Names she recognized from news broadcasts and guild rankings slid past her thumb.
Jess grabbed her wrist. "Wait, go back."
’Vespera Ashborn - S → SSS’
’Scarlet - S → SSS’
"Yes!" Jess slapped the bench. "Finally! The Two Monarchs at the top where they belong."
"They carried most of the Claimant defense," Mira said, grinning despite herself. Some of the strongest women in the world, the Shadow Monarch and the Flame Monarch, had always been the cream of S-tier and everyone knew it.
Seeing them officially separated from the pack felt right. "SSS. That’s their lane."
"Mommy Vespera earned that ten times over," Jess nodded along sagely. She’d been a Vespera advocate since the woman had stepped onto the battlefield beside her son and turned every shadow in a three-block radius into a weapon.
Mira was in full agreement, but her thumb was already moving again. "Okay. Now where are the Sinners?"
She kept scrolling. More reclassifications. Names she half-recognized from international rankings, guild rosters, government registries.
Kaiden’s name was absent. So were Aria’s, Luna’s, and Nyx’s.
Around them, the crowd had gone weirdly quiet.
The screaming-and-praying energy from earlier had given way to something Mira had never seen: thousands of people hunched over their phones at the same time, swiping in the same direction.
"They’re not under S," Mira said.
Jess leaned closer. "SS?"
"No."
"SSS?"
Mira scrolled back up, checked every name under SSS, scrolled back down. Her stomach tightened. "They’re not anywhere in the S-tiers."
"That doesn’t make sense," Jess said. "We watched the stream. They broke the machines. There’s no way the fuckers gave them A-tier."
"Right."
"So where-"
"I don’t know, let me-"
A new section loaded.
’SECTION II: INTRODUCTION OF A NEW CLASSIFICATION’
Mira’s thumb stopped.
’During the official reassessment of Eclipse Guild members conducted today, seven (7) individuals demonstrated a phenomenon that has never been recorded in the history of standardized awakened measurement.’
’Each individual, upon contact with the Association’s measuring artifact, manifested a physical expression of their class. This manifestation occurred through the artifact alone, without external stimulus, prior preparation, or voluntary activation on the part of the individual being tested.’
’The Awakened Association has determined that this phenomenon cannot be classified within the existing lettering system. A new tier designation has been created.’
’Z-Tier: Assigned to awakened individuals whose class has undergone involuntary manifestation-level expression during standardized measurement. Z-tier does not denote a fixed power level relative to other tiers. Whether Z-tier combatants possess innately superior capability to SSS-tier awakened remains under active investigation. The designation reflects a qualitative difference in awakened expression that warrants classification outside the established scale.’
Jess wasn’t breathing.
’The following individuals have been classified as Z-Tier:’
’Aria Levander - F → Z’
’Luna Aster - F → Z’
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