Chapter 2190

Beep—Starlight announcement: This Starlight War is about to enter the final stage.

"To ensure fairness and authenticity of the competition, system communications will be temporarily blocked; all participants can purchase communication props via the Starlight Redemption System."

"Once the final stage begins, all participants will be unable to view the battlefield rankings; they can only judge by killing light pillars!"

"Hum!"

The Starlight announcement sounded on schedule, and with a low buzz, the ten-thousand-meter light curtain hanging high in the air also vanished.

At the same time, the remaining 430,000 participants on the battlefield all silently watched the sky suddenly darken; many War Star Individuals who had participated multiple times drew a deep breath, their eyes full of solemnity.

The final stage has indeed arrived; next comes the most brutal summit battle of the entire Starlight War!

Especially this Starlight War, everyone realizes it will likely be far bloodier than any previous edition!

And they will fight for glory, for the civilization behind them, and for... survival!

Eternal Summit, Layer A3 area.

Eighteen green-and-oily heads, as if coated with a layer of nuclear waste, the goblins glowed as if in the dark, snickering as they listened to the Starlight announcement slowly ending above their heads.

"Fair? That's laughable. Those guys from the Starlight Alliance are even better at doing business than we are!"

"Again with the trick of blocking battlefield rankings—these damned bastards, afraid we won't kill fiercely enough..."

Sitting inside a half-body mech that clearly has a sci-fi style but is battered and worn, a goblin with the longest ears—a radiation-energy goblin—beautifully sucked a mouthful of chilled lubricant.

Although they say that, they're also talking without worrying about their waists. Since they don't need to worry about competing for rankings, they hope those several hundred thousand Fifth Stage fighters kill each other as fiercely as possible! An old goblin saying goes: the clothes of the dead are easiest to loot, and their money is easiest to make!

The fiercer the fighting, the more those poor ghosts will hesitate to spend points on Starlight props! When the time comes, they'll be the ones getting rich!

Seeing the captain already leisurely waiting to collect money, the other Fifth Stage goblin in charge of monitoring the battlefield began to worry:

"Captain, I keep feeling worried this time. The Star Summoners and Corpse Summoner teams haven't broken through the layers yet; if they pick our side, we're doomed!"

"I look at this round's rankings, and many teams with hidden strength have appeared...!"

Compared to previous intensity, they've earned quite a few points this time. Although selling a single communication prop isn't expensive, they can't resist the hundreds of civilizations coming to buy from them.

He fears earning money with his life but having no life to spend it; his lack of worry is fake.

However, facing the teammates' worries, Batuolu snorted and, like a miser, only stared at the points in hand:

"What's there to fear! It's just because this round is difficult! Those teams just now emerging won't dare come our way; if they dare, they'll just wait to be surrounded!"

"Especially since we've deployed so many Mechanical Augmented Bodies, even if a top‑hundred team comes our way, we'll have time to flee!"

"I'd actually love it if someone sought death, shouting for those teams to kill them—then maybe we could sneak some points!"

As he spoke, Batuolu looked with extreme confidence at the seemingly endless silver‑white plain before the A3 area.

To be able to guard here and farm points, they've already placed over two hundred Mechanical Augmented Bodies underground. Although their ability is average, they lack any formation.

But relying on their numbers and fearless courage, no squad wants to waste strength charging over.

Moreover, anyone passing through here will be spotted by the six surrounding zones, totaling twelve squads. If a strong squad really comes this way, these people will also act to protect their higher‑level squads from threat!

However, before Batuolu could finish speaking, the next second a sharp alarm blared instantly.

As if slapping them in the face, on the far‑distant horizon a lone figure appeared, as if gazing at them, silently stopping in place.

"Huh? There really is an idiot walking our way?"

Batuolu suddenly poked his head out, astonished at the sight of a human appearing on the horizon.

On this vast, unobstructed land, only the solitary Lin An appeared, looking so insignificant.

But soon, the originally alert Batuolu suddenly exhaled, then gave a cold chuckle and leisurely lay back into his mech.

The reason is simple: in the rule fluctuations they detected, this solitary figure that appeared is only Fourth Stage. It seems his body is faintly glowing? And quite a bit?

"Captain? This human seems to have been staring at us! He has light pillars on him—must be a God Ascendant?"

Unlike Batuolu, who is veteran from many Starlight Wars, the first‑time competitor Bashek couldn't help but stare closely at the monitor.

As a Fifth Stage, he immediately thought of what this human might be.

"What's so special about a God Ascendant? Light pillars are shown by points—have you seen those freaks' kill light pillars? They can be hundreds of meters high! If nothing unexpected, this monkey is likely the sole survivor of his team who became a God Ascendant."

"Maybe he was hiding during the purge and only now dares to show up."

"Just wait—if this idiot mistakenly thinks it's easy to ascend the Eternal Summit from our side, we'll kill him! Perfect for farming points!"

No longer paying attention to the suddenly appearing human, Batuolu snorted coldly—he'd seen plenty of such fools.

Many civilizations mistakenly believe their cultivated God Ascendants will earn some rank; the result? Those Fourth Stage hopes, once their squad's Fifth Stage members die, often end up like dogs, hiding till the end trembling, or else overreaching and throwing their lives at a 'mountain crash'.

Hearing the captain's analysis, Bashek blinked slightly, then gave a self‑mocking smile.

Yeah, maybe he's just too nervous.

What's a God Ascendant? In this Starlight War, the dead God Ascendants could pile up into a mountain. Dare to walk past them? That's practically suicide.

"Captain, then I.."

"Huh?"

Without waiting for Bashek to care about anything, he turned his head with a smile; the next second he jerked upright, only then realizing that the human on the screen had vanished.

"This monkey.. ran away?"

The words hadn't even finished.

In an instant, a straight black line shot forth at an unbelievable speed, as if tearing the world open, rushing toward them!

"Warning!"

"Detected an unknown lifeform approaching!"

"Warning! Current speed: 210 times the speed of sound!"

"Warning! Current speed: 330 times!"

"Warning! Target movement speed exceeds detection limits! Current movement speed.."

"% light speed!!"