Ruined City, central district, Abandoned Park.
Su Xiao stood atop an abandoned high-rise on the inner side of Abandoned Park. With no storage space, he could only observe the distant situation with his eyes.
The park was overgrown with weeds, and strange trees sprawled everywhere. A statue of the Merciful Holy Maiden, over ten meters tall, served as the landmark. It stood in an artificial pool roughly thirty meters in diameter. The shallow green water brimmed over, while the slightly tilted bottle in the statue's hands continuously poured out the Fountain of Life.
The Fountain of Life showed signs of slowly evaporating. Fluorescent green motes drifted around the pool. Anyone within the area recovered 1% of their health per second, along with their injuries and the like.
In theory, some faction should have seized this place. The problem was that the Ruined City only had two factions: the Gluttonous Tribe and the Scavengers. The former possessed greater combat power, but consisted entirely of berserk beasts and wild animals. The Scavenger Alliance was weaker, though they possessed firearms. Firearms were not to be underestimated; they worked very well here. Su Xiao's Stamina Attribute was currently only 8 points. A bullet through a vital spot would kill him.
That was also the interesting part of the Golden Arena. Many participants did not fall to other experts, but instead lost to these gunpowder weapons they had never cared about before.
More directly put, the process from Lv.1 to Lv.50 tested the participants' control over and adaptability to power. A true expert was not strong merely because he possessed power. Rather, under any circumstances, he could use the means currently under his control to reach the pinnacle of that level.
That was the difference between power and wealth. Someone with vast wealth might lose