Boom!
Perfect Susanoo raised its foot and stomped Yimopu, who was as small as an ant beneath it, and his Heroic Spirit to death, ending his suffering.
[Announcement: Country L challenger, Master Lin Xiaoran, has killed Country A challenger, Master Yimopu. Points earned: 5.] [Announcement: Country Y challenger, Master Yimopu, and his summoned Heroic Spirit, Evil Wizard, have both died. Challenge failed. Eliminated!] [Penalty: 1. A natural disaster, a sandstorm, will descend upon Country Y! 2. Ten thousand ten-meter giants will be randomly deployed across the country!]
"Let's go. Since I've activated Perfect Susanoo, we might as well take care of the A-rank ferocious beast here."
Lin Xiaoran pointed out the A-rank ferocious beast's location to Madara. Then enormous wings spread, and the eight-hundred-meter-tall Susanoo rose from the ground, flew into the heavens, and disappeared into the white clouds.
Lin Xiaoran and Madara left just like that, but the shock they left behind set the livestream's bullet comments ablaze.
[Oh my god! This feels like a dream!]
[Am I watching a National Fortune Game livestream? Are we sure this isn't some sci-fi movie!? That's terrifying!]
[Holy crap! I was just in Country A's Yimopu's livestream and saw his first-person view! God knows how huge Susanoo's foot was! How terrifying it was!]
[That's an eight-hundred-meter-tall giant! If Lord Madara appeared in reality, he could rule all of Sky Blue Star!]
[Lord Madara's words were so badass! Mere grains of sand think they can dance too? Haha!]
[Now Country A really is going to turn into sand. Sandstorms are no joke!]
[Too bad the giants in the penalty are only ten meters tall. If they were over a hundred meters tall, they'd probably knock Country A's national strength down into the bottom few.]
[Ten-meter giants are plenty of trouble already. Don't forget, there's a natural disaster too!]
It was just as the viewers said.
Country A was already situated in a tropical desert climate zone, with terrain consisting largely of plateaus, plains, deserts, and river valleys. Once a sandstorm broke out, it would sweep across several of Country A's cities almost unimpeded. The impact and losses it brought would undoubtedly be impossible to estimate.
With ten thousand ten-meter-tall giants also appearing randomly throughout the country to wreak havoc, Country A would inevitably be unable to be everywhere at once, and its national strength ranking would certainly fall out of the top twenty.
As the saying went, the strong only grew stronger. Lin Xiaoran's Heroic Spirits grew stronger with every round, bringing higher-grade rewards to Country L's national fortune. Its national strength rose rapidly, and just a single round had put Country L in the top three. If she won this round as well, it would definitely take first place!
It would even be the kind of first place that left second place far behind!
If Lin Xiaoran kept her winning streak going, becoming a superpower would be just around the corner!
Thus, the effect on the other countries was that they would continually suffer national fortune penalties, their national strength would keep declining, and they would ultimately be eliminated and their countries destroyed.
Of course, if anyone wanted to survive and receive protection, there was another way: acquire citizenship in a powerful country and become part of it.
Among the two hundred countries remaining today, there were people from over two hundred other countries whose names had already been struck from the rolls.
The higher a country's national strength ranking, the more people joined it.
So, when the countries ranked near the bottom realized their destruction was imminent, they began submitting applications to powerful countries, hoping they would accept them and let them survive.
Country L had been doing this all along too, taking in residents of other countries.
As for any sense of national pride, when your home was about to disappear, who still cared about that?
People from various countries might have been making a merry racket in the livestream, constantly mocking and talking down Lin Xiaoran, but the successive blows had already made them recognize reality: Lin Xiaoran's strength and luck in the National Fortune Game really were overwhelming, the kind that amounted to a dimensionality-reduction strike.
So some people had already begun thinking about fleeing, acquiring Country L citizenship, and receiving protection.
Today was the third day since the National Fortune Game began. After Lin Xiaoran showed Madara's Perfect Susanoo to the entire world, the flood of applications for Country L citizenship nearly crashed the website outright!
If they could successfully acquire citizenship before the game ended, they could enjoy the national fortune rewards too!
In this respect, national fortune treated everyone fairly. It only considered citizenship, nothing else, not even when they joined.
Of course, Country L would also strictly screen applicants. After all, this was when spies were most likely to appear.
Somewhere in the desert.
The enormous Susanoo, like a great mountain, descended from the sky.
"Under the desert again?" Madara asked, looking down.
"Yes. They're afraid of the heat. Ferocious beasts are no exception." Lin Xiaoran nodded. She had already sensed a powerful presence deep underground. Without a doubt, it was the only A-rank ferocious beast in this round's game instance.
"Tell me where its vital spot is," Madara asked.
"There." Lin Xiaoran pointed below.
"All right."
As he spoke, Madara controlled Susanoo to draw a long blade and thrust it cleanly and decisively into the spot Lin Xiaoran had indicated!
It easily pierced through more than ten meters of yellow sand and plunged into the head of the sleeping A-rank ferocious beast, a giant lizard.
[Announcement: Challenger Master Lin Xiaoran from Country L and her Heroic Spirit, Madara Uchiha, have successfully killed an A-rank ferocious beast. Points +1,000!]
[This has to be the A-rank ferocious beast that died the most humiliating death, right? It didn't even show its face before Lord Madara stabbed it to death.]
[A-rank ferocious beast: You're feeding me bullets!]
[Tsk, tsk. With Lord Madara's Perfect Susanoo, he could probably handle even an S-rank ferocious beast easily. Too bad this instance doesn't have one!]
[Congratulations to Goddess Ran on successfully bagging her second A-rank ferocious beast!]
[Rubbing my hands! Can't wait to see what comes out of this A-rank treasure chest!]
[No more weapons. Give us something we can get our hands on! Pretty please!]
[Anything's fine, as long as it benefits our Country L!]
After seeing the kill notification, Lin Xiaoran said to Madara, "All right, it's dead. Dispel Susanoo."
"Aren't we going to eliminate the others? I can maintain it for a long time yet."
Because Madara had a body created through Impure World Reincarnation, his chakra was infinite, and he would not feel mentally fatigued. Essentially, he could keep Perfect Susanoo active from now until the game ended on the fifth day.
Lin Xiaoran shook her head. "No need. There are still two days left. Let's earn some more points."
Even a mosquito was meat, however small. Lin Xiaoran would not look down on the points from C-rank and B-rank ferocious beasts just because she already had fifty thousand points.
[Points Ran: All I want is points! Let them live a little longer!]
[Points Ran works so hard! I'm crying my eyes out!]
[I love you! Points Ran!]
The towering Susanoo began to dissipate, first shedding its armor, then turning into a skeleton, and finally becoming pure blue energy and disappearing.
After landing, Lin Xiaoran crouched and pressed her hand against the scorching sand. A ring of purple light immediately spread outward. Then the yellow sand in front of Lin Xiaoran and Madara began to flow, and before long, it brought out a glowing box.
It was the A-rank treasure chest!