Chapter 166 Awards

Qiao Yu and the others stood in a row on the arena.

At this moment, everyone on Kaiji Star was focused on these five individuals.

Everyone knew that as long as these five teenagers could grow, they would surely become giants capable of holding up their own corner of the sky.

Many powerful families had already begun inquiring about their marital status, preparing to offer their sons and daughters.

Song Qingshan's booming voice was like a bomb thrown into the crowd, completely waking everyone up!

Cheers of victory resounded everywhere, and major media outlets rushed to report.

Shocking! Jing University's second team wins the championship!

Shocking! Shocking! Western Alliance's goddess forcibly drags a young man from the Great Xia Ancient Kingdom into marriage! Is this a distortion of humanity or a decline of morality!

Two major news stories in one day; today was undoubtedly a carnival for the media.

And those who had made flags before the competition were already fulfilling their promises on the spot.

Liu Xing was screaming "Father!" hysterically.

Paigu Zai (Spare Ribs) took off his clothes and was about to do a handstand enema, but luckily someone kicked him away, preventing him from actually shitting on his head.

Liang Feifan was even more豪气冲天 (háo qì chōng tiān - full of pride and enthusiasm), tearing open his clothes and shouting, "Someone! Get me a ship's propeller!"

This championship was the first one belonging to the Eastern Alliance in the history of the Combat Grand Competition, so naturally, it was of extraordinary significance!

"Next, I will present the champion's rewards!"

Song Qingshan jumped down and landed steadily in front of Qiao Yu and the others.

Qiao Yu and the others had fiery eyes. Although Shen Jianshu had already told them what the prizes were, it did not affect their excitement in the slightest!

It was like even if you were told five days in advance that you would win five million in the lottery, you would still be excited the moment you received the money. Knowing something and getting it are two different things, and pursuing a girl and getting to home base are also two different things.

At the same time, three beauties in cheongsams walked over, holding trays.

Song Qingshan opened the first tray, which held five light orbs.

These were experience points extracted from the S-grade equipment Eternal Balance. Each orb contained 200,000 points, totaling one million experience points!

After Song Qingshan distributed the five light orbs to the five of them, he said,

"Absorb them in front of everyone now, to avoid attracting the attention of those with ulterior motives."

Qiao Yu and the others nodded. The moment they held the light orbs, they turned into streams of energy that entered their bodies.

Qiao Yu had a strange feeling. He had absorbed some residual energy on the altar of the Dishun Lake before, and that energy could also increase experience points.

The energy in this light orb felt very similar to the energy from the altar. The 200,000 experience points greatly improved Qiao Yu, who was originally only level 23, and he soared to level 30 like a rocket.

[Congratulations to the player for continuous leveling up. Current experience: 18000/30000. Reward: 105 free attribute points.]

Qiao Yu slowly closed his fingers. A powerful force surged from his limbs and bones. At this moment, he only needed 12,000 experience points to advance to a high-level player.

If there was another Combat Grand Competition, he believed that he would definitely not have such a difficult time.

Apart from him and Zhao Ziyue, Ma Feiyang, Xiang Di, and Zuo You directly became high-level players with the addition of 200,000 experience points! Their faces were full of joy!

Qiao Yu was not surprised by this, after all, the three of them were already higher level than him.

Song Qingshan nodded in satisfaction, then raised his hand and opened the second tray. A powerful aura soared into the sky!

Whoosh!

The eyes of the entire audience instantly converged. Compared to the first reward, the second reward was obviously more eye-catching! After all, there was an S-grade equipment in the second reward!

After all, experience points could be obtained by grinding more dungeons, but equipment was different!

Some non-Europeans (unlucky players) worked diligently in the Inner World, clocking in every day like they were going to work, but the equipment they dropped was either E-grade or F-grade...

Luck was hard to say. Some people reached King rank in three months, while others remained Unyielding Silver after playing for three years. This was related to luck, but also to skill.

If you were lucky but lacked skill, you could lie down and become King rank. If you had good skills but lacked luck, you would just spend more time, and your achievements would still not be low.

As for those who were unlucky and unskilled... it was best to just delete their accounts and start over.

Five pieces of equipment lay neatly on the tray. To Qiao Yu and the others' surprise, these five pieces of equipment were all rings!

The ring in the middle was golden in color and covered in countless cracks. At the top was a bowl-shaped decoration. The ring gave people a very scary feeling, as if it wanted to absorb people's gaze.

Originally, the eyes of the people in the stands were full of greed, but after seeing that it was this ring, they instantly calmed down.

"Something's not right! Why does this ring look so much like the Nibelungen Ring to me! Isn't that a ring cursed by the gods? Legend has it that this ring can cause the Twilight of the Gods! It will bring the apocalypse to the gods!"

"Damn, bro, the more you say it, the more I think it is! Although this thing is indeed an S-grade equipment, you can't wear it! That's the most evil S-grade equipment!"

"Hey, bro, how do you all know each other? Can you tell me about the origin of this ring?" There were naturally people in the audience who didn't recognize it.

An old know-it-all smiled and slowly began to tell the story of the Nibelungen Ring.

Legend has it that there was a glittering magic gold at the bottom of the God River. If someone could cast it into a ring, they would have the power to rule the world, but only those who abandoned love could accomplish this feat.

But this magic gold was stolen by Alberich of the Nibelungen family! This was also the origin of the ring's name!

The reason why Alberich stole this ring was simple. Because he was a dwarf, after being rejected by the three fairies guarding the magic gold, Alberich was determined to abandon love.

At this time, the King of the Gods heard the news and descended to search for the ring!

Later, the King of the Gods found Alberich's hiding place in a cave and tricked him out.

Alberich was indeed fooled. When he was taken back to the Celestial Realm, he offered to exchange all the treasures accumulated by the Nibelungen family for this ring, but the King of the Gods refused.

So, the desperate Alberich cursed that all those who obtained the ring would also suffer the disasters brought by the ring.

At this time, the Earth Goddess suddenly appeared and warned the gods that the curse would come true. Therefore, the King of the Gods handed the ring over to the dragons of the God Realm to guard.

After who knows how many years, the warrior Siegfried, holding a divine sword and wearing golden armor, appeared. He killed the dragon and took the Nibelungen Ring to offer to his wife Brunhild.

He didn't know anything about the so-called curse. He only knew that only the best ring in the world could be worthy of his wife!

Siegfried was extremely powerful, and even the gods had to tremble before him.

Out of fear, the gods used insidious tricks to make Siegfried forget his wife Brunhild and marry another woman!

Brunhild, who witnessed her husband marrying another woman, turned her love into hatred and revealed Siegfried's fatal weakness!

The gods immediately seized the opportunity, and a fatal blow pierced Siegfried's body.

Before his death, Siegfried, who had regained his memory, told Brunhild the truth. Brunhild finally realized that she had wronged her husband.

She cursed the injustice of the God Realm and cursed that the gods would be at rest forever.

She put the Nibelungen Ring on her finger and was cremated together with Siegfried's body in the flames, fulfilling their vow of never being separated.

At this time, the Nibelungen Ring unleashed a terrifying power. The God Realm collapsed and disintegrated before this power, and all the solemn and magnificent buildings turned into ruins.

The gods of the God Realm ushered in their Twilight before the power of the Nibelungen Ring.

The gods were surprised to find that severing love did not unleash the true power of the Nibelungen Ring. On the contrary, love that transcended life and death could allow the Nibelungen Ring to unleash the monstrous power to kill gods!

So, before their death, the gods cursed the Nibelungen Ring, and this terrible curse directly turned the Nibelungen Ring into an evil ring.

Anyone who wore the Nibelungen Ring would, without exception, be dominated by that terrible curse after a period of time, turning into a madman without reason, who only knew how to kill.

The birth of the Nibelungen Ring was essentially a story of killing gods for love. How could the great gods tolerate this kind of thing happening?