While the Iron Blood Brotherhood was celebrating, Daniel, Kerim, and the other European guild leaders were gathered in a private room elsewhere.
"Damn it, how could Lu Yang be this strong?" Daniel cursed.
Kerim patted his shoulder and said, "Don't dwell on it. We still have plenty of chances."
"We can't let Lu Yang be so arrogant. We should pool our equipment and give the rest of our competitors better rare items," Blood Butcher said.
"That makes sense," Daniel said.
The group went off to discuss their plans.
Liu Jie's side and the domestic elite teams, who were likewise discussing how to defeat Lu Yang, also began studying Lu Yang's battles.
Inside the game.
After winning a match, Lu Yang received a brief rest period. An hour later, he was teleported into the battlefield for his second match. At this point, only 50,000 players remained in the individual competition.
This opponent was much easier. He had no sub-artifact, merely a highly skilled player, and Lu Yang took him out with a simple burst of attacks, ending the fight with ease.
Although he had won easily, no one believed Lu Yang's full set of sub-artifacts was against the rules, because he had taken every opponent away with a single combo, never giving them any chance to fight back.
While no one on Lu Yang's side saw any issue, a large number of matches received player complaints due to the unfairness brought by high-level equipment and high-level gems.
Normally, even a level-10 gem cost several hundred yuan, while a level-15 gem cost tens of thousands. Socketing level-15 gems into all seventeen pieces of equipment was already beyond what ordinary players could afford.
One player in the competition even had level-17 Defense Gems across his entire body, making another player of the