"I underestimate you, but this may not be enough to add to the fun." The green robe fluttered in the wind. Behind Lancelot, the boy was approaching step by step. The ice crystals suspended in his palms were filled with cold air.
After catching Huang Hao's whereabouts, Lancelot straightened up, turned around and slashed towards the opponent with his giant sword.
"True Flame Slash!"
The slash failed again, but the shattered ground suddenly erupted into flames that reached the sky. One level...two levels...three levels! Three layers of pillars of fire blocked all feasible paths within a radius of more than ten meters. Those of the same class faced this attack head-on, with no chance of escaping!
"Cangyuan Qiongbing, have you heard of it?" The young man's voice came from the center of the fire pillar, and his calm tone did not sound like he was being burned by a raging flame.
The scene that happened next made everyone's eyes widen. Huang Hao just finished speaking. The pillars of fire that spewed out around him were condensed by the ice that climbed up instantly. The inside of the ice is still in the shape of a flame, but the flame is no longer scorching.
"Crack~" The largest pillar of fire in front of him collapsed like a broken ice tower. Huang Hao looked indifferent, holding the ice crystal in his hand and approaching Lancelot step by step. Even if he lost his mind, Lancelot was instinctively frightened when he saw this situation.
But anger still dominated the instinct, and the surge of blood around him made the out-of-control Lancelot become even more bloodthirsty. The boy who came towards him roared!
However, facing Lancelot's gaze, Huang Hao did not show any arrogance.
Finally, at this moment, Lancelot raised the giant sword in his hand, and the light of platinum bloomed at this moment. The blood flowing around the body rushed into the sword crazily, and in just a few breaths, the huge sword blade turned into a bloody sword!
"Blood Blade!"
Huang Hao just watched Lancelot's stunt of releasing the weapon, and the ice crystal in his hand turned into an ice sword at this moment. Facing Lancelot's blood sword that was piercing with all his strength, Huang Hao held the ice sword and faced it casually.
The moment the two sword tips touched, Lancelot's face was obviously shocked.
"Bang bang bang~" The whole audience exclaimed as Huang Hao stabbed the sword at will, directly shattering the huge blood sword. You must know that the blood sword is not simply blood energy, the main body is still the earth spirit level giant sword, and Huang Hao's seemingly random blow actually directly shattered the blood energy together with the earth spirit level sword blade! What a strength this is!
"It's over!" After crushing Lancelot's weapon, Huang Hao swung his ice sword and slashed through the air. Before Lancelot could react, he stopped moving. As his head fell, his entire body turned into white light and disappeared.
"So... so strong!" Artolis and Lilith were speechless in shock. Lancelot fought unreservedly, but in the end, he only forced the opponent to use one piece of equipment.
But speaking of it, none of the previous opponents seemed to have forced out Huang Hao's other abilities, which also proved Lancelot's strength. But for now, except for Huang Hao's profession, ice control, and the ability to teleport and dodge, everything else is still unknown.
However, if the opponent is in the fourth group, she will have to meet him at least in the semi-finals, but Artolis feels that she will not be able to make it then...
Lifting the sword bow and watching the opponent in front of her turn into white light and dissipate, Artolis couldn't understand why the opponent couldn't dodge the blow. This is completely unreasonable. It is obvious that his move is just a feint, but it actually hits the opponent's fatal part.
Is it the other party's mistake? But this is already the seventh round, how could it be possible to make mistakes one after another. What Artoris couldn't understand at all was that the opponent was in a good mood even after losing the game, and even congratulated herself.
Is this...unreasonable? Your mood is too good!
"I've noticed before that every opponent you encounter from the third round onwards has flaws in their moves compared to their previous matches. It's more like deliberately exposing weaknesses than mistakes." Dormitory Nei Gaowen leaned against the wall and analyzed, but he couldn't come up with a good explanation. It was just that it was too strange.
"Have you ever heard of gambling games?" Kaguya said suddenly while sitting beside the bed.
"Bet?" Xilu stood up with curiosity written all over her face: "What is that?"
"It is a kind of gambling based on the results of the competition, the contestants and related facts. It is another means for the competition to make profits." Lilith explained on the side.
At this point, Gawain raised his eyebrows, "You mean there was a financial backer who bought Artolis' victory!?"
"Eh?" Artolis couldn't figure out what Gawain meant.
"It's just a guess. There is a sponsor who spent money to bet on your victory in every round, and starting from the third round, he spent a lot of money to bribe your opponent to fake matches. Judging from the ability you have shown previously , is not particularly outstanding, so the odds of buying you every round are very high." Kaguya explained.
"And the odds are high. If you win, the sponsor will get a larger sum of money. Compared with this sum of money, the point of buying off the opponent before is not worth mentioning. If this is really the case, it can be explained! "Gawain nodded and said.
"How could this be possible!" Artoris couldn't help but say after hearing this: "This is simply a trampling on the knight's spirit of justice!"
After listening to Artolis's words, Gawain turned around and said: "Most people will choose the former between profit and fame. If it were you, the other party would give you a hundred Hunyuan Crystals and let you lose to Lance." Lot, what would you choose?"
"Hey, brother, do you look down on me so much?" Lancelot, who was silent on the side, heard this and shouted.
"It's precisely because I think highly of you that I take you as an example." Gao Wen rolled his eyes at him.
Artoris seemed to understand that she might not be able to win the battle with Lancelot. The probability of winning or losing is half for each side, and at this time someone tells you that you don’t have to win against him, and you can get a lot of money if you lose to him. For ordinary people, do you still have to choose?
"If this is the case, does it mean that Artoris can definitely win! Wow, you are so lucky. You will reach the top 128 in one more round! If you reach the top 128 in the competition, you will be qualified to enter the second level. Yes!" Lancelot thought and cast an envious look.
"Indeed, this move by the financial backers behind the scenes is beneficial to all three parties, but if there is another round, it won't be a fake match!" Kaguya said a little seriously.
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"This... is unexpected." Seeing that Artoris's name was left blank on the eighth round matching list, Kaguya was also a little embarrassed.
Originally, I thought that the eighth round would be about whether the players could qualify to enter the second level of the world, and no one would be willing to fake the match. Logically speaking, Artoris's showdown in this round should be very dangerous. But unexpectedly, there was an accident in the last round of the competition, which resulted in an odd number of contestants remaining, and coincidentally, Artolis was not assigned an opponent.
"So I... won without a fight?"
