Chaos and clamor.
The vast virtual space had turned into a noisy marketplace.
Driven by profit, these Fifth Order experts were like beasts fighting over food, their faces flushed as they fought.
Every extra point wagered meant an extra chance of winning.
Especially as more and more information came to light, everyone realized that something seemed abnormal about this Star Radiance Battle. There were too many contestants hiding their strength, rendering all past experience completely useless.
Those experts who perhaps knew the truth were even more tacitly concealing something.
In such a strange atmosphere, the representatives of countless small and medium-sized civilizations all felt an immense threat.
They were cannon fodder! They had made no preparations!
Soon, just as the First Round of betting was about to end, a Planet Destroyer Level burly man still wearing a Fourth Order set suddenly shouted angrily at the Light Sphere overhead:
"People from the Star Radiance Alliance! Come out!"
"You bunch of swindlers! Didn't you say the Star Radiance Battle was meant to select elites!?"
"But look! These major civilizations are either cooperating with one another or cheating by throwing money around! They've even had Planet Destroyer Levels cripple their own strength to enter the competition!"
"What kind of elite selection is this!? This is completely unfair! By doing this... aren't you treating us as stepping stones!?"
Furious beyond measure, the Planet Destroyer who clearly only grasped ordinary laws trembled violently all over in his agitation.
Their civilization was not powerful, and the star system where their Homeworld was located was even less capable of resisting the imminent stellar catastrophe.
Therefore, after unexpectedly learning about the Star Radiance Battle some time ago, they had placed their hopes in it.
They had sold off their equipment and planetary resources. After sacrificing more than half