Chapter 309: Final Stage

By the time the Dawnbreakers reached that spot, the Flame Yellow team had already vanished without a trace.

The Dawnbreakers weren't surprised at all; they had guessed it from the start.

…

Next, Su Sheng's side also had no surprises, and midway they ran into the second team of Tian Sheng Changge.

They clashed with a small squad from Crosswise; although they won, they lost two members and were now cautiously avoiding other squads as they advanced.

Although Tian Sheng Changge is a top‑ten guild, Crosswise itself is only just below the top ten, and they are merely the second team of Tian Sheng Changge.

Seeing Su Sheng's Flame Yellow squad, they were overjoyed and immediately ran over to latch onto a strong ally.

Since both are from Zhuque City, in this match the Tian Sheng Changge members count as allies, and Su Sheng naturally would not stand by idly.

Su Sheng let the Tian Sheng Changge members join, expanding the party to eight.

Along the way they also encountered other squads, but those groups, seeing Su Sheng's eight people from afar, simply turned away.

Now the map has shrunk to less than half its size, so the density of players naturally increased, making encounters with other squads more likely.

Many squads move cautiously; unless they have already merged, the vast majority avoid combat carefully.

After all, no one knows how many people the squad they meet actually has.

With the map shrinking, the chance of merging with each other greatly increased.

Thus, even squads that have already merged remain extremely cautious.

After all, in this situation, merging takes priority.

As for the BOSS, only one wild BOSS remains at this point.

The others have all been cleared.

…

"Strange, why haven't we run into the teachers?" Chen Guan muttered.

"Don't worry, all five of them can stealth, and I'm already an old hand."

"Most likely, they're already waiting for us in the central ShenShou Zhi Cheng."

Su Sheng said with a smile.

Regarding the full‑assassin team, Su Sheng really wasn't worried at all.

However, the team led by Huan Jie was eliminated in the preliminaries; otherwise, once the official match began, Su Sheng would have worried whether Huan Jie and her team might be eliminated.

"Indeed…"

Chen Guan nodded; indeed, Zhang Qinghai and his group are old hands, and they're a pure assassin lineup.

In this case, as long as they don't actively seek trouble, virtually no one can spot them.

The group then continued onward…

The map kept shrinking, and soon it was only about thirty percent of its original size.

At this point, lone squads were almost nonexistent.

Su Sheng's group merged again with a Peak team, the first Peak squad led by the Peak War God.

Although Su Sheng and Peak had a minor clash, under the circumstances the bigger picture took precedence, and the party expanded to thirteen.

The map had just contracted…

"Great God Mo Wen!"

A voice rang out, and Su Sheng turned his head.

Zhu Meng!

Indeed, the group they ran into this time were members of Zhu Meng.

But ten people came together; Zhu Meng didn't lose any members.

And moreover…

The other squad, surprisingly, was Yun Duo's team.

The two Solo Player squads from Zhuque City had merged at an unknown time.

"When did you merge?" Su Sheng asked in surprise, looking at the two fully‑filled Solo Player squads.

The Tian Sheng Changge members had already suffered losses; even if the two Solo Player squads were eliminated, Su Sheng wouldn't be surprised,

after all, the participants in the Ding‑Seizing Battle represent the cutting‑edge level of Domestic Server players.

"We got lucky; we met during the first map shrink, so we moved together,"

"Others, seeing that we're ten people, generally won't act rashly."

Yi Mo Yun Duo spoke up at that moment.

Su Sheng, hearing that, was a bit surprised: "That's true, luck's on our side."

No wonder the two Solo Player squads stayed full; they had merged so early.

At that moment, they also took notice of Su Sheng's side.

Flame Yellow's first squad was full, Peak's first squad was full, and Tian Sheng Changge's second team had lost two members.

Only now did Su Sheng start to size up Yun Duo's team.

Leading them was Yi Mo Yun Duo, the female player suspected of having a Hidden Class.

There was also an archer named Yi Mo Yunxia, whose name suggests a close tie to Yun Duo.

Two men, whose appearances were somewhat similar, went by the nicknames Ying Chenxi and Ci Mu Se; they might even be brothers.

Their classes were interesting: Ying Chenxi was a defensive knight, while Ci Mu Se was a Holy Light Priest—a male healer!

Male Priest players are already relatively few, and pure support Holy Light Priests even rarer; most male Priests switch to a Retribution Priest around level 40.

Besides them, there was also an Arcane Mage named Qiu Ri Xiaoyu.

Pretty interesting, the Cloud team is a typical strong‑female squad, with two men: one is a defense knight who gets beaten up, the other is a healing dad.

And the three core damage slots are all girls.

"Then let's all go together." Su Sheng didn't comment; everyone's choice of class is their own freedom, he had nothing to say.

Afterwards, the team's size expanded again to twenty‑three, merging four or five teams together; so far it's still relatively few.

Some teams, upon seeing Su Sheng and others, basically kept their distance.

After all, they have many people.

Su Sheng also had no intention of hunting them down.

Su Sheng consulted with the Peak War God.

After the competition reached this stage, everyone basically hunkered down for a gathering, waiting for the final showdown.

Obviously, everyone understood this very well.

So, no further battles occurred.

Everyone avoided when they could, yielded when they could.

If a fight broke out, the crowd nearby wouldn't just watch; everyone would wait to Sit and Reap the Fisherman's Profit.

This map is so small that any skirmish instantly draws everyone nearby.

After about an hour, the map shrank again.

At that point the map was only two‑tenths of its original size.

The final boss also respawned at the very center, clearly the location of ShenShou Zhi Cheng.

The competition, at this point, everyone tacitly set off toward ShenShou Zhi Cheng.

Obviously, before the last map refresh, everyone would gather at ShenShou Zhi Cheng.

Su Sheng's party, unsurprisingly, headed toward ShenShou Zhi Cheng.

However, as they neared ShenShou Zhi Cheng, someone who surprised both Su Sheng and the Peak War God appeared…