"Can you do it?"

John asked.

Alan and the others hurriedly nodded and promised, "Don’t worry. Leave this matter to us."

After that, John had them put away all the items on the table.

As for how they would handle them, John trusted that these people would not embezzle anything or act out of personal interest.

At the same time, John conveniently placed the Leviathan Palace inside a lake closest to Overlord City.

A zone-wide announcement immediately rang out.

[Zone-Wide Announcement: Player John of this zone has placed the Leviathan Palace ruins dungeon at coordinates (432, 881).]

The Zone 5 players who were currently farming monsters all stopped what they were doing when they heard this announcement.

They had never expected that John would actually obtain another ruins dungeon for them so quickly.

No one had even managed to clear the previous Dragonkin Isle ruins dungeon yet.

And now another one had arrived.

For a time, the guild channel was filled with gratitude and praise toward John.

"Guild Leader John is truly amazing. He actually managed to bring back two ruins for Zone 5 in such a short period of time."

"That’s right. With these ruins, we no longer have to worry about not having enough places to level up."

"Thank you, Boss John, for your contribution to Zone 5!"

...

After finishing all this, John was just about to assign some work to Alan and the others.

Who would have thought that right at this moment, a server-wide announcement would suddenly ring out?

[Server-Wide Announcement: The first player to break through to level 100 has appeared. Special server-wide event triggered: God’s Challenge Ground!]

...

This server-wide announcement left all the Zone 5 players stunned.

John was also a little surprised.

"There’s actually a special server-wide event?"

"Interesting."

He had just been worrying that there was no opportunity for him to test his level 100 combat power. This server-wide event was just the right chance for him to fully stretch his hands and feet!

The server-wide announcement continued.

[Server-Wide Announcement: This event will randomly select players. Selected players may choose to enter voluntarily through the dungeon interface!]

[Server-Wide Announcement: Players eliminated during this special event will receive the death penalty!]

[Server-Wide Announcement: Selected players, please prepare yourselves. All selected players will be forcibly entered in 5 minutes!]

...

[Congratulations! You have obtained the qualification to participate in this special event.]

Three consecutive announcements rang out.

John immediately followed the announcement’s prompt and opened the dungeon interface.

Sure enough, a special event entrance had appeared on his dungeon panel.

Information related to special events surfaced in his mind.

All special events generally had a very high chance of producing precious materials or items that were difficult to find in ordinary times.

In his previous life, he had also participated in several such events. Back then, his SS-rank assassin class change scroll had been obtained from one of them.

He wondered what this special event would be like.

He gathered his thoughts, looked toward Alan and the others, and asked, "Did you obtain the qualification to participate in this special event?"

Alan and the others all nodded and replied.

"Guild Leader, we all received the qualification."

"Guild Leader, are we entering now?"

"Or should we wait and see whether any other Zone 5 players were also selected?"

John thought for a moment, then said, "Ask around and see if any other players were selected as well. Have them come to this meeting room."

"Yes."

Alan immediately sent out an inquiry in the guild channel. However, what surprised him was that only a dozen or so people responded.

Very quickly, those dozen players hurried to the meeting room.

When they saw John’s exaggerated level, they were also badly startled.

John looked at the small number of people and frowned.

There were so many players in Zone 5, yet in the end, only this tiny number of people had been selected?

He felt that something was not quite right.

However, with him here, this small number of people might be enough.

Thus, he immediately ordered, "Everyone, enter the event dungeon with me now!"

"Understood, Guild Leader."

Everyone obeyed one after another and entered the event dungeon together with John.

A flash of white light appeared, and everyone in the meeting room was sent into the dungeon. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

As soon as they entered, a mechanical voice rang in everyone’s ears.

"Welcome to the test event space."

"The rules of this test event are as follows."

"First, this event will launch an event point ranking. The ranking will only display placements and will not reveal detailed player information."

"Second, during this event, all players may freely choose their faction, but the real-time number of players choosing each faction will not be announced."

"Third, after this event ends, a point-draw roulette will open."

John and the others looked around.

All they saw was a blank space surrounding them. There was nothing at all, as if only the people here remained.

Alan was somewhat nervous, because this was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

"Guild Leader, what is going on?"

The others also spoke one after another, their voices filled with panic.

"Guild Leader, we won’t be trapped here, will we?"

"Why did it only announce the rules, but not the event content?"

"Why can’t we see people from the other zones?"

John waved his hand and said, "Calm down. It’s probably waiting for the remaining players to enter.

"When players from each zone first enter, they are assigned to different spaces. Since all the people from Zone 5 are already here, it naturally looks empty."

Sure enough, not long after he finished speaking, an announcement rang in their ears.

[Event Announcement: All players have now entered. The detailed content of this event will now be announced.]

John ordered, "All of you, listen carefully. The rules this time are very important. If you violate them, the punishment will be extremely severe."

No one dared to be careless. They all listened seriously.

"This event is a special game. The game rules are as follows."

All players participating in this event will be divided into two major factions.

They are the Warden Faction and the Survivor Faction.

The objective of the Warden Faction is to kill all survivors.

The objective of the Survivor Faction is to survive for one hour against the Warden Faction, or to kill all wardens.

For every survivor killed by the Warden Faction, they will obtain 1 point.

For every warden killed by the survivors, all survivors will obtain 10 points.

Players from the same faction cannot deal damage to one another!

Warden Faction: All attributes weakened by 50%, but wardens can see survivor locations in real time and possess invisibility.

Survivor Faction: All attributes increased by 20%, but survivors cannot see the wardens’ locations.

"Players, please choose your faction!"

...

After reading the game rules, almost everyone immediately chose the Survivor Faction.

That was because the Warden Faction was simply at too much of a disadvantage.

All attributes reduced by 50%?

How were they supposed to play like that?

Apart from that, the Survivor Faction could obtain a 20% bonus.

Even if they could not see the wardens’ locations, they could rely on their attribute bonus to escape with ease.

Even if the wardens had invisibility, they would not pose much of a threat to the survivors.

Alan and the others also looked toward John and asked, "Guild Leader, should we also choose the Survivor Faction?"

"After all, this faction has too great an advantage."

Who would have thought that John would shake his head?

"No. All of us will choose the Warden Faction."

When they heard this, everyone was shocked.

What did he mean?

They were not choosing the advantageous Survivor Faction, but choosing the wardens instead?