Spectators outside the arena cheered for their favorite guilds and battle groups, or for the representative battle groups of their own races.
The first round of clashes had ended, and a highlight reel set every platform in and out of the game ablaze.
The video had been made by a player from the Detailed Study Faction in the Explorer Poem of the Land team.
It opened with a line of text appearing against a black background:
"Are you ready?"
The scene shifted. The video opened on a side view of the God King standing atop a giant black-armored serpent, arms folded across his chest.
The camera circled freely around the God King. As it rose, the grim-faced members of the Divine Hall Warband came into view.
The aerial view froze in place.
A line of text appeared on screen: What is power?
The music suddenly surged, and the footage cut rapidly between scenes, compressing one dazzling burst after another into a tiny frame.
On Battlefield 3219, the players' battle formation roared into view, like a red-hot branding iron tearing viciously through the enemy lines.
The shockwave from a collision of giant shields sent dust billowing outward in a ring, while the glint of piercing blades joined into a deadly metallic storm.
At the head of the charge, a figure wielding a greatsword swept it across the battlefield, sending three enemies who had adopted defensive stances flying at once. The sheer force nearly burst through the screen.
Another line of text appeared: What is judgment?
The camera swept toward the sky above the Thousand Mountains battlefield. Members of the Sky Wings guild spread their light wings in unison, and in the next instant, countless spears of light plunged down like meteors, blanketing the entire battlefield. In slow motion, the light shields