"I understand. I'll make sure to perform well this time." William put on a respectful expression, but inwardly, he wasn't too shaken by the battle royale format of the competition.

  "By the way, Zous, do you know how many participants there are in the global tournament each year?" Now that he understood the competition's rules, William asked about something that concerned him under the battle royale format.

  "The number of participants in the global tournament? That’s actually quite consistent. On our planet, Elvia, the number of participants each year is around 600," Zous answered casually.

  "600 people, huh…" With this information, William started calculating in his mind.

  With only 600 participants in the battle royale, and considering that ordinary students typically had tens of thousands of extraordinary followers, even assuming an average of a million per participant, the total number of extraordinary troops would be no more than 600 million.

  This meant that, with his current number of followers, as long as there were no unexpected circumstances, he had no reason to fear being targeted in the arena.

  Over the past decade, the number of Zerg in William's divine domain had surpassed 1.5 billion, nearly all of them extraordinary units.

  Ever since he had profited in the low-level battle zone ten years ago, every newly produced hatchery in his domain had been granted extraordinary bloodlines as soon as possible.

  During this process, the damn failure rate had cost him three newly born hatcheries. Perhaps his luck had run out from previous successes because all three hatcheries, which were meant to produce extraordinary Zerglings, failed when he tried to grant them a second extraordinary bloodline.

  Fortunately, William was now quite wealthy. Even after losing 1.8 million divine power, he still had six to seven million left, making the loss only a minor setback within his acceptable range.

  As a result, his total number of hatcheries had only just recovered to 35.

  Among them, the Thunder Wyverns, currently the most powerful combat unit of his swarm, had hatched just days ago.

  This meant that William’s Thunder Wyvern population was now growing by 10,000 per day.

  By the time the tournament began in two days, he would have 100,000 of them.

  With this powerful Zerg unit as his trump card, along with the 35 million self-destructing Zerglings in his army, William felt extremely confident. The global tournament’s grand prize—a staggering 50 million divine power—was as good as his.

  At this thought, William couldn't help but smile.

  Seeing that William was not anxious in the slightest and was even smiling unconsciously, Zous, who had a good understanding of his student's strength, knew that William must have already made his calculations.

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  Zous then continued, "Alright, take the next two days to make your final preparations. When the time comes, I'll come to fetch you."

  Hearing that Zous would personally take him to the competition, William didn’t mind at all. Since he was just going to compete, he simply had to follow instructions. He immediately responded respectfully, "Then I’ll be counting on you this time, Uncle Zous."

  After parting ways, William returned to his divine domain and immediately began his final preparations for battle.

  His main task was to awaken some of the Zerg units that had been in hibernation for too long, let them feast, move around, and restore their bodies to peak condition.

  The next two days flew by as William busied himself with these preparations.

  When Zous' demigod spirit appeared outside William's divine domain again, this time, William, who had not been lost in his research, immediately noticed.

  Without delay, he exited his divine domain and appeared before Zous.

  Seeing William appear, Zous didn’t waste any words. He simply took out two high-grade teleportation cards and handed them to William before saying with a smile, "Here, take these. These will cover the travel costs. The coordinates for the competition venue are quite far from here, so we’ll teleport directly. The coordinates are…"

  As he spoke, Zous relayed the location of the competition venue to William.

  Seeing that William had received the high-grade teleportation cards and committed the coordinates to memory, Zous continued, "Alright, let’s go."

  The two returned to their respective divine domains and simultaneously activated their teleportation cards, disappearing from their original locations.

  When William emerged from the teleportation passage once more, he found himself in an unfamiliar area.

  Years of habit kicked in, and the moment he exited the teleportation passage, he immediately left his divine domain’s barrier to observe his surroundings.

  In the surrounding void, aside from Zous’ massive divine domain, there were several other divine domains present, each seemingly paired in twos.

  A larger divine domain was paired with a smaller one—the larger ones were generally over ten million square kilometers, while the smaller ones were mostly under a million square kilometers. These should be the other student participants.

  Further away, a group of ten or so divine domains, each just over a hundred million square kilometers, were clustered together. These were likely the recruitment personnel from various universities on Elvia.

  At the very center, three massive divine domains, each 500 million square kilometers in size, hovered alongside another domain that was a mere 100 million square kilometers.

  The sheer size of these domains left William wide-eyed in shock.

  The combined area of those three gigantic divine domains was roughly equivalent to Earth's surface area, even twice the size of Zous' divine domain.

  They were the largest demigod divine domains he had ever seen—true colossi.

  "So huge!" William couldn't help but exclaim.

  Zous' demigod spirit emerged into the void and, upon hearing William’s exclamation, casually explained, "Heh, the smaller one is the competition arena. Those three giant divine domains belong to this tournament’s judges. They’ve likely reached the peak of demigodhood and are currently accumulating divinity in preparation to ignite their godfire."

  William turned to see Zous standing beside him.

  "Zous, they're already accumulating divinity at just 500 million square kilometers? Can they really gather enough to ignite their godfire?"

  Noticing the inconsistency in Zous’ explanation, William immediately voiced his doubts.

  Zous wasn’t surprised by the question. He simply smiled and answered warmly, "It’s not an issue. A divine domain of 500 million square kilometers can sustain hundreds of billions of followers if properly managed."

  "As long as it is well-governed, the domain can even give rise to a Holy Spirit. With that, gathering the required divinity to ignite their godfire is no longer a problem."

  "These demigods, who can hold positions within civilization's safe zones, likely already have Holy Spirit-level followers."