Chapter 243: Chapter 242: The Preliminary Contest! _2

“The preliminary competition, officially begins!”

All the competitors climbed onto the platform, and the announcer loudly declared the start of the competition, accompanied by a burst of cheers from the audience.

However, even after the cheers from the audience had died down, the ten competitors who had stepped onto the platform still hadn’t moved. The ten competitors, each wearing Void Magic Armor, were evenly distributed across ten spots on the platform, but not a single one made a hasty move.

From a professional point of view, the ten competitors had made the right choice. This was a melee. Each person’s opponents were the other nine people, and if someone had acted rashly, they would have easily been attacked by the others.

It seemed the announcer hadn’t lied before. The competitors who could come to participate in the preliminary rounds, even if they weren’t Void Magic Warriors, were all experienced soldiers with quite high personal quality.

However, although the competitors’ cautiousness was understandable, the audience didn’t accept it. Noticing the competitors not engaging in battle for an extended period, boos and some sporadic urging cries emerged from the audience seats, even some cursing.

The audience’s reaction undoubtedly put great psychological pressure on the competitors. After all, not everyone can remain unaffected by external disturbances, whether outside or inside the arena.

So, when the booing from the audience became intense, one of the competitors on the platform finally couldn’t withstand the pressure and took the lead in making a move.

In this stalemate situation, once someone made the first move, the originally balanced situation was completely disrupted. Thus, when the first competitor acted, all the others followed suit!

In an instant, the ten previously stationary individuals burst into a chaotic brawl!

Simultaneously, as the brawl unfolded, the audience’s boos transformed directly into cheers, because for these spectators, the real competition had just begun at this moment.

At this time, Rocky, who was in the spectator area, also focused his attention and carefully observed the platform.

In his view, the ten competitors on the platform were thoroughly engaged in combat–some were fighting one-on-one, others two or three against one, and some were even fleeing across the sky when they were overpowered. The small platform was abuzz with activity.

From Rocky’s professional perspective, none of the people on the platform were genuine Void Magic Warriors. Their handling of the Void Magic Armor was extremely clumsy, even worse than his first experience with the White Demon.

Accordingly, the level of excitement of the competition could be imagined. Describing it as a brawl was fitting because it was indeed chaotic.

But chaotic as it might be, the intensity was undeniable. The ten individuals on the platform fought fiercely; each one seemed to be fighting for their life, trying every means to knock their opponent off the platform.

Indeed, due to its intensity, the spectators’ cheers and shouts hadn’t stopped since the fight had begun; everyone was incredibly excited.

“Some of these people must have placed bets outside,”

Hearing the crowd’s cheers, Liliya looked back at the audience seats and quickly noticed a few who were exceptionally excited. Then she said to Rocky,

As mentioned before, combat in the Arena involved external betting–everyone, including the competitors themselves, could place bets on the matches and this was what made the Arena especially appealing, its allure even surpassing the competition itself.

At this moment, there must be people among the cheering spectators who had placed bets on this competition; otherwise, they wouldn’t be so excited.

“Did you guys bet on my match?”

Since Liliya brought up the topic, Rocky asked casually. He had been focusing on adjusting his condition these days, so he hadn’t paid attention to this matter.

“Of course, Aileen has already handled it,”

“How much?”

“Ten thousand Gold Coins.”

“That’s… too little, isn’t it?”

Hearing the number Liliya mentioned, Rocky looked at her puzzledly because ten thousand Gold Coins indeed seemed too little.

In response to his confusion, Liliya quickly provided an answer: “Aileen said it’s better to earn less than to lose more.”

“…”

This response made Rocky suddenly feel a burst of depression. Did everyone really have so little faith in him?

Feeling depressed, he turned to look at the arena.

At that moment, the situation in the arena had reached a heated stage. Ten contestants were fighting fiercely. Unfortunately, since their abilities were quite similar, no winner had emerged, and not even one contestant had been eliminated.

“Kang Ni seems to be out of strength! Could he be the first one to be eliminated?”

As the contestants fought fiercely in the arena, the announcer outside was doing his best to commentate on the match. His voice was the loudest in the entire venue: “Contestant number 997 looks extremely strong! But now, he’s being attacked by two other contestants. Could such a strong contestant really be about to meet his end here?”

“Everyone! Kang Ni is about to go down! He’s been pushed to the edge of the arena…”

Just as the announcer was energetically explaining the match, suddenly, a deafening explosion sounded! The noise was so loud that it immediately interrupted the announcer’s voice and even the cheering of the audience. The contestants in the arena even stopped their movements!

“What happened?”

“What’s going on…”

“Was that an explosion? It sounded like one!”

The loud explosion startled everyone, and immediately after, a commotion arose. Everyone turned their heads in unison towards the source of the sound. They quickly realized that the explosion had come from another arena hosting preliminaries. Unfortunately, since the two arenas were in different venues, they could only hear the sound, with no idea of what had happened.

However, just as everyone was feeling puzzled and confused, the announcer excitedly shouted: “Ladies and gentlemen! According to the latest news, the preliminary in Arena One has already ended!”

“What?!”

“How is that possible!”

“Isn’t that too fast?”

As soon as the announcer finished speaking, the audience erupted into noise, everyone was incredulous. The match at Arena Three had just started, and the one at Arena One had already finished?

That was too fast!

Like the audience, upon hearing the announcer’s words, Rocky and others in the viewing area, and even the ten contestants in the arena, were equally surprised. It was a grand melee with ten participants! Even if a contestant was very strong, it was impossible to defeat the other nine in such a short time!

Just when everyone was astounded, the Arena seemed to have anticipated this reaction and immediately switched the big screen to show Arena One, prompting everyone to look up.

Upon looking, everyone gasped in unison!

The image on the screen showed that Arena One was thoroughly devastated! As for the contestants, they were scattered across the broken arena, some groaning in pain while others were silent, obviously dead.

At that moment, the image shifted, turning towards a Void Magic Warrior hovering midair, obviously the victor of Arena One.

“My goodness! It’s the 5th generation armor!”

“Idiot, look carefully before you speak, that’s the 5th generation Special Armor!”

As the camera focused on the Void Magic Warrior, some sharp-eyed viewers recognized that he was wearing the 5th generation Special Armor!

And as if he knew the camera was filming him, the Void Magic Warrior hanging in midair immediately took off his helmet, revealing a face like that of a playboy…

Xia Nai!

This Void Magic Warrior wearing the 5th generation Special Armor was none other than Xia Nai, who had had a conflict with Rocky!

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