderland ended, no one might have a perfect run of Nereid."
"In this situation, I will shift the higher score to the normal version and give less score to the perfect completion. This way, even if the Challenger Team only completes the normal version, I can still give them a slightly higher score."
Montessori only had 50 points of approval rating, and he put three-fifths of those points into the standard version, also for the sake of the Challenger team.
But who could have imagined that the Rabbit Hole team would actually beat Nereid, a game he thought was almost impossible to complete perfectly, and do so so quickly.
This left him completely bewildered, and he even began to doubt whether the information about the perfect version of Nereid that the Fairy Realm had given him was wrong.
This is one of the reasons why he was so determined to know the process of the challenge.
Gray porcelain... I've been convinced again.
Montessori thought that probably no one would be able to complete the game perfectly, so he put most of the points into the standard edition, a point he thought made a lot of sense.
Because Gray Porcelain often identifies with the role of an "ordinary person," he believes that if he hadn't been with Angell and the Rabbit Girl, they would definitely not have passed this challenge.
The real-life version of Nereid is too difficult; Montdan's way of allocating points is perfectly reasonable.
So, the gray porcelain stopped arguing and silently retracted its head back into the teapot.
Angor didn't care about Montedan's score allocation; what he cared about was: "Are the scores for the normal version and the perfect version separate, as required by the Wonderland's powers?"
Their challenge certainly won't end here; they'll inevitably move on to other levels. If the scoring criteria are the same for every level, then getting a perfect score from the NPCs will be quite difficult.
Montedan shook his head: "No, I set this scoring standard myself."
Angell: "...So, you could actually give us full marks."
Montedan shook his head: "No, I set the standards, and I will enforce them. Even if I could change them, I wouldn't. That's my principle!"
Angel: "..." What principles of conduct? You're clearly a half-blood demon!
Angell: "I don't mean for you to change our scores, but I want to know if observers like you can set the scoring criteria completely at your own discretion? For example, if an observer likes a certain team, they can just give them a perfect score of 50?"
Montand declared righteously, "I will not do that!"
He paused, then added, "As for the other observers, I don't know their rating criteria. But if their ratings are based on human factors, the situation you described is possible."
Angell understood.
Simply put, the rating of special NPCs is very subjective; they can be rated however they want, depending entirely on the NPC's own opinion.
The person they encountered, Montedan, was extremely concerned with procedural justice, so his scoring criteria were rather rigid. He would rather delay the settlement of the Fairy Powers than not know the process.
The next level might be an NPC who only cares about the result, or even an NPC who only cares about appearance.
Thinking about it this way, the approval score for this special NPC is indeed a bit too arbitrary.
Montedan: "While it's possible to give a team a perfect score just because you like them, I personally think that's unlikely."
"The supreme divine power awakened us and granted us the right to make our own judgments, which must be because it discovered our pursuit of fairness. As you said, those who score based solely on first impressions are unlikely to appear in the observer team... Of course, this is just my guess, and the divine power still has the final say."
Angell nodded, indicating that he understood.
"I have now answered your questions. Can you tell me about the battle?" Montedan looked slightly anxious. Although he insisted on his own scoring criteria, he still felt bad about delaying the final score calculation of the Fairy Realm's powers.
As time went by, this guilt grew stronger.
Angell: "I can tell you, but I'd like to ask one last question."
Although eager, Montedan nodded: "Ask away."
Angell: "What is the meaning of your recognition?"
What is the significance of recognition?
Montedan was bewildered: "What does this mean?"
Angell: "What I'm trying to say is that the powers of the Fairy Realm shouldn't be assigning an observer position out of nowhere, or even giving you discretionary authority."
“The existence of observers is definitely meaningful. If it’s just about getting you to rate things, I think it’s completely unnecessary.”
Doesn't the Wonderland power score itself?
Angell believed that Wonderland's own scoring would be more fair and objective.
The observers' ratings are highly subjective, as evidenced by Montandan's 10/10 score for their first round of the standard challenge. They even initially gave it a 0/10, only adding it because they agreed with Montandan's ideas.
Angor couldn't see any point in such subjective scoring, other than making the final scores of each team vary in multiple dimensions.
Therefore, in his view, the fact that the Fairy Realm has set up an observer recognition mechanism suggests that it must have other intentions.
Montedan roughly understood what Angor meant. He pondered for a moment, then gently shook his head: "I don't know how to answer you. At least for now, the only task that the Fairy Realm's powers have given us is to score the challenger teams."
Under his extrasensory perception, Angor was certain that Montedan was not lying.
Although the observers did not know the significance of the recognition mechanism, Ingres still insisted that there must be some hidden meaning behind it.
However, since Montessori didn't know, Angell didn't pursue the matter any further.
"Now can you tell me about your challenge?" Montedan asked expectantly.
Angel nodded and briefly recounted the battle.
During the narration, Angor actually considered whether to tell a small lie: after all, Montedan was a person who pursued procedural justice. He could perhaps lean towards a procedural justice narrative, for example, by fabricating the battle process according to how an ordinary challenger team would challenge Nereid.
In that case, Montessori's score should be higher.
But in the end, Angell chose to tell the truth.
I mainly feel that it's unnecessary...
Moreover, Montedan is now under the "mandate" of the Fairy Realm's powers. Since the Fairy Realm's powers have given him discretionary power, they may have also given him the authority to authenticate documents. In that case, lying might backfire.
Therefore, Angell was just telling the truth.
After hearing Angor's account, Montedan looked somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected that they had managed to hunt Nereid by relying on the boundary-crossing penalty mechanism of the shelter platform.
"So that's how it was solved," Montedan exclaimed with admiration. The idea was truly imaginative, yet effective.
Angell asked curiously, "Given your pursuit of procedural justice, do you know what the normal strategy process is?"
Montedan shook his head: "There are walkthroughs for the regular version, but there definitely won't be one for the perfect version. The Challenger Team will have to use their best skills to clear it."
In other words, without any special abilities or items, it is virtually impossible to perfectly complete Nereid.
In summary: there is no fixed strategy; the only strategy is to "use your own methods".