Challenge Announcement Appears, The Final 24 Hours [Seeking Subscriptions]

This noon was no ordinary one. It meant there were only 24 hours left until the Defense Challenge officially began. A new phase was about to arrive, and the month spent laying the foundations was also coming to an end.

As the first batch of Lords to descend, these Lords were all in the prime of their lives back on Earth.

They could also be considered the pioneers and trailblazers among Earth's Lords.

In the days to come, subsequent batches would gradually materialize according to the progression of time.

The more disadvantaged a group had originally been, the later they would descend.

According to the initial descent rules, the second, third, and even fourth batches of Lords would receive a certain amount of time-difference compensation, similar to the "world experience" boost given to players who joined a game later.

For example, if the second batch of Lords could only descend six months after the first batch, they would receive different bonuses based on the first batch's average development progress at the time of their descent.

The exact effects of those bonuses were unknown. They would certainly have some protective nature, but they would not be outrageously strong. After all, the first batch of Lords would have spent an additional six months developing diligently.

Providing protection to the relatively disadvantaged Lords of the following batches was itself a form of fairness.

If they had all been placed in the same period, the disparity in death rates would definitely have been enormous.

Of course, many talented people in finance and scientific research were relatively old in human society.

When it came to academic and professional knowledge from Earth, the Lords of the later batches would definitely be no weaker than those of the first batch.

However, their physical strength, reaction speed, and