Chapter 28 Rewards Abound

　　The meeting place was located on the top floor, and when the elevator opened, Alan and Hughton stepped out. In the training hall, teenagers from every borough on the surface had assembled in the central meeting place and were being given some final advice by their mentors.

　　"Alan baby!" Tonisph who saw them from afar called out, this day this siren captain had a rare change of uniform. Just how this attire looks awkward, after half a day of looking at it, Allen realized that this is a set of women's military uniform!

　　Before Alan could react, he was already being hugged by Tornisph. The Ensign deadpanned as he rubbed himself into Alan's face, saying as he did so, "This important day is finally here, and Toto is so sad to see you go. But I'm sure my baby will be able to win."

　　Despite being grateful for Tonisoff's trust, though, the guy was just too enthusiastic. Allen again somewhat resisted the urge to take a knife and chop this guy, but in the end, it was Hughton who couldn't stand to watch and pulled Tonyshv away with one hand. Then he pushed Allen and said, "Go on."

　　Nodding, Ellen walked to the center of the venue and stood with Lucy. Lucy smiled and said, "Go for it!"

　　"You too." Alan lowered his voice again, "Remember our contact code."

　　"Uh-huh."

　　After a brief conversation, the ground began to shake. Someone shouted "up there" and Alan looked up. The dome was cracking, and several symmetrical fissures caused the dome on the top floor of the building to lift and stretch out in all directions like a lotus flower in full bloom, letting the sunlight that was so brilliant that it couldn't be seen by the teenagers cast directly into the building.

　　Alan's eyes barely opened a slit, and he vaguely saw a crescent-shaped shadow grow from small to huge, and then his ears had been filled with the roar of the craft's engines. When he fully opened his eyes, he realized that a magical flying ship had arrived over the building and was falling towards the bottom.

　　This is the Destiny, an on-planet flying ship dedicated to the Ring of Death. The Destiny had the appearance of a crescent moon, with a total of three sets of engine jets on the inside of the crescent. The sleek hull was lined with energy conduction lines, and at the bottom of the outer hull was a row of ejection bin launchers that would eject the participating teens individually and reach their designated targets.

　　As a pick-up flyer, the Destroyer itself isn't known for its firepower. But if anyone wanted to sabotage the competition, or even take advantage of the Destroyer. The four high-powered cannons on each side of the ship's front hull, as well as the ionized main cannons hidden in the ship's bottom compartment, would make any provocateur regret their actions.

　　After lowering the Destiny to a certain distance, a circular elevation deck descended from the bottom of the ship's hull. The deck was connected to the hull by six tractor beams, and once the deck landed on the floor of the central meeting place, 22 young boys and girls jumped onto it. The deck rose upwards, eventually joining with the hull. As for Allen and the others, they had already reached the interior of the Destiny.

　　Where the teenagers were was a spacious barn room, which was surrounded by a team of guards. At that moment, the automatic door to the main ship's room opened and a chubby man walked in. The man was almost as big as Lucien, and that obese body caused the buttons of his suit to burst on his chest. The man cleared his throat and put on a smile like an electronic program host and said, "Hello everyone, I am Alstair. I am your guide and will be leading you to the venue for the Death Race, which is Yellowstone Park, located on the south side of Babylon. Of course, because of the size limitations of the floating island, this Yellowstone Park of ours cannot be compared to the historical national park that is located in the United States."

　　Alstair made a brief introduction, Yellowstone Park located on the Floating Island was only about eight hundred square kilometers, but that was still a rather vast area. On the Floating Island, many representative things of the pre-Dawn War surface countries were condensed, Liberty Harbor was one, and Yellowstone Park was another.

　　This site of the Death Ring contest is similarly molded into a mountainous forested area.

　　The park is also home to mountains, lakes, canyons and rivers. The geography is complex and inhabited by dangerous species ranging from level 1 to 5. Participants in the game not only have to fight against other teenagers, but also have to be constantly on guard against dangerous species that may suddenly emerge from a bush or a cave, which undoubtedly increases the pressure on the teenagers to survive, and is one of the attractions of the previous competitions.

　　"Next are a few notes, first, do not try to escape. We will be monitoring the entire tournament from all sides, and once you try to break away from the tournament area, then congratulations, you don't have to die. But for the rest of your life, you will feel worse alive than dead." Alstair continued with a smile on his face, "The second point is that the time limit for the game is 15 days. If no victor is produced before the time limit arrives, then the organizers of the conference will guide the remaining people to a bloody gladiatorial battle. So before the time runs out, you'd better finish off all your opponents ..."

　　Alstair recounted the last two points again, that there was only one winner and that surrender would not be accepted. When he finished, he pointed his finger at the teenager and smiled, "Next you have to be congratulated, you lucky guys. The rewards for the victor this year are very rich, in addition to the floating island residency, prize money, and weapon rewards that you already know about, the following prizes have been added."

　　The first is the upgrade of the weapon reward, in previous years, the victor only got a magic weapon that matched his level, but this year, it was upgraded to a whole set of source power equipment. This means that the winner will have at least one set of magic armor and weapon, not to mention the magic weapon, but the entire set of magic armor, the value is far above the ordinary defensive light armor on Alan.

　　The second was an additional potion award, which was also not available in previous years. The potions awarded were a choice between a full-body repair potion, which was capable of repairing most regular injuries, and an advanced body strengthening potion, which was equivalent to the body strengthening and even evolution that occurred when crossing a promotion node!

　　The last, more mundane, is an additional prize for the winner, which has been raised from the original 50,000 federal dollars to a 200,000 dollar amount.

　　After hearing about these rewards, the teenagers' gazes all became hot. Allen was no exception, he knew exactly what these rewards would allow him to do, at least, it would allow him to destroy the predators that invaded the town, plus a Black Widow hunting group was more than enough.

　　"Well, it's still a bit of time before we reach our destination, so feel free to do as you please." Alstair left these words and left the cabin himself first.

　　The teenagers sat down in small groups, and it was clear that they had formed a clique amongst themselves. Alan and Lucy sat together, and since the last time Mike had been there, only Emily sat next to Lucy, while the other boys sat far away.

　　Alan whispered, "Remember, we are separated when we reach the ground. So the first thing we should do is to gather, and since we don't know each other's location, when the time comes, we have to walk in the same direction and leave contact codes along the way so that we can be recognized ..."

　　Just as the three of them were conferring on the direction of the rendezvous, a shadow suddenly fell before Alan's eyes. When he looked up, he saw Lucien's fat face. The fat man lowered his head and said, ''Allen, you better not let me meet you. Otherwise, I will definitely shove your head up my ass this time!"

　　"Don't worry, I'll chip your ass before that happens." Alan responded forcefully.

　　The two men glared at each other, their burning eyes almost sparking in the air as they crossed each other's. Lucien finally grunted and turned away. Alan looked around, reaping a number of hostile glances.

　　At the same time that the Destroyer flew to Yellowstone, two steam blimps lifted off from the floating island in an east-west direction, with a large screen on each side of the blimps, where a program put together by the committee would broadcast the entire deathmatch live to the entire population of Babylon. At present, the game has not yet started, only a man and a woman two hosts are doing a talk show.

　　Horn is in his own study, full of heavy European style in the study, classical and gorgeous rococo style decoration makes this study room seems to be the atmosphere of the hall. But because of the owner's heavy mood, even if the dome of two rows of 12 embedded crystal lamps to the study lit up a bright, but the atmosphere in the room still seems to be a little depressing.

　　Sitting in a dark black leather-backed chair, Horn absently twirled the wire-wrapped onyx trigger ring on his thumb that symbolized his family's patriarchal symbol, while his eyes were fixed on the light screen projected on the wall. On the screen, the two hosts were introducing the audience to the 22 teenagers from the surface in a sardonic tone. At this time, there was a knock on the door of the room.

　　"Come in." Horn said faintly.

　　The butler, Hazen, carried a wine tray with a bottle of brandy and a goblet. Elegantly placing the tray on the table in front of Horn, Hessing filled the goblet a third of the way with the amber-colored liquor before standing three steps back with his hands behind his back at Horn's side.

　　"It's almost time to start, Helsing." Horn said, and raised his glass for a light sip.

　　"Is His Lordship worried about him?"

　　"Allen? A little bit, but this is a test for him, if he can't even survive the death ring, what qualifications does he have for me to cultivate him as an heir!" Horn said indifferently.

　　Hazen pretended not to hear, family strife has always been there. And the noble family's fight is even more tragic and ruthless, Hazen is just a butler, he does not want to get into this whirlpool.

　　Being wise is what a steward should do. The difference in who would be the head of this clan was not for Hathin.

　　At least, for now.

　　Finally, a view of Destiny comes into the picture, and Yellowstone arrives!

　　At this moment, in the middle of the flying ship. Artax's voice rang out from the communicator above the cabin, "Boys, Yellowstone Park has arrived. Now, you will be taken to the exclusive single ejection bays. They will take you to the designated coordinates of the location, so good luck with the long haul."

　　The hatch opened and a group of soldiers filed in. They began to take names, and the teenager whose name was called would be led away by one of the soldiers. When Lucy's name was called, Ellen quietly took her hand, "See you on the ground."

　　"Sure." Lucy smiled a sunny smile.