Both Eva and Shuangtian had displayed superior prowess. In fact, it seems that the theme of the entire Rank Up for Rank 5 yielded greater changes than all the previous Ranks combined.
This wasn't surprising really, as Rank 5 was a huge threshold for NPCs more than players. If you thought about it, it made sense.
Rank 1 was called Adventurer, Rank 2 was Lord, Rank 3 was King, Rank 4 was Emperor and Rank 5 was Demi-God.
Like damn, going right from mortal titles to godly ones? It meant that those between Rank 1 to Rank 4 still possessed power within reasonable limits that the average weakling would see and kneel to call them Emperor or King or whatever.
But if a Rank 5 were to come and display prowess, it would cause the weakling with no power to feel that they were in the presence of a Demi-God.
And as you could imagine, there was a big gap between an Emperor and a Demi-God.