Chapter 1 The Beginning

Xu Jingming and his team of five transformed into five streams of light, landing in a desolate wilderness.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming looked ahead. Across the vast wilderness, a massive alien army was approaching in the distance.

"Limo Team, in the qualifiers, your weapons and equipment are infinitely supplied. However, your stamina consumption and injuries cannot be restored by the system until the end of the qualifiers. Please allocate your stamina reasonably." A voice echoed in the ears of Xu Jingming and his team, "In five minutes, the orc legion in front of you will launch an attack! What you have to do is completely eliminate this orc legion."

"The orc legion consists of a total of one thousand orc soldiers. The number of soldiers killed by all participating teams will be publicly displayed in real-time!"

"Killing all the orc soldiers will be considered as eliminating the orc legion."

"Remember, only the thirty teams that complete the task the fastest will be able to enter the main competition."

Xu Jingming and his team of five immediately began preparing their weapons and equipment.

"Five people against a legion?" Wang Yi said, "Fortunately, weapons and equipment are infinitely supplied, otherwise, we wouldn't even be able to carry so many arrows."

"Pay attention to the reasonable allocation of stamina," Xu Jingming said, "Everyone must wear armor, definitely not leather armor. I can see… a large number of orc legion cavalry are carrying bows and arrows."

"They're mounted archers," Yang Qingshuo nodded solemnly, "And there are heavy cavalry too. What are those army generals riding? Such huge mounts!"

Xu Jingming and his team chose their equipment and weapons while carefully observing the orc legion in the distance.

The orcs had brown skin and ugly faces. The most numerous among them were infantry! There were also snow wolf light cavalry carrying bows and arrows, as well as even more terrifying heavy cavalry, and vaguely visible generals, all riding huge dire dragons.

At this moment, the orc legion was also observing the five humans, and the generals had already begun to give orders to their subordinates.

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In the Xia Country official live broadcast room, the number of viewers had now exceeded 1 billion! It could be said that at this late hour, the vast majority of people in Xia Country were watching the Xia Country official live broadcast.

"821 God-level teams," the host Liu Xin said, "Each God-level team needs to eliminate an orc legion, and only the 30 teams that complete the task the fastest will be able to enter the main competition, and have the opportunity to face teams led by Teacher Liu Hai and Teacher Lei Yunfang."

"This qualifier mechanism is quite interesting," Liu Hai nodded in evaluation, "The number of soldiers killed by all participating teams is publicly displayed in real-time. This means that every team can know the number of kills of other teams. Even teams that are hiding their strength… must ensure that they are in the top 30!"

"Teams outside the top thirty will need to be more adventurous and fight harder. Otherwise, even if they eliminate the orc legion, if they are outside the top thirty, they will still be eliminated," Lei Yunfang nodded, "And it seems that this orc legion is not easy to deal with."

"I can tell the two teachers," Liu Xin looked at the information in his hand and said with a smile, "The design difficulty of the orc legion is such that the vast majority of God-level teams will be wiped out. The pass rate is controlled at about 10%."

"One-tenth?" Liu Hai and Lei Yunfang both nodded slightly.

"If they risk pursuing speed, the pass rate may be further reduced," Liu Xin said, "Of course, there will still be thirty teams that pass! Please believe in the calculation ability of the virtual world system."

"Alright, the orc legion's attack is officially beginning!" Liu Xin looked at the live broadcast scene behind him.

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In the wilderness, there was nothing to hide behind.

On one side were Xu Jingming and his team of five, and on the other side was the orc legion.

"Orc legion attack countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6… 3, 2, 1!"

At the instant the countdown ended—

A general of the orc legion in the distance pointed his sword towards Xu Jingming and his team, issuing a command in the orc language.

Instantly, the orc infantry began to charge over with a rumble, while the snow wolf light cavalry also began to move. These light cavalry divided into two groups, heading towards the left and right flanks of Xu Jingming and his team.

"Hua!" The snow wolf light cavalry on both the left and right sides raised their bows and simultaneously fired arrows.

Hua hua hua!!!

Arrows rained down!

Xu Jingming and his team of five experienced the meaning of 'arrows raining down'. At the same time, three hundred arrows fell, and Xu Jingming and the others were also moving, unwilling to become live targets. Dozens of arrows also landed in their area.

"Raise shields," Xu Jingming, Liu Chongyuan, Heng Fang, and Yang Qingshuo all raised their shields, completely blocking the area above and protecting the entire team.

They heard a crackling sound, and arrows also struck their leg armor, clanging.

"Fortunately, these are all ordinary bows and arrows. If they were armor-piercing arrows fired by God-level archers, we would be in trouble," Yang Qingshuo said.

"Three hundred mounted archers, if each one of them was comparable to a God-level archer, perhaps only the captain could resist one or two, and we would all be finished," Heng Fang said.

"The infantry will be upon us soon, Sister Yi, it's up to you then," Xu Jingming said.

"Don't worry," Wang Yi nodded.

The arrows suppressed them for three waves, and the orc infantry finally arrived. The arrows from afar also stopped, otherwise, further shooting would harm the infantry.

"Here they come," Xu Jingming and Liu Chongyuan both held two shields, responsible for protecting the team, mainly protecting the archer Wang Yi! There were simply too many orc soldiers, so it was more appropriate for them to use shields at the same time.

Heng Fang held a snake spear, and Yang Qingshuo held a silver spear, and they were responsible for killing the orc soldiers who got close.

"Roar~~"

These orc soldiers roared as they charged forward, and at one time, more than a dozen orc soldiers attacked simultaneously.

Most of them thrust out their spears! At the same time, chain hammers were thrown, and flying axes were smashed down, all towards Xu Jingming and the others.

"Boom boom~~" Xu Jingming blocked and shook with both his left and right shields, causing the orcs on the left to stagger back, and the orcs on the right to fall down. Liu Chongyuan's two shields were even larger, and they also blocked a group of orc soldiers.

Shua shua shua shua shua shua!

Wang Yi began rapid firing with her bow, only pulling the bow in a semicircle before shooting, each time simultaneously firing three arrows!

Three arrows at once! In the blink of an eye, nine arrows were launched!

The most terrifying thing was that every arrow pierced the heads of the orc soldiers.

Wang Yi was expressionless, and she had a rhythm to her every action of taking an arrow and shooting. Only when a quiver was emptied and she took another quiver from the virtual world system was there a slight pause, otherwise, she was relentlessly shooting arrows.

"Sister Yi is awesome," Yang Qingshuo shouted.

"Sister Yi is amazing," Heng Fang said with a smile, holding his snake spear, and Yang Qingshuo held his long spear, responsible for killing some of the orc soldiers who charged closer.

With Wang Yi rapidly firing arrows and slaughtering soldiers, Heng Fang and Yang Qingshuo naturally had it much easier. Xu Jingming and Liu Chongyuan only needed to protect their teammates.

Hua~~~

A large number of orc soldiers, like a tide, constantly slammed into Xu Jingming's team, wave after wave constantly surging up! They wanted to completely crush Xu Jingming's team.

Xu Jingming's team was like a 'reef' under the impact of a huge wave, resisting the orcs' frantic attacks.

Xu Jingming looked up.

In the high sky, the number of soldiers killed by all the teams was displayed.

First: Zhou Yi Team (Captain Zhou Yi), number of kills 205

Second: Xianzi Team (Captain Zhang Qing), number of kills 183

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Fifth: Limo Team (Captain Xu Jingming), number of kills 152

Sixth: Tianyin Team (Captain Zhuang Ziyu), number of kills 139

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Tenth: Jinpeng Team (Captain Tie Lianyun), number of kills 123

Eleventh: Dunfu Team (Captain Xiong Tianshan), number of kills 122

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Nineteenth: fL Team (Captain Fang Yu), number of kills 98

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Thirty-third: Baima Team (Captain Zheng Bailong), number of kills 69

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Eight hundred and twenty-first: Kaixin Team (Captain Pang Yun), number of kills 12

The number of kills for all the teams in the high sky was constantly jumping, and the rankings of the teams were also changing. The major teams were mainly focused on the top thirty.