The Day of the Duel

The location for this appointed battle was the Ten Thousand Gold Star Region;

It was empty and desolate within, littered everywhere with shattered rocks. Even an intact planet was hard to come across...

It had once been prosperous, producing abundant metal and stone resources, and had even given birth to metal-and-stone lifeforms;

But they had been unfortunate;

The Ten Thousand Gold Star Region was poorly situated...

Amid the repeated struggles and chaotic wars between humanity and the Demon Race, it had been nearly crippled, utterly losing all value beyond serving as a battlefield.

By the time Chu Yuan arrived, many powerful auras already stood in the starry sky!

Aside from the necessary forces left behind to stand guard, nearly every human Sovereign with relatively free rein had come.

After all, it was said to be a contest of champions...

But there might very well be a team battle afterward.

A thousand years had already passed since the Demon Race first issued their challenge;

It was not that arranging a fight required a thousand years of preparation. Rather, humanity's condition had been this: hand over every human being raised in captivity within Demon Race territory;

Gathering them all up had taken far too much time;

And after the handover, humanity needed to find places to resettle them, which likewise took time.

Bound by secret contract arts, the Demon Race did not dare to play tricks;

Of course, that was mainly because humans were not particularly important resources to the Demon Race...

Most were used for torture and amusement, or as slaves;

At most, they would cultivate a few and secretly send them into human territory as spies... but in truth, they could not accomplish much.

The other conditions were worth more;

There were two core points: Origin Armaments and territory!

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