NOVEL WEB Chapter 360: "29.32 million!
Perhaps the Firefly Civilization had already decided to keep something hidden up their sleeve.
Anyway...
Under the unilateral forfeiture of the Firefly Civilization, the victory of the Blue Star Civilization was announced.
"Ding, due to the forfeiture by the Firefly Civilization, the Blue Star Civilization wins the sixth round. +10 points for the victors and -10 points for the losers."
"The Blue Star Civilization now has 44 points, and the Firefly Civilization has 0 points."
Amidst the sighs of disappointment from the audience, the seventh round began unfolding anew. As time passed, the following events were somewhat time-consuming, and swiftly, more than ten hours had passed.
Many players in the audience began to show signs of fatigue.
After all, they had been in this secret realm for nearly 24 hours straight.
With a few exceptions, most civilizations required a daily sleep. Oddly, this was one aspect where different civilizations surprisingly united, leaving out those who sleep once a week, a month, or even a year.
There were also civilizations that never needed sleep.
The only time they would ever close their eyes was on the day of death, never blinking otherwise.
Quickly—
The 18th event arrived.
By now, the Blue Star Civilization had amassed 138 points, while the Firefly Civilization had 37 points.
To the disappointment of the Firefly Civilization, it seemed that the Blue Star players, aside from Chen Miao, also possessed considerable depth, including a player named Ke Gou in the Wisdom Category instances who had made several game-changing moves, bringing Blue Star back from the brink of defeat.
This event was meaningless whether competed in or not.
The Firefly Civilization had already lost. For the 18th event, they didn't even show up and directly conceded defeat.
"Ding, congratulations to the Blue Star Civilization for securing the final victory in this S-level secret realm. As a newly advanced D-level civilization, defeating a long-established D-level civilization demonstrates the profound foundation of the Blue Star Civilization, thus earning additional rewards."
"All competing players from the Blue Star who placed in the events will receive a Champion's package reward."
"Players from the Firefly Civilization who placed will also receive a runner-up package."
"All Blue Star players will receive a Victory package."
As the notification sounded, Chen Miao and the others returned to the Land of Extreme Cold, this familiar old haunt.
"Kind of boring."
Chen Miao lit a cigarette and sat in a rocking chair, casually opening the packages from his backpack and said somewhat nonchalantly, "I thought there would be some intense battle scenes."
Speaking of which, it was almost comical.
Since his skill that allowed unlimited ammo use had such a long cooldown, he had also kept it hidden, not using the skill during the first test of combat strength, for fear he might need it later and it would be on cooldown.
But who would have known.
Apart from firing a few shots in the first round, he never got the chance to join in later. He wanted to take a shot, but there just wasn't any opportunity. He had been worried about the skill entering cooldown, only to find that there was never an opportunity to activate it.
This bothered him.
Since reaching 2.4 billion Combat Power, he hadn't had a chance to go all out in a fight to test his true strength.
"Eh?"
But the next second—
Chen Miao was somewhat baffled as he looked at the Champion's package in his hand. He knew that as a newly advanced D-level civilization, Blue Star would receive generous rewards if victorious, but this seemed excessively generous, didn't it?
Every Champion's package contained two Civilization Fragments!
He had won first place in seven events and second place in two events.
Nine packages in total.
Champion's package one × 7, Champion's package two × 2.
Opening a first-place Champion's package yielded two Civilization Fragments, while a second-place Champion's package gave one Civilization Fragment. Not knowing what a third-place Champion's package contained, since he never placed third in any event.
Which meant, just from these packages, he instantly received 16 Civilization Fragments.
"..."
Chen Miao's mouth slowly dropped open. Since when were Civilization Fragments so cheap? He had just spent 4 Civilization Fragments in the secret realm, and now here were 16 more?
If the Firefly Civilization knew how lavish the rewards were, would they be so infuriated that they'd jump off a building?
They would have rather gone all-in and fought to the death for victory. Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire
Oh, almost forgot, even if the Firefly Civilization had fought to the death in an all-in, it would have been pointless. After all, they weren't a newly advanced civilization and couldn't claim such substantial rewards. The competition was inherently unfair from the start.
Unfair in terms of strength.
Unfair regarding rewards.
Meanwhile, the other Tomb Guardian members were also excitedly discovering this, shouting out loud, especially characters like Elder Bai and the Black Doctor, who had participated in events and achieved first or second place.
At this moment, their smiles were stretching almost to their ears.
...
"Two Civilization Fragments."
The Black Doctor looked at the contents of the package, unable to control the grin on his face. He had only participated in one event, the medical category, where his medical skills easily secured him first place, earning him one Champion's package one.
This item was a priceless treasure.
If he were to sell it...
The price would be indefinable, a treasure beyond valuation that everyone desired but no one could afford to bid on—the hardest item to sell on the market. And for such priceless treasures.