Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

Chapter 490 - 334: Battle for the Sea of Realms Quotas!

The prosperity of the world cannot cease the passage of time.

A global cataclysm of the undead buried countless histories, yet it also united the Blue Star Humans for the first time.

Even if the unity was only superficial, it was a good start.

Great Xia Empire, Dragon Academy.

The weather in May had begun to show the scorching heat of summer, but what was even hotter was the passion in the students’ hearts.

June is the season of college entrance exams, so May is the season to vie for the spot to ascend to the Sea of Realms!

Normally, the Nine Great Divine States Academy would open ten thousand official spots, with each power contributing a thousand [Heart of the Lord], and the other thousand would be a free-for-all competition.

Perhaps, to those Ancient Noble Families and the four great Ancient Empire powers, the [Heart of the Lord] is precious, but it’s just a matter of course.

But for professionals born to commoners, for those born to lesser noble families, it is their only opportunity.

If missed, one might never cross paths with becoming Lord of the Sea of Realms for the rest of their life.

In the past years, this spot was incredibly difficult for common professionals to contend for, even out of reach.

There’s no helping it, since the internal spots at the Nine Great Divine States Academy are only open to its students, who occupy nine thousand of those spots.

Therefore, ordinary commoner professionals only have the last one thousand spots available to them.

Yet the Great Xia’s Nine Great Divine Provinces have a populous amounting to more than two billion.

More than two billion people competing for a thousand spots, among them many powerful figures from influential families with certain foundations. One can imagine the difficulty of securing these spots.

Besides, in the past years, an internal digestion of six hundred spots was necessary.

Three hundred for JF, three hundred for ZF, four hundred for everyone.

Fair?

Unfair!

But such is the world of the survival of the fittest, cruel and unforgiving!

Especially after entering the Sea of Realms to become a Lord, that’s when the real life-and-death struggles begin; one misstep and one could vanish from existence.

Therefore, with limited spots, only the most suitable candidates receive them.

Who are the most suitable ones?

The strong!

The ones who can suppress and defeat the nation’s geniuses, becoming true exceptional talents!

Each year during the awakening of raw talents and the college entrance exam period, these exceptional seeds are picked out by the Nine Great Divine States Academy.

What’s left, the lackluster leftovers, they depend on fate, opportunity, and luck to secure a [Heart of the Lord] from the remaining four hundred spots and thus become Lords of the Sea of Realms.

As for the professionals who fail to compete, if they wish to ascend to the Sea of Realms, the empire won’t stop them, but entering the Sea of Realms as an individual, one can only become a wanderer or a mercenary, with an extremely high mortality rate that is nothing short of terrifying.

After all, the Human Race ranks only in the middle and slightly lower tiers among the various races of the Sea of Realms, and if it weren’t for the four Ancient Empires standing at the forefront, clashing with other races of the Sea of Realms, the Blue Star Human Race might have long been extinct.

However, this year the number of spots has increased, with Nine Great Divine States Academy remaining unchanged at one thousand spots per academy, but the spots designated for commoners have increased from one thousand to eleven thousand.

This has given innumerable commoner professionals a glimmer of hope.

Regardless of how the external spots changed, they did not concern Zi Liyuan.

At this moment, he was lying leisurely in his own manor, sipping wine and singing songs while watching beauties dance to the "Pure Land of Bliss"—in one word—exhilarating!

It wasn’t that he was indifferent to participating in the internal competition for spots at the Dragon Academy; it just wasn’t his time to make an appearance yet.

The competition system of Dragon Academy allows for the top hundred rankers from the four grades in the arena to temporarily secure four hundred Sea of Realms spots, only needing to participate in the latter half—the ultimate contest.

They are four hundred targets, awaiting challenges from those behind them; if they lose, they must surrender their spots.

Each person can be challenged three times a day, over the duration of half a month; if you can hold your position for this half a month, a spot in the Sea of Realms is yours.

If you fail to secure your spot and get displaced, then you have to challenge those with spots yourself, achieving a rank within the top thousand before the ultimate contest ends.

If in the end, you’re squeezed out of the top thousand, you can only apologize and welcome to try again the next year.

At this moment, the Dragon Arena was packed with people mountains and seas; even with a hundred thousand seats, there was not a single empty one, with countless people even standing and crowding.

This is a month-long battle for spots, also the annual liveliest moment for Dragon Academy.

The arena in Dragon Arena also experienced new changes.

It’s no longer an ordinary arena but has become a hundred miniature dimensional spaces capable of full live broadcast.

In these dimensional spaces, there are no rule suppressions, with only one rule—life preservation.

When receiving a fatal attack, one’s life value will be forcibly kept at "1" and then ejected from the dimension space.

Hence, this contest can be ruthless, as long as you can kill your opponent, you win!

It’s a real deathmatch!

The competition opened with great fanfare.

The most interesting part was that some students with deep backgrounds had managed to procure a lot of military equipment and gear from Lord Zi’s munitions company, originally supplied to the JF.

These weapons and tools that played crucial roles during the cataclysm of the undead also unleashed immense power in this grand competition.

However, they did not play a decisive, finishing blow role, but were used more as an aid.

There’s no helping it; the high-tech equipment and tools are all extreme items, only providing tremendous killing power without any other attribute enhancements.

Aside from Shen Yurou and the Lightspeed Shuttling Spaceship, anyone who uses these as their main equipment is out of luck.