Waiting for the last few minutes

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After a few more hours of waiting, the long-awaited system notification finally arrived and informed Shin about the start of the tournament.

"Shadow Ranking Cup, huh? Now, let's see the strong guys that you had," muttered Shin as he stood up from the bed while stretching his waist.

After that, he took a look at system notification for a moment before hitting the accept button, which teleported him at the venue of the event on the next instant.

At the same time, similar things were happening in different parts of the Atlas World. This was one of the reasons why this Shadow Ranking Cup special; all of the invited players came from different parts of the world.

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Meanwhile, there was an independent space inside the game which was set up like a newscasting studio. There was a rectangular table placed at the center of the studio, while a pair of a man and a woman sitting behind it.