Chapter 696: Fifth Round Ends, Evil King Building Stages a Comeback to First Place!

[The fifth round of the True King Duel, "Endless Free-for-All," has concluded!]

[The rankings are as follows!]

[Evil King Building: Champion, +3 points!]

[Amusement Park Building: Runner-up, +2 points!]

[Heaven's Judgment Building: Third Place, -1 point!]

[Mad King Building: Last Place, -3 points!]

[Current standings: Evil King Building has 14 points, Mad King Building has 9 points, Heaven's Judgment Building has 7 points, and Amusement Park Building has 4 points!]

[The sixth round of the True King Duel will commence in 30 minutes. All dormitory buildings and players, please make your preparations!]

The broadcast jolted everyone still caught in the frenzy of battle back to their senses.

If the Survival Contest was designed to wash equipment, then this round was designed to wash out people!

The three major dormitory buildings had fought with everything they had, evenly matched, only to look back and discover that over half their personnel were dead or wounded, with casualty rates so horrifying they defied belief.

"It's over...?"

"Three hours passed that quickly?"

"Wang Le hasn't come out yet?! Where is he?!"

"Failing to settle the fight within the time limit means mutual destruction. He and that Evil King Building player are both dead."

"Even second place only earned two points. We only have four points now..."

The Amusement Park Building players had the most volatile emotions. Some were wailing in grief, some were seething with indignation, and some were overjoyed.

For a moment, a panorama of human emotion unfolded, almost giving one a sense of collective insanity.

...

Evil King Building.

The air was thick with the triumphant aura of victors.

How many had died, the Evil King Building players didn't bother to count.

They only knew they had won!

The champion title was finally no longer monopolized by Mad King Building.

And on top of that, Mad King Building had placed last this round!

This was tremendous news!

No twists, no surprises, Mad King Building was dead last!

Evil King Building had completed its comeback!

If Evil King Building won this special Building War, they couldn't even imagine how many resources would be funneled back to them!

Moreover, the benefits of their active participation had already become apparent.

That arena was no ordinary stage. Fighting within it caused general skills to level up rapidly, as if they had stepped into the training room of a fifty-cycle veteran.

Many Evil King Building players had benefited from this, their combat power surging.

...

Amusement Park Building was caught between grief and joy, Evil King Building was puffed up with pride, but the atmosphere at Heaven's Judgment Building was nothing short of terrifying. The owners and tenants of the top dormitories stood together, the oppressive mood so heavy it could crush flies to death!

All that effort for nothing!

If all they wanted was third place, winning four matches would have been enough!

This round, Heaven's Judgment Building players had been nothing but spectators the entire way!

"We still have thirty minutes to regroup. Let's head back first." In the center of the crowd, Solaris spoke calmly.

That said, his feet hadn't moved an inch, and the gloom at the corners of his eyes and brows was so thick it could drip water.

"Solaris, arena matching is completely random. Our failure this time was partly due to bad luck." Osiris said in a deep voice. "Don't put on such an ugly display, or we'll only end up losing even worse."

"I know!" Solaris took a deep breath, his old bones trembling. He turned around and walked away, speaking as he went. "If we lose this True King Duel, Heaven's Judgment Building might be reduced to an ordinary dormitory. Then our long-cherished aspirations will become delusions, and the building will be wiped out by monsters. I will not act on impulse!"

The Dorm Survival Game was one giant sieve. Third and fourth-tier dormitory buildings sat at the very peak of the pyramid, few in number. By extension, one could infer that the elimination rate for ordinary dormitory buildings was extremely high.

Heaven's Judgment Building had always treated its players well. Initially, to maintain the ecosystem, veteran players were strictly forbidden from migrating over. Later, when the policy was slightly relaxed, they finally obtained confirmation from those veterans!

That confirmation was that Heaven's Judgment Building had enormous potential. As long as it developed steadily, it could become a fifth-tier dormitory building!

Such a building was a true treasure.

And now, if they lost in the True King Duel, Heaven's Judgment Building might only be a notch above ordinary dormitory buildings. This was a situation that these managers of Heaven's Judgment Building could not accept under any circumstances.

Just as Solaris's "pleading for the people" atmosphere had been built up to its peak, a burly man stepped forward from the crowd.

His gaze stabbed directly at Solaris's back as he said coldly:

"Enough, Solaris! We don't have time to watch the two of you brothers put on an act!"

"My two tenants died because of your so-called strategies!"

"From now on, the Pioneer Association won't be listening to you anymore. We'll act on our own!"

"We're not idiots. We can judge the situation ourselves. We don't need your concern!"

"If you really want what's best for everyone, have the Illuminati post real-time intelligence in the chat room so we all know what's going on!"

Instantly, the already strained atmosphere at the scene became even more extreme!

The Heaven's Judgment Building player community was tightly knit, nowhere near as cold-blooded as Evil King Building, so the heavy casualties this time had hit everyone hard.

This burly man was one of them.

Of the two tenants he mentioned, one was his biological younger brother. The two brothers had been recruited into the Dorm Survival Game together, and their landing spot had been Heaven's Judgment Building back in its primitive stage.

A brother who had faced life and death with him was now dead. One could only imagine how terrible he felt at this moment.

"Fine!" Solaris nodded forcefully.

The burly man's eyes were bloodshot, and around him, many eyes burned with equal fervor.

To forcibly cling to the "leader" position would only invite backlash from public sentiment. Better to streamline the core faction so their movements wouldn't be so bloated.

Perhaps this was the social structure most suited for a dormitory building. In the Dorm Survival Game, every individual had their own little kingdom, and absolute unification wasn't necessarily a good thing.

Of course, this was also a move born of desperation.

Had he not been forced by circumstances, he wouldn't have wanted to step down from his position.

At this moment, he deeply envied Xu Lang.

If only he could have even a fraction of Xu Lang's commanding presence.

...

Mad King Building.

This group of the maddest players was currently peaceful, even languid. Anyone would feel that way after watching three hours of a movie.

The bottom-tier players were listless, the high-tier players were lying flat, but the mid-to-low tier players couldn't afford to be.

The various Floor Leaders were actively preparing in their dorms, Neighborhood Committee members patrolled back and forth, and the atmosphere unconsciously grew tense.

Seeing this, the players dared not be negligent and also threw themselves into preparations.

There were still two rounds left in the game.

They firmly believed Mad King Building would win, but they couldn't guarantee they would survive to see it.