Chapter 171: No Way, It Only Took 1 Minute?
Standing in front of the light screen, Jiang Taotao and the others stared blankly at the rankings.
"We’re actually in first place..."
Their words were filled with uncertainty, disbelief, and various complex emotions.
Ning Yiyi didn’t care at all, "Sister Taotao, this is normal. You should know the championship is ours too."
Having been with Lin Moyu for a long time, Ning Yiyi was used to this.
Jiang Taotao shook her head hard, "It’s not that I don’t believe it, I just feel that boss battle just now... It didn’t take more than 5 seconds, right?"
Lin Moyu said very seriously, "It could have been even faster originally."
Jiang Taotao was speechless.
Duan Gao and Miao Yu didn’t know what to say either.
What did he mean it could have been even faster?
Wasn’t 5 seconds fast enough?
Anyway, passing was good.
The preliminaries didn’t look at rankings after all.
The eliminated career holders and those who passed the preliminaries would both leave the light screen, but not in the same area, so they wouldn’t run into each other.
Lin Moyu’s area was currently empty.
After waiting for a long time, someone else finally appeared.
When they were teleported out, they found someone had beaten them to it, and frowned.
Five career holders, surprised but more indignant.
They checked the rankings and saw they were second.
The leader walked over and said, "Who’s Lin Moyu?"
His tone wasn’t very polite.
Jiang Taotao and the others looked at him with displeasure.
Lin Moyu calmly asked, "What is it?"
The person looked Lin Moyu up and down, "You guys got lucky to take first place."
"Your name is Lin Moyu, I’ll remember it."
"I’m Tang Jianfei. Remember that too. When we get to the arena, we’ll defeat you."
With that, he turned and left.
Jiang Taotao said softly, "That guy is very arrogant."
Lin Moyu shook his head slightly.
Ning Yiyi said disdainfully, "What’s the use of arrogance? He’ll still lose when he has to."
Jiang Taotao and the other two deeply agreed.
Running into Lin Moyu in this group could only be considered their bad luck.
More and more people passed the preliminaries and were teleported out.
The place started to get lively.
The number of eliminated teams on the light screen kept increasing, far more than those who passed.
"Looks like 90% really was a conservative estimate."
"I think in the end only about 2000 teams will pass."
Over 100,000 teams registered for the entire tournament.
About 70% of those were teams below level 40.
If only 2000 teams remained out of 70,000,
That’s about a 3% pass rate.
97% of teams couldn’t even pass the preliminaries. It was really too difficult.
But the Divine Summer Empire said it would be absolutely fair, so no one doubted it.
From what could be seen so far, the teams that passed all had good strength.
Many people sat down to rest after coming out.
They had fought hard inside, consuming a lot of energy and stamina.
After waiting like this for half a day, the final team finally passed successfully.
The huge light screen no longer showed any changes.
"Team preliminaries concluded!"
A majestic, deep voice resounded throughout.
"Now announcing the preliminary results."
"Level 10-19 group, total participating teams..."
"Level 20-29 group, total participating teams..."
"..."
These results were about as expected, with an overall pass rate of less than 3%.
"Career holders who did not pass, please leave the residence area early tomorrow morning."
"Career holders who passed the preliminaries, please gather at the competition venue early tomorrow morning."
"Individual preliminaries will be held this afternoon. Please attend on time."
After the voice finished speaking, there was no more movement, indicating it had ended.
"Let’s go rest for a while. I’ll come back this afternoon for the individual preliminaries."
Ning Yiyi held Lin Moyu’s arm, "It’s still early. Let’s go look around Nanhong City. I’ve never been there before."
"Sure." Lin Moyu didn’t refuse.
After all, he wasn’t tired at all. He had just walked a bit earlier, not even enough for a warm-up.
Jiang Taotao said, "You two go ahead. I’m exhausted and want to go back and rest."
Duan Gao and Miao Yu also surrendered, "We’re going back to rest too."
Jiang Taotao and the others had indeed fought very hard.
After all, their levels were too low. The Abyss Hellhounds posed a significant threat to them, so they couldn’t relax for a moment.
Though Ning Yiyi was also tired, she was much better off than them.
At least she still had the energy to pull Lin Moyu to go sightseeing in Nanhong City.
As one of the few super cities in the Divine Summer Empire, Nanhong City had a population of over 10 million.
Walking on the streets, they could see all kinds of career holders.
Ning Yiyi said, "They say Nanhong City has been attacked by Abyss demons several times in the past few hundred years. Once it almost fell."
"Fortunately, experts from Summer Capital University came to drive away the Abyss demons."
"Since then, teleportation arrays have been set up in every corner of Nanhong City."
"Even if one or two are destroyed, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t affect Nanhong City’s ability to call for help."
Ning Yiyi talked about some of Nanhong City’s history.
Lin Moyu knew these things too.
Major events of the past few hundred years were recorded in middle school history textbooks.
This included the Abyss demon invasion of Nanhong City.
It was said that time the Abyss demons came underwater from the ocean, launching a surprise attack on Nanhong City.
For Nanhong City, it was an unimaginable disaster.
The entire city was almost destroyed, with casualties exceeding one million.
Because the demons destroyed the teleportation arrays first, rescue became extremely slow.
Now Nanhong City has built over a hundred teleportation arrays, spread throughout every corner of the city.
If something similar happens again, rescue teams can arrive at any time.
They spent half a day wandering around Nanhong City with Ning Yiyi.
Though they didn’t buy anything, Ning Yiyi was still very happy.
She had grown up like a princess, having whatever she wanted.
Buying things held no attraction for her anymore.
The key to shopping wasn’t what you bought, but who you went with.
When the morning preliminary results came out, the 3% pass rate shocked the world.
Countless career holders raised doubts.
Some eliminated career holders also complained it was unfair.
The Divine Summer Empire had anticipated this and released all the information early.
The monsters set, their strength, numbers, the final boss.
All information was made public one by one.
They also explained why it was designed this way and what the intention was.
This shut everyone up.
Anyone who wasn’t an idiot could understand the Divine Summer Empire wanted to select teams that excelled in combat power, coordination, skills, and equipment.
As long as they could achieve these things, passing the preliminaries wasn’t difficult.
The 3% rate seemed low, but the number of teams passing the preliminaries had actually set a historical record.
In the afternoon, the individual preliminaries were about to begin.
Even more people registered for the individual competition, reaching an astonishing 200,000.
The individual competition was grouped the same way as the team competition, in 10-level brackets.
Compared to the team competition, the individual competition attracted even more attention.
Because without teammates holding them back, people could better showcase their own strength.
No need for coordination, just go all out on your own.
More direct, more straightforward.
It felt like fist-to-fist combat.
Same light screen, same venue, no difference from the morning team preliminaries.
Some people had a bad feeling.
"The elimination rate won’t be very high again, will it?"
"You can tell with your toes. With over 200,000 people registered, how could the elimination rate not be high?"
"It would be good if 5000 people are left in the end."
"Wonder what kind of test it will be."
"What else could it be but combat? You think they’d make a warrior do healing?"
Amid people’s discussions, the light screen lit up. Everyone walked into the light screen one by one, entering their own independent spaces.
The whole process was just like entering a dungeon.
Everyone entered their own dungeon, not interfering with each other.
Before entering, Lin Moyu told Ning Yiyi to go back first.
Even if he passed quickly, he’d have to wait for everyone else to finish before leaving. Who knew how long that would take.
Ning Yiyi nodded, "Then be careful."
Lin Moyu patted her head.
Just as he was about to turn and enter the light screen, someone suddenly blocked Lin Moyu’s path.
It was Tang Jianfei, whom they had just met this morning, that arrogant guy.
Tang Jianfei still maintained his arrogance, head held higher than the sky.
"I want to compete with you, see who passes first."
Lin Moyu glanced at him, "Idiot."
With that, he walked past him.
Tang Jianfei called after Lin Moyu, "You don’t dare compete. You’re afraid of losing!"
Lin Moyu ignored him and walked straight into the light screen.
Tang Jianfei gritted his teeth, "You won’t compete with me, but I’ll compete with you anyway. I’ll definitely be faster than you."
After everyone had entered the light screen, it began displaying each person’s name.
The light screen covered the sky and earth in all directions.
Over 200,000 names flickered on it.
With a rumble, the assessment officially began.
The rules for the individual preliminaries were very simple: kill the enemy in front of you, or be killed by the enemy.
Pass if successful, be eliminated if you fail.
An Abyss Dog Demon appeared in front of Lin Moyu.
It just looked like an Abyss Dog Demon.
It was only level 29, with greatly weakened attributes.
This Dog Demon was exactly the same as the final boss in the morning team preliminaries.
Back then it had nine subordinates.
Now it was alone.
In the team preliminaries, with support buffs and healer healing, it wasn’t difficult to fight.
Now with nothing, the fight was completely different.
Except for Lin Moyu.
Several skeletons appeared at his call. Red light flashed as skills burst out.
Then all was quiet.
Seconds later, another monster appeared.
"Oh, this time it’s an Abyss Wolf Demon."
Its level increased by 1, reaching level 30.
Its attributes were still weakened, slightly stronger than a normal level 30 monster, but not by much.
Still those few skeletons, still those few blades.
Blades rose and fell, rose and fell.
This Wolf Demon died very decisively.
Seconds later, another monster appeared.
This time it was an Abyss Snake Demon.
Its level increased by 1 again, reaching level 31.
But still not enough.
Several skeletons charged up, and the Snake Demon died on the spot.
Then the fourth, fifth, sixth...
Each time the monster’s level increased by 1, and its attributes rose accordingly.
But to Lin Moyu, it made no difference.
Until the 7th monster, a level 35 Abyss Lizard was killed by Lin Moyu, and the assessment finally ended.
A deep voice sounded in the tower.
"Assessment passed."
The scene changed, and Lin Moyu was outside.
His name was prominently ranked first on the light screen.
"So you just need to kill seven monsters to pass the preliminaries. Looks like the difficulty isn’t high."
If others heard Lin Moyu say this, they would probably spit blood.
These seven monsters were simulated Abyss demons created by the Divine Summer Tower.
Though their levels and attributes were weakened, they were still stronger than monsters of the same level.
And their skills hadn’t changed.
Each one was higher level than the last, with no rest in between.
This wasn’t the team competition.
Fighting monsters several levels higher than yourself, with no buffs or healing, was inherently very difficult.
Lin Moyu’s name flashed brightly at the top, with a number 7 after it.
Indicating he had killed all 7 monsters.
While others’ names had either 0 or 1 after them, not even a single 2.
"How did this Lin Moyu get to the top?"
"There’s a 7 after his name."
"Did he finish already?"
"No way, it’s only been a little over a minute, right? He’s done already?"
"I remember this morning in the team preliminaries, the champion in the level 20 group was also Lin Moyu’s team."
"I remember too. Didn’t expect him to be this amazing."