Since the relationship with Cynthia was confirmed, Rodin began to pick her up and commute to work, after all, after learning that a disgusting aristocrat stared at the girl, Rodin was not at ease to let her go alone, so that the relationship between the two progressed rapidly, and soon became like honey. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, after getting the answer from Elder Rodriguez, he didn't start the cultivation of the Elemental Essence God immediately, but just took some time every day to do elemental traction, and the rest of his energy was put into the "Dragon Yuan" method.

On this day, the time came the day before the Gang Tournament began.

At Hook's call, the Yankees helped everyone gather to go to the Nine Rings Arena, the venue of this competition, to familiarize themselves with the venue in advance.

The Nine Rings Arena is located in the East Region of Xiacheng District, and the name of this arena has a long history, with a history of thousands of years.

The whole field is covered with shallow yellow sand, and the size of the area is similar to that of a regular football field. Among them, more than a dozen pocket-sized dueling rings were divided for the contestants to use.

Around the venue, there is a circle of auditoriums enclosed in an oval, densely packed, with thousands of seats, and the audience can sit in it and have a panoramic view of the entire nine-ring arena.

In the center of the auditorium is a huge observation deck, where only the noblest are eligible to take their seats.

Underneath the lookout, a dark iron fence connects to the ground, somewhat similar to the cages of wild beasts in the Colosseum of ancient Rome, and the darkness is so deep that you don't know what is hidden.

Rodin followed the crowd around, while William began to make a cameo tour guide, introducing Rodin to the long years of the Nine Rings Arena, with pride on his face, the pride of being an Elden.

Legend has it that the first Archduke of Elden, Ellam Hill Hon, first established the arena.

He was an extremely brave soldier, at that time, the whole environment of Elden could be called everyone martial arts, basically all residents would practice some physical fitness techniques, and there were not a few who knew how to breathe, and it could be said that all the people were soldiers.

In order to select all Elden swordsmanship and outstanding combat power, the Grand Duke specially built the Nine Rings Arena and held a competitive competition in December every year - Elden Champion Trial.

Interestingly, the Championship Trials are not a battle between people, but a challenge from humans to monsters.

The contestants are male and female, ranging from gifted children at the age of 11 or 2 to elderly people in their 70s and 80s.

The trials are divided into nine levels of difficulty, from easy to difficult, and the contestants increase their performance by one ring each time they pass the challenge, so those who successfully pass all the trials are called the Nine-Ring Brave, and are loved and revered by all Elden people, and Elan Hill will personally give them a rich reward.

This is a trial that everyone is eager to see!

At that time, there were far more monsters in the eyes of humans than now, and the monsters that were set up to challenge the level were strange and endless.

Dikui, Living Corpse, Daredevil, Mist Demon, Griffon, Banshee, Night Wolf, Evil Spirit, Demon, Petrified Serpent Lizard, Cyclops, Golden Bird.

Hundreds of monsters have been banned by powerful humans such as wizards and reduced to sparring products.

The strength of the monsters ranges from the weakest in-tier to the incomparably powerful golden tier, and the contestants are at their disposal.

Blood and slaughter, pain and death, defeat and victory are intertwined, and a trial of blood and fire, humility and glory has swept through Eldon.

Many other city-states were also influenced by Elan Hill to organize similar trials.

This is a history that countless Elden people are proud of and will always remember.

After William finished speaking, his face could not hide the excitement, but it didn't take long for his face to return to a flat face.

However, it is a pity that with the passage of time, the aristocracy put more energy on eating, drinking, and enjoying themselves, and music, painting, theater and other arts poured into people's daily life.

The frenzy of fighting gradually dissipated, and the enthusiasm was gone.

In the end, the championship trial ended without a hitch, and the Nine Rings Arena was abandoned, and the roaring monsters and warriors wielding their swords passed away with the wind.

The Nine Rings Arena has been dormant for hundreds of years.

In recent years, in order to better control the gangsters, Elden has reopened this historical dusty venue, allowing countless gangsters to throw their heads and spill their blood in it, becoming new contestants. And the Nine Rings Arena began to rejuvenate.

The crowd walked along the auditorium, looking out over the vast arena below, where a sparse crowd of people roamed, presumably from other gangs.

Then they stepped straight onto the flat sand from the small path between their seats.

At a glance, the entire sandy area is stacked with a platform more than half a meter high, which is the competitive ring.

Hook said slowly: "Tomorrow's game will be played on this platform, you can go up and experience the experience, and get a little familiar with the venue." ”

In order to prevent some contestants from blindly avoiding and delaying time, each field is divided just right, about 40 square meters, and there is no extra space for players to maneuver.

At Hook's suggestion, the gang was free to divide into several teams, each finding a venue to familiarize themselves with. They were excited, apprehensive, and expectant.

In fact, there were only 10 people who actually participated, and Hook had already handed over the specific list to the management committee. Ten contestants work in pairs and prepare to compete in the ring. Rodin and Fletcher warmed up in a ring on the fringes.

Rodin, who was holding Erwin, was simply a humanoid tyrannosaurus, and the two-handed sword Erwin kept making a "hoho" sound of breaking through the air under his powerful swing.

His strength is more than four times that of ordinary people, and Fletcher, despite his recent desperate training, is not strengthened by the flesh and blood of the griffin beast, and his strength is only more than twice that of ordinary people, so he can only move his body tiredly, and he is completely unable to directly hit his edge, once he is bumped and dragged by "Elwin", he will immediately shake his mouth, and the long sword will almost come out of his hand.

Rodin had a crushing advantage over Fletcher, and the two did not get entangled too much, and Fletcher parried a dozen swords in a row before stopping and conceding.

But he was not disappointed, but quite excited: "The special training during this period of time is really effective, Rodin, I can hold on to more than ten moves under you, and in another year or two, I will almost be able to reach your current level, right?"

If others heard him say this, they would have scoffed, but Fletcher knew that he had gone from being able to go through three moves under Rodin at the beginning, and now he was very satisfied to be able to entangle with him in style.

"Well, you've made a lot of progress lately, but keep it up and don't give up halfway. “

As soon as the words fell, Rodin's eyes were involuntarily attracted by a familiar figure more than ten meters away.

The handsome and pale face, the blood-red lips, and a gloomy aristocratic temperament are extremely eye-catching.

"McCarvey?"

Rodin instantly skipped the coroner's appearance in his mind, and this guy who seemed to be a left too deep an impression on him.

"What is he doing here?"

Rodin looked closely from a distance, and saw that McCarvey was sneaking along the ground around the arena to check something.

Driven by curiosity, he quickly approached McCarvey, and finally stopped a few steps behind him, condescendingly observing the coroner, who was crouching and concentrating, as if unaware of his arrival.

In his pale palm, exposed from his sleeves, he held an inconspicuous black iron ridge that cut into the ground in a sinuous and twisting pattern that looked like a nuroboros clinging to each other, each of its scales depicted as vivid and lifelike. Half of the lines are exposed to the ground, and the other half is hidden in the shallow yellow sand.

"How's it going?

A dark voice came, and Rodin couldn't help but shudder.

"It turns out that he has already found out about me. Hearing McCarvey's voice, thinking of his whole person, Rodin's heart swelled with an irrepressible disgust, a faint panic, no character had ever made him feel so weird.

He pretended to be indifferent, and asked stubbornly, "The coroner is really interested, and he came to the Nine Rings Arena to practice his painting skills in broad daylight, and what do these patterns mean?"

"Huh. With goosebumps of laughter, McCarvey stopped what he was doing and turned around.

Pale and almost transparent skin, overly handsome and somewhat feminine, he smiled at the corners of his mouth at this moment, and said in an indescribably unpredictable tone: "This is a secret, a secret enough to change Eldon's world." ”

"I smell a similar smell from you, though, and if you're desperate to know, I can tell you an exception. You know, all the other people who tried to snoop on my secrets are now lying in my dear studio, haha!"

"His studio, isn't that a morgue?"

"What an inexplicable madman!" said to him.

"You'd better take your time and get busy with this earth-shattering secret!" he said and left without looking back.

Looking at his distant back, the light in McCarvey's eyes completely dimmed, his facial features converged, and he instantly became expressionless, and the whole person exuded a silence like a dead corpse.

He muttered to himself, "O human being, hypocritical, cowardly, despicable, why do you prefer lies over facts?"