16 July 2066, Chinese calendar, was the day the arena battles began.
Previously, the preliminaries in the 100 World Zones had not been broadcast, leaving the countless citizens of the universe across the more than 13,000 star regions of the Ganwu Universe Country extremely anxious. After all, they could only see the rankings!
The upcoming arena battles, however, allowed them to actually enter and watch the matches, causing tickets for the arena battles to sell at an absolutely insane rate!
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The arena melee was divided into 1,000 groups, with 200 groups competing each day.
The first day consisted of Groups 1 to 200.
Among the three people from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire who had passed the preliminaries, Nabini was in Group 32, Hong was in Group 161, and Luo Feng was in Group 382.
Therefore, Nabini and Hong would participate in the arena melee on the first day, while Luo Feng’s group was scheduled for the second day.
Virtual Universe, inside a specially created dimensional space.
A vast, boundless river surged through the entire space. Scattered throughout this river were countless islands, and each island contained a fighting arena.
This was where the arena battles would take place.
Island 01932.
The spectator stands inside the fighting arena were packed with people, stretching as far as the eye could see.
Among the spectators were Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God and their respective families.
“There are so many people. Dad, how big is this fighting arena?”
Pingping, whose hair was parted in the middle, exclaimed in amazement.
“The fighting arena is dozens of kilometres long and wide.”
Luo Feng smiled.
“It can accommodate up to one billion spectators.”
“One billion?”
Both Pingping and Xiao Hai exclaimed in shock.
In the past, even a football stadium on Earth could accommodate 100,000 people. This kind of enormous fighting arena, constructed on islands within a dimensional space created in the Virtual Universe, could easily accommodate one billion spectators.
Compared with a football stadium on Earth, it only needed to be increased by a hundred or several hundred times in length and width.
“Brother in law.”
Xu Gang, sitting behind them, laughed.
“When the arena battles were first announced, I immediately tried to buy tickets, but I still couldn’t get any. Fortunately, you had tickets here, otherwise I would have had to watch the broadcast!”
“The tickets really are in huge demand. None of the other people in our studio managed to get any either.”
Luo Hua nodded repeatedly.
“The entire Ganwu Universe Country has hundreds of millions of star systems. If only ten people from each star system buy tickets, they will all be sold out.”
Luo Feng said.
“Of course the tickets are difficult to get! Big Brother and I both passed the preliminaries, so we had priority access to tickets. That’s how we managed to get several dozen.”
Tickets were practically impossible to obtain!
The atmosphere throughout the entire fighting arena was incredibly heated.
One billion people from hundreds of millions of star systems had gathered together. What kind of spectacle was that?
Fortunately, this was the Virtual Universe. In the real world, merely organising that many people would have been extremely troublesome.
“Dear spectators!”
A sweet and crisp voice spread throughout the entire fighting arena, reaching the ears of all one billion spectators.
The group from Earth in the spectator stands all turned to look.
Standing in the centre of the fighting arena was a beautiful brown haired young woman with a stunning figure, dressed in a tight fitting battle suit.
Because the distance was far too great, the spectators could not see her clearly. Therefore, a gigantic virtual projection appeared in mid air above the fighting arena, allowing everyone in the spectator stands to see her clearly.
“The upcoming match will be the Group 32 arena battle. I will now introduce the one hundred talented experts in Group 32.”
“First, Longso, from the Poya Empire. In the previous World Zone 82, his *** ranking was 12th.”
The beautiful brown haired young woman’s clear and pleasant voice echoed through the ears of one billion spectators.
Beside her, a screen appeared, displaying an image of the genius named ‘Longso’ along with some basic information.
“Longso!”
“Longso!”
The entire fighting arena suddenly erupted into thunderous cheers.
In one particular section of the arena, a huge group of people was cheering wildly and shouting Longso’s name.
The cheers were like thunder.
“Second…”
“Third…”
One genius after another who was about to participate in the battle was introduced.
Finally, the beautiful brown haired young woman smiled and said, “Number 86, Nabini, from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire. Previously, he ranked 860th in World Zone 21.”
Nabini’s image and some basic information appeared on the screen beside her.
“Boom boom boom!”
Luo Feng suddenly felt the surroundings explode.
Cheers like landslides and tsunamis erupted across a huge area around them.
“Nabini!”
“Nabini!”
The cheers rolled like thunder.
Immersed in this atmosphere, many people could not help shouting along.
Beside them, Pingping and Xiao Hai were waving their fists, their faces flushed red as they shouted loudly.
“Nabini! Nabini!”
“Absolutely crazy.”
Luo Feng, Hong and Thunder God all laughed.
The spectator stands were arranged according to star regions, with spectators from the same star region gathered in the same area.
Everyone around Luo Feng was from the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield!
Moreover, when buying tickets, the star region where a participant came from would receive special consideration.
Normally, with one billion tickets and more than 13,000 star regions, each star region would receive fewer than 100,000 tickets.
However…
The star region of a participant could receive one million tickets.
Since Nabini was participating, the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield had been allocated one million tickets.
Thus, one million citizens of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire were present in these spectator stands.
After hearing the cheers from the other star regions, it was now the turn of the Black Dragon Mountain Starfield.
The one million people became incredibly excited and began shouting enthusiastically.
One million people cheering was like a tsunami.
“Nabini is quite handsome.”
Thunder God laughed softly.
Nabini had a braid, and his entire appearance gave people the impression of a leopard.
“I checked his background. It is quite impressive.”
Hong raised his wrist, and a biography appeared on the screen.
“Oh?”
Luo Feng looked at the information.
Nabini had originally been an indigenous inhabitant of a planet, living a primitive life and fighting monsters from a young age.
In fact, this planet was a planetary territory belonging to the Paris Family. It was specifically used to raise some special beasts and train warriors.
The Paris Family had secretly been monitoring the planet all along.
They discovered that one child possessed astonishing combat ability.
They immediately realised that this child was a treasure.
They immediately sent people to take the little native Nabini away.
From then on, Nabini entered civilised society and soon became a citizen of the empire.
He also became the attendant of a young master of the Paris Family.
The Paris Family was extremely insignificant in the vast universe. It was a commercial family that possessed the territories of more than a dozen life planets.
However…
The Paris Family offended an enemy and was attacked by a powerful family.
The opposing family had a powerful family background with a ‘Universe level expert’.
Within a star system, a Universe level expert was practically an emperor.
The Paris Family began to collapse…
However, this great battle attracted the attention of a World Lord who was wandering through the universe.
That World Lord noticed ‘Nabini’ in the midst of the battle and discovered his astonishing talent.
He immediately intervened and stopped the slaughter.
Once the World Lord intervened, the opposing family was so frightened that they did not dare resist.
Thus, the Paris Family was preserved.
That World Lord accepted ‘Nabini’ as his disciple and took him to the Black Dragon Mountain Sacred Land.
From then on, Nabini lived in the Black Dragon Mountain Sacred Land, and his strength improved even more rapidly.
He was now the most outstanding genius in the Black Dragon Mountain Sacred Land.
“An indigenous person?”
Luo Feng sighed.
“Actually, we are indigenous people too.”
“Yeah.”
Hong nodded.
“I’ve discovered that I have a good impression of this Nabini.”
Thunder God chuckled.
While Luo Feng and the others were talking, the beautiful young woman in the centre of the fighting arena was also working to raise the atmosphere.
She shouted excitedly, “Dear spectators! Dear spectators! The arena battle is about to begin. Everyone, please count down with me and look forward to this clash between the supreme geniuses!”
“10! 9! 8!… 3! 2! 1!”
“Boom!”
The entire fighting arena erupted with a thunderous roar.
Figures appeared one after another in the centre of the arena.
They were the 100 geniuses from the various star regions who had been introduced earlier.
“Nabini!”
“Strak!”
“Longso!”
Various cheers instantly ignited the entire fighting arena.
The arena seemed as though it might be blown apart by the shockwaves of the roaring voices.
Luo Feng also spotted Nabini among the 100 people at a glance.
Nabini had his hair tied into a braid, his gaze fierce like a leopard, with two narrow battle blades strapped to his back. He cautiously observed the others.
“Battle, begin!”
A deep voice sounded in the minds of everyone, including the one billion spectators.
Silence!
The entire fighting arena instantly became silent.
At the same time, the 100 talented experts in the centre of the arena moved.
“Puff!”
“Whoosh!”
Streams of light flashed.
One talented expert after another rapidly dodged, while the spreading Domains caused the entire centre of the fighting arena to become a dazzling array of colours.
Various waves of coloured energy rolled and swirled.
Some talented experts fled for their lives, while others clashed with one another.
Everything happened as fast as lightning.
The melee was extremely dangerous because everyone had to guard against sneak attacks from others.
“Nabini is really cunning.”
In the spectator stands, Thunder God’s eyes lit up.
“It’s useless. Every one of them is extremely intelligent.”
Luo Feng frowned.
The combat space in the centre of the fighting arena was continuously shrinking, forcing those who flew on psychic weapons to be unable to escape too far.
One talented expert after another fell dead.
The number of deaths continued to rise.
Eight, fourteen, twenty nine, thirty six…
This made many of the one billion spectators from the various star regions anxious.
Some sighed heavily, but the tense and rapid battle still kept everyone from making too much noise.
Nabini wielded his twin blades, his entire body transforming into a gust of wind as he desperately blocked the opponent’s psychic weapon.
Just as Nabini was fighting this Spirit Reader, another talented expert flew over from the distance.
He was also controlling a cone shaped psychic weapon, which transformed into a streak of lightning and shot directly towards Nabini.
“Hmph!”
A streak of lightning shot over from the distance.
Nabini quickly dodged while using his left hand blade to block.
“Clang!”
The lightning struck Nabini’s left hand blade, knocking it flying.
A shocked expression appeared on Nabini’s face.
“The power is too, too strong.”
The streak of lightning immediately followed and pierced straight through his head.
Nabini died in battle!
The number of deaths rapidly accumulated.
Seventy three… seventy eight… eighty two… eighty nine… ninety!
“Group 32 arena battle concluded. The 90 who died have been eliminated. The remaining 10 are qualified to compete for the 900 places.”
The deep voice echoed through the minds of the one billion spectators and the ten surviving geniuses.
Only then did various sounds erupt throughout the spectator stands, including sighs, furious shouts and excited cheers.
“Nabini has been eliminated.”
Thunder God shook his head.
“His strength was among the weakest of these 100 people. He only died after half of them had already been killed. Mainly because he was cunning enough.”
Hong shook his head.
“Being eliminated is normal. I’m afraid I wouldn’t be much better than him.”