The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend-Chapter 544 - Death Match Start!

The first death match carried special weight because it would directly affect the morale of the subsequent matches. To give their own Sage life forms the advantage of their natural environment, the Blood Coliseum deployed numerous arenas with different habitats. That way, each Sage life form could fight on terrain that suited its strengths.

The Asura Coliseum responded in kind but instead sent sealed fighting rings. Each ring possessed its own climate, elemental attributes, and terrain. In addition, no more than ten life forms could enter a ring at any one time. All other combatants would be locked out until a death occurred inside.

Once the stage was set, the first death match started. The Sage life forms from both sides surged into battle. The Blood Coliseum fielded 15,000 Sage life forms, but their conflicting attributes disrupted harmony among them and sometimes caused internal clashes.

Unfortunately, this drawback was out of their control. Various beings from the Divine Civilization had supplied these units. Each stood as the strongest existence in their old home, but here, they were merely one among the 15,000.

The Asura Coliseum deployed 11,300 Sage life forms for the first match. Based on numbers alone, they fell short by at least a quarter when compared to the Blood Coliseum. This was a severe disadvantage, but they showed no concern at all.

Han Wu had an ominous feeling, but the combatants were already on the battlefield, and there was no room for regret.

Both sides took their positions as the timer ticked away. When the timer hit zero, the brutal death match started.

Within the first second, numerous Sage life forms lost their life. The Asura combatants opened with their most powerful attacks, striking the moment the match started.

The sudden blow killed 1,000 Blood Sage life forms and injured 5,000 more from the Blood Coliseum. As soon as the first wave ended, the Asura Sage life forms quickly retreated to the rings that perfectly suited them.

Blinded by rage and the desire for vengeance, the Blood combatants charged headlong into those rings. Unfortunately, they rushed straight into the trap that the Asura Coliseum had prepared.

What Han Wu and the others witnessed was one-sided slaughter. Using their control of the terrain, the Asura Sage life forms surrounded and killed the Blood Sage life forms one by one.

Some of the stronger ones endured longer under the relentless assault, but none escaped in the end. In less than an hour, 10,000 Blood Sage life forms had fallen. The remaining ones could barely fight and were calling their respective Gods for help.

Their Gods panicked as well. Even though Han Wu had promised compensation, the losses involved 15,000 Sage life forms! How could the Blood Coliseum possibly be rich enough to compensate all of them?

Some of them saw that their units were still alive and urged Han Wu to surrender this match to save them.

Han Wu did surrender, but the Asura Coliseum ignored him. Faido pretended not to hear and observed the slaughter on the ring with open glee.

Han Wu watched in pain as the Sage life forms fighting for him died one after another. He wanted to save them but couldn’t. This was a death match where one side would be completely eradicated.

Rather than grieve for the dying Sage life forms, Han Wu chose to act. He turned his focus to strengthening the Earthsunder life forms in preparation for the second death match and immediately summoned the Origin of Mutation to enhance their strength.

Three hours later, the final Blood Sage life form died, and the first death match ended. The two sides tallied their losses. The Blood Coliseum had lost all 15,000 of their Sage life forms. The Asura Coliseum had lost 5,200 Sage life forms, with 6,000 injured and 100 uninjured. This was the difference between the two coliseums.

The administrators, lecturers, and students who had loaned their units to Han Wu voiced their dissatisfaction after losing them. If not for him, they wouldn’t have lost their units like this.

After witnessing the first death match, some also wanted to take back their Earthsunder life forms. They feared that the following death matches would just result in further unnecessary loss of their powerful units. As such, withdrawal was the wiser choice.

Han Wu didn’t stop them. As a result, his forces dwindled from 114 Earthsunder life forms to just ninety-eight. Now he no longer held a numerical advantage, and his lineup grew weaker.

“If you surrender now, you can still save all ninety-eight of your Earthsunder life forms,” Faido taunted Han Wu gleefully.

Han Wu refused. “I will not give up. I will continue to fight!”

Those who withdrew their Earthsunder life forms all agreed that Han Wu had lost his rationality after the first defeat.

Han Wu ignored them, and the second match started. The battlefield remained unchanged: a massive arena filled with different terrain, bordered by a land filled with massive sealed rings.

When the death match started, the Blood Coliseum showed that they had learned from their earlier mistakes. They quickly dispersed and moved to terrain that favored them, where they waited for their enemies to attack.

The Asura combatants rode the momentum of their first victory with high morale. They pushed into terrain that suited them and started hunting out the enemies hidden within it.

Faido studied the broadcast carefully. To him, any one-on-one match was a guaranteed win for his units. He also held a clear numerical advantage, with ten more Earthsunder life forms than the Blood Coliseum, which left him fully confident of his victory.

Best two out of three. Just one more victory, and I will be able to obtain the Blood Coliseum. Faido had already started envisioning his triumph and takeover of the Blood Coliseum when something unexpected happened.