After cleaning up this last wave of "deliveries," Lin Yuan truly didn't want to move another inch.
Even killing was exhausting.
Then, a grand, icy mechanical voice rang across Heaven and Earth, announcing the end of the brutal selection across more than a hundred World Zones.
"The preliminaries are about to end. Countdown: 60... 59... 58... 57..."
On the enormous rankings in the sky, the numbers shifted wildly.
Surprisingly, the rankings from 950th to 1,001st were changing especially rapidly, names flashing by like lanterns on a revolving wheel.
In these final few dozen seconds, those on the brink of elimination must have unleashed everything they had, fighting desperately for that last sliver of hope.
But it no longer had anything to do with Lin Yuan.
He glanced up at the name at the very top, whose points had long since reached an astronomical figure, his expression calm.
"Time's up! Beginning teleportation."
As the final countdown ended, the elimination round officially came to a close.
An irresistible force of space descended, and Lin Yuan vanished from the blood-red world in an instant, transported back to the skies above Black Dragon Mountain Island.
The moment he returned to his private space in the Virtual Universe, the quiet world erupted into noise.
"Beep beep beep beep—"
The communication alerts ran together in an almost unbroken stream, never stopping. The icon for his virtual mailbox flashed frantically as emails flooded in one after another, their sheer number staggering.
There was no need to guess. They were recruitment offers from all kinds of forces in the Ganwu Universe Kingdom.
Among them were powerful families and organizations, as well as invitations from several close aides of the Ganwu Kingdom Lord.
The figure of the Intelligent Life Ika appeared at once. A hint of excitement and