Chapter 0

The above is the current top fifty list of individual combat power in Wan Jia Xiong Meng.

Several points are particularly noteworthy—no members of the Templars or Whalesong, or other societies, are on the list. Only one member of the Extraordinary Society is listed. The Global Supernatural Alliance, the Special Affairs Bureau, and the Clock Tower each have three members, while the Demon Scientist Alliance has four.

At the same time, a guild called the European Heavy Industries Group surprisingly has six players on the list, surpassing all other forces.

Those unfamiliar with the inside story may be extremely surprised by this.

To be precise, the European Heavy Industries Group is not a guild in the true sense. In the real world, it is a high-tech enterprise with the same name, and its business scope overlaps with that of Prometheus Laboratory Company in many ways.

And its backers are the major consortia in the real world—the old forces led by the consortia have extensively deployed around the world.

[Dawn] ranked 17th, and [Colonial Isomer] ranked 19th, are talents they cultivated themselves.

Daheitian, ranked 42nd, is a transcendent from South Asia who practices the seven-chakra power system of India. He was discovered and funded by the European Heavy Industries Group.

Yushe, ranked 44th, and Mutrees, ranked 47th, are two of the four emperors of South America. Ant King, ranked 50th, is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea—they all have their own power in the real world and are considered to be semi-acquired and semi-allied by the European Heavy Industries Group.

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The remaining eight days passed quickly, and the [Domain Corridor] stage came to an end.

In the end, Li Ang's score in the second stage was nine wins and one loss.

The loss was on the last day of the stage, when he encountered the Tribunal player [uriel], ranked eleventh.

The battle between the two took place on the snow-covered summit of a mountain, with wind and snow raging. Uriel's image was that of a short-haired man with a halo on his head, wearing a robe, and holding a scepter. He had deep eye sockets, a high nose bridge, blond hair, and blue eyes. Wielding the scepter, he could summon lightning from the sky.

[uriel] was also surrounded by a group of Cupid cherubs holding wooden bows and lead arrows. Whenever Li Ang tried to get close, these Cupids would shoot arrows to force Li Ang back—all the lead arrows were attached with energy that made Li Ang feel uncomfortable, making him not want to approach them at all.

Moreover, these Cupid cherubs had extremely accurate archery skills, able to precisely shoot down the stone spears that Li Ang threw, and the bullets of the Zerg units could also help uriel block a thing or two.

After several attempts to break through, Li Ang found that only Finger Dissociation Technique and vines formed by a large amount of Swamp Divinity could penetrate uriel's outer defenses.

He had already won nine games before, and based on the data, he was sure to qualify.

Moreover, more trump cards, such as divine power and other Zerg units, were all prepared by Li Ang for use in the third stage.

Using them in the battle with [uriel] would not only reveal the trump cards in advance, but also consume a lot of divine power, so that he would not be able to enter the third stage in perfect condition.

Taking everything into consideration, Li Ang, who did not use his full strength, lost to [uriel] with a score of 7:10.

The competition of 500 advancing to 300 ended just like that.

Two hundred players who only got five wins, four wins, or even fewer were eliminated, and the remaining three hundred continued to prepare for the next third stage of three hundred advancing to fifty.

As before, Wan Jia Xiong Meng gave the contestants a full 120 hours of adjustment and rest time after the [Domain Corridor] project ended.

At the same time, it also released the schedule rules for the third stage.

The next stage, called [Lost World], will see 300 players transported to a vast, semi-enclosed venue for a seven-day survival elimination round.

Survival means that the venue contains a large number of dangers, and even players can capsize in the gutter if they are not careful.

Elimination refers to players being able to attack each other, forcing their opponents to admit defeat and surrender, directly teleporting them out of the venue, or even killing them directly.

In the end, when the number of surviving players reaches fifty, the third stage will automatically end, and the remaining players will enter the formal Doorway battle.

If the seven days end and the number of players is still more than fifty, then the system will conduct a test, eliminating all players with lower ratings until the remaining number reaches fifty.

In order to encourage players to fight each other, [Lost World] adopts the same incentive competition system as the Sky Arena.

The more fiercely the players fight, the more likely they are to receive rewards from the so-called "supervisors"—

Moreover, judging from the hints in the system description, the generosity of this round of rewards will far exceed that of the past.

In addition, the [Lost World] stage also has a feature, that is, the degree of interaction with the real world is very high.

Half an hour after the system notification arrived, the Watchers Society, in conjunction with the Global Supernatural Alliance, issued a statement—

They have been authorized by the Wan Jia Xiong Meng system to broadcast the [Lost World] stage to the real world in real time.

It is a broadcast rather than a live broadcast. The Wan Jia Xiong Meng system still controls the perspective.

The Watchers Society and the Global Supernatural Alliance can only send people to comment.

And the meaning of the broadcast...

According to the Watchers Society, all viewers who watch the [Lost World] stage in real time (including but not limited to using televisions, mobile phones, and radios), whether they are players or ordinary people, will be able to obtain ten virtual chips, which can be used to participate in betting.

The betting content can be which players will eventually qualify, which players will be eliminated in the first 24 hours, the outcome of encounters between players, and so on.

If you can guess correctly multiple times in a row, the minimum reward is a miniature life potion that can cure all common diseases, and the maximum is... a player qualification, and a perfect-level set that is bound to the individual.