The thirty-day Exchange Tournament had taken only seven days to eliminate more than twenty thousand people, leaving fewer than a thousand. The elimination rate was astonishing.
Although the number of participants had dwindled, the area of the entire virtual world had also continued shrinking, so the odds of people running into one another had not decreased by much.
After seven days of selection, those who remained were basically all powerhouses ranked in the top thousand of the Extraordinary Ranking List. Their evolution of the Order God Chain had all reached the Second Level.
Carolina was one of them. As the gatekeeper ranked 2,000th on the Extraordinary Ranking List, she had fought several members of the Gu Ding Pirate Crew in succession eight months ago. Fa Te and Dokter had needed to put in considerable effort to defeat her, and she had benefited the most from that battle.
More than a month ago, she had already deduced all her Order God Chains to the Second Level. She then defeated Barkom, the gatekeeper ranked 1,000th, in the Extraordinary Arena. She was now ranked 928th on the Extraordinary Ranking List.
Yet even as a powerhouse ranked within the top thousand of the Extraordinary Ranking List, it had not been easy to last until now in the Exchange Tournament.
In these brief seven days, Carolina had encountered two crises.
The first had been on the second day of the Exchange Tournament, when she ran into Lancelot, ranked eleventh on the Extraordinary Ranking List. The moment she spotted him from afar, she fled at once. Fortunately, he apparently had not considered her worth his attention and had not pursued her.
The second had been on the fifth day of the Exchange Tournament, when she encountered a young man ranked somewhere in the 700s on the