When the results for the seventh round draw were announced, even the announcer sounded a bit helpless.
"Unbelievable! Ladies and gentlemen, I don't even know what expression to make while announcing this... In the seventh round, contestant Qin Feng... has received his third bye!"
The brutal elimination tournament, like a giant sieve, had filtered thousands of contestants down to the final ten.
High above the arena, most of the several hundred floating rings, once brightly lit, were now dark, like fading stars.
Only a scattered few still glowed.
On the massive holographic screen in the center of the "Crown of the North Pole," the portraits and names of the final ten were listed one by one, basking in the gazes of the hundreds of thousands of spectators.
Qin Feng, Lei Yi, Li Qing, Shi Potian... One shining name after another was on the list.
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In a luxury suite in the "Qiming View" building, Hongye Commercial District.
