Chapter 948: No One Can Stop

"Breaking out of the siege" from 260 people to advance to the top 20 was the small goal Su Xiao initially set.

The Void Arena adopted an elimination system. After receiving the number plate, the first round of drawing lots began. Because the number of participants was an integer, there was no bye in the first round.

Su Xiao examined the number plate in his hand. The number plate was about the size of a poker card. One side had "106" written on it, and the other side had three patterns. At the top of the patterns was a hexagonal pattern, which represented a certain force. In the center was a crown—he had seen this pattern once in the ancient castle, and it was very likely to represent Alice's force. At the bottom was a circle, which looked like some kind of currency in the Void. The three patterns represented three forces.

Su Xiao didn't see the pattern he most hoped to see, which was the demon goat head. If there was a demon goat head pattern on the number plate, things would be much easier to handle.

After the random draw by the notary office, the order of the first round of participants appeared, and the number plate in Su Xiao's hand also changed. The side showing the number plate had an extra number: "51." This was the number of his opponent in the first round.

Before going on stage, it was unlikely that Su Xiao would know who the 51st participant was. Before the first round of arena battles began, all 260 participants would try their best to hide their own numbers.

On a screen in the notary office, a ladder-shaped chart appeared. Now all participants were on the bottom layer of the chart. The winners would advance to the top of the ladder chart, and the losers would lose their chance. As for resurrection matches and the like, there was no such rule at all.

The Void Arena was very dangerous. The probability of death after losing was very high. Even if one didn't die, one would be seriously injured. Therefore, there was no need to play resurrection matches, and one couldn't play them either.

How many matches did Su Xiao have to go through to reach the top 20? They were:

First match: 260 to 130.

Second match: 130 to 65.

Third match: 65 to 33.

Fourth match: 33 to 17.

The rest time between each match wasn't short. After all, there was only one arena. The rest time in the early stage of the competition was very sufficient, and it was tighter in the later stage.

There weren't many rules in the Void Arena, or rather, there were basically no rules. Even high-power explosives, if one could get their hands on them, could be used in the arena. Mechas and the like were even more common.

Because there were too few rules, the death rate of the participating players was extremely high. Someone had calculated the death rate of the Void Arena, which was about 40% to 50%.

That is to say, for every 10 people who entered here, at most one or two could walk out intact. The remaining survivors might all be missing arms or legs, and four or five would be carried out horizontally.

With such a horrifying death and injury probability, so many people still participated in the Void Arena. It could be seen how tempting the rewards here were.

Not only that, this was also a good opportunity to get ahead. If one could get a high ranking, some participants would give up the competition around the top 20 and then accept the recruitment of major forces.

The existence here was not just for watching the competition. Compared to the income from selling tickets, the "sponsorship fees" of some major forces were more considerable. After paying the "sponsorship fees," those forces had the qualification to recruit talent in the Void Arena.

Yellow sand, blood, heated battles, the honor of first place, opportunities everywhere, rewards that made people jealous, and the reputation managed for hundreds of years—this was the main reason why the Void Arena had been prosperous until now.

Su Xiao walked along the player passage toward the arena in the center. There were other participants nearby. The participants were all vigilant against each other. No one knew who their opponent was. The Void Arena was very fair. This could be seen from the fact that Alice could only use flyers to trap and kill Su Xiao.

Alice shouldn't be able to play any tricks in the competition. After all, there were two other forces among the organizers. Therefore, Alice could only use regular means, which was to promote Su Xiao's identity as a Shadow of the Law Destroyer, thereby making enemies for him, rather than tripping him up in the competition.

Once the competition started, it was an absolutely fair competition. If Alice played small tricks in secret, the other two major forces wouldn't sit idly by. The reputation of the arena was also accumulated by them with hard work and couldn't be destroyed because of Alice's personal grudges.

Through the player passage, Su Xiao arrived at the arena in the center. His location was the player spectator area, below the ordinary spectator area, closest to the yellow sand ground in the center.

"Roar!!!"

A tidal wave of cheers came. This cheering had reached a deafening level. The momentum of millions of cheers from various races could be imagined.

Su Xiao hadn't appeared yet. Just hearing this cheering, he vaguely felt his blood surging in his body.

The spectator stands were noisy. Some races Su Xiao had never seen before were everywhere. For example, a race with two heads and an appearance similar to a troll. This two-headed troll was mysteriously funny. It held snacks in its hands, stuffing snacks into two mouths with its left and right hands respectively, and the two heads would argue because of some differences. It could be seen that these two heads had different thoughts—one body, two heads, two minds.

Compared to the two-headed troll, some races couldn't see a human form at all. For example, an octopus lying on the spectator stand.

This octopus was holding a large wine glass with its tentacles, which was as big as a water tank. There seemed to be beer in the wine glass.

The octopus drank several large gulps of beer, burped, and then drunkenly raised its tentacles and shouted.

"Kill her~"

The octopus brother spoke with a trembling voice. Because of drunkenness, its whole body swayed from time to time, and it giggled.

An octopus drinking beer was already very strange, but don't worry, there were even more "strange" ones.

"Wahahaha, all of you, get away from me."

A loud laugh came from the front of the spectator stand. That was a Ratman. The Ratman was holding a bottle of strong liquor in its hand and hugging a cute girl of the "Lalata Star" in its arms. Lalata Star people were basically the same as humans, only with a small part of animal characteristics. This planet was most famous for the beauty of its women. This exhibition match invited more than a dozen cute girls of the "Lalata Star."

And now, this Ratman was hugging a cute girl of the "Lalata Star." This wasn't a spectator, but a cute girl who originally participated in the exhibition match on the field.

This Ratman was almost provoking the organizer. However, no one stood up.

It wasn't that they didn't want to stand out, but they didn't dare. This Ratman was called "Rat Master." Setting aside his extremely strong strength, the important thing was the existence behind him, which was too terrifying. That terrifying existence had many titles: Planet Destroyer, War Calamity, Calamity Source of All Living Things, Void Sword Hero, Void's Strongest Lunatic, Drunken Lunatic, and dozens of titles like these.

In the Void, saying that children wouldn't dare to cry at night when mentioning that existence was not enough to describe it. When that existence was near any planet, the defense facilities of those nearby planets would immediately be withdrawn. This wasn't a welcome, but they already didn't dare to resist. The end of resistance was too miserable, and genocide happened in an instant.

According to statistics from major forces, the number of living beings who died directly or indirectly in the hands of that existence had to be counted in the hundreds of millions. As for the specific number, it couldn't be counted at all.

Precisely because of this, no one dared to stop Rat Master from acting recklessly in the arena. It wasn't that they didn't want to, but they didn't dare. Even if Alice were given ten guts, she wouldn't dare to provoke Rat Master, although that existence behind Rat Master hadn't appeared for many years and was said to have disappeared into the deepest part of the Black Abyss.

God knows if that existence was dead. What if it wasn't dead? If they rashly provoked Rat Master, the consequences would be unimaginable. That existence was famous for being protective of its own. Many years ago, a certain race besieged Rat Master, and not long after, that race disappeared in the Void, not a single one left.

Even without that existence, the forces under Rat Master couldn't be underestimated. That was a killing army that laughed and killed enemies in war. Fighting a war with them required paying an unbearable price. ===== CHAPTER 949 =====