Volume 10 Bugs Chapter 58: Three Hundred Gold Packets to Win the Arena
There are always some special things in this world, which have a magical power that can cross all closed barriers, enable different souls to communicate, reach understanding, put aside hatred and hostility, and work together for a common goal. The preciousness of these things is that everyone knows their existence, but only a few people are lucky enough to obtain them - such as "love", "faith", "ideals", and so on...
Uh... a pile of golden gold? !
"Do you need anything else, handsome?" Our respected president, Miss Feiyin, looked at the funeral march of the undead warriors in front of her with a very eager look. Just looking at her confused and intoxicated look, you might mistake her for a handsome man with elegant temperament.
Calling this guy "handsome" is simply ironic. I swear, no matter which race's aesthetics you use, you will never find anything remotely related to "handsome" in this rotten man covered with rotten flesh and bones - including the rotten man's own aesthetics. On the contrary, this guild master from an unknown small guild in the withered land may be in the most miserable and embarrassing moment since his death - or even in his life:
Of course, you can insist that he is still "wearing" a suit of armor, but I think it would be more appropriate to say that these tattered pieces of armor are "hanging" on his body in pieces; in contrast, the armor and leggings on his lower body are more seriously damaged, exposing his two bare leg bones from the ankles to the roots, which no longer have the most basic function of covering up shame - fortunately, a skeleton that has decayed to the point of only bones has nothing to cover up, which barely saves him from being accused of "indecent". The most sympathetic thing is that his face looks particularly bad at this time, so pale that it is heartbreaking - imagine, when you can see from the face of a skeleton that is only left with a white skull that his complexion can become even paler, you can imagine how he feels now. The Undead Warrior's expression was depressed, painful and regretful, and he looked like he had just been robbed - of course, in reality, the situation he encountered was much worse than this.
Under the friendly and well-intentioned reminder of Miss Feiyin, Funeral March and his guild members immediately discovered that their medicine reserves were indeed in great shortage. In order to protect the lives of the members and ensure that they can safely pass the dangerous adventure after completing the mission, Funeral March took the initiative to express a strong desire to buy medicine from us. Although in a hostile lineup, inspired by the spirit of internationalism and humanitarianism, our compassionate president generously and open-mindedly resold all the excess medicines on hand - no, it should be resold - to our arena opponents, and only charged a meager transportation fee of only 20% based on the original price of the medicine. It is necessary to specially explain that our half-orc shadow thief Yangtze River Delta also contributed a batch of to express his respect and respect for our respected opponents.
"Hehe, how can I feel so embarrassed..." The green-skinned Shadow Walker smiled modestly and used his fingers to dip into his saliva, counting the gold coins in his hand one by one.
I don't know how Xian Ge Ya Yi and Yan Zhen feel at this moment, but as for me personally... I suddenly regretted not buying a batch of potions from the president just now...
Taking this transaction as an opportunity, our respected president, Miss Feiyin, finally reached a preliminary understanding with our opponents and agreed to help them complete this arena mission, and also increased our wins to eight. In order to ensure that we can really help them complete this mission, Miss Feiyin also specifically proposed to split the potion transaction into nine parts, and complete a transaction every time they win a victory, until the end. This minimized the risk of us absconding with the money or them refusing to pay, which is really a wise initiative.
Of course, as an additional term of this deal, Miss Feiyin specifically proposed that Funeral March must be defeated by Feiyin in nine of the opponent's games and seven of ours, a total of sixteen encounters, as compensation for a lady being frightened by a man's despicable act of throwing bugs. The apologetic Funeral March immediately accepted this term in a gentlemanly manner - and he soon regretted it.
When he stood on the ring with Feiyin for the second time, the Corrupted Warrior did not encounter the expected blizzard of ice and snow and exploding magic traps. The pretty female magician in front of him did not take out the magic wand full of brilliance and powerful magic, but smiled and took out a "skinning knife" from her backpack that could only increase the attack power by three points. Under this small and blunt primary weapon, Funeral March was stabbed more than 200 times before he was finally defeated in the ring with blood and flesh. The tragic scene made us bystanders unable to bear to watch.
The second time, Feiyin used a sledgehammer...
The third time was with a spear…
The fourth time is...
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In the sixteen consecutive battles, Fei Yin never used the same method to carry out her inhumane and bloody revenge on Funeral March. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I really couldn't imagine that a small insect could cause such a deep-rooted resentment in a beautiful woman. In my opinion, even if our opponents gave us all the gold coins from the beginning, they wouldn't have to worry about us running away halfway - let alone sixteen times, even if they beat Funeral March 160 times in a row, I'm afraid it wouldn't be able to quell the resentment in our hearts...
But we must admit that the undead warrior from the withered land is the most perseverant and courageous hero I have ever seen. During the sixteen consecutive purgatory-like brutal tortures of Fei Yin, this guy sat steadily in the center of the ring every time, calmly dying, without even frowning from beginning to end - of course, if he had a frown - and did not even make the slightest weak groan.
"Oh my God, how could he endure such tremendous pain?" Below the ring, I couldn't contain my admiration and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Stupid, he took off the neural sensor..." Xiange Yayi rolled her eyes and said disdainfully...
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Not long after, the deal was completed smoothly. If you ignore the empty money bags of the five opponents swaying in the mountain wind, it was a win-win deal for both parties. After the deal, our winning numbers rose to eight, and we were only less than three thousand gold coins away from the "donation" of 100,000 gold coins to the temple. Our opponents created a miracle at an impossible low level, successfully passed the test of the gods, and gloriously won nine ring battles. As for those potions... On the bright side, at least they don't have to worry about their lives for the next half century - if the shelf life of those potions is long enough.
After rescuing our opponent from the endless pain of losing 27 games in a row, we were not in a hurry to complete the mission and immediately achieve our final glory in the arena watched by the gods. On the contrary, after watching our opponent leave the temple and stuffing a handful of heavy gold into our backpacks with pride, we suddenly found that winning the last glorious victory and completing the guild's sacred fiefdom mission... seemed... as if... it was not such a pressing matter...
"... Hello, sir, welcome!" When another ring battle began, our president changed into a high-slit long skirt that was graceful and beautiful but had very low defensive power. He walked onto the ring with empty hands, a professional smile on his face, and greeted his opponent opposite him with extreme enthusiasm, making people feel as if they were not standing on the ring where they were gambling honor with courage and strength, but standing at the door of a luxurious hotel, facing an attentive and charming waitress.
"...Before the battle officially begins, can I take two minutes of your time? Seeing the dusty appearance of all the heroes, you must have experienced many difficult battles. Although you all look very strong and heroic, it must be difficult to win every battle in such a fierce battle. In fact, you can choose a more relaxed and enjoyable way to complete this task. You may be interested in learning about this special service provided by our guild. As long as you are willing, we can help you easily win a victory in less than two minutes, or simply and conveniently help you complete this difficult task thoroughly, so that all heroes can skip this boring arena battle, save precious time and energy, and invest in more important, more interesting, more exciting, and more romantic adventures. And all you have to pay is a small insignificant labor fee. Do you want to consider it?"
Compared to Feiyin's poor ice magic, her fluent speech was obviously a more powerful weapon. With just one encounter, she made a demon warlock who had just climbed onto the stage dizzy. Judging from the level and the degree of damage to their equipment, this team must have gone through many difficult battles and was tortured to death by this glorious mission. Therefore, the demon warlock hesitated and scratched his head, then turned around and looked at his teammates under the stage, looking quite excited.
"...What are you still hesitating about!" Seeing the other party wavering, Fei Yin immediately and decisively took advantage of the victory, wielding a eloquent tongue, perseveringly encouraging the other party's restless mood, wishing that every word could be shot into the other party's heart, "...It is better to act than to be moved, and it is better to act immediately than to act. Our guild guarantees with its reputation. First the competition, then the payment. One game, one settlement, and one mission guaranteed to be completed in one go! We also launched a special reward activity. Win a game for 60 gold, win two games for 100 gold, buy eight games in a row, get one free, and there is a 25% discount of 300 gold. With only 300 gold, you can forever get rid of the pain of being inferior to others, and no longer have to worry about the trouble of finding a win. As a guild with exclusive real estate, don't hesitate any longer, call now... ahem... I mean make up your mind now. In order to expand the reputation of our guild and further develop cross-race, cross-faction, and cross-server business, we are offering discounts on top of discounts to the first ten teams that apply for our service. For the first ten teams, no matter how many wins they require, we will return 20% of the total labor fee. So far, nine teams have successfully completed their tasks with our help. They are of absolute crown quality and 100% satisfaction rate. You are the tenth team. With such an affordable price and such a favorable event, how can you, smart people, miss it..."
This is the most amazing eloquence I have ever seen. Our respected president has fallen into a state of frenzy that I originally thought was unique to the orcs, showing an almost morbid enthusiasm. The most amazing thing about her is that she clearly knows that every word she says is a lie to cheat people, but she can still speak without stopping. If no one interrupts her, I doubt whether she can continue talking from now until tomorrow morning.
Unsurprisingly, our opponents were convinced. After some bargaining, they agreed to buy six wins from us for 200 gold coins without much consideration. You know, for a guild that has prepared 100,000 gold coins to purchase real estate, this is a very low price. Of course, in this world where everyone feels hardship and poverty, any cost is low compared to buying real estate.
In the following "battles", they only needed to send one person to sit on the ring, waiting for the five of us nominal "challengers" to line up neatly and walk onto the ring, and then jump off the ring one by one at the moment the battle started, saving time and effort, and not even a second of delay. In the words of Lady Feiyin, this is definitely a fast and considerate one-stop service - of course, we also saved a small amount of equipment maintenance costs.
In this way, the victors won a victory that had nothing to do with honor and courage, and the losers were satisfied with their failures. Although the gods sitting in the sky knew that this was just a trick with a predetermined outcome, they still maintained a very high attendance rate with great interest, and watched this strange scene over and over again through the flashing rainbow light, without any objection or obstruction...
I have always believed that the most humane thing about this world is that it writes all the rules of living here in your adventure manual, so no matter who you are, you can live a peaceful and normal life here according to the rules. But the interesting thing is: sometimes you can live better if you don't live according to the rules written on paper. So we must know that life will never be as simple as the words written on paper.
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Although not every team was willing to spend money to choose a more convenient way to complete the task, after all, those who resolutely chose honor and courage were a minority no matter where they were. This was a sad fact for the world, but it was a gratifying phenomenon for us. In the short one and a half hours that followed, we helped more than 30 teams complete the arena task, and the labor fees we earned from it were surprisingly more than 10,000 gold coins. Not only did we collect enough money to donate to the temple, but it also made our guild account, which had already run out of ammunition and food, a small surplus. At this time, we finally stopped brushing the arena. It was not that we didn't want to continue this promising job, but because we suddenly found that under our hard work, the Empire team on the challenge notice board soon saw one-third of the Alliance team, and most of them were high-level teams above level 60 (obviously, the higher the level of the team, the less need to brush the arena). If we continue like this, I am afraid that in the end, even we ourselves will not be able to complete the task because we can't find a suitable opponent.
Finally, we won the last victory against a team of the Imperial Guild in their early 40s. Of course, we did not forget to help them reach the eighth victory at a special discount price of 100 gold coins. As a sacred music echoed in the War God Hall, five bright golden rays pierced through the clouds, penetrated the crystal snow dome, and drew five shining circular halos, covering the five of us. Then, a rainbow bridge with seven-color brilliance slowly shot out from the center of the arena. The top of the rainbow held a six-sided ice cone that also projected seven-color light. The name of this ice cone was: "Proof of Glory of the Chosen Knights".
When Feiyin took the shining ice cone in her hand, five holy lights rose from the ground at the same time, surrounding us. The strong light made it difficult for us to open our eyes. Finally, when the light faded and our eyes gradually regained their sight, I found that the towering Temple of the God of War had disappeared out of thin air, and we were already in an unfamiliar valley. The three sides of the valley were unclimbable thousand-foot ice peaks, and only the south side was a deep ice cave, which I believed led to the road we came from.
Our mission is accomplished!
At this time, the five of us were all immersed in the joy of the mission success—perhaps some of us were also immersed in the greater joy of earning a little extra money out of thin air—we had not yet realized how profound an impact everything we did today had on the world:
A month later, a guild named "300 Gold Guaranteed Arena Brush" quietly appeared in the Continental Alliance Guild List. Almost at the same time, a guild named "300 Gold Guaranteed Arena Brush" also appeared in the Doomsday Empire Guild List. It is rumored that no matter when you come to this "Rainbow War God Hall", you can see the names of these two guilds on the challenge notice board.
Two months later, these two guilds cleared out all the guilds from the Continental Alliance and the Doomsday Empire that came to complete this task, so that a monopoly appeared in a short period of time. After that, the guilds that came to complete the task, facing the bare challenge notice board, could only find the names of these two guilds - they had no choice but to use 300 gold coins to successfully complete the task.
Three months later, on a dead night, the Supreme God revised the world rules specifically for this Arena Battle mission, stipulating that two identical guilds could not fight more than three times in one day. After that, the two "arena-sweeping" guilds disappeared overnight, just as abruptly as they appeared. No one heard any news about them anymore...
However, all this has nothing to do with us...
