Outside, the sun of the Ufrifa desert shone bright and unbearably cruel. The golden sands stretched for hundreds of miles in every direction, radiating a blistering, wavering heat that could scorch a normal human alive within hours.
But right at the absolute center of this hostile wasteland stood an architectural miracle. It was a colossal, hyper-futuristic stadium, built specifically and exclusively for this global event.
Its sheer scale was impossible to comprehend at first glance—its base spanned an area as large as one and a half standard cities.
Fighting the intense, sweltering heat, the official teams from every country had already arrived at the stadium hours ago, descending from the sky in their respective airbuses.
Inside the stadium, it was an entirely different world.
