Everyone's playing Red Giant? I, Black Hole, devour everything!

However, he also knew that this devouring behavior was the most extreme form of competition in Universe Online.

Those who are devoured will lose everything and will be unable to recover for ten years.

That's why no one would easily resort to such methods.

Unless someone like Wang Hao deliberately walks into a trap to die.

"Wang Hao, oh Wang Hao..." Lin Tian sighed softly, his eyes devoid of any pity. "If you hadn't been so determined to kill me, how could I have ended up like this?"

With his thoughts settled, Lin Tian began to plan his next skill point allocation strategy.

Now, its mass has reached a considerable value, and with the significant increase in its gravitational coefficient, the gravitational field strength of the primordial black hole is now vastly different from what it used to be.

But quality alone is not enough.

He needs to increase the spacetime curvature attribute as soon as possible.

Because the higher the spacetime curvature, the larger the event horizon.

The event horizon is the most crucial weapon of a black hole.

Inside it, even light cannot escape.

Once the enemy is dragged into the event horizon, all their resistance will become meaningless, and they will simply become part of the black hole.

Moreover, spacetime curvature has an even more important function.

That is to resist the gravitational field suppression of other observers.

If the gravitational fields of two observers collide, the gravitational field of the one with higher spacetime curvature is more stable and less likely to be torn apart by the other.

Although there are almost no people in the Seventh Star District who can rival Lin Tian now, what about in the future?

The battle for star sectors has only just begun, and more and more powerful figures will emerge in the future.

Observers from other star sectors may even travel across the region to observe.

At that time, if one's spacetime curvature cannot keep up, even with a super trump card like a black hole, one will inevitably be caught in a tough battle.

With that thought in mind, Lin Tian no longer hesitated.

He invested all the attribute points he gained from this devouring, along with some of the points he had previously accumulated, into spacetime curvature.

Spacetime curvature +10

Spacetime curvature +10

Spacetime curvature +10

……

As points were continuously invested, Lin Tian could clearly feel that the spacetime around the Primordial Black Hole became even more distorted.

The horizon of events is slowly expanding outward, like a sleeping giant slowly opening its mouth.

The already enormous gravitational field became even more solid and profound.

The surrounding interstellar dust and gas began to fall toward the black hole at an even faster speed, creating dazzling light through friction within the accretion disk.

However, these rays of light were quickly hidden again by the gravitational lens.

To outsiders, Lin Tian's place was still just an ordinary star, showing no signs of anything unusual.

"That's about it." Lin Tian nodded in satisfaction.

Before the words were finished, a golden announcement popped up on the personal panel of every observer without warning.

[Star Sector Leaderboard Now Unlocked]

The leaderboards unlocked this time include: New Player Leaderboard, Overall Server Power Leaderboard, Guild Leaderboard, and Star Region Contribution Leaderboard.

Lin Tian was slightly taken aback.

The leaderboard is unlocked?

He had heard his homeroom teacher, Zhao Yan, mention it a few times before.

After the newbie protection period ends, all observers will automatically be added to the leaderboard.

He immediately brought up the leaderboard interface and glanced at the description.

A sector is a region divided according to geographical area.

The entire Great Xia Kingdom was divided into thirty-four star regions, each covering tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people.

And where he is now is the Seventh Star Sector.

The total number of observers in the seventh star sector is over 60 million.

More than 60 million!

This number made Lin Tian secretly gasp.

Keep in mind that this is only one sector.

The total number of observers across the thirty-four star sectors of the Great Xia Kingdom, plus those from other countries, is simply astronomical.

The so-called combat power index is a comprehensive assessment of the observer's strength by the rankings.

There are many evaluation indicators, but the two most important ones are brightness and volume.

This is precisely why the red giant and blue giant routes are so popular.

After all, one focuses on size and the other on brightness, both aiming for high combat power indices on the leaderboard.

However, none of this has anything to do with Lin Tian.

His primordial black hole had neither brightness nor volume.

Its brightness is almost zero, and its size is pitifully small.

If calculated using the conventional combat power index, he probably wouldn't even be able to touch the bottom of the rankings.

Lin Tian didn't seem to care.

For him, rankings are far less important than actual quality.

The power of a black hole is not determined by its brightness and size.

However, just as he was about to close the leaderboard and continue consuming the surrounding interstellar matter, he suddenly froze.

His gaze was fixed on the top line of the newbie leaderboard.

[New Player Ranking (Seventh Star Zone)]

[First Place: Lin Tian]

[Combat power index assessment in progress...]

Brightness Index: 0

Volume index: 0

[Mass Index: 1890 solar masses]

[Gravity coefficient: 97]

Spacetime curvature: Level 1

Overall combat strength index: 12800

[Rank: First Place]

Lin Tian was stunned when he saw the ranking.

First place?

He's in first place?!

Moreover, the brightness and volume figures above clearly show two zeros.

Two zeros!

This is absolutely unique on the entire ranking list!

You should know that all the other newcomers on the list have maximized brightness and size.

Even the one ranked second, named "Zhao Tianyu," has a combat power index of 3800, a brightness index of over 300, and a volume index of over 200.

What about Lin Tian?

Both of these are zero!

He broke in by sheer force of mass and gravity!

Not only did they break in, they also surged to first place!

"This..." Lin Tian was at a loss for words, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

He didn't expect to perform well on the leaderboard, since the black hole approach is completely out of step with the mainstream.

Unexpectedly, the cosmic will's combat power assessment algorithm did not only consider brightness and size.

Or rather, the algorithm for calculating the combat power index for black holes has been changed.

Red giants and blue giants require volume and luminosity, but if the goal is to create a black hole, the metrics might become mass and gravity.

This explains his ranking.

"However, I'm afraid I'm going to become famous now..." Lin Tian shook his head helplessly.

Sure enough, the moment the rankings were announced, the entire newbie channel in the Seventh Star Zone exploded.

"Holy crap! Did you guys even look at the newbie leaderboard? Who the hell is that Lin Tian in number one?!"

"Brightness and size are both zero?! How was this combat power index calculated?"

"Twelve thousand eight? Am I seeing things? That's almost ten thousand points higher than second place!"

"Mass... 1,890 solar masses? Gravitational coefficient of 97? Is this some kind of newbie's data?"

"Is this guy cheating? How could the will of the universe calculate such data?"

"Cheating? You're cheating in front of the will of the universe? Show me how!"

"This Lin Tian...could he be the one who triggered the hidden route before?"

"Hidden route? What hidden route?"

"You didn't know? Three days ago, the Will of the Universe issued a server-wide announcement saying that someone had triggered some kind of black hole route, and that person's name is Lin Tian!"

"Holy crap! It was him! No wonder!"

"A black hole... what exactly is that? Its brightness and volume are zero, yet its mass and gravity are so outrageous?"

"How exactly is this combat power algorithm calculated? Zero brightness and zero volume, how can it be ranked first?"

"I'm puzzled too. Could it be that the power calculation method for black holes is different from the mainstream approach? You know, if you follow the giant star approach, gravity and mass don't contribute to power at all!"

"I also feel it's because the black hole algorithm is different. Lin Tian really got incredibly lucky..."