While Lin Xiaoran and Yixiao were resting and eating, the other challengers also began encountering ferocious beasts as they advanced.
The scene in the livestream of Country H's challenger, Park Bu, was clearly different from Lin Xiaoran's.
Lin Xiaoran could only see five meters around her, but Park Bu's visibility extended a full hundred meters!
The reason was that a full hundred mounted soldiers surrounded him, expanding his field of view!
He himself was also sitting astride a tall horse, with his summoned Heroic Spirit beside him. The spirit wore heavy black armor and carried a spear, looking imposing and majestic!
Park Bu's face brimmed with triumphant confidence.
At first, Park Bu's face had been ashen. He had never imagined that he would be chosen as Country H's challenger this time!
Before him, Country H had already lost ten consecutive rounds! All its challengers had died, too!
The only thing worth being thankful for was that those challengers had ranked relatively high, so the national fortune penalties had not been too severe. Country H could barely still bear them.
But if it kept losing, Country H would be destroyed sooner or later!
Park Bu did not think he was some great hero who could save Country H, so he had been panicked and terrified, almost wetting his pants!
But once his Heroic Spirit was summoned, everything changed!
Because his Heroic Spirit was a great general!
He could even summon a vast army of thousands of men and horses!
At that moment, Park Bu straightened up, brimming with confidence!
He had even begun imagining the treatment he would enjoy upon returning as the sole winner of this round of the national fortune game!
He wanted money! He wanted fame! He wanted beautiful women, too! Big stars!
He even wanted to personally establish a chaebol that belonged to him alone!
He also wanted to become the one and only king of Country H!
All he had to do was win!
After all, the national fortune game's Heroic Spirit Summoning mechanism was right there. As long as a victor kept winning, the Heroic Spirits they summoned would grow stronger and stronger!
"Master, we've encountered a ferocious beast up ahead."
The great general beside him spoke, snapping the distracted Park Bu back to his senses.
Though the great general's face was expressionless, inwardly, he was already dissatisfied with this so-called "Master" in all sorts of ways.
According to the information provided by the national fortune game, his only task as a summoned Heroic Spirit was to help his Master win.
But that did not mean he was an attendant this Master could order around at will without showing him any respect!
Had the national fortune game not told him that he would also receive a reward if his Master won, he truly would not have bothered with this arrogant, ill-mannered Park Bu.
After all, Heroic Spirits had only one restriction: they could not actively harm their Masters.
So if a Heroic Spirit was unwilling to put in any effort, their Master had no way to force them to do anything.
Such a thing had happened before. A challenger had summoned a Heroic Spirit, but the spirit had been unwilling to help their Master and deliberately let an opponent kill them without resisting, causing the challenger to lose and die as well.
After that, all the challengers had learned their lesson. They treated every Master politely and took the initiative to build closer relationships, afraid their Heroic Spirits would refuse to work!
But Park Bu, seeing how powerful his Heroic Spirit was, had become so pleased with himself that he had unconsciously spoken rudely, displeasing his Heroic Spirit without even realizing it.
"A ferocious beast? Good! General! Charge in and kill it!"
Park Bu now held everything in contempt. Ferocious beasts, opponents-he thought nothing of any of them! He acted as though he had already won.
Yet the viewers in Country H watching the livestream saw nothing wrong with Park Bu's behavior. On the contrary, they thought it was perfectly normal.
In their minds, with such a powerful Heroic Spirit, shouldn't he simply steamroll everything, slaughter his way to the finish, and show the other countries a thing or two?!
But the great general sighed deeply inwardly. "Master, I have a responsibility to remind you that my soldiers and I are all ordinary people. Every death means one fewer man. So, unless we are absolutely certain, my suggestion is to avoid danger as much as possible, preserve our strength, and make it to the end."
Park Bu was immediately displeased and said dismissively, "Don't you have thousands of men and horses? What's there to fear about losing a few?"
The great general's expression darkened at those words. As a great general who loved his soldiers like his own sons and was deeply trusted and loved by them, hearing Park Bu say that made him want to cut the man down!
Besides, his so-called vast army actually numbered only five thousand in total: three thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry.
It looked like a lot of men, giving him a considerable advantage on this national fortune battlefield.
But the great general also had to consider other problems. What if there were powerful Heroic Spirits who did not fear an army's charge? What if a Heroic Spirit possessed some kind of supernatural power?
He only had five thousand ordinary soldiers, not ten thousand or a hundred thousand troops!
So, as a great general who also wanted to win this national fortune game filled with danger, he had to exercise the utmost caution!
At the very least, he had to gather and obtain intelligence first!
But now, a ferocious beast of unknown rank had appeared, and his Master had simply ordered them to attack!
Who would answer for their deaths?!
Utterly, hopelessly stupid!
After waiting a while, Park Bu noticed that none of the soldiers around him had moved. Puzzled, he turned toward the great general beside him and saw the displeasure on his face.
At that moment, Park Bu, who had still been fantasizing about all sorts of wonderful things in his future life, suddenly came to his senses as though a switch had been flipped.
"Ahem, General, let me check what rank that ferocious beast is first. Don't be angry!"
Park Bu was not a complete idiot after all, and he got down to business.
"That ferocious beast over there is F-rank. It's very weak. Ordinary people can beat it with numbers and weapons. General, make your move! We'll get points if we win!"
The national fortune game had given every challenger the ability to identify a ferocious beast's rank, so Park Bu immediately provided the information.
Only after hearing this did the great general's expression ease a little. He ordered the soldiers into formation, continued forward, and surrounded and attacked the F-rank ferocious beast.
Sure enough, the F-rank ferocious beast was not strong. With the great general prepared, they successfully killed it through their numerical advantage and earned 5 points.
"Amazing! Come on, come on, General, let's keep going! Don't let a single ferocious beast we see get away! They're all points! The higher our points, the better the national fortune rewards will be!"
Park Bu was at it again.
The great general shook his head, thinking that if he wanted to win, he would have to rely on himself after all. His Master could not be counted on.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Andrei, the winner of the previous round, had also killed a ferocious beast and earned points with the help of his Heroic Spirit, the Barbarian King.
[Our great hero!]
[The Barbarian King is so powerful! He killed an E-rank ferocious beast with one slash!]
[Come on, Andrei! Win another round!]
[Go, go, go! The future belongs to our Country E!]