My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 292 - 289 How to Start the Finals
Chapter 292: Chapter 289: How to Start the Finals
Chapter 292 -289: How to Start the Finals
Apocalypse Calendar, March 7th.
In the morning,
Martial Path Tournament arena.
The audience who had purchased tickets had taken their seats in the stands early on. Some seats near the front, which had remained empty during the preliminaries, were now occupied for the finals. Even the most influential figures, no matter how busy they were, had to make time to watch.
After all, the upcoming finals would feature clashes between boss-level competitors, and no one wanted to miss out.
One after another, the strong contenders for the finals arrived at the venue, and they were directed to a rest area on one side of the audience seating.
Some contestants engaged in conversation to probe their opponents, while others closed their eyes to meditate and conserve their energy for the match.
“Look, that’s Wang Wu, the commander of the Fiery Fire Battle Team. He is a genuine boss-level powerhouse!”
“Purple Rose from Rose Mercenary Corps is here too. Truly a heroic female figure.”
“That boss from the Sixth Layer over there seems to have emerged suddenly, with great strength. He might be a strong contender for the top three.”
“The deputy commander of Silver Wolf Mercenary Corps is also said to be the highest-ranking official from the Green Shadow side of the Silver Wolf Adventure Group. With two to three hundred Awakeners under his command, he’s a real big shot. Surprising to see him participating in the competition too.”
“Hehe, I bet on the Silver Wolf Deputy Commander to be in the top three. The odds are low, but with his strength, the Source Crystals are practically a sure bet.”
With a day’s preparation time, the identities of most of the hundred finalists had been dug up.
These people might not be recognized on the street like celebrities, but their names and their battle records were well-known throughout Lin City.
With so many Awakeners in Green Shadow, there were a few who had encountered these elites. Since the circles were not large, it didn’t take long for the audience to commit the appearances of these big shots to memory. Even the ordinary survivors who were there to watch knew about the power hierarchy among the Awakeners.
Ordinary, elite, master, boss.
Zhou Jianhong had enough strength to be considered a well-known master, but in these finals, he was just a side character, or maybe not even that — merely part of the background.
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To underscore the power of the bosses.
These background contestants didn’t even have bets placed on them; it was those dozen or so bosses who were the focus of everyone’s attention.
The time reached eight o’clock sharp.
Dressed in formal attire, Shay stepped onto the stage.
This time he didn’t waste any words and got straight to the point, “All competitors, please follow our guides to the competition field. The format for the finals is rather special. We at Green Shadow have prepared a place where competitors can fully utilize their strengths without having to worry about casualties.”
The hundred contestants left.
Municipal Department staff and Awakeners moved several huge screens onto the stage and arranged them in a hexagon so that all the spectators surrounding the arena could clearly see the live broadcast of the unfolding finals.
“Source Crystal filling complete, screen one calibrated…”
“Screen two calibrated…”
The audience in the stands whispered to each other, their expressions growing more puzzled.
“What’s going on, why has the final turned into a broadcast?”
“Since it’s not at the tournament venue, it looks like the finals are no longer a battle between Awakeners. Could it have changed to the participants hunting Demonized Beasts, and ranking is then determined by the number and strength of the beasts killed, compiling scores to sort the placements?”
“No way, I came here to watch the boss-level fights; what’s the point of hunting Demonized Beasts!”
“That’s not necessarily true, after all, they are bosses. Even if they’re up against Demonized Beasts, we can still learn quite a bit from their moves. Green Shadow chose not to do a direct battle, I can roughly guess why. In the earlier preliminaries, already more than twenty Awakeners lost their lives, and the number of seriously injured is countless…”
Even with the restriction on bladed weapons and Patrol Team members standing by to drag those who were downed and lost their ability to fight out of the arena, the combat was not mere sparring. All the participants knew this, and so did the audience. Even the ordinary survivors around them, some of whom were too timid to watch and covered their eyes, couldn’t say these battles were too brutal.
After all, even ordinary people, the vast majority, have seen dead bodies before.
Out in the wild, were there not many Awakeners who had died at the hands of their own kind?
Apart from the companions of the deceased participants, hardly anyone cared about who had just been killed.
“The ones who died before were mostly ordinary Awakeners; the impact was not significant. But the final circle is different, the weakest ones are Fifth Tier experts, not to mention boss-level figures. Once intense fights break out and a few bosses die, then…”
Sixth Layer bosses are mostly commanders or deputy commanders of top-tier teams and large Corps. If a number of them were to die at once, the Awakener circle in and around Lin City would likely be greatly shaken.
Thus, the organizer Green Shadow Sanctuary must have changed the final’s format under the pressure from various Corps.
With this analysis from the outstandingly analytical Awakener, everyone else suddenly realized, however, changing from the highly anticipated boss-level showdown to a Demonization Beast hunt was inevitably a disappointment.
The audience discussed for a few minutes, and the large screen on the stage finally displayed an image.
What met their eyes was lush foliage; the camera was continuously rising, revealing large trees through the screen to the viewers.
“This is the venue for the finals, the Death Forest…”
Shay took up the microphone and explained, “But the Death Forest does not actually exist. Please look over here.”
The screen shifted to show a hallway with rooms on both sides, where the participants were entering the rooms one by one.
Keen-eyed audience members noticed that each room was entered by only one participant.
Shay continued, “The Death Forest is a Spirit Space constructed by our Sanctuary with vast resources. That’s right, you can think of it as a virtual reality space, although it’s a bit different. Inside each special room, using one’s spiritual power as a medium, a body that is completely identical to one’s physical body in reality can be materialized within the Spirit Space.”
“And it is in the Death Forest that our finals will be held.”
“One thing to note is that the Spirit Space can only replicate the body and ordinary clothes, not the rune equipment on the participants. If any Awakener needs to change their clothes, now is the time to use these final preparation moments to do so.”
This message was not only for the audience in attendance but also broadcast through the training camp’s facilities, reaching every participating Awakener’s ears.
Shay paused for a moment, allowing the audience and participants to digest the news before continuing, “At the start of the final, everyone will be empty-handed. But since we have prepared a Spirit Space like this for the finals, we will not restrict the use of weapons any longer.”
“Throughout the entire Death Forest, there are spheres of light of various sizes. By touching these spheres, one can obtain a piece of rune equipment to arm oneself and enhance their combat capabilities.”
“The scoring for this competition’s rankings will be based on survival time and the number of participants killed, multiplied by a correction factor; the top three scores will then be the winners of this Martial Path Tournament.”
