Heaven's Chosen Clan

Upon seeing the description of the monster faction at the end of the list, Xiao Yu was stunned. He thought to himself, "Why would Naiser choose to Evil Forces Battle? Damn it, I didn't expect that even after all my planning, I still couldn't avoid it."

Xiao Yu was quite frustrated. In his original calculations, there was at least a 70% chance that Naiser would choose the Strongest Demon King Competition, a 20% chance that he would choose the Demon King Team Competition, and only a 10% chance that he would choose the Evil Forces Competition, which was basically impossible. However, he did not expect that the other party would actually choose the Evil Forces Competition.

While the Purgatory Legion is indeed powerful, the problem is that not all of them can be deployed during the competition; only a force of 1,000 can be sent out. This makes a bit puzzling. The strength of demons varies greatly. There are powerful Balor, Six-Armed Serpent Demons, Berserker Demons, and Felguard, as well as lesser demons, inferior demons, cowardly demons, and imps that are used as cannon fodder. In terms of the quality of monsters per population, demons are actually inferior to the Dragon Clan Celestial Realm, only slightly stronger than the Undead. It makes no sense for Naiser to choose to lead his troops into battle.

Xiao Yu wasn't afraid to fight demons; what he feared was Naiser himself. Naiser was capable of creating Nephalem in the Sky World, so his gaming skills were obviously top-notch. Moreover, he had completed two resurrection quests, which must have cost at least one or two million, indicating that he was not short of money. In the past, Xiao Yu would avoid such combinations of rich players and skilled gamers if possible.

But there's no point in writing it now. Since things have come to this, it seems I have no choice but to fight to the death.

Although the opponent was a powerful Nephalem, and although the opponent's background description was incredibly arrogant, like a reincarnation of a powerful Long Aotian, Xiao Yu did not lose confidence. Nephalem? In front of my great Chaos Elemental, even if he was Nephalem, I would teach him a lesson. Let's see if my Chaos Power from the origin of the universe is more powerful, or if you, a hybrid of angel and demon, are more powerful. This time, you're just unlucky.

Xiao Yu scanned the list again. Basically, these three guys were the strongest opponents in this group of Evil Forces Competition; the others didn't seem too strong.

Xiao Yu then looked at the introduction of the faction he belonged to.

[The Immortals (Elemental King Guard)]

[Monster Faction Rating: Extremely Powerful]

[Monster Leader: Azathoth (Elemental King)]

[Monster Faction's Main City: Immortal Throne]

[Monster faction population: 151021]

[Description of the Monster Faction: Before becoming the Elemental Lords, Azathoth had already established the organization of the Immortals. With his ascension to the throne of the Elemental King, the Immortals became the highest authority in the entire Elemental Plane. The Immortals aim to destroy all flesh and blood creatures on the Prime Material Plane, returning it to the chaotic era Overlord by the elements. From the Immortal Throne, Azathoth continuously recruits powerful elemental beings into his forces. Now, the Elemental Tide is poised to surge forth, ready to launch an attack on the Prime Material Plane at any moment.]

[Main members of the faction: Azathoth, Elemental King; the Big Water Cunt, the Wastewater Elemental Lord; Monari (Sea Elemental Lords); Big Ivan (Lava Titan); Odin (Lightning Elemental Lords); Taisuitou (Earth Elemental Lords); Leah Bloodmoon, the Grand Elementalist; and the Resurrected Flame Soul, Amalarui]

It's true that going it alone isn't easy. Even though he could recruit members from all over the Elemental Plane, the four Elemental Prince, while outwardly submitting, secretly held sway over their own territories. This made Xiao Yu's recruitment efforts as the Immortals not particularly smooth. When he became the Elemental King, he already had an army of 50,000. After all this time, he had only increased his forces to 150,000. His power rating had only risen to "very powerful," roughly equivalent to Azshara's Naga Empire. In comparison, Naiser's Purgatory Legion was quite frightening, with a population of over 400,000, more than double that of his previous army.

Fortunately, this competition only allowed for a force of 1,000 people; otherwise, it would have been impossible to fight.

Of course, if it were a game battle, he could command the four Elemental Prince and numerous Elemental Lords to participate in the battle, but these guys wouldn't be of any use in a competition.

Besides, his four bosses, Monari and the others, are all the type who only listen to orders and never follow orders. It's really not worth it to ask them to handle a competition. Moreover, it seems that those guys have formed their own team and gone to fight in the Demon King Team Competition, so forget about it.

However, although he regarded Naiser as his greatest enemy, Xiao Yu did not underestimate the Light of Heavenly Punishment and the Dragon Covenant. Both the Celestial Realm creatures and the Dragon Clan were very high-ranking races with excellent unit quality and a high probability of producing powerful bosses. In small-scale battles with 1,000 people, they still had a significant advantage.

Therefore, he had to be careful. In this mix of trepidation and anticipation, Xiao Yu finally welcomed the arrival of the Demon King Tournament.

The day before the competition, all the participants had already gathered in the conference hall of the game's official space.

Before the competition begins, as is customary, the competitors should get to know each other, and arrangements should also be made for the live broadcast.

Xiao Yu ignored the meeting on stage; all he needed to do was play well and win the championship.

After the discussions were mostly finished, it was time for the draw. The thirty-two participating teams in the Evil Forces Competition would be divided into four groups: Group A, Group B, Group C, and Group D. Each group would then be further divided into four pairs: A, B, C, D, B, B, and so on. This would create sixteen pairs of opponents.

Although the game's official account claims that the group assignments are completely randomly determined by the system and will never be deliberately arranged to ensure fairness and impartiality, Xiao Yu knows that things are definitely not that simple. As a seasoned player who has experienced so much of the dark side of society, if he were to naively believe the game's official account, he would have been played to death long ago.

Xiao Yu guessed that in order to maximize viewership, the game's official team would definitely not put two strong teams together at the beginning. Instead, they would spread out the strong teams to ensure that the intensity of the competition increases gradually, with the strongest teams only meeting at the end. This would maximize viewership. Otherwise, if the strong teams were eliminated at the beginning, there would be no point in watching the later stages.

As expected, when the draw results came out, the four strongest teams— the Immortals, Light of Heavenly Punishment, Dragon Covenant, and Purgatory Legion —did not face each other, but instead went up against other teams.

Xiao Yu drew A, Dragon Covenant drew B, Naiser drew C, and Light of Heavenly Punishment drew B.

In this way, Xiao Yu will only have his team as the seeded team in Group A, so he probably won't encounter any strong opponents in the first two matches.

Looking at his opponent, he knew that since he had drawn the Jia A (top tier) team, he would be the first to enter the arena and play the first match against another Jia A- Heaven's Chosen Clan.

The Heaven's Chosen Clan is a monster faction primarily composed of Centaur, with Quilboar as allies.

[The Heaven's Chosen Clan (Centaur Empire)]

[Monster Faction Rating: Moderately Powerful]

[Monster Faction Leader: Maximus (Centaur War Lord)]

[Monster Faction's Main City: Sathos Golden Tent]

[Monster faction population: 123241]

[Description of the Monster Faction: The savage and warlike Centaur have rarely united under a single banner. Different clans operate independently, only briefly uniting when faced with a powerful external enemy. The Heaven's Chosen Clan is the most powerful of these Centaur clans. Bearing the Centaur King's Banner, the Heaven's Chosen Clan rules the Sathos Grassland and other clans. With their lightning-fast mobility, the Centaur are virtually unmatched on the open plains. The Heaven's Chosen Clan frequently organizes numerous Centaur clans from the Sathos Great Grassland to launch attacks, seizing more territory and wealth. Today, this vast nomadic people has become a serious threat to both the Horde and the Alliance on the Kalimdor.]

[Main members of the faction: Maximus (Centaur Warlord), Ma Daogongcheng (Centaur Warlord), Maradona (Centaur High Priest), Ershixiong (Boar Chieftain), Dudu (Boar High Priest)]

The strongest of them, Maximus, is a six-skull-level boss, while the others are four or five-skull-level bosses.

Xiao Yu didn't know much about the Centaur. From what he remembered, they seemed to be a pretty strong race that had once nearly wiped out the Tauren. In the end, with the help of the Orcs, the Tauren managed to turn the Centaur and drive the centaurs away. After that, the Centaur fought against the Horde for a long time, and the battle is still fierce to this day.

However, when it comes to any particularly famous bosses, Xiao Yu really couldn't recall any.

Speaking of which, Centaur and elemental creatures do have some connection. In the archaeological world, there is a theory that Centaur are descendants of Zaetar, the son of the Cenarius, and Princess Theradras, the daughter of the Therazane the Stonemother.

While both are of mixed blood, this pairing is clearly less prestigious than the descendants of demons and angels. Moreover, he is the leader of Therazane, Centaur is a descendant of Therazane's daughter. From this perspective, it's more like a grandfather beating his grandson.

Even so, Xiao Yu remained vigilant; life was at stake, and he could not afford to be careless.

After taking the pairing results back, he put in a lot of effort to study the information on this Heaven's Chosen Clan and came up with corresponding countermeasures.

The next morning, Xiao Yu, Leah Bloodmoon, and Big Water Cunt logged on early, gathered at the studio, and then went to the competition venue. Soon, the competition was about to begin.

PS: One chapter today.