The fifth day of the preliminary round, Zone 65.
The sky above the zone's city was dark red, as if it had been soaked in countless gallons of blood.
The surfaces of the city's buildings, tall and short alike, were covered in cracks and scorch marks left behind by battle.
Several flames that had yet to go out flickered amid the ruins, casting twisted, distorted shadows across the cracked streets.
Boom!!
A fireball over a hundred meters in diameter suddenly erupted to the northwest.
The terrifying shockwave slammed three skyscrapers into collapse.
Amid the smoke and dust, two figures collided and crossed paths at nearly the speed of sound.
The surging energy storm plowed trenches dozens of meters deep into the ground.
"Hand over your Points!"
A burly green-skinned man with wings on his back roared, slashing out an arcing energy wave a hundred meters long with the light blade in his hand.
"Dream on!"
His opponent, a tall woman, sneered.
More than a hundred diamond-shaped light shields instantly unfolded before her.
As the energy wave collided with the light shields, the burst of intense light turned the entire district as bright as day.
This was the norm on the fifth day of the preliminary round.
The weak had long since been eliminated. The contestants who had survived until now—
Were almost all galaxy-level prodigies who appeared only once among millions of Life Planets.
Once they began fighting, it was difficult to determine a winner without several hours.
At this moment, in the southeastern city of Zone 65.
More than tens of thousands of contestants were slaughtering one another.
Suddenly—
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Piercing alarms sounded simultaneously from the Smart Armguards on everyone's wrists.
A scarlet Holographic Projection forcibly appeared, and a cold mechanical voice seemed to echo across the