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The Armas plane is half land and half sea, and the long coastline is home to countless bustling towns dotted like pearls at the junction of land and sea. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 InfoMena City is one such town, located along the narrow Mariner Canyon, a major transportation hub, and its geographical location makes it a particularly large floating population. Correspondingly, there are so many in the town, almost one out of every five storefronts.

At this time, VITB12 was carrying a huge food box and slowly walking into one of the middle of town, where a string of characters - cast iron was written rough on the wooden barrel in front of the storefront.

Located in the middle of the town, this dwarven-run building is one of only three buildings at the Golden Tripartis in the middle of Mena City, while the other two buildings are home to the Vitamin Guild and the Mercenary Guild. The dwarf who dealt in the cast iron was named Kansat, and was famous for selling the strongest ale in the entire city of Mena. When night falls, the cast iron is the liveliest place outside of the docklands – ale, roast venison, bards and ring fights.

VITB12 walked in and saw dozens of round tables inside, each of which was filled with more or less people, most of them in the attire of adventurers or mercenaries. There is a group of drummers playing stirring music, and two strong men in the center of the ring are engaged in a duel of strength.

Fighting in the ring is indispensable as a performance of this kind, and such ring competitions are more popular than singing and dancing. Because every fight will have a market opening, the drinker can participate in the bet and take a cut as the dealer. Mercenaries or adventurers themselves can also go into the ring to participate in the tournament, and if they win, they can drink free ale.

There are various rules for fighting in the ring, boxing, wrestling, wrestling, and so on. The spectators made bets before the fight began, and cheered on their favourite side during the fight, which combined with alcohol to make the whole atmosphere very lively.

VITB12 likes the atmosphere, only the peaceful Armas plane needs this kind of competition, and the entire plane of Mercury is uncontrolled conflict and violence, and there is no market for this kind of entertainment. He doesn't like the rules, but he likes the violence under them, like the vitamin guild.

VITB12 stopped in front of the ring to watch, and at this time, the two strong men on the stage resisted shoulder to shoulder, and their feet desperately kicked the ground, trying to resist each other. The bulging muscles of the two sides were coiled and tangled like old tree roots, and there was even a not weak fighting spirit bursting out on them from time to time, and it could be seen from the fluctuating strength of the fighting qi that both of them were intermediate warriors.

The applause was endless, and everyone was clamoring to cheer for the side they were betting on. One of the two sides was a strong man with a height of two meters, and the other was slightly shorter, but the muscles were more prominent, and for a while the two were evenly matched, and no one could resist anyone, and they fell into a stalemate. At this moment, the two-meter strong man suddenly roared, and the fighting spirit on his body flashed violently, and suddenly he used his strength to directly push the opponent back again and again, and fell directly out of the ring.

Some of the drinkers sighed and cheered, but after all, it was just entertainment, and most of them didn't gamble much, so they immediately began to drink happily again. Only the strong man in the ring flexes his muscles from time to time, taking all the warm atmosphere inside as a cheer for himself.

"It's just a gimmick for grandstanding in peacetime, do you really think of yourself as a hero?" vitb12 shook his head with a sigh as he walked around the ring to the inside. VITB12, who had just returned from the Mercury plane, felt this especially well, as this kind of entertainment was cheered and cheered on by a lot of people, and it also caused the fighters in the ring to fall into a kind of blind spot and think that they were heroes. But in fact, if there were no peaceful environment, then even this would not exist, let alone fight in the ring.

The strong man in the ring was enjoying the applause, but suddenly noticed that Vitb12 was such an anomaly, he didn't hear Vitb12 say, but his intuition told him that this person seemed to be unimpressed by his victory. Vitb12's attitude made him very angry, and he directly yelled to attract the attention of the whole group, and then shouted at vitb12, "That kid, do you dare to come to the ring and fight with me?"

The whole middle fell silent all at once, and everyone's eyes fell on vitb12, no one knew what vitb12 did to annoy that strong man, why it had evolved into the current situation. For such an appointment, it is actually possible to refuse, but it will be very shameless to not fight in such a public eye, and there is no way to continue to stay in it.

vitb12 first glanced at the strong man, then slowly shook his head, "I refuse." ”

There were many laughs, and the strong man also showed a mocking smile, and was about to taunt vitb12 a few words, but vitb12 continued, "We follow different rules. Boxing is judged by hitting the effective part, wrestling is judged by touching the ground except the ball of the foot, and wrestling is judged by falling into the ring. But the rules of the game that I follow are different from these. ”

Although the strong man didn't understand much, he probably understood the meaning of vitb12, so he asked directly, "What rules do you follow?"

"Victory is determined by life and death. With that, vitb12 continued to walk inside without looking back.

The strong man stood in the ring, first stunned, and then his face flushed, he had not been humiliated like this for a long time. As a mid-level samurai with strong combat power, he is considered to be the most combative existence in the Armas plane, and he is extremely talented, even having a record of defeating high-level samurai. In the cast iron ring, he had won more than a dozen games in a row, and he had earned a lot of gold coins, but he didn't expect to be frightened for a moment by a small minion who was not very burly.

The strong man looked at the back of vitb12, and was so angry that the muscles in his neck trembled, as if there were countless small insects wriggling in it. Finally, he roared, jumped straight out of the ring, and pounced on VITB12. The strong man's two arms are like a hungry tiger pounced, and he grabbed at VITB12 fiercely, he has used this trick many times, arm strength is the advantage he relies on the most, even if a calf is held tightly by his arms, it will directly break the tendon and fracture.

Just when the strong man Tarzan pounced on VITB12 like a top, VITB12 was short, his steps were moving forward while his body was moving backwards, and he retreated half a distance without warning. This abrupt change caused the strong man to pounce on his head, and VITB12 was already located under the strong man's chest.

"Don't want to run!" the strong man grabbed back in his hand, and in his opinion, his big hand was enough to break Vitb12's neck. However, before the strong man could catch it, Vitb12's body suddenly changed direction and straightened to the side, causing his shoulder to hit the side of the strong man's hip.

The center of gravity of the strong man's forward rush was suddenly unstable, and his hand was grabbing backwards and he didn't have time to support the ground, so he directly fell to the ground with his head down. The strong man's head slammed against the wooden floor with a thud, mixed with the crisp click of broken bones, and then the strong man's body pounced forward according to inertia, knocking down two tables and causing chaos.

Soon several people rushed over to tidy up the scene, the knocked table was also lifted, the frightened guests were comforted, and the original number was served the knocked over drinks. But soon everyone noticed that the strong man had been silent since he fell to the ground, lying there like a dead dog, his neck twisted at a strange angle. All of a sudden, there was silence, but after only a few moments, the men were signaled to carry the body of the strong man out of the side door, and the drummers continued the loud music to revive the atmosphere.

The Armas plane is not the Mercury plane, because it is under a common management system, unlike the major churches and guilds in other places, so there are perfect laws and rules here, and killing is not allowed. But the fact that Cast Iron can occupy the very center of Mena City must have its strength, and the performance of the drummers has shown the attitude of Cast Iron. Besides, fighting in the ring can't avoid accidents, not to mention that the strong man is the first to fight.

As if doing something insignificant, Vitb12 calmly walked to a corner where there was a small separate table in which only a dark-skinned dwarf sat drinking ale alone. Vitb12 sat directly across from the dwarf and took out a wine glass to fill it with ale.

The dwarf seemed to be drunk, and didn't pay attention to vitb12, but just looked away with a worried look, but said vaguely, "William, you are going to make trouble when you just come back to me, are you here to smash the field?"

Vitb12 gulped down the ale from his glass, "Look at it, Kansat." It was he who fell into the ring and died, and it had nothing to do with me. I still have a task on my body, so how can I have time to make a special trip to you to make trouble?"

Although it is not allowed to hurt people's lives in the fighting, it is not uncommon for people to fall off the ring and die occasionally. Kansat glanced at VITB12's food box on the ground again, and asked strangely, "Why, you brought your own food with me?"

"This is for feeding pigs, and the mission is on the Mercury plane. At the mention of the food box, Vitb12's mood deteriorated a lot, and he took the bottle and poured himself another glass of ale.

"You're doing a good job there. Kansat shook his head and sighed, "Do you want to stay at the top for the rest of your life?"

"There's nothing wrong with only doing missions in Armas and Mercury, but if you level up, you won't be able to come back to drink here. ”

Armas and Mercury are fourth-level planes, and only those below the advanced level can enter, and some killers of this level in the vitamin guild will choose to upgrade their level to other higher-level planes to carry out tasks, and some will suppress their own level in order to stay in the fourth-level plane.

Kansat playfully asked, "May I mention that you seem to have forgotten your original purpose for joining the Vitamin Guild?"

"It's not that I forgot, it's that I was too young. vitb12 said nonchalantly, "My parents were killed by the Vitamin Guild's killers, so I tried my best to join the Vitamin Guild. The idea was to avenge my parents, and kill the murderer, even if they couldn't overthrow the guild. ”

Kansat took another sip of wine, shrugged his shoulders and asked, "So now your mind has changed? Did you give up because it was too hard? It's not like you." ”

vitb12 shook his head and said, "I did give up, but not because of difficulties, but because I agreed." ”

"Oh?"

"The Vitamin Guild's code of conduct is the rules that I agree with. And my parents, it wasn't the vitamin guild that killed them, but the employers who were willing to pay the money to place the order, and the money was the price they paid. Now that the price has been paid, there is no need for me to take revenge. ”

Kansart's cup stopped at his lips, but the ale dripped down his chin, as if he was absorbed in what Vitb12 had said, and did not respond for a long time. It was still vitb12 who knocked on the table to wake him up from his contemplation, "Your Unbounded Crystal, lend me it, if you use it, I won't return it." ”

Kansat, who had just come back to his senses, was startled, and the wine glass was knocked over by him, "Hey, you're crazy? What do you want the Unbounded Crystal for? Don't tell me it's because the prey is too strong this time for you to win!"

"It's just a backup. vitb12 said expressionlessly.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm sure. ”

Kansat stared at VITB12 for a long time, but still couldn't see any clues, and finally he gave up and took out a gray Wuling cone crystal from his arms as if resigned to his fate. After rubbing it in his hand for a while, he threw it to vitb12, muttering, "If you use it, it means that you are dead, so naturally there is no way to return it to me." ”

Vitb12 put the Unbounded Crystal away, then stood up, picked up the food box and walked outside.

"Kansat, it's nice to see you, and we'll see you when the mission is done. ”