If there's any standard building in the free zone, it's the gym. The Fighting Gym is for duelists, a relatively fair arena for fighting. Each gym can accommodate about 200 spectators, and is staffed with 20 soldiers to maintain order, which is the only military force in a free zone.

The arena is surrounded by a magnetic defense field, which is maintained by four high-powered force field generators to prevent the energy of the opposing sides from spilling out and hurting the audience. Of course, a defensive force field of this specification can only block the overflow of liliang from an ability below the eighth order. A ninth-order peak like Zero, if you do it with all your might, let alone a mere defensive force field, it is not surprising that even if you lift the martial arts arena into the sky.

There are certain conditions for using the fighting gym, first of all, the opposing parties must show their own notarization of their property, as well as the remaining points under the current credit card. Those with less than 10,000 will not be able to use the gym and will only be able to compete in street challenges. It is also a wild fight that does not count the means and bets, and is almost without rules.

The 10,000 credits are used to prevent the winner from having enough credits to pay the ransom in the event of casualties between the two sides. Street challenges, on the other hand, are different because there is no limit to the stakes. Even if the victorious side is victorious, there is no guarantee that the ransom will be paid, let alone the additional payment for the use of the gym.

The cost of using the gym will be paid by taking 10% of the bet paid by the losing side, and even if the opponent only has 10,000 credits, the gym will receive a 1,000 rake, which is more than enough for maintenance equipment and labor costs.

It's a tightly knit mechanic, and fighting in a fighting gym means being supervised by the military. Even if the victor kills, he still has certain privileges here, such as a dignified access to Thebes prison. Then, as long as the ransom is paid, you will be able to come back dressed again in a day at the earliest, and so on.

Street challenges are different, where the winner does not have enough credits to pay the ransom. The result is that the soldier is taken away and then mysteriously disappears.

Accepting Raymond's challenge, Zero graciously left the Prancing Horse Bar with him, and headed for the nearest arena. Hearing that Zero, a newcomer, was going to fight Raymond, there were many good people in the Prancing Horse Bar, so they naturally clamored to follow. The muscular woman Ageroni immediately stopped at the door and demanded the money for the liquor, and those who did not pay were not allowed to leave.

When I arrived at Zuihou, I looked at the bar that had become empty. Ajroni gritted her teeth and yelled, "Close early." ”

Leaving her fellow behind, she hurried away, following Gordon.

Walk through a side street and you will see the martial arts gym. Because it is a military arena, the gym looks much more modest than any building in the Free Zone. The square building has two gates at the front and back, and is only one story high, with a ring and a spectator seat.

Raymond walked ahead, shouting at a few guards at the entrance and pointing at Zero, to the effect that he wanted to have a fair fight with him in the arena. The Soldier nodded, pulled out his card swiper, and demanded that both challengers show their credits. After Zero and Raymond each swiped their credit cards, the results were displayed on two large screens on the outside wall of the gym.

On each screen, the credit card owner's avatar and the number of points appeared, with 240,000 for zero and 60,000 for Raymond, who were fully eligible to use the martial arts gym, so the soldiers began to let them go. When Raymond and Zero walked in first, the crowd followed suit, wanting to enter the arena to watch the game. At this moment, several cars sped up from the other side of the street and stopped near the fighting gym with sharp brakes.

Following the first car stepped down a man who was not very tall, he was about forty years old. In the prime of life, with loose hair and a mustache, a pair of dead fish eyes scanned the audience with a slightly crazy smile, making everyone who was touched by his gaze shiver. He casually took out a wine bottle, took a sip, and then shouted: "Tonight, the martial arts hall is chartered by our Blood Blade, except for more than a hundred of our brothers, everyone else who wants to enter the arena to watch the battle must be agreed by us." If those dare to make trouble, beware of your eggs!"

Haha smiled, and the man strode towards the front door of the martial arts gym. The crowd immediately parted, for this man was the madman Richard. No one wanted to provoke him easily, including Ageroni and Gordon, so they sided with each other. Then, there were more and more cars on the other side of the street, and all the members of the Blood Blade were coming down. Regardless of their appearance and body type, or how different their clothing is, they all wear a headscarf with a blood-dripping dagger pattern wrapped around their heads, which is very recognizable.

As Richard walked through the crowd, he stopped in front of Gordon and Ajronie. Riccha looked at them and said, "Old man Gordon, you are here too." Come to think of it, we haven't seen each other in a long time, right?"

"Five or six years. ”

"Time flies, and when this game is over, I'll invite you to the Prancing Horse Bar for a drink. He looked at Ajroni again, smiled evilly, and said, "I don't know if the boss welcomes it." ”

"As long as I don't smash the field, of course I have nothing to welcome. Ajroni said directly.

"Good. Richard shouted to the men behind him, "This old man, and this woman, give them a special seat." ”

After speaking, he said to Gordon: "Your vision has always been very accurate, I don't know who you have a better chance of winning tonight?"

"Are you going to bet?" Gordon laughed, "Then I'll bet all my fortune on that newcomer." ”

"Rafe?" Richard laughed, "Interesting, you probably don't know." How much Raymond wanted to slaughter this man all these years, and he had already advanced to the seventh rank. In that case, do you still think that newcomer has a chance of winning?"

"Yes or no, you only know if you've beaten it, don't you?"

"Okay, your bet, I've made a note of it. Richard patted Gordon on the shoulder and said, "Have a good evening." ”

"Each other, each other. ”

By the time Richard strode into the gym, Zero and Raymond were already sitting on opposite sides of the stage, diagonally. Raymond stared at Zero, pretending to be Rafe, who had his eyes closed and didn't seem to pay any attention to him. This made Raymond very uncomfortable, and in terms of zero current strength, it was true that a mere Raymond did not give him an eye.

In the Prancing Horse Bar, Zero had already activated the genetic detection of the golden right eye and glanced at Raymond, knowing that he was a seventh-order dark ability. Abilities include Dark Touch, Invisible Cutting, and Shadow Golem. Dark Touch and Invisible Cut are a combination of skills that make the opponent blind by the Dark Elemental by touching the former and Raymond can easily slash the opponent by using the offensive Invisible Cut.

Shadow golems are a type of elemental golem that can gather dark elements to form formless shadow golems. The Shadow Golem comes with abilities such as the Death Scythe and the Shadow Rope, which is a kind of containment skill.

Overall, Raymond's single ability is not outstanding, and he is better at a combination of abilities. After reading his abilities, Zero can roughly infer his tactics. It is nothing more than using the shadow puppet to contain it, and when the shadow golem launches the shadow rope to bind the opponent, and then uses the dark touch to apply a negative state, Zuihou kills the enemy with an invisible cut.

Zero closed his eyes and made an arrogant gesture, but in fact, he used Raymond's ability to refine his tactics and then decide on the means of countermeasures. In fact, if the zero combat power is fully opened, there is no need for such trouble. Below the eighth order, sending it to his subordinates is not a spike. It's just that his current identity is Rafe, and his ultimate goal is to enter Theban prison, so he can kill Raymond, but he can't be too strong.

The proportions of it still need to be carefully grasped.

What's more, the big fish he wants to catch is not a small character like Raymond. But......

Zero finally opened his eyes and looked in a certain direction in the auditorium, and then saw Richard. He didn't know Richard yet, but when he saw him, Zero knew that the man was what Gordon called a madman. With just one glance, Zero recognized him. Then Zero nodded at him, Richard was slightly surprised, pursed his lips, and said softly, "Interesting, do you want to challenge me?"

At this time, the gym began to have audiences entering one after another. Most of them were members of the Blood Blade, and a small half were people like Gordon who rushed to hear the news. However, with the exception of Gordon and Ageroni, all other spectators who enter the audience will be required to hand over 100 credits to the Bloodblade. That's not a lot of money, and Blade of Blood doesn't make money on it.

The money is still made by the gambling opened by the victory or defeat of the duel, the bloody blade is naturally the dealer, and the handicap has opened more than a dozen in the free zone in a short period of time, frantically absorbing gambling funds. As everyone knows, Raymond has been in Sin City for several years, and he is the number one player in the Blood Blade, with the exception of Richard. In the hearts of many people, the newcomer Rafaite has no chance of winning at all.

Therefore, the win-loss ratio between Raymond and Zero has soared to a crazy level of 1 to 10 before the opening.

But there are also a few people who bet their money on the black horse of Zero, because they also heard that just today, Zero cut off the bloody hand with a knife. The Blood Tooth is only second-rate in the Blood Blade, but Zero can cut his wrist and break his palm with a knife, and he is also a ruthless character.

What's more, he has a huge amount of money, and a person who has no ability can't get so much money.

Once the audience is seated, the challenge begins. When the duel limit icon on the LCD screen above the ring turns from red to blue, the force field generators around the ring also start working. A waterfall of light rises from around the ring and closes in the middle to form a protective shield, disappearing so that it will not affect the spectators.

Raymond stood up and said, "Rafe, do you know what I want to do most after killing you?"

Without waiting for Zero to answer, Raymond smirked, "I'm going to freeze your corpse and cut a piece of meat every day." I thought, that must be delicious. ”

"It's a shame, I don't think you'll have this opportunity. Zero said lightly.

"Wait and see, soon, you'll have to get down on your knees and beg me to spare your dog's life!" Raymond snapped, reaching out a little towards the space next to Zero.

A large number of dark elements quickly converge to the point where they can be observed with the naked eye. Then the dark elemental twisted and grew, eventually forming a faceless, humanoid shadow golem with long hands and feet. As soon as the shadow golem spawned, it immediately pounced on Zero. At the same time, Raymond threw out a large number of low-level abilities, such as toxin clouds, dark balls, dark beams, etc., with the shadow puppet bombarding Zero indiscriminately.

Under the interference of Raymond's low-level abilities, Zero seemed to be overwhelmed. This gave the shadow golem an opportunity to grow its fingers, forming a shadow rope that entangled Zero's arms and body. Raymond yelled "You're finished", and the figure flickered, and he stretched out his finger behind Zero and activated the Shadow Touch. Then he retreated, waving his hands, and there was an invisible cutting wave that slashed towards zero.

"Pg for mercy, Rafe. Now that you can't see anything, how can you avoid my invisible cuts!" Raymond laughed maniacally, waving his hand and throwing bundles of invisible cuts towards zero.

"See?" Zero showed a cold smile, "It's a pity, I'm long past the age of catching action with my eyes." You, Raymond, haven't improved at all over the years. ”

So Raymond saw Zero turn around and face him accurately. What chilled Raymond's heart was that Zero had his eyes closed. First he broke free from the shadow puppet's shadow rope, and then his body kept shaking. The direction of his swing, the speed or slowness, is irregular. But every time it shakes, it just allows a beam of invisible cuts to pass by.

Zero walked with small steps, and the five fingers of his left hand lightly pressed the sheath of Scarlet Twilight towards Raymond. Until now, Zero has not come out of the knife. But no matter how high or low the ability of the people watching the battle is, they can feel that the zero knife is not out of the way, and once it is played, it must be the time to distinguish the winner and loser.

It's just a feeling, a feeling that is transmitted to them by zero movements, momentum!

On the other hand, Raymond seems to have the main offensive momentum, but who can see it. Raymond, who was attacking, was at a disadvantage, and no one knew how Zero managed to do it. Only Richard straightened his body, and the dead fish's eyes burst into light. With his eyesight, he naturally saw that Zero had forced Raymond into this situation purely with his own movements, which made Richard excited, and he couldn't wait to fight for Raymond.

Of course, Richard will not be played, so Raymond can only fight back. He uttered a thought at the shadow golem, which immediately pounced, its formless hands and feet twisting and stretching into scythe-shapes. Then it bounced and spun, forming a black storm that rolled towards Zero.

In the storm, the scythe of death looms!

"After so many years, you still don't understand, rather than using so many abilities to cooperate to achieve the goal of limiting and killing the opponent. Why don't you focus all your energy on one ability, just kill your opponent in one blow, don't you? You don't need to go so hard to match these boring abilities......" Zero suddenly rushed forward, the scabbard slightly raised in his hand.

Raymond was shocked, and he felt that the shadow golem had been slowing down by a single line.

Then, the light in the martial arts hall dimmed, and people saw a red light like a rainbow, sweeping out a half-moon shape that flashed through the air.

It's not that the light in the martial arts arena is dimmed, but that the light displayed by the Zero knife is too strong, so there is a huge contrast in light.

When zero is set, the knife is sheathed. The black storm created by the shadow puppet, which was still impressive before, disappeared into the air silently, and the only remaining dark elemental tail flame was only touching the cloak that had just touched Zero's floating cloak.

Raymond was still standing there, bewildered by the audience.

Then, two words suddenly came out of Raymond's mouth: "You don't ......"

Before he could finish speaking, his head slipped out of place and rolled to his feet. Then a wave of blood erupted from the severed neck, and the headless corpse fell to its knees before falling next to its head with a thud. Raymond's head was as wide open as a dead fish, and his eyes that had lost focus were hollowly reflected with Zero's figure.

In the midst of Zero's nimbalistic stab, Raymond suddenly realizes that this man is not Rafe. No matter how strong Rafe is, he can't be so outrageously strong. That amazing sword, the speed of the instant explosion and the liliang were no longer at the level that a seventh-order ability could reach. So Raymond knew that this Rafe was fake, but never had a chance to say it again.

The knife was so snapped that even Richard didn't have time to appreciate the mystery in it. Only Raymond, a dead man, felt it with his own life. Of course, the cost is enormous.

It wasn't until nearly a minute later that a stormy cry rang out from the audience. Zero's knife is a picture they don't want to forget in their lives. The people who were able to sit in the gym were glad that they had watched this thrilling duel, and now they had the opportunity to brag to others.

Gordon sat in his place and muttered with a wry smile: "How can I have a feeling of being on a thief ship, damn it, am I really old, I didn't even see that this little guy turned out to be a ruthless character." ”

won at zero, but because he killed someone, the soldier in charge of law enforcement wanted to step forward. Richard suddenly let out a loud shout, got up and said, "I'm going to add another duel, yes, with this guy who killed Raymond." The bet, of course, is all my family property!"

As soon as these words came out, the four exclaimed. Raymond didn't forget it, no one expected that when there were zero new wins and no two momentum, Richard still spoke up to challenge, worthy of a man with the name of a madman. And his bet is just as crazy, even people who don't know the details know that after so many years of business, Richard's family fortune will never be less than zero. Even, I'm afraid there are already millions of credits.

It was a fortune that was enough to make people crazy, but now it was easily thrown by Richard.

Just for a fight!

Zero finally laughed, because, the big fish took the bait. Next, of course, is the stage of closing the net.