The display screens above the ten arenas in the venue now showed the contestant numbers for each group. The major powers had long since investigated the numbers of the contestants they were focusing on, so the moment the system groups were announced, they could immediately look them up and find out.
"The contestant lists for Groups Three and Five are insane!"
"Isn't No. 29 Falling Petals, the Swordsman ranked in the top ten of the Purple Thorn Kingdom?"
"Holy crap! That No. 1514 looks like Thorn Whisper, who made it into the top hundred of the rankings last time!"
As everyone looked at the lists displayed on the big screens, they began discussing them among themselves. Groups Three and Five, in particular, drew the most attention, because those two groups contained a third of the players expected to reach the top hundred in the rankings. The competition there could be said to be exceptionally fierce.
When Bai Qingxue saw the group lists in the VIP box, her expression darkened.
Of Zhao Yueru's five-person team, two had been assigned to Group Three, while the other three had all been assigned to Group Five.
It would have been one thing if there were simply more people in the same group, but the experts in Groups Three and Five were clearly on another level compared to the other groups. Of the newcomers the various superpowers had sent to participate, twenty-three had been placed in Group Three and nineteen in Group Five. Those two groups alone contained half of all the newcomers sent by the superpowers.
Furthermore, each of those two groups had more than a dozen contestants from first-rate Guilds, along with members of major top-tier adventure teams. Those people alone took up around ninety slots, not to mention the independent experts