Chapter 727: Chapter 507: The Final Safe Zone and... the Prelude to the Decisive Battle! (Part 2)

The shrinking map naturally signifies that the intensity of the confrontation is rising, and this mechanism, which decides the shrinking circle based on the contestants’ real-time positions, greatly increases the likelihood of contestants encountering each other at the circle’s edge.

Thus, encounter battles are almost constantly unfolding everywhere.

Relentlessly, pieces of machinery are swallowed by the merciless light curtain, turning into wisps of smoke. Occasionally, two machines delay each other’s steps due to fierce battles, resulting in both taking poison damage, and within seconds, they can no longer hold on and are teleported away.

The number of machines is rapidly decreasing.

By the time the third circle shrink is nearing completion, only forty machines are left!

In certain live streams, the current match’s [Kill List] is still displayed.

The original first place ’Angry Iron Plate’ with its 12 kills has long been caught up and surpassed by two machines that seem to be on a rampage.

[Frost Tiger]: 16

[Zero]: 15

Amidst the increasingly enthusiastic atmosphere in all live streams and among the audience.

Everyone understands.

Although the real "final showdown" hasn’t arrived, it’s growing closer.

Only one-thirtieth of the area remains, yet two-fifths of the machines are still on the field.

And the fourth circle shrink is the final one, it will shrink until there is nowhere to hide.

This means...

A chaotic battle, now unavoidable, is about to begin.

...

Twenty minutes after the end of the third circle shrink. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

The final circle shrink is about to start.

This place is a peculiar landform eroded by countless winds imbued with Ether, with huge and sharp black rock pillars everywhere, creating this spectacle.

At this moment, no matter which direction you look out from here, you can see the nearby endless gray light curtain representing life and death.

It extends infinitely along the horizon’s sides, like a calm gray tide reaching from the sky to the earth, also like a wall without beginning or end, blurring the boundaries between sky and ground.

Even the height of the sky is limited, reaching only a few thousand meters.

Beyond that, there’s the same gray light curtain domain.

A reconnaissance machine, entirely black, standing on four legs like a mechanical hunting dog, cautiously extends its body from the shadows.

——Often, avoiding battle is useful.

Especially when moving along the edge of a shrinking circle, it allows one to avoid most dangers.

This machine and its mechanic aren’t strong, yet they’ve persevered till now relying on their ability to hide and merge into shadows.

The mechanic’s face suddenly reveals delight——there’s a Blue Grade resource box at the base of a black rock pillar ahead, seemingly untouched.

The initial lost continent spanned tens of thousands of square kilometers, yet the match only allowed two or three hours, so it’s quite normal for a hundred machines not to scour thoroughly.

This machine gracefully shuffles through the shadows, approaching the treasure chest.

Then——

With a tear, it’s suddenly pierced by a Light Saber.

Its internal energy is rapidly absorbed, making the sword’s Sword Light deeper and more intense.

It was a ghostly blue steel knight that had arrived at some unknown point.

At this moment.

The magnificent energy wings on its back, having absorbed the energy of more than a dozen machines, have expanded to tens of meters wide, emitting a mysterious ghostly blue glow like the wings of an Angel.

However, the next moment, an exceedingly terrifying tiger roar also echoes.

BOOM!!!

A gigantic light blue lightning spear, several meters thick, strikes from the air, forcing it to halt instantly, brandishing its sword to face the adversary.

Bright lightning and Sword Light intertwine in an instant, expanding and shooting outward, causing the black rock pillar to collapse under the weight.

Yet amidst the scattered light, the two machines stand leisurely, neither retreating a step.

The glory gradually fades.

That [Frost Tiger].

Although now, it’s equally unrecognizable.

From the tournament’s start and through the hunt, its originally fearsome twin mechanical fangs have evolved to resemble a saber-toothed tiger, while the lightning and chill encasing its twenty-meter-long body have grown terrifyingly beyond Tier Five, nearly forming a massive cloak and flickering explosive phantom.

Sizzle zz—

Its fangs are now pressed against Zero’s Light Saber.

The two are deadlocked, erupting countless Ether light dots.

Following is the voice of [Frost Tiger]’s mechanic, the True Master Dan at Six-Star Peak.

"You got here first, Stolheim!"

Inside [Frost Tiger]’s cockpit, a man with unruly purple long hair grins, showing an excited smile.

"However, solving you here... means no more need to hunt others."

And in [Zero]’s simplified cockpit full of futuristic technology, a silver-gray-haired man is expressionless yet his eyes shine with absolute confidence.

——Exactly as calculated, the opponent would appear here.

——Consume Frost Tiger’s accumulated energy, pushing the machine’s load to reach the theoretical extreme.

By then, no one will be able to defeat him in this match.

Lei Mi Group’s [Frost Tiger].

And Moderation Group’s [Zero].

Two machines with different technology and disparate design, both relying on hunting other machines to enhance their performance and circumvent the tournament’s energy level limit...

Finally, due to mutual hunting, a collision is set to occur.

Simultaneously, the system notification echoes in everyone’s ears.

[Final safe zone shrink has started.]