Chapter Seventy-Eight: The First Battle in the Arena

[You have entered the arena, please select the mode.] 】

【Competitive Mode/Spectator Mode】

Two park prompts pop up, and a large annotation emerges below.

Spectator Mode: You can watch other contractors compete, and it costs 5 Paradise Coins per hour, and you can choose to watch the game.

Games played: 8672.

If you want to watch the top 100 races in the arena, you will need to spend 30 Paradise Coins per hour.

If you want to watch the top 10 races in the Arena, you will need to spend 100 Paradise Coins per hour.

If you want to watch the top 3 players in the arena, you will need to spend 300 Paradise Coins per hour.

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Competitive Mode: This mode is for the hunter to participate in the competition, and the reincarnation park will rank the hunter according to whether he has participated in the competition.

Competitive mode is divided into [Individual Battle] and [Team Battle].

Individual battles are in 1v1 mode, team battles are in 10v10 mode, and the two ranking mechanisms will be calculated separately.

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【Please select Competitive Mode】

After reading the entire content of the annotations one by one, Xu Yue had a general understanding of the arena, which was similar to the trial ground in this place, even if he was defeated, he would not really die.

But compared to the rigid mechanical dolls in the Proving Grounds, the Contractor opponents in the arena with different styles are much more flexible.

In terms of improving the fighting skills of the enemy and adapting to various fighting styles, the arena is undoubtedly more suitable.

If you can fight all the way to the top in the arena, then all types of enemies will probably go through it, which is quite a valuable experience, even if it is not for the unique rewards of the top ten, the battle itself is the best reward.

"Competitive mode individual battles."

[Drip ......, began to check whether the hunter participated in the competition, and after the inspection, the hunter had never participated in any form of competition. 】

[Began to assign rankings to hunters, and now ranks 53,764 (second-order ranking).] (This ranking has nothing to do with the strength of the hunter, but the number of times the hunter has participated in the competition and the number of wins and losses.) )】

[Please actively participate in the Arena, the top 10 in the Arena will be given special rewards.] 】

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[The Hunter has chosen to participate in the competitive mode, individual battle, and will be teleported into the rest pod after three seconds]

Three seconds passed in a flash, and after a moment in front of him, Xu Yue had already appeared in a rest cabin, the space inside was quite spacious, in addition to the regular seats, there were even beds for rest in the corners, and the most conspicuous thing was the huge display screen that occupied most of the wall.

His rank is displayed on the screen, as well as some of the contractors who are in the vicinity of his rank, and there is even a hint indicating whether the opponent is in the enemy state.

On top of these information icons, there are ten extremely conspicuous character avatars, and these ten are the top ten existences in the second-order arena.

Although there is certainly no shortage of hidden powerhouses of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Second Order, on the bright side, they are the top combat power among all the Second Order Contractors, and the status laid by the victories in that competition is recognized by all the Contractors.

[Matching opponents for hunters...... Matching complete. 】

[Due to the first battle, please choose the appearance decoration of the hunter.] 】

The chime disappears, revealing a large number of character sprites, or camouflage skins.

Just like the first employee Xu Yue met when he first entered the park, Xiyue, the other party has always shown the appearance of the star singer Seraphine, and many places in the park will provide this kind of camouflage skin service.

Whether it's to hide a specific identity in reality, or to meet a certain professional need, this service is very popular in Paradise City, and the arena is one of the most popular places for this service.

In order to hide the means of fighting, or for the purpose of some kind of brainstorming, most contractors will choose a certain item or skin to disguise their identity before participating in the competition, so as not to be aware of all the attack methods by the opponent before the two sides start the fight in the derivative world.

Xu Yue briefly flipped through the catalog of camouflage skins, and found that the number and types of them were simply vast, from simple appearance adjustments, to many characters in film and television animations, and even funny creatures such as Big Big Wolf and SpongeBob SquarePants.

However, the rarer and rarer the camouflage skin, the higher the charging price, after knowing the general information of the appearance decoration, he thought for a moment, and directly chose to refuse.

This kind of camouflage may still have some effect in the middle and lower ranking, but after hitting the top level, let alone the top ten, as long as you successfully promote to the top 100, your specific information will soon be completely picked up.

Appearance can change, but breath, means, equipment, combat habits and other aspects are difficult to disguise in the fierce battle, as long as you hit the top floor of the arena, the various intelligence organizations in the park, as well as war correspondents like Yi Ling, will work together to expose your identity and image as quickly as possible.

When the time comes, let alone hiding his appearance, even if you put on a funny appearance of Macabaka, it will be useless, since sooner or later it will have to be exposed, he will not bother to bother to choose any disguise.

[The Hunter has rejected the appearance decoration and has begun to teleport.] 】

Thankfully, the short-distance teleportation inside the park would not be a blow to the back of the head, and Xu Yue only felt that his eyes were glazed when his vision was restored.

His environment had been transformed into a circular arena similar to that of the Colosseum, with transparent shields to keep attacks out of the arena, and beyond, cascading circular staircase seats, with about a thousand spectators scattered across the seats.

Noises and cheers kept coming from above, and in a trance, he seemed to be back in the octagonal ring underground.

In addition to providing a place for contractors to fight, the arena is also one of the key items, and even has a gambling bet service to bet on the bet, and the park can be said to spare no effort in recovering funds.

"Whew~ familiar scene."

Listening to the noise coming from above, Xu Yue took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, the originally peaceful aura around his body also changed with the agitation of his mentality, and the invisible evil qi of the Dao Dao overflowed from his body, soaking the surroundings into a cold.

On the opposite side of the arena, the opponent matched by Paradise was a female archer in leather armor, less than 1.6 meters petite, but holding a composite bow that was almost the same height as her, and the unique multiple mechanical structure made the entire bow exude the ultimate industrial beauty.

"Goodong~"

"This momentum seems to be a little bad..."

Although he couldn't really see the black aura that overflowed from his opponent's body, just by looking at it, the archer felt a cold and violent momentum surging.

The sound of saliva swallowing sounded in his throat unconsciously, and the archer retreated half a step slightly, and there was an urge to turn around and run now.

'You can't die in the arena, you can't run, you can't run, you can't run, otherwise it's too embarrassing.' ’

And how can I rank in this ranking, don't be afraid! It must be a bluff, maybe some kind of dread trick or something, on! ’

After forcibly comforting himself in his heart, the cringe in the eyes of the female archer was replaced by firmness in an instant, Xu Yue's majestic aura that he had killed all the way was terrifying, but it was still a little meaningless to want to surrender without a fight.

The first-order survival trial has eliminated most of the contractors who are not mentally strong, and at the second-order level, there are weak hands, but cowards are extremely rare.

[Three, two, one, the battle begins]

At the moment when the prompt sounded, the female archer had quickly pulled out a metal arrow from the space and pulled the bow, accompanied by the rapid rotation of the pulleys on both sides of the compound bow, and at the same time as her body jumped back, the arrows on the bow arm also turned into a beam of black shadows and shot out.

"Whew!"

The air resounded with the screech of arrows breaking through the air, and the archers jumped to the ground, their eyes fixed on the direction of their opponents, whether they were bluffs or real materials, she had to strike first, otherwise she would only become more and more timid under the pressure of this momentum.

On the other side, with a scream in his ears, Xu Yue's eyebrows were filled with a fine tingling pain, and his eyes were deflected, which stemmed from the precise judgment of the archery master LV.2 that allowed him to quickly lock on to the specific landing point of the arrow.

The cold light in front of him bloomed, but it suddenly stopped, and when the black shadow that shot in mid-air was about to hit the target, a large silver hand that suddenly appeared had already grasped it accurately.

The sudden change from extremely fast to extremely quiet caused the hurricane that had been driven by the envelope to spread outward in an instant, blowing the broken hair on his forehead and falling backwards.

The scream in his ears disappeared, but a crisp dripping sound sounded instead, Xu Yue looked at the source of the sound, only to see that the arrow of the metal arrow in his hand was constantly flashing with a red light representing danger.

Before he could react, the red light burst out in the center of his vision.

"Boom!!"

A violent roar sounded in place, and the rising black smoke and red flame light mixed and tumbled, instantly encompassing Xu Yue.

There were bursts of excited cheers from the audience outside the arena, and the female archers in the arena also lit up their eyes, and then three arrows shot out almost simultaneously, far faster than the previous explosive arrow, and struck towards the smoke from three directions.

In fact, what she was expecting for the arrow just now was to be held by the other party, and learning Yu Hawkeye's tactics was surprisingly useful in this arena.

It's a pity that Xu Yue is not a Loki who will be easily blown away by the explosion caused by the arrow, this explosive arrow has not played much role except for the momentum is not bad, which perfectly reflects what it means to have smoke and no injury.

Just as the arrow was about to pierce into the smoke, the big silver hand suddenly appeared again, its fingertips piercing the smoke from within, and then slammed it with force.

The sound of metal shattering sounded one after another, and the three arrows were directly shattered by the big hand into fragments scattered in the sky, and the tough arrow body made of metal seemed to be as fragile as broken wood at this moment.

The whistling hurricane swept through the arms swinging, dispersing the fragments of the arrows and sweeping away the surrounding smoke and flames, revealing a silver figure standing majestically with a golden and red longbow inside the smoke.

The forward arm was retracted, and Xu Yue quickly took the bow and wound it, and as the bowstring was gradually pulled apart, a golden arrow automatically condensed on the bow arm.

Opposite Xu Yue, when the three arrows were wiped out with a single wave, the female archer secretly screamed badly, and when the tip of the light arrow completely locked it, a terrifying feeling of death instantly flooded her heart.

'Hell, he's better at archery than I am!' ’

Just being locked in, this incomparably sure thought came to her mind, but even if she was destined to lose, she couldn't lose too ugly.

In an instant, the bowstring in her hand, which had already reached the full bow, instantly rebounded, and the arrow broke through the air, and she quickly jumped to the side, while the small shield hair germ hanging from her waist lit up, and a translucent energy shield quickly appeared on the surface of her body.

She didn't expect the hasty arrow she had just fired to kill her opponent, but as long as she could hold back for a moment, then she still had a chance to fight back.

Looking up, in the perspective of the female archer, I saw a golden light flickering in the distance, and then accurately collided with the metal arrow that had just been shot in mid-air, without the slightest obstruction, the metal arrow was completely cut from the middle, neatly divided into two halves and fell weakly.

Seeing this scene, the idea of not being able to fight hostilely, but only wandering and procrastinating immediately occupied all her minds, and the thought had not subsided, and in her somewhat frightened sight, the golden light that split the metal arrow in two did not continue to move forward according to the normal trajectory, but instead drew a smooth arc in the air, and then went straight to herself.

The deadly locking feeling of impending death once again enveloped her body, and under the intense stimulation, the female archer's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a pintip, and she wanted to dodge, but with the terrifying speed of the golden light, before she could react, the light arrow was already close.

The tip of the brilliant light arrow was connected to the energy shield on the surface of the body, and layers of ripples appeared on the surface of the shield, and the body of the light arrow was also cracked with dense golden and red lines, and the bursting energy wrapped inside was about to surge.

"Boom !!"

It seemed to be a reproduction of the previous scene, but the movement generated by this explosion was more than usual, and a boiling golden red flame exploded on the spot, and the rolling heat wave rushed outward.

Behind the flames, an embarrassed figure flew out upside down, the energy shield on its body had long since disappeared at this time, and there were charred burn marks all over its body, and dark blood spurted out of his mouth uncontrollably, sprinkling scarlet bits along the way.

"I ...... vote"

"Whew!"

Before the figure landed, the female archer hurriedly struggled to shout surrender, but before the word 'surrender' could be said in time, it was interrupted by a subtle sound of breaking the air, and the golden light quickly amplified in the pupils, and then endless darkness enveloped all perspectives.

In the field, the light arrow pierced directly into the head of the upside-down flying figure, and with an explosion, the entire head was instantly disintegrated into countless blood droplets splattered, and then directly vaporized under the burning of the flames.

Below, the mangled headless corpse slammed to the ground, turning into bits of fluorescent light and drifting away, marking the rapid end of this competition.

"Cow Pi!!"

"Bow crushing, outright hanging."

"I'll continue to buy you to win, play with the bow!"

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Excited roars and shouts emerged from the audience outside the arena like a tide, and in their perspectives, the battle ended surprisingly quickly, and Xu Yue only fired two arrows in the whole process, one to explode the shield and one to the head.

Although the process is short, the effect is exciting enough, especially the scene of the headshot at the end, the impact is extremely strong, which makes the contractors and employees in the audience look bloody, especially those who bought Xu Yue to win, and they are even more excited.

In the field, Xu Yue didn't feel much about the cheers around him, and after raising his eyes and scanning around, his figure disappeared directly, and when the competition ended, he was directly teleported back to the rest cabin.

[The personal battle is over, victory!] 】

[The ranking of Hunters has increased from 53,764 to 53,487 (Tier 2). 】

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In the rest cabin, Xu Yue's figure appeared, and the first thing he teleported back was to look sideways at the ranking displayed on the screen, a competitive victory, which made his ranking rise by nearly three hundred.

Although it seems that the efficiency is okay, but when you think of your ranking outside 50,000, this promotion speed is a little too slow, if you keep playing in the top ten at this promotion speed, he will have to go through at least hundreds of competitive battles.

If you want to quickly improve your ranking, the best way is to win in a row, especially after winning more than ten times in a row, it will be a flying jump promotion, with his current strength of breaking through 50 points in all four attributes, the existence of these equal rankings cannot pose the slightest threat.

The only benefit may be that he can see the strange combat power system of the contractors, from "X-Men" to "Mysterious Island", counting the four mission worlds he has experienced, although there are many contractors who have fought against them, most of them have been crushed by the army he led all the way.

It's either the knight legion of Dragon Valley, or the black ant frenzy of the mysterious island, with iron hooves everywhere and corpses shattered.

There are very few experiences of fighting alone, but he can make up for it now, he has more than three days left in the park, and he has enough time to spend in this arena.

Pursing his somewhat dry lips, Xu Yue was just about to continue matching his opponent, but a paradise prompt suddenly sounded.

[Received a message from the opponent in this field, yes/no view]

was stunned for a moment, but he still chose to click on it to view.

"Big guy! Ask for advice, ask for apprentices, you can pay, you can warm the bed! ”

Recalling the opponent who was shot in the head by her not long ago, Xu Yue raised his eyebrows slightly, he didn't pay much attention to the appearance of the archer, although the opponent's strength was average, but his heart was quite strong, and it didn't seem that there was much discipline at all.

After thinking about it, he ignored the other party's apprentice's request, and instead sent the address of the furnace forge shop with a message:

"This is a good arrow."

He wasn't much interested in paying for bed warming, but he was still willing to woo business, and after sending the message, he didn't delay any longer, but continued to start matching.

Ten seconds later, the match was successful, and he disappeared from the rest pod again.

(End of chapter)