Chapter 288: Chapter 154: Reward Settlement, Double First Place! Unexpected Special Match Contestants
With his last words, Shen Fei turned and walked away.
Number 0 wanted to speak but ultimately said nothing.
SWOOSH.
SWOOSH.
SWOOSH.
Soon, the ongoing competition drew everyone’s attention back to the matches.
"Boss! You’re invincible! You were invincible in the individual competition, and our Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms group is invincible in the team battles! We just ran into that Succubus Legion, the one that’s been the bane of so many men, and guess what? They surrendered to us immediately!"
After several more rounds, Sun Yu stood excitedly beside Shen Fei, quickly recounting his recent experiences.
"Boss, and do you know that group called Ethereum Punk? She’s a whole group all by herself! Isn’t that hilarious? And when she ran into us just now, she surrendered too!"
Sun Yu, completely absorbed in the competition, had no idea what had just transpired. All he could do was share his excitement and joy with his boss, Shen Fei.
"Alright, I get it." Shen Fei patted Sun Yu’s shoulder, looked back, and said nothing more.
He had been warming the bench for several hours now, and he was feeling a bit numb. He could also sense that the group competition was about to end. At this point, the group competition rankings had basically solidified. The organization with the most wins was Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms, whose members were all Tower Masters.
Right now, he just wanted it to end quickly so he could collect his rewards and hopefully lift his sour mood a little. More importantly, the formats of the individual and group competitions had exceeded everyone’s expectations. He was very curious just how special this final special competition would be.
SWOOSH.
SWOOSH.
SWOOSH.
Time flew by. As Shen Fei waited, the group competition finally came to an end.
[Ding!]
[Group Competition has ended!]
[Groups will now be ranked for the Group Competition based on a weighted comprehensive evaluation of their number of wins and win rate!]
[Ding!]
[The final Group Competition rankings are as follows:]
[No. 1, Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms]
[No. 2, Succubus Legion]
[No. 3, Ethereum Punk]
[No. 4, Three Kingdoms Territory]
...
Soon, the top ten of the group competition leaderboard was released, and the results were beyond everyone’s expectations.
No one was surprised that Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms took first place. After this no-holds-barred competition, the whole world knew how formidable Tower Masters were. Not only was the world’s number one player a Tower Master, but the world’s number one team was also composed of Tower Masters.
But the second-place Succubus Legion stunned everyone. Everyone had originally thought that second place would go to teams with hundreds of thousands of players who inherited their abilities from games like World of Warcraft or League of Legends. After all, their numbers were just too great.
But no one expected that having more people would actually be a disadvantage. People of different ethnicities and from different regions pulled against each other, dragging each other down. In some teams with members from rival nations, the primary goal became preventing their rivals from winning, with everything else becoming secondary. This, in turn, threw these massive groups into chaos, making it impossible for them to organize effectively. Additionally, the 5% contribution from benched members became even more significant for these huge groups.
So, in the end, it was the relatively smaller teams, with only a few thousand members, that won the final competition. In second place was the Succubus Legion with over a hundred members, and in third was Ethereum Punk, a group of only one person. Fourth place went to a Lord-type Game team that had brute-forced their way through with countless summoned units.
The team everyone had been watching, Zhao Li’s team, didn’t even make it into the top ten. This was because their strongest member, Zhao Li, had been on the bench the entire time. They didn’t have the backup that the Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms team had; besides the banned Shen Fei, that team still had Huang Yi and hundreds of Heaven-Reaching Gang members.
SWOOSH.
SWOOSH.
SWOOSH.
The swift and decisive announcement of the list instantly threw the tens of millions of people in the Secret Realm into an uproar.
"Protest!"
"Why are the top four all from Great Xia!"
"Protest!"
"This is rigged!"
Soon, the other players of various ethnicities were enraged.
In the individual competition, because of Skyrocketing’s dominance, no matter how strong the other players were, they had no room to display their power. In the end, everyone except those close to Skyrocketing was instantly eliminated. Everyone accepted it because Skyrocketing was just that strong.
But then came the group competition that had just ended, and no one expected the situation to be even more extreme. Even though Skyrocketing was banned, his team still took first place. What’s more, the top four teams in the group competition were all predominantly from Great Xia.
This... this was too unreasonable!
[Ding!]
[The Individual and Group Competitions have concluded!]
[Reward distribution will now begin!]
[Individual Competition rewards will be distributed based on final points.]
[Group Competition rewards will be given to the person with the highest contribution in each group. Please handle detailed distribution internally.]
Unfortunately, no matter how much they protested or slandered, the results were the results. As a flood of text scrolled by, all sorts of reward items appeared directly in many people’s hands. Everyone could see on the big screen that the final ownership of each prize was even being displayed.
[Individual Competition Rewards:]
[No. 1: One Special-type National Treasure Divine Artifact — Owner, Skyrocketing]
[No. 2: Three Secret Realm Teleportation Gates — Owner, Immortal Emperor]
[No. 3: 10 Secret Realm Teleportation Scrolls — Owner, Little Moon (Shen Yue)]
[No. 4: 10 Mission Exemption Scrolls — Owner, Hongyi Piaopiao (Xiaohong)]
[Group Competition Rewards:]
[No. 1: One Source of the Secret Realm — Owner, Skyrocketing]
[No. 2: Five Neutral City Gate Building Stones — Owner, Hongyi Piaopiao]
[No. 3: 100 Personal Panel Activation Scrolls — Owner, Number 0]
Amidst the clamor and disbelief, the rewards for the individual and group competitions were distributed. And the first-place winner for both events was Shen Fei.
"AHHH!"
"If our memories aren’t wiped, I’m going to immigrate to Great Xia as soon as I get out of here!"
"I want Great Xia citizenship!"
Watching the reward distribution results on the big screen, many players from smaller nations started shouting frantically. The individual competition rewards were swept by Great Xia, and the top four in the group competition were also all from Great Xia. Of course they felt the competition was a bit unfair, but Skyrocketing was just that strong. There was nothing to be done about it. They would side with whoever won. Now that Great Xia had won everything, they wanted to join Great Xia.
[Ding!]
[Please select the type of Divine Artifact!]
[Support, Attack, Recovery, Speed, Special, Bizarre...]
[If no selection is made within ten seconds, a random selection will be made based on your inherited game abilities.]
Unlike the others, after Shen Fei received his reward, more text continued to scroll across his personal panel. This was because the type of the National Treasure Divine Artifact, the reward for first place in the individual competition, could be chosen. Now that he had the reward, he had to make another choice.
"Support-type!"
His two existing Divine Artifacts were both support-type, and Defense Towers benefited most from support and enhancement. Watching the rapidly descending countdown, Shen Fei didn’t have time to think it over and directly chose the support-type Divine Artifact.
SWOOSH.
With Shen Fei’s selection, a brass pipe-like object appeared in his left hand. In his right hand was the item from his first-place prize in the group competition—the Source of the Secret Realm.
[Ding!]
[Reward distribution complete!]
[All rewards can be used immediately within this Secret Realm!]
[Ding!]
[In ten minutes, the third event, the Unrestricted Special Competition, will begin!]
[The Third Special Competition is beginning!]
[Mission: Escort the Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses who have already descended upon Blue Star but are hidden in special regions and have not yet emerged. Bring them into the Great Chaos Secret Realm!]
[All restrictions are lifted!]
[All intelligent life forms on Blue Star may participate in the Special Competition!]
[With the exception of the canceled final match, all other rules for the Special Competition are the same as the Individual Competition.]
Before Shen Fei could even get a good look at the Attributes of the two items he had received, he was surprised by another huge wave of text scrolling past.
The special competition was starting!
Seeing the format of the special competition, everyone was startled. Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses were joining?
CRACK!
Amidst the panicked cries of the crowd, countless Teleportation Gates opened at the top of the Secret Realm. Then, tens of thousands of NPCs and bosses appeared. The names and appearances of those NPCs and bosses were quickly recognized. They were all kings, City Lords, arch-villains, and super-powered characters from various games.
WHOOSH.
After assessing the abilities of these NPCs and bosses, everyone lost their minds. The special competition was like this? Was this even fightable? Could they even win?
More importantly, the rules stated these NPCs and bosses came from special regions. Had so many NPCs and Super Bosses already materialized on Blue Star? Did they appear directly in these special regions, hidden from human sight?
The information revealed in the special competition’s rules stunned everyone. This... was this even playable?
SWOOSH.
After confirming the strength of the NPCs and bosses, the players who had just been cursing and complaining instantly turned their gazes to Shen Fei. In almost a single instant, regardless of ethnicity or nationality, everyone looked at him.
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