[Citywide Announcement (Inferno City): "Ding~ Attention, all players: Divine Oracle's supreme race, the God Race, has successfully concluded the fourth round of the God-Creation Trial. Congratulations to the 910 players in Inferno City who successfully passed all four rounds of the trial! The fifth-round final trial will officially open at seven o'clock tonight. All selected participants, please actively participate. The first-place finisher in the trial will receive the God Race bloodline!"]
List of participants selected for the fifth round of the God-Creation Trial (ranked in no particular order).
[Chosen One · Like the Wind Passing Through] (Male, Lv75, Tier 3 Assassin);
[Famous Throughout the World · Liuli] (Female, Lv82, Tier 4 Elemental Mage);
[Demolitionist · Wind Whistling] (Male, Lv75, Tier 3 Demon Knight);
[Wealthy · Hero of Chaotic World] (Male, Lv76, Tier 3 Sword and Shield Warrior);
[Judge · Nether] (Male, Lv77, Tier 3 Judge);
[Blood Rose · Scarlet Rose] (Female, Lv75, Tier 3 Soul Archer);
It was twelve noon, a sudden system announcement that rang throughout all of Inferno City, along with the list of selected participants that all players could see at any time, sent countless players throughout the city into a frenzy.
On the main-city chat channel, the players were buzzing with excitement.
[Swear If You're Unhappy (Male, Lv74, Tier 3 Sword and Shield Warrior): "Fuck! Ten million players in the whole city, and only 910 people passed all four rounds? What kind of SM difficulty is this?!"]
[Jiayi (Female, Lv73, Tier 3 High Priest): "The key is, out of those 910 people, only one person will ultimately be selected! It's really like a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses crossing it! So hard!"]
[Like the Wind Passing Through (Male, Lv75, Tier 3 Assassin): "Right! That's how it should be! Otherwise, how could it show off the prestige and appeal of the supreme race?"]
[Fifty-Minute Endurance (Male, Lv73, Tier 3 Berserker): "Okay, okay, guy above! Are you afraid we don't know you got selected for the fifth round? Keep showing off! I hope you get matched against Rulebound and Liuli every single game in the fifth round!"]
[So Much Water! (Female, Lv73, Tier 3 Physician): "Huh? Wait! Why isn't Rulebound on this list?"]
[I Am Qin Shihuang (Male, Lv74, Tier 3 Paladin): "Fuck! He really isn't! My god, could Rulebound have been eliminated? Someone as strong as him actually got eliminated!"]
[Dream Is to Make Money to Buy Xiaomi Jade Wife (Male, Lv73, Tier 3 Demon Knight): "I originally thought this one and only God Race slot had already been reserved for Rulebound. Now I'm actually looking forward to it! Rulebound got eliminated, so who will ultimately get the God Race slot? Good thing there's a new phone, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see such an amazing twist! You ask about my old phone? Oh right, I left my old one…"]
———
After lunch, Ning Fei said to Ning Xi, "Sis, don't go online this afternoon. Get some rest offline so you can be fully rested for tonight's God-Creation final trial."
Ning Xi nodded, "I'll go get ready."
With that, Ning Xi returned to her room and went online.
After all, he was her biological younger brother.
No one understood Ning Xi better than Ning Fei.
He could tell at a glance, "If Nether didn't exist, my sister wouldn't be under this much pressure."
Zhao Lingyun said gloomily, "But with just the two of us, there's no way we can deal with Nether…"
"No," Ning Fei said, "Compared with directly targeting Nether, there's a better way to solve this problem."
Zhao Lingyun's eyes lit up, "What way?"
Ning Fei had clearly already found out some things, "Nether is under Boss's control because Boss promised to help him find his missing fiancee. That's why Nether obeys Boss and targets my sister and brother-in-law."
Zhao Lingyun asked in surprise, "How do you know?"
Ning Fei opened his tablet computer and clicked into a post on the Divine Oracle official website forum, "Someone anonymously posted here, saying that based on a screenshot from the Divine Oracle game, they were offering payment for help locating the background location and identifying the people in the screenshot."
"I hacked the anonymous poster's account and found out that he's Nether."
Zhao Lingyun looked at the back of the Elemental Mage girl in the game screenshot and pondered, "This girl is Nether's fiancee?"
"No."
Ning Fei seemed to have discovered a loophole and gave a sinister smile.
"This photo."
"It's composited."
"Nether was deceived."
Zhao Lingyan's eyes lit up, "So, Xiaofei, what you're saying is…"
Ning Fei said, "Rather than targeting Nether."
"My better suggestion is, turning him."
———
The time came to 6:50 p.m.
Under the attention and anticipation of everyone, the God-Creation final trial was finally about to begin.
At this moment, inside and outside the enormous Divine Mountain Forest, there was already a sea of people.
Countless players had come to witness the birth of a "god".
Just then, a shout suddenly rang out from within the crowd.
"Silver Scale Breastplate, 5 gold each!"
The surrounding players were baffled.
"Holy shit! Someone's actually setting up a stall here?"
"666! Bro, you're awesome!"
The strong never complain about the environment.
At this moment, all 910 trial participants had taken their positions.
For this event, the official had deliberately set the time at seven o'clock in the evening so that all the trial participants would have time to participate.
Of course, even working players who had to work overtime at night would rather ask for leave and take the criticism than miss this opportunity.
After all, the official had already announced that after the God-Creation Trial ended, all players who participated in the trial would receive rewards.
And the better they performed during the trial, the higher the rewards.
The final trial tonight would increase the rewards even more according to performance points.
Not competing for the championship, but just participating in the match could potentially earn a participation prize worth a million.
Who would still go earn that miserable few dozen or hundred yuan in overtime pay?
Whoosh!
As the area of the altar expanded tenfold.
Apart from the 910 trial participants, the other players could not enter the altar and could only watch from outside.
[Ding~ Trial countdown: 60 seconds. All trial participants, please get ready!]
As the system notification fell, the atmosphere at the scene began to grow tense.
Some players began doing warm-up exercises.
In one corner of the crowd, Wang Junjie instructed the dozen or so Chaotic World Guild players who had made it through, "You all know who my sis-in-law is, right?"
Everyone from Chaotic World: "Liuli!"
Wang Junjie: "That's right!"
"If you run into my sis-in-law, let her have it!"
"If you run into Super God or Genesis players, beat the hell out of them! Got it?"
"Yes! Brother Jie!"
———
On the other side, Liu Kai, Qin Ming, Ji Ningshuang, and Super God Athena led dozens of selected participants from the Genesis and Super God Guilds to Ning Xi.
Super God Athena had an arrogant expression and deliberately provoked Ning Xi: "Stop struggling."
"Rulebound has already lost."
"You can't beat us either."
Ning Xi's heart was calm as water, "It's still unknown who will have the last laugh."
Super God Athena smiled calmly, "Is that so?"
"In that case, let's wait and see!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the system's voice rang out once again—
[Ding~ The God-Creation final trial has officially begun! All trial participants, please begin the trial!]