Meanwhile, Heidern orders his soldiers to stop the impending Kyo invasion as soon as possible. Krizalid then reveals that K' has the DNA of Kyo implanted in his own body and that he has the ability to wield crimson flames through the use of a special glove, but during the final process of harnessing the ability, K' had broken away from his orders and joined forces with Maxima, who in turn was a fugitive from the same organization that K' had escaped from. Krizalid decided to use the King Of Fighters tournament as a way to find powerful fighters, whose 'fight data' could be input into the clones, now spread around the globe, to launch them and use their power to take out the governments of the world. Krizalid then reveals that the room is his underground base and explains his true intentions he took Kyo Kusanagi, unconscious after his battle with Orochi two years previous and used his DNA to clone him, but the real Kyo escaped midway through the process. With Krizalid displaying incredible but dangerous power, the fight lasts some time until Krizalid is knocked to the floor by Benimaru. The Hero Team is greeted by a strange man named Krizalid in a dark room and a battle between him and the team commence.
As the Hero Team descended, Heidern: leader of the Ikari Warriors mercenary squad, discovers strange signals coming from all over the world, the source of these signals being millions of Kyo Kusanagi clones hidden all over the world, Heidern traces the source to the exact same location as where the Hero Team are. The tournament had an additional surprise in two single entries, both clones of Kyo Kusanagi but besides this the tournament went as could be expected, and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary until The Hero Team reached the final battle which to their surprise was in a sewer, the sewer tunnel soon revealed itself as an elevator to and entrance to strange underground location. With Kyo missing his team-mates Shingo Yabuki and Benimaru Nikaido paired up with two mysterious new fighters K' and Maxima and with Mai Shiranui finally accepted onto the Fatal Fury Team after six tournaments and Yuri Sakazaki working with her brother Ryo Sakazaki on the Art of Fighting team King was forced to form a new Women's Fighters Team with her connections in Southtown, introducing Li Xiangfei to the King Of Fighters cast for the first time. The increased number of characters per team, as well as the story element of the missing Kyo and Iori lead to the reshuffling of a lot of teams, most notably the Women's Fighters Team and Hero Team. But out of the blue new invitations are sent out to characters inviting them to a brand new tournament returning to the King Of Fighters roots as an underground secretive affair far from the mass media and big business of the tournaments from previous years it also changes the team requirement from 3 fighters per team to four. It has been two years since the last King Of Fighters tournament and no-one has seen Kyo Kusanagi or Iori Yagami since they defeated Orochi at the climax of that tournament. The game acts as the first of a three part story known as the The NESTS Chronicles involving a shadowy organization plotting world domination, this part introducing the concept of the Kyo Kusanagi clones and K' who would be a major, if not the main, character in the story.
Introducting new elements like the Striker Match and Counter Mode, and increasing the number of characters per team from three to four. "The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle" is the sixth game in the King of Fighters series. Platforms = Arcade, Neo-Geo, Neo Geo CD, PlayStation, Dreamcast Modes = Team Battle Up to 2 players simultaneously Genre = Gaming crossovers/Versus Fighting Title = The King of Fighters '99: Millennium BattleĬaption = Promotional poster for "The King of Fighters '99".