The brief wait ended.
Weightlessness suddenly descended, and a purple glow swallowed Yang Xiu and his teammates' vision.
The process lasted only a few seconds.
The next instant, the temperature plummeted, and the air scraped across their skin like ice blades.
Everything before them was white. Huge snowflakes whirled wildly, almost obscuring their vision.
Beneath their feet lay deep blue ice, stretching as far as they could see.
In the distance, jagged ice spikes were faintly visible, piercing the ice like a giant beast's fangs.
Farther away, towering glacier ranges stretched across the space between heaven and earth.
This was clearly the Glacier Battlefield mentioned in the mission.
Around them, lights continued to flare.
One, ten, a hundred-dazzling purple teleportation lights appeared one after another.
As the lights faded, different Elysium Players Squads emerged.
Like the Life Soul Squad, they had all been selected as war testers for this round.
Within mere dozens of seconds, more than thirty teams, totaling over a thousand people, had gathered on the previously lifeless ice field.
And their numbers were still growing rapidly.
Yang Xiu quickly swept his gaze across them, spotting quite a few familiar figures.
Not far to the left stood the Reckless Dragon Squad. Its members were mostly burly, clad head to toe in heavy plate armor. Together, they resembled a moving steel fortress. Their captain, Da Mang, was waving an enormous axe comparable to a door panel, loudly calling his members together. His voice carried even through the wind and snow.
Ahead to the right was the Shadow Shuttle Squad. Few in number, most wore close-fitting dark gray stealth suits. They anxiously discussed something in low voices while surveying the other nearby squads.
Farther away were Burning Fire, Sturdy Wall, and the World Patrollers-all strong teams with places on his