[Ace POV],

......

[Status],historical

[Name: Ace Blaze],

[Age: 17],

[Race: High Human [Homo sapiens]/?????],

[Job: Alchemist lord],

[Origin Ability: Transmutation[Evolvable]],

[Level: 25[83%][Rank 1]],

[Store],

[Affiliation: None],

[Map],

[Contact],

[Ranking: Rank 62],

[Title: Advanced Alchemist[Active], Alchemist Lord[Inactive]],

[Tamed Beast: Blue[Level 5]],

.....

"Why did it increase so suddenly?" I considered this as I crossed my arms and raised my right hand to delicately rub my chin.

If my memory serves me correctly, I was only ranked 72, but why is it that I suddenly rose through the ranks by another 10 ranks?

The rank section was what I was going to address next after my job because it was already amazing that I was able to enter the top 100 on the human leaderboard immediately after evolving.

I originally assumed it was because of my job—I was already in the top 100—but it appears that the Primordial Chronicle may have estimated my strength to determine my rank, and aside from my job, I can't think of anything else that might have propelled me into the top 100.

After evolving, my mana pool did increase to more than three times its pre-evolution size, and my strength did further increase as the physique I had before did not change during the evolution; instead, it got stronger, making me physically stronger than what I believe should have been my original strength had I not used all of my level-ups to enhance my physique.

After leaving the mansion, I did some playing with my two elements—fire and earth—and noticed that my affinity for them had also seemed to grow.

There wasn't exactly a monster in the alternate dimension for me to test my strength on because punching rocks or casting spells was only going to give me an idea of my current power and not the real deal. However, if it was these three that gave me my former rank, then I can only say that my base capabilities now without my ability was so amazing that I had not yet realised it.

I think I might have to return to the true world, though.

'Aside from wanting to fully test my power, I should also look for a way to earn coins to send a message to my family,' I reasoned, remembering that my family was already in the true world, and while this proved that they were still alive, the fact that I didn't know a thing about their current condition was still on my mind, but the number of gold coins required to even send the shortest of all messages was an obstacle that I needed to overcome.

I shook my head to clear my mind of these issues because thinking about them wouldn't help, and then I concentrated on my rank. But then I had another thought, which caused me to pause before reaching out to take the rock I had previously transformed into gold from my storage ring.

I gazed at the little solid gold in my fingers and wondered whether I could generate my own money.

......

[Gold],

A transmuted product of a talented alchemist.

......

I quickly read through the content before turning to look at the panel that was floating in front of me. I then went to the store section's exchange sub-option to determine whether I could exchange the gold I was holding for actual gold coins from the Primordial Chronicle.

At this point, I was more concerned about whether or not my plan would actually work than I was about why my rank had suddenly climbed.

[Exchange Gold for 17 Gold coins?],

'Yes'

Immediately after the primordial chronicle validated my thoughts, the rock in my hands began to dematerialize with a weak glow as I saw it gradually disappear from my hands.

"It worked," I said as I prepared to sprint out to the mountain ranges in the alternate dimension to begin making gold before anything else when a panel unexpectedly materialised in front of me.

[It was discovered that the entity-Ace Blaze had exchanged a product made using his origin ability; to prevent abuse, the entity-Ace Blaze is only permitted to execute this once per day with at least a high-rare grade of the exchange item],

All the plans that had already begun to form in my thoughts came to an abrupt halt as I flung them out of my head after seeing the notification that appeared on the panel in front of me.

"If I had known, I would have taken advantage of the first time," I said as I started to consider whether my circumstance was unusual or typical among humans and other beings who also had the capacity to make things through magic.

It was improbable that I was the only person in the world with the ability to create something from either nothing or something, so perhaps this specific situation wasn't unique to me and was the primordial chronicle's fair way of defending against people who were like me.

In any case, I was unable to visualise myself and did not attempt to transform anything deemed rare.

I shook my head as I considered this and simply focused on what I had been doing before.

Since no one was there to contradict my thought, I'm not sure if it was correct or not. In that sense, it was merely a thought and not confirmed.

I believe that one's strength affected one's leaderboard ranking; the stronger one was, the higher the person's rank, and whoever it was who was juggling it was the primordial chronicle. For instance, if I was level 5 and suddenly jumped to level 10, I had become stronger, so my rank should have increased to the appropriate rank, but the thing is that after evolution, I did not even have a level up accumulated to even level up, so why did it suddenly raise to rank 72?

I could only think of one thing for this, my origin ability.

The difference between when I first evolved and right now is that I am more familiar with my origin ability, thus the primordial chronicle may have concluded that it increased my battle prowess.

As there was no one to confirm for me, I'm not sure whether this was accurate, but I suppose it did improve my rank. Speaking of ranks, I'm curious to see how much the leaderboard has changed and what position Andrew Dawn is.

'Will he be in the top 5?'