The time on the griffon totem is almost two minutes before all the colors change, and the gladiatorial fight is almost over.

The gentlemen in the stands seem to know the foregone conclusion......

"Ah, I pressed it wrong...... I regret it! Some of them hammered their chests and regretted why they had pressed their chips on the swordsman on the left.

This remark was immediately refuted and ridiculed as an afterthought, "Heh, I told you and me, but you still don't listen, look at it......"

Some were overjoyed, and hypocritically congratulated each other with the surrounding spectators, "Your rice shop has funds haha, I pressed so many 100 copper plates, and I made a small profit, but it is still not as rich as the boss who pressed 20 silver coins......"

"Hey, you're joking, it's just a little bit, and I'm thinking I'll eat it this time this year, ahahaha......"

Foregone conclusion? It's too early!

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At this time, the changes in Koichiro's body, who was standing on the gladiatorial arena and condensed in the thick ice, rejuvenated his eyes, and his inky black eyes once again revealed something other than the emotion of revenge that was deeper than everything - joy.

Or a greater joy than liberation and freedom – hope.

I really didn't expect that the Eye of Horus was actually a source for storing source power, and logically speaking, this was Love's second source, which made Hangichiro a little curious about who she was.

After all, in the Teyvat world, Lilith said that because the spiritual power consumed by the weapon source is too large, holding a weapon source is already the limit of the divine messenger.

'Giving myself such an important thing, and always showing up when I need help the most, and it would be nice if I could bring you back sooner, thank you, Love. ’

"It's like sunlight surrounds my whole body, but it doesn't seem to look like the mainstream source power attribute, is this the source power of fire that I once lost?" Koichiro laughed at himself slightly.

When his body was no longer eroded by the power of ice, Hangichiro's limbs were slightly forced, and the thick ice shell on his body shattered all over as if he had been hit by a stone, bursting with blue ice crystals all over the ground.

Unhurriedly, he bent down, casually picked up a piece of broken ice crystal on the ground, spread it in his palm and looked at it, this originally hard solid ice crystal looked like a fragile piece of paper that could be easily crushed.

Carefully looked at the fingertips of his fingers holding the frost fragments, and the palms of his hands, which had been covered with colorless source power, showed a trace of brilliance under the light of the surrounding candle flames.

Aware that some gratifying changes have taken place in his body, as if he has been strengthened, the cold state is dispelled, and even, this can cancel out the freezing effect of the frost, so that he does not feel the biting cold of the ice.

"It seems that the fire attribute source power can still restrain the power of the frost source power of Nex," Koichiro said to himself.

Seeing this, Nexus exclaimed incredulously, "What? How did you...... You, you're not a civilian? How could a civilian break free from my frost condensation, not that water guy! ”

"yes, now?" Koichiro picked up a piece of paper made of frost between his fingers and threw it at her.

"Ah, you ......" Nexus frowned, her expression showing a hint of panic.

"Why, it's wrong to return to others the way of others?" Koichiro's face was calm, and his cold response was more infuriating than his menacing eloquence.

Nexus reached out and used the Frost Twin Dent to block the frost shards flying into her face, "Okay, you, use my frost against me......"

Immediately, he looked at the black-haired flowing Nex in front of him, "I really want to thank you, if you hadn't provided me with such an opportunity to hover between life and death, how could I have awakened the hidden power." ”

"So what! You're not still a civilian! "There was a surge of anger around Nex, and that was the anger that surrounded her.

In order to completely shatter this anger, desire and fighting spirit.

"I'm sorry, I never said I had a civilian card in my hand. Now, it's my turn to entertain you, Nexus", Koichiro returned the mocking words that Nexus had told him.

"How, how could it be........ You're obviously just a civilian kid who has mastered crude swordsmanship, and you've been frozen to the point of losing signs of life under my second-order technique. Why did you break free from my useful technique like this! ”

Nexus's whole body trembled, as if he was shocked and angry, but in the end he turned into hideous and gnashed his teeth, "Then, since you are also a messenger of the gods, then you don't have to show mercy to your subordinates, and die again!" ”

The spectators in the audience were shocked by the situation in the infield gladiatorial fight, and the owner of the rice shop, who was still proud that he would get a large amount of money in return, suddenly disappeared without a trace with an irrepressible arrogant smile on his face, and his eyes widened and he said, "Oh? The eyes of the spectator who had just been extremely deflated and felt that he had bet on the wrong treasure and beat his chest suddenly ignited some expectations, and the eyes of the audience suddenly shifted from the black-haired beautiful and ruthless ice beauty to the other ordinary black-haired civilian gladiator.

However, ignoring the discussion and eyes of the audience, Koichiro only had the black-haired ice demon in front of him in his eyes, and "defeating her" was the only thought.

He moved his wrists and legs again, "Good, the warmth of his body has completely banished the freezing. It's just, what is the move of the fire source force? How do I use it? ’

Koichiro thought for a moment, "It's okay, I've already melted the freezing effect of the frost, and I can defeat it with my swordsmanship." ’

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The ice crystal explosion and frost condensation in front of Nexus had consumed some of her source power, and her mental power had already shown a slight exhaustion.

She bit her lower lip and tried to use the most difficult source force technique at the moment, although this was the final blow she had gambled on all the source power, and she only wanted to defeat this seemingly calm civilian, as the last dignity of the messenger of the gods.

She held the Frost Twin Halt in her hand, and sensed the source power condensed on the Frost Twin Halt again, and even the power other than the Frost Source Force, black, with a mournful and desperate aura, was slowly eroding her mental state.

There was a hint of sluggishness in Nexus's eyes, and then it was as if she had been manipulated.

is an exchange ......

In order to obtain a more powerful source power and technique, it seems that this is an exchange method that has been known for many years.

Approaching the first gladiator selection, the day before, Nexus was so nervous that he couldn't sleep, and then went out for a walk around the corner, there was no one tonight, the streets were empty, and the underground Colosseum was calm.

"I heard that if you win tomorrow, you will be sent to another enemy, and I don't know which enemy you will be sent to live? Can I still be with Nina? Nex walked down the street and muttered to himself.

"Hey, there's a copper plate! Who dropped it? ”

She excitedly ran to the reflective enemy on the ground, and picked up the plate with joy, but when she looked up, she saw a man with a hooded cloak covering his face, and she could not help but shrink back in fear.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here to help you, gladiator."

"Help me?" Nexus couldn't believe that she had no home, no ability, and others to pay attention to her when she was so small?

"If you have the necessary objectives, you can borrow stronger abilities, but on condition that you give ......me some of your memories," a strange man in a hood and a wide cloak said to her as she passed by.

"Why memory? What are you going to do with it? The young Nexus asked curiously.

"Gladiator, you don't need warm memories, as long as you defeat the opponent in front of you, defeat him, and you can survive. Is survival important, or is memory important? ”

The strange man with a hidden face under the hooded cloak induced her, "I care about your strange source power talent, you will be a surviving gladiator......"

"What about my friend, her? Can Nina gain more strength too? ”

Nexus, who has lived in the Colosseum for nearly five years, asks, of course, that she also wants her companions to live.

"Gladiatorial fighting, it's a game of life and death, there are no friends who fight hand in hand", the strange man under the hooded cloak handed her a double-headed fork halberd, and the sharp ice tip on it flashed a cold light, "This has stronger power to help you become the strongest gladiator, this is your exclusive source." ”

At that time, she didn't know what the source was, and she hadn't even discovered her source power, but the young Nexus was surprised to take the frost double dent handed over, "If you live, you can protect Nina, right?" Next week is the selection for the gladiator camp, and I don't know if I can continue to live in the Colosseum, after all, I don't have a home. ”

"Take it, you can live, and if you accept it, give me the memory."

It does sound like a good quid pro quo, "Okay, that's it, then I'll take it, I hope I can win the gladiatorial selection and protect Nina well!" ”

At that time, she didn't know that she was facing the first gladiator selection, but every year only the best gladiator in the same class was left as a bargaining chip to make money in the Colosseum in the future.

That is, she and her companion Nina, only one of them can stay.

"Then your memory, I took it...... You're a descendant of the Ice Witch, Nexus," the hooded monster said with satisfaction, and then cast a seal on her head with the strange snake staff, a black chain with fiery flames that instantly wrapped around her neck and moved up to her brain.

"Uh, ah, what are you talking about, this...... What witch? Nex clutched her head, her headache splitting, and she felt like she couldn't breathe.

However, after a while, the "click-" locked.

The black memory seal shackles vanished, and Nexus fell to the ground, gasping for air.

"The exchange is complete, don't send it slowly", the strange man under the hooded cloak showed a weird smile, "My plan is going to be completed again......

"Go and kill a man named Ernest who wears the Eye of Horus", this sentence, like an oath, was engraved in Nex's mind.

'I'm like, forget something...... What the hell am I here?' When Nexus came to his senses, there was no one around him, and all he remembered was that as a gladiator, he had to survive and kill a man who wore the Eye of Horus, Ernest.