After several rounds of matches, only the Chinese Server, Korean Server, US Server, and French Server remained. The latter three were all hostile toward the Chinese Server, and running into any of them would inevitably mean a fierce battle. The Chinese players hoped to face the French Server early. Although that would cause some early expenditure, keeping the Korean Server out of the top three would be quite worthwhile. Besides, they would have to face them sooner or later—if the Korean Server failed to enter the top three, it would not receive the national artifact reward, which would somewhat curb its growth in strength.
Of course, which server they encountered was random and not something they could decide. All they could do was wait patiently.
Before long, the matchup list was released. To everyone's slight disappointment, they had not drawn the Korean Server, but the US Server. Still, despite their disappointment, the battle continued.
The US Server had previously faced several fairly powerful opponents and suffered considerable losses. Furthermore, they had lit relatively few sky lanterns in Sky City, so their strength was not particularly great; they were even weaker than the Japanese Server had been. Under such circumstances, even with only 8,000 players remaining, the Chinese Server could easily wipe them out. If the US Server had not used so many Group Blessing Scrolls, the battle would have been even easier—the US Server used four Group Blessing Scrolls, and one or two members of their team activated Combination Equipment Awakened Skills, greatly increasing their strength. Facing them, the Chinese Server had no choice but to use two Group Blessing Scrolls and activate Fire God Domain and Gale Domain as well. This counted as a fairly substantial expenditure.
Even so, after that battle, the Chinese Server had lost nearly a