Initial Battle

The waiting area was bustling with activity.

Zhang Chen sat alone quietly in a corner, holding a steaming cup of thick coffee.

"Chong Ying and I should be fine. I just hope Senior Sister Yuxin has better luck and doesn't keep running into strong opponents during the preliminaries."

As Zhang Chen took a small sip of coffee, the G region preliminaries officially began. The tetrahedral projection screens in the center simultaneously broadcast the four ongoing matches.

"Is every arena different?"

Zhang Chen noticed that the four matches on the screens were not being held on standard platforms. Instead, both contestants were placed into randomly selected environments to fight. The current arenas were a tropical rainforest, the outskirts of a city, dangerous mountain terrain, and a lake.

Such environmental assignments naturally had their reasons. Some people excelled at close combat, some at assassination, and some at long-range attacks. Different environments allowed them to display different abilities. More importantly, in actual combat, one could not simply choose where to fight ghosts as one pleased. After all, ghosts could be encountered anywhere.

A thirty-minute countdown timer sat in the lower-right corner of the screens, indicating that no match could last longer than thirty minutes.

None of these four matches were worth Zhang Chen's attention. The four pairs of contestants displayed rather ordinary strength, with no particularly formidable opponents among them. Holding his coffee, Zhang Chen still could not shake off his drowsiness. The exhaustion accumulated over two months seemed not to have fully faded even after an entire night's sleep.

"I'll sleep for a bit. Someone should notify me when my match begins." Zhang Chen tilted his head against the chair and fell asleep.

Among the G region contestants, everyone wanted to learn as much as possible about their opponents' abilities. All the