Chapter 652: Chapter 652: Warm-up
This event caught everyone off guard, after all, there were only a few hours between the announcement of the event and its start.
This wasn’t just for the players, even the hosts and TV stations reacted similarly.
The scope of this event was indeed too vast, it could be said that it was a nationwide event.
In the Epoch event, players’ levels escalated rapidly, and most combat players were above level twenty.
There were billions of them, previously, no single game from major gaming companies had ever attracted so many players at once, not even their servers could handle such traffic.
Ancient Gods Company broke new ground, where not only the players above level twenty participated, but the players below level twenty could also participate in this event, however, these monsters were all under level twenty.
That is to say, at the same time, the majority of players entered this Void plane.
The server’s load was unimaginably huge.
Imagine that, with ten-person teams, hundreds of millions of people participating in the event at the same time, how spectacular it must be.
The original mainline dungeons were also competing, but they were practically confidential and never so straightforward before.
Ancient Gods shut all competing teams inside this half plane, and apart from the ten-person team channels, all other channels were turned off.
Meanwhile, all the television stations and heavyweight hosts arrived at the virtual map of the half plane, and obtained the rights to adjust the images of various teams.
In addition to those teams participating in the trial, all the eliminated teams, together with life-career players, players under level twenty, and any ordinary people who wanted to join the game, could watch various live streams through different channels.
Because of Ancient God’s strict measures, all participating team members could not go offline, going offline means giving up the fight for ranking.
Besides, real-world communications could not connect to the game, Ancient Gods Company improved various steps within a few hours for both a fair competition and game publicity.
The sports channels of each television station and the official live streaming platform started live broadcasting almost simultaneously.
Viewed from high above, the entire semi-plane map was presented in front of all the audience, with twinkling spots symbolizing various teams participating in the competition.
It looked like an endless sea of stars, there were too many, tens of millions of teams scattered in various places. A handful of portals were also scattered across the map.
Though only ten minutes had passed, players could already see some team lights dimming, signifying they had been eliminated.
This competition carried an extraordinary significance, it was genuinely the first clash between each administrative region.
Among all live broadcasts of various TV networks, a platform with the most viewers and the best content was the official general live broadcasting platform.
Each administrative region originally had its forum and live broadcasting platform, but for this event, the official general live broadcasting platform was especially constructed.
It is considered the official competition live broadcasting platform, warming up for future matches.
The commentators invited were undoubtedly the most influential in each administrative region, such as Xiao Ze representing China’s administrative region, Dalkhan representing Europe’s administrative region, Diamond Tycoon representing Africa’s administrative region, Harry representing North America’s administrative region, and Gent representing South America’s administrative region.
These representatives are not merely representing certain places, but also symbolizing the dominance of the whole star system.
For instance, China’s administrative region represents not only East Asia but also other planets controlled by China’s administrative region in outer space.
Political forces can influence various aspects, such as this live broadcast, only five administrative regions got the right of representation, let alone the right to participate or nominate for others.
“This competition is indeed very unexpected, and the rules are very peculiar. It’s quite an interesting match,” Gent said excitedly. It was his first time being seen by so many people, and there was some excitement and nervousness.
“Yeah, players don’t know that each of their teams has a progress bar. This rule of throwing a wrench into the works will surely lead many smart-asses to failure,” Harry, looking at each screen, said.
“Fifteen minutes in, over one percent of the teams have been eliminated, and more than half of the teams are constantly dodging monsters. Little do they know that, though it’s possible to reach each portal without monsters, it would take an unknown amount of time,” Xiao Ze said while looking at the data.
“And there are quite a few teams showing great strength, facing off against various hellish monsters. I never expected there to be so many unknown experts in the game,” Diamond Tycoon kept adjusting the miniature screens in front of him.
“Let’s take a look at the team that’s making the fastest progress. My god, the fastest team is actually from the China region,” Dalkhan said incredulously, “I can’t believe someone has managed to suppress Edward, it’s simply unbelievable.”
“Edward’s team just encountered particularly ferocious monsters at the start, it’s still early in the game, too early to tell who will win,” Harry defended.
“As expected, it’s Starfire Team,” Xiao Ze saw that the image on the screen displayed Li Yao and others, and showed no surprise. Whether it was an individual or a small team battle, how could Li Yao be weaker?
“Oh my, this is the legendary Hunter King, right? He’s truly amazing. He doesn’t rely on skillful tactics but proceeds in an overt way, I doubt whether the killed one is a boss or just a small monster,” Diamond Tycoon almost had his eyes bulging out looking at Li Yao’s monster killing method.
The audience was flabbergasted, especially the players from other administrative regions who were seeing the legendary Hunter King for the first time.
Although these bosses can be considered dungeon bosses, and their blood volume will not change, other teams invariably utilize various methods to distribute the boss, gradually tag the monster by bit and bit eliminate it.
But that’s not the case for Starfire, they were very straightforward and overbearing, and directly attracted a wave of monsters.
Li Yao also had such capital, facing so-called boss-level monsters, there was no difficulty for him now.
There were no weak members among Starfire’s tankers and DPSs. When encountering multiple bosses, someone could always be capable of handling the bosses, and thanks to the presence of healing, they were simply unstoppable.
Li Yao first wiped out the most threatening boss, then led his teammates to wipe out the minions directly, and then directly dealt with the remaining bosses of the team.
Simple, quick and efficient, this way they avoided the trouble of tagging and luring monsters.
Li Yao and his team had no idea that their live stream footage had been broadcasted. Of course, Li Yao understood and thus kept a few tricks up his sleeve.
The actual trial of the first stage was only to clear the monsters, finding the portal was not a priority.
Killing monsters could earn one a Demon Crystal and potentially various rewards. Naturally, Li Yao knew about the so-called progress bar mechanism.
So, he led his teammates swiftly through, killing as they went. The so-called small boss monsters might pose a challenge to other teams, but for Li Yao’s team, although it was difficult, it was not an impossible challenge.
Li Yao was very clear that he would soon encounter other teams….