Chapter 57 p2
When Yu Chi sheathed her saber, Tyrant Dragon was still kneeling under the arena, his expression looking very incredulous. He propped his hands on the ground, and large drops of sweat dripped down, his eyes fixed on her.
“Not convinced?” Yu Chi raised an eyebrow.
Tyrant Dragon’s expression was ugly, but he still said, “No, I lost.”
All of this had happened too quickly. He hadn’t even had time to react, and the match was already over.
He wanted to attribute all of this to a fluke, but the force of the other party’s kick had made him understand the gap in their strength… even in his most proud aspect of strength, he was no match for her!
Damn it—!
The audience exploded.
“What just happened?”
“I didn’t see it clearly…”
“Isn’t that guy the newcomer that Flame is optimistic about? How did he get taken down in one move?”
The few members of the Flame Alliance had already stood up. One of them was helplessly saying something into his communicator.
Yu Chi could feel several gazes suddenly focusing on her, with surprise, inquiry, and a few with obvious vigilance.
“Check who she is,” a Flame member said to his companion in a low voice. Since Tyrant Dragon had already lost, there was no need to observe him anymore, no matter what the reason was. Fortunately, they had now found someone more worthy of observation.
Yu Chi didn’t care about these people and directly applied to leave the field. She was still in a hurry to get to the next match.
The opponent in the second match was a short-haired girl with two knives on her waist. She looked like she was a speed-attack type.
“What a coincidence,” Yu Chi’s voice was very cheerful. “I also use a saber.”
She had not returned to her human form, and the scimitar in her hand was greatly discounted under the elf, but it was enough for now.
“It is a coincidence,” the short-haired girl’s voice was cold. “But the winner will definitely be me.”
Yu Chi smiled. Before she could speak, she heard the other party say seriously, “Do you know why?”
“Hmm?” Yu Chi was stunned. “Why?”
Short-haired girl: “Because I have two knives, and you only have one!”
Yu Chi: “…So that’s how it is. It really makes sense.”
The match began soon.
The short-haired girl’s eyes flashed, and the two knives in her hand were already unsheathed. The cold light drew two intersecting silver lines in the air. Her speed was indeed very fast—in the eyes of an ordinary player.
Yu Chi’s cloak swayed slightly, but her body did not move an inch. When the two knives were only ten centimeters away from her throat, her scimitar was leisurely raised.
“Clang!”
A crisp sound of metal colliding. The short-haired girl’s eyes widened. Her two knives were simultaneously held by a scimitar, and the rebound force from the blade made her hand numb.
“Dual-wielding is really cool!” Yu Chi grinned, her wrist suddenly flipping. The scimitar easily passed through the defense net of the two knives, and the back of the blade heavily knocked on the girl’s wrist.
“Ah—!” The girl cried out in pain, and the knife in her right hand fell to the ground. She hurriedly retreated, but the tip of Yu Chi’s saber was already on her brow.
“But now you don’t have a knife,” Yu Chi’s voice was filled with a smile.
Gasps were heard from the audience.
Yu Chi turned her head. There were not many spectators on the first floor, so the few familiar spectators were conspicuous.
Well, could it be that the observation target of these few Flame Alliance members had changed from the big dragon, oh no, Tyrant Dragon to herself?
“…” The short-haired girl stared at the tip of the saber in front of her brow, her voice trembling. “My agility is 32… tell me, what’s your agility?”
Yu Chi sheathed her saber: “I don’t know.”
The elf’s panel didn’t have agility written on it. She shrugged, but the elf’s speed… at least it was much higher than a player of the same level, right?
The short-haired girl quickly calmed down. She stood up and looked at Yu Chi seriously. “You’re very strong. Can you tell me your name?”
“No,” Yu Chi pulled her cloak. Exposing her identity would really be the end.
The short-haired girl was stunned, suspecting that it was her illusion. Otherwise, why would she feel that the other party’s hand was glowing blue?
“Ahem,” Yu Chi quietly hid her hand. “Goodbye.”
The cloaked figure disappeared from the arena. The short-haired girl pursed her lips, a trace of unwillingness flashing in her eyes.
The opponent in the third match was a tall and thin man in a gray cloak, holding a staff. He was obviously a magic-type player. When he saw Yu Chi’s cloak, he was obviously stunned for a moment.
Then I’ll use magic too, Yu Chi thought to herself. So countless fireballs fell from the sky, and a sky full of heat enveloped the entire arena.
In less than 1 minute, the match was over.
The wild audience was dumbfounded. The audience who had been following Yu Chi since her first match had a calm expression.
“The cloaked top player is really strong.”
“Who is she? She’s not a player on the ranking who’s here to bully the weak, is she?”
“Why do you care so much? Isn’t it just cool to watch?”
After returning to the hall, a few lines of words popped up before Yu Chi’s eyes.
【Congratulations on your three-game winning streak.】
【Current level: 1→2】
【Do you want to publicly display your ID for the level up?】
Yu Chi once again chose “anonymous.”
Next was the second floor. Yu Chi once again easily won a three-game winning streak and successfully entered the third floor.
From here, the atmosphere was much more lively than the first two floors. At least it was not just a few dozen lonely spectators. And as the intensity of the matches increased, the cheers from the audience also grew louder.
This kind of match was exciting enough.
As soon as Yu Chi entered the arena on the third floor, she heard cheers from the audience below.
“Cloaked top player, go for it!”
“Beat the other side to death!”
Besides the few alliance members, there were also several players who had been following her since her first match. Of course, they were all for their own purposes.
They would scout for newcomers on the first or second floor, and then make a huge profit in the newcomer’s first match on the third floor.
—Usually, a player who had just come up from the second floor would not have many supporters, so the odds were the highest at this time. If they were lucky, they could get one or two excellent-grade weapons.
Yu Chi also placed a bet in her own betting pool. It wasn’t much, just for a little surprise.
“You’re not taking off your cloak. Are you afraid of losing face if you lose?”
A blonde man was standing opposite her. He was wearing light leather armor, was tall, and had a brilliant smile, but no matter how you looked at it, it was very sarcastic.
“Go! Keith, let the newcomer see how strong we are!”
“Keith, it’s actually Keith?! Isn’t that the newcomer reaper?”
“What do you mean?”
“You haven’t heard? A recently very famous player who uses a loophole in the rules to win two and lose one, thus staying on the third floor and reaping the newcomers who have just been promoted.”
In order to ensure the fairness of the game as much as possible, for the first 5 floors, you would be forced to level up after winning three in a row. However, the rules of the arena were that only the winner could get the prize money, so some players used the loophole in the rules to stay on the lower floors and maintain a record of two wins and one loss.
Of course, this kind of person was more for the pleasure of bullying the weak. After all, the prize pool on the third floor was not high enough, and the audience would not let him earn too much after they knew his character.
Yu Chi listened to the voices of the audience, raised an eyebrow, and raised her voice to ask, “Is it your two wins now, or your one loss?”
Keith laughed out loud. “This lady is really unlucky. It just so happens to be my two wins now.”
“Okay,” Yu Chi also felt it was a pity. She had thought that if it was “one loss,” the other side could just surrender.
Keith showed a professional smile, his right hand casually stroking the dagger on his waist. “Don’t worry, I’ll be gentle.”
The audience roared with laughter. The odds for this match had reached 1:7.5. Except for the few spectators who had seen Yu Chi’s strength, the others all bet on Keith without exception.
The four big words “Match Start” appeared on the screen.
Keith’s expression also instantly turned cold. He crossed his hands, and the next second, his figure suddenly split into three—multiple clones, his strongest skill.
Three identical Keiths rushed towards Yu Chi from different angles, the long swords in their hands pointing at her vitals.
“Left,” Yu Chi said softly.
The scimitar was unsheathed, and the phantom on the far left shattered at the sound. Keith’s main body stumbled back, a bloody mark on his cheek.
The liveliness of the audience instantly quieted down. Many people looked at each other. This was the first time Keith’s phantom had been seen through so quickly on the promotion stage.
“Hey Keith, don’t fucking lose!”
“Stop playing, Keith. Be serious!”
“Lucky,” the voice from the audience made his face gloomy. Keith licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and activated his skill again. This time, the number of phantoms increased to five. It was almost impossible to distinguish the real from the fake in the high-speed movement.
Yu Chi stood on the spot without moving, the ears under her cloak twitching slightly. The elf’s keen hearing caught the faintest footsteps—
“Behind.”
The scimitar swept back, and the sound of metal colliding pierced the air. Keith’s long sword was sent flying, spinning and sticking into the edge of the arena. The five phantoms disappeared at the same time.
“Not bad,” Keith narrowed his eyes, but his mouth split into an exaggerated smile. “But my skill is not that simple.”
Yu Chi turned her wrist. “Cut the crap.”
Keith smiled sinisterly. Three more Keiths suddenly appeared on the arena, as if it were an old trick. However, after Yu Chi raised her hand to block the long sword that was coming down, the next second she turned and faced another long sword.
“So that’s how it is.”
The so-called multiple clones did not mean that they were split into multiple phantoms, but that they had truly become clones with physical bodies. No wonder this guy had been able to fight on the third floor for so long with this skill.
If a player was used to the fact that there was only one main body and the rest were phantoms at the beginning, then when Keith really used his skill, he could catch his opponent off guard.
“That’s right,” Keith chuckled, and the three of them’s lips curled up at the same time. “But so what if you know?”
Yu Chi judged that the other party’s level should be around 15, two levels higher than her normal form. He was a very suitable opponent for practicing her saber.
Soon, the audience gradually found that the situation that was originally thought to be one-sided had slowly turned around. The cloaked girl was not only at ease under the simultaneous attack of the three clones, but had even begun to counter-press Keith!
“There’s a fatal weakness,” a few strands of blonde hair were exposed from under the cloak. Yu Chi tilted her head.
Keith’s whole body stiffened. He realized something, and his face turned ugly. “Shut up!”
Three swords stabbed at her at the same time. Yu Chi swung her saber to block and said at the same time, “After turning into clones, your strength also becomes 1/3.”
“You fucking…” Keith’s expression gradually lost its composure. His arms and thighs had added a lot of saber marks, and he was no longer as decent as he was at the beginning. “I told you to shut up!”
Yu Chi tilted her head: “Why don’t you turn into 5 or 10 to surround me? Is it because you don’t want to?”
The blonde man rushed at her in a rage, clearly having lost his reason. Every match would be recorded. You just had to pay a certain amount of crystals to buy it. And from today on, everyone would know his weakness.
His clones were all about surprise. If they were defeated one by one, they would be useless.
This time, the flaw was even bigger.
Yu Chi raised her scimitar to meet him. The blade passed over his shoulder, and the back of the blade heavily knocked on the other side’s collarbone. The sound of bones breaking was very clear on the field.
The clone disappeared from the arena. Yu Chi kicked the blonde man off the stage and looked down at him. “Is that all?”
Her entire body was hidden in the shadow of the cloak, but it added a trace of mystery and strength to her.
【Match over. Player anonymous wins.】
The audience was quiet for a few seconds, and then a very enthusiastic cheer broke out.
Although they had lost money, the main reason for coming here to watch the match was for the excitement and liveliness, especially the scene of turning defeat into victory, which they could never get tired of.
“Fuck, so strong! Keith looks like he’s been beaten to tears!”
“Damn it, can this kid give me my money back? He’s so weak. He wasn’t match-fixing before, was he?”
“Awesome! I really didn’t bet on the wrong top player!”
【Congratulations, player, on your victory. You have received 100,000 crystals.】
Money comes so fast. Yu Chi glanced at the time. It was only a little past three. She didn’t know if she could get to the 5th floor before six o’clock.
The match entered the second round.
Yu Chi was in the middle of a fight, but as soon as she walked into the arena, her expression froze.
My god, that cheap brother of mine?