Chapter 264: Odds
With everything in Thunderhawk City taken care of and a short-term plan in place, Rocky reached out to Howard and prepared for his next ranked match.
As one of the most popular entertainment projects in the City of Sleepless God, the arena has a fairly complete system, whether it is for the game, or for the players, and so on, everything has a standardized process, so when Rocky contacted Howard, Howard immediately began to arrange a match for him, and the next day the game was arranged, and on the third day, Rocky was in the ring!
Such a fast speed made Rocky a little surprised, and he had to admire the efficiency of the arena, but what he didn't know was that for his competition, the arena had already been arranged.
In order to make the match exciting, the arena will pay attention to each competitor, and that attention starts in the primaries, and Rocky is clearly the focus of their attention.
Inside the arena, Rocky has been labeled as a seeded player, which means that in the arena's opinion, he has the ability to compete for the championship at the end of the season, and for players with this potential, the arena will have special arrangements for them.
For example, Rocky's opponent in the first rank match, Ouber, is a product of this arrangement, in the eyes of ordinary audiences, Ouber may have a lot of popularity, but in the eyes of the fighting arena, he is far less important, the reason why the fighting arena will let Ouber rely on the almost cheating method to win consecutive victories is not that he can't manage it, but he doesn't want to care about it.
They are just using this indulgence to 'cultivate' Ober, to train him into a player with attractions and a certain reputation, and then they 'use' him on Rocky, so that Rocky can not only prove his strength in just one game, but also play a well-known game, so that Rocky's game will immediately become popular.
In fact, it was true that Rocky's second match was watched by a significantly larger audience than in the last, at least a thousand more, apparently because they heard about his match with Ober.
And the corresponding is the opponent of Rocky in this game.
The opponent of his second rank match is also a newcomer, the same fifteenth dan level, and he is even wearing a mass-produced battle armor provided by the fighting arena, and he feels incredible in the face of such an opponent, Rocky, isn't this just a gift of points?
Indeed, this is indeed to give away points, and this is also the strategy of the arena, they want to continue to improve Rocky's popularity in this way, make it more and more interesting, and then make the audience look forward to it.
And in order to do this, one match was definitely not enough, so in the next four fights, Rocky's opponents were quite average, allowing him to move up his rank from 15 to 13 dan, while also winning five consecutive rank matches, and thus becoming more famous.
Of course, the arena is not just for Rocky alone, there are at least four or five people who enjoy the same treatment as him, these people are all newcomers this season, and they are also very optimistic players in the arena, and Xia Nai, who has always been compared with Rocky, is naturally among them.
Compared to others, the arena obviously values Xia Nai more, when Rocky won five consecutive rank matches, Xia Nai had already played eight matches, all of them won without exception, and his rank was also promoted to eleven dan in the process, becoming the highest rank among all the newcomers this season, and also became the most well-known one, compared to Rocky and other others became a foil.
However, whether it is Rocky or Xia Nai, their matches are actually just small things in the eyes of the arena, and what is done to them is just some routine arrangements that will be made every season, and what really makes the arena pay attention and devote themselves to it is actually Denise's game!
Denice, who represents Sigma Company, will make the debut of a new generation of Warframes in the Arena, and this news has been known to many people, as a giant in the Warframe field, Sigma is about to release a new generation of Warframes, which is not only a real big event, but also definitely something worthy of everyone's attention and even rushing, so as time goes by, more and more big names gather in the Sleepless God City, and everyone is waiting for Denise's first game in the Arena.
In this case, Denise's series of events will surely attract the attention of the whole sky, so this matter is the top concern and concern of the fighting venue, and they have been busy with it.
And two weeks after Denise arrived in the City of Sleepless God, her competition was finally decided!
February 8, 118 A.D.
On this day, Denise will play her first match in the arena, and the new generation of Warframes will also make their debut in front of the world!
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Rocky wasn't in a good mood during this time.
Although he has won five straight ranks and is becoming more and more popular, and more and more people have begun to discuss and pay attention to him, Rocky is still in a bad mood for a simple reason: he has earned too little.
Don't look at the arena has arranged him with more average opponents in a row, so that he has won one after another, but correspondingly, Rocky's odds in the off-court gambling game are also getting lower and lower, in his most recent game, the odds between him and the opponent have become 1.3 to 7, the opponent is 7, he is only 1.3.
What is 1.3 concept?
It was in Rocky's last game that Erin bet 50,000 gold coins on him as usual, and then he won, but only made 65,000 gold coins, and only 15,000 gold coins after deducting the 50,000 principal!
This number doesn't sound too small, but you must know that now Rocky's rank is thirteen ranks, and the increase in rank has also increased his bonus after each game, and now he can get 24,000 gold coins for every game he wins, which means that he bets 50,000 gold coins in off-court bets, and the money he won in the end is not even as much as the bonus after the game......
So don't look at Rocky won four games in a row, but the gold he earned was pitiful, only a total of about 100,000 bonuses, and about 150,000 bets, the two added up to only 250,000 gold coins, nothing enough.
Of course, Rocky will not be happy with this result, he didn't participate in the competition for fun, and the fundamental purpose of his participation in the arena is to make money after all.
But as far as the current situation is concerned, he doesn't have much to do about it, the only thing he can do is wait, wait for the arena to arrange him a stronger opponent, preferably an opponent who looks obviously stronger than him, and only then will he be able to make a lot of money.
However, according to Hammerfire, this opportunity should come soon......!