Within the game rules established by the various bettors.
If all manner of miscellaneous chess pieces—such as the low- and mid-level demons, monsters, ghosts, and players who were merely there to make up the numbers—played the roles of cannon fodder and corpses strewn across the battlefield in the overall game,
Then Di Jun, Mechanical Supreme, Hongjun, and the like, who nominally and practically controlled their own sides, were the Hero Units of the game.
They would all possess considerable status and utility throughout the early and middle stages of the game.
Meanwhile, Godevaga, far away in Crimson Heaven, and the Informationized Electronic Heavenly Dao, currently within the Future Time Period of the Primordial World, were the Ultimate Units belonging to the various bettors throughout the entire game.
They were personally designated by each bettor.
Strength, origins, race... so long as their power did not exceed the established limits, they could be chosen freely.
They could be subordinates the bettors already possessed, or chess pieces they had hastily molded themselves.
In any case, it made no difference...
Unlike the former two, which could be deployed from the very beginning, the Ultimate Units, as the most important pieces,
Held a certain grand-finale significance!
Therefore,
A series of conditions had to be met before they could be summoned from different regions onto the game board to display their divine might!
In a sense,
If one side had already summoned theirs while the others were still nowhere close,
Then the outcome of the entire game could basically be declared in advance.
Even Orsaga and the others had to take experts of that level seriously.
They could utterly crush lower-level units...
As for whether the bettors themselves would personally enter the field,
That was forbidden.
Though those fellows were only using avatars, projections, and similar