The news that Lord Tulip Duke "won a big victory" in the first round of preliminaries of the World's No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament quickly became a hot topic of discussion in the entire imperial capital. Only this time everyone treated the game as a huge joke.
And those who were lucky enough to watch that match told their acquaintances about the anecdote afterward. While people were laughing, the atmosphere of admiration for Duke Tulip suddenly dropped several times.
Even people who fanatically worshiped the myth of tulips before can't afford to defend their idols now. Just because thousands of pairs of eyes watched Du Wei "win" on the field that day.
Now, in the streets and alleys of the imperial capital, the vast majority of people have already determined whether Du Wei knows martial arts or not. Winning was simply because of his prominent status, which made his opponent voluntarily abstain.
In the aristocratic circle, Du Wei has once again become the object of ridicule by everyone (of course, because of Du Wei's status, such ridicule can only be discussed behind the scenes where Du Wei can't see or hear, and in front of everyone When meeting with Du Wei, people still have to maintain full respect for the Duke.)
It's just that after that match, when Du Wei saw Prince Chen, the regent suppressed a wild laugh and asked Du Wei directly: "Let's be honest. How much did you give those opponents to make them lose on purpose?" For you?"
Du Wei looked sad and indignant: "Your Highness, do you also think that I bought the opponent with money?"
"Isn't it?" Prince Chen smiled.
Du Wei sighed, he knew this kind of time. No one would believe what I said, so I simply kept silent.
Naturally, the casino is making a lot of money. Because the "Dragon Ball Trio" that appeared out of nowhere killed several popular players. The betting amount naturally went to Du Wei's pocket.
certainly. Du Wei himself has also become the target of betting. Fortunately, Du Wei was considered by everyone to be a big favorite before—because no matter whether Du Wei's martial arts evaluation is low or high, people think that the Duke of Tulip will not even win the first round of preliminaries. Can't make it through.
Therefore, since Du Wei is the favorite, his odds are not high, although the gambler who sold Du Wei won won the bet. But the gains are not great.
In general, in the first two days of preliminaries, Du Wei's gambling group made a lot of money.
The preliminaries on the third day once again brought people a huge "surprise"! And this surprise. Du Wei is also included!
The third day of the preliminaries of the World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament.
The most popular contestants on this day included the two commanders of the Holy Knights and more than a dozen holy knights in the Mainland! And these guys are undoubtedly big favorites.
After watching games of varying levels for two consecutive days, although it was more than lively. But it's not really exciting. However, on the third day of the competition, people are still looking forward to it, after all, the martial arts of the holy knights do not contain moisture.
this day. Because Du Wei has successfully passed the test, he can sit in the box on the third floor to watch the game.
On the morning of this day, the favorites to appear were the Grand Knight Commander of the Holy Knights and the eighth-level knight Randall.
This guy who was humiliated by Du Wei at the Qingfeng Festival. Obviously came to the competition with anger!
In his group, the opponents were extraordinarily tough—the temple even slightly criticized this, thinking that Du Wei, the black hand behind the scenes, was manipulating the lottery process! Because the opponents in this group where Randall is in, the overall strength is a level higher than other groups! Among the seven opponents that Randall will face, there are four four-level players and two five-level players. There is even a seventh-level opponent!
In particular, the seventh-level opponent was a well-known master from the southeastern region of the empire. He was well-known in the two southeastern provinces of the empire. Comparable to the guy who buys grades just to make up for it.
After the gong of the game sounded, Randall drew out his long sword!
Because today was a ring match, the Grand Knight Commander didn't wear that heavy knight armor, but a tight-fitting warrior robe. Lined with a light leather armor.
After the game started, he focused all his attention on the seventh-level warrior in this group—Randall also knew very well who his biggest opponent was.
That seventh-level samurai. His name was Marlon—and he lived up to his name. Born with a strong back and waist, his figure is like a huge wooden stake. His naked upper body didn't wear any lining clothes, but directly put on a leather armor. The muscles stretched the leather armor to the point of bursting. His neck was as thick as an ordinary person's thigh, and his arms The muscles are amazing and full of power! And there is a terrible claw mark on that face - it is said that when he was young, he hunted and killed a litter of black bears in the woods alone!
That time he killed four black bears with his bare hands, and the scratch on his face was caught by one of them, but he finally strangled the last prey with his huge palms!
He also wore a pendant around his neck, which were three huge black bear fangs!
Although Randall's figure is also very strong, he looks much weaker in front of this giant-like guy.
With the sound of the gong, Ma Long, who was standing in the distance, grinned at Randall, his growling voice was like a beast: "Holy Knight, don't worry, let's have a fair game!"
As he said that, his huge body suddenly jumped up on the spot, as agile as a rabbit, and quickly jumped to the side of a player on the left, and his huge palm grabbed that guy's shoulder!
His movements were as fast as lightning, and that opponent also had the strength of level five, but he didn't react at all, and the long sword was only half drawn. It has been lifted by Malone. Throw it directly under the ring!
The audience burst into cheers.
Randall breathed a sigh of relief. He is very self-aware. Although he is the Grand Knight Commander of the Holy Knights, this is the weakest period of the Holy Knights. if not. With his eighth-level strength. How could it be possible to sit in this position!
On the other hand, I absolutely can't lose today, otherwise, if word spreads, the leader of the Holy Knights didn't even pass the first round of the competition. This will be a huge blow to the prestige of the Holy Knights!
And the opponents of this group... Randall understands that if Malone quietly unites with several other players to deal with him first, then it will be difficult for him to protect himself! After all, although there is a gap in strength between the seventh level and the eighth level. But it's not too huge! If you add the help of the other six people, it will be very difficult for you to win!
But now it seems. This Malone is very open and aboveboard. I didn't move that kind of thought. Instead, choose to have a positive fight with yourself.
"Good guy!" Randall felt relieved and laughed a few times. Flying forward, he jumped in front of an opponent beside him, raised his wrist and slashed down with his sword. The opponent blocked it with a horizontal sword. After all, Randall's martial arts were several grades stronger than him. With a flick of his wrist, the hilt of the sword had already stabbed the man's chest. The guy snorted twice and stepped back again and again. Randall went up and kicked him in the thigh, kicking him out of the ring.
In a short while, there were a few ping-pong bangs on the ring, and only two of the eight contestants remained. Randall and Malone tacitly knocked the other miscellaneous players out of the ring. The two began to stare at each other seriously.
Randall's long sword has already emitted the light of fighting spirit. He fought the last opponent's fighting spirit just now, and directly broke the opponent's fighting spirit. Cut off the opponent's long sword. At this moment, Randall's blood was boiling, his body moved, and he stared at his opponent.
This guy is huge, and he must have an advantage in strength. But just now, it seems that his movements are actually very agile, which is rare among warriors of his stature.
Looks like... to win. Only fight with him!
In terms of vindictiveness. Randall is very confident, and he has cultivated his holy grudge very hard. It is also outstanding among the current Holy Knights.
Following two loud roars, the two warriors held long swords in their hands. Already fighting together! Randall's grudge is dazzling with a holy silver light. Immediately aroused bursts of cheers in the stands!
And that Malone. Apparently he hasn't broken through to the senior warrior level yet, his grudge is gray. It is the mark of an intermediate samurai! But after the long swords of the two collided fiercely several times, this guy named Ma Long didn't take half a step back with his huge body!
The clanging sound of the long swords, mixed with the sparks of the metal hitting, made the smile on Ma Long's face more and more excited! His muscles seemed to swell a little more!
Instead, the holy knight Randall took two steps back!
Randall's heart sank, he felt the majestic strength of the opponent. Although the fighting spirit is a level lower than his own, the opponent's physical strength is really too strong-it really is a monster that can crush several black bears to death with bare hands!
But... Dou Qi is more than just strength!
Randall sneered, gave a light scold, and slashed the long sword vertically in the air a few times. During the whistling, two silver light blades shot over! Ma Long's face was ferocious, and amidst the roar, the huge long sword in his hand slashed horizontally and vertically twice, smashing the light blade that shot at him to pieces.
But at the same time, Randall has already leaned over like a ghost. After all, Malone's long sword is too big, and it is slightly less flexible than the opponent between flips. And Randall's sword edge was like a poisonous snake, and it carried a silver holy grudge. After several strikes with the blade, he could always find the weakness of Malone's strength! I clicked several times on the upper part of the hilt of his long sword!
These few strokes were the "breakpoint" of Ma Long's power movement, which made Ma Long very awkward. After being tapped on the sword a few times by the opponent, he immediately felt that even his wrist was a little numb. After screaming wildly, he simply gave up letting go, held the sword in both hands, and greeted Randall's head with an astonishing vertical chop! He even gave his chest to the other party!
Randall was a little annoyed. After all, this was a match. Although he could take the opportunity to stab the opponent in the chest, it was inevitable that he would get hit on the shoulder... He didn't want to be seriously injured in the preliminaries.
Without any choice. He took a breath, and could only take two steps back, the horizontal sword pounced...
With a clang, the gray fighting energy and the silver fighting energy collided again. Both of them shook their bodies.
Finally, the gap in fighting spirit appeared, and a trace of blood dripped from the corner of Malone's mouth like a giant. Clearly suffered some internal injuries. But this guy is indeed fierce. The fighting spirit on his face became more and more frenzied. After roaring again and again, suddenly the huge sword was in his hand, and he danced a wave of attacks like a storm!
Each of his swords seems to carry the power of howling wind and tsunami! With that mighty feeling, Randall could only defend with all his strength.
Among the ping-pong-pong sounds, Ma Long's roar almost suppressed the voices of the audience! I heard the roar of this giant like a wild beast. And Randall is like a small boat swaying in the raging waves, under Malone's crazy attack, he can only resist while retreating step by step.
Finally, there was an exclamation from the stands! Because Randall was almost standing on the edge of the stands after taking a dozen big steps back in a row—there was no way to retreat behind him!
"Roar!
After Ma Long gave a shocking roar, the huge sword he raised seemed to pierce the sky! Then the huge long sword was like a torch in his hand. It smashed down with howling fighting spirit...
At this time, Randall was standing on the edge of the ring. A faint smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth...
hum!
On the edge of his sword. Suddenly there was a slight vibration! With this vibration. His long sword was lightly attached to Ma Long's giant sword, under this slight vibration, trembling with irregular force,,,, he heard Ma Long's scream of fighting spirit on his giant sword Suddenly collapsed, and then. With a few small sounds of click, click, click, the giant long sword suddenly broke inch by inch!
at this time. Randall's hand has already pinched Malone's forearm. Twist hard...
bang. Malone's huge body had already knocked out of Randall's side. Randall also took advantage of the opportunity and pressed on Malone's back...
With a bang, Malone finally fell off the ring. But he just landed. Just jumped up. He shook his head. Turning around and looking at Randall on the ring, his face changed from shock to anger. Finally, it gradually calmed down.
He looked at the weapon with only one hilt left in his hand, and then stared at Randall on the ring: "You are indeed better than me... It seems that I haven't mastered my martial arts yet!"
Randall looked at his opponents in the audience. His voice was very serious: "You are also very powerful. Your Excellency Ma Long. But I want to give you a suggestion... Dou Qi is not just about strength! It is more about controlling power, rather than blindly being "strong". If you Once you understand this point, your strength will leap forward."
talking. He did a standard knight etiquette to his opponent.
On the ring. Randall was dressed in white leather armor and a white samurai robe. Holding a long sword. Plus his background as the leader of the Holy Knights. Immediately drew cheers from the audience.
On the third floor, in a box belonging to the temple, there was an elder in white who came to watch the battle. He also smiled and applauded Randall.
Randall nodded to the stands above, and when his eyes fell on Du Wei's box, he suddenly raised his long sword. Facing the direction of Du Wei's box. Made a challenging pose!
That means: I am waiting for you!
This action immediately caused an uproar in the audience!
Du Wei sat on the chair safely, his gaze. He didn't even look at this Randall who was provocative to him, but looked at the ring...
That Malone... what a fun guy! With a lower grade of grudge, only relying on pure physical strength. To be able to fight an inextricable fight with a high-level samurai...
And this time. Du Wei's eyes finally looked at Randall... But he didn't care about Randall's provocative long sword raised high at him, but his eyes fell on Randall's other hanging hand calmly. superior…
With Du Wei's super vision, even though it's more than a hundred meters away. He could still clearly see the subtle movements of the winning holy knight!
Randall's hands were shaking! Although the action is very covert. Although he himself has tried his best to cover up. But Du Wei clearly saw his hands trembling!
Obviously it was after a fight with the giant warrior Ma Long just now. Overwhelmed by the results! !
The corner of Du Wei's mouth. With a subtle smile on his face, his eyes once again fell on the dejected Ma Long under the ring.
"Little Zach." Du Wei shouted in a low voice.
"What's the matter. Boss?" Du Wei looked at Ma Long below: "That guy... you can check his background for me. Um... arrange it, I want to meet this person. I like this guy. Let's see if I can accept it." Use it for me."
Little Zach was stunned for a moment: "Boss, he is only a seventh-level warrior with a bit more brute force. There are a lot of seventh-level warriors on the mainland. I don't understand why you are interested in this guy."
"Yes. The brute force is stronger? It's not just "a little" bigger!" Du Wei smiled lowly: "Go, little Zach. You are an expert in business matters. In terms of martial arts, you are an amateur!"
After Randall enjoyed the victor's cheers. He turned around and walked down from the other side of the ring. Before leaving. He couldn't help but glanced at Malone.
(Good luck. Monster! Your strength is amazing.) Randall couldn't help thinking. He suddenly remembered, in the temple. Possess such an abnormally powerful physical strength. There's another guy!
It's the monster named Rhine next to Lord Maximus! Um. The guy who looks like a lion. It seems that he can't lose to this Malone in terms of strength.
Coincidentally yes. At this time, Du Wei looked at Ma Long. I was also thinking about the personal guard of Bishop Maximos—the Rhine with abnormal physical strength!
At first. That Rhine also relied on pure physical strength. Smash the vindictiveness of a seventh-level knight. He also broke several bones of the other party!
As strong as a beast? Hmm... interesting!
Waves of cheers came from outside.
obviously. This room was temporarily used as the players' rest room. The wooden door couldn't stop the loud cheers outside.
Listen to this voice. The last group match must have decided the winner.
This player's lounge. Dozens of contestants were thinking about their own concerns, and someone was cleaning their weapons indifferently. Some people are doing some body warm-up exercises. Others pretended to be calm and leaned on the chair with their eyes closed. there are people...
"Okay. The next group is ready to play!"
The door was suddenly pushed open. A soldier responsible for maintaining order outside stuck his head in. He yelled: "Hurry up! The last match is over! Hurry up, hurry up. Anyone whose name I can read comes out!"
The soldier is standing at the door. Looking at the group of tall, short, fat and thin guys in the lounge.
"Finley! Grasso! Ruomen..." After he finished reading the seven names. Suddenly the voice paused. With a weird face, he glanced at the list in his hand. After confirming, the gender was marked after the last name... The soldier couldn't help but said to himself: "Yi? This name... why are there still women participating in this kind of competition?"
His eyes couldn't help searching the room curiously: "The eighth... Xue!" He couldn't help muttering again: "What a strange name."
Glancing at the room: "Snow! Who is Snow! Come out, your game has begun!"
this
The soldier couldn't help wondering... the woman who participated in this cruel competition... a female warrior? Um. In comparison, it must be a thick-backed, thick-looking tigress or something like that.
But the result... To his surprise, after he yelled a few times, a clear and pleasant voice came from a corner behind the crowd in the room: "I'm here."
Then, under the surprised eyes of everyone, a thin and small figure stood up from a chair in the corner and walked slowly to the door.
Everyone, even the other contestants in this room were stunned!
Because this guy was wearing a white robe and a cloak hat, which covered his head. Since coming in, this guy has been sitting quietly in a chair in the corner, neither speaking nor moving. Because the big robe and cloak covered this person's figure and face, no one could see that this guy was actually a woman!
The soldier at the door looked at the woman who walked in front of him. Judging from her figure, she was slightly taller than a normal girl... just a little taller. Although the long robe covered her whole body, she couldn't see her figure, but it was obvious... she was definitely not a thick guy, but rather... slender.
"You... are you Xue? You are the contestant Xue?" The soldier couldn't help asking.
Finally, a slender white hand stretched out from under the robe, and slowly took off her hat. Showing a head of hair that is as smooth as a cloud. That long neck. Slender and charming, her skin is as delicate as white snow, but there is a silver mask on her face. It completely covered her face.
But even so, the soldier was dumbfounded.
obviously. The woman in front of her looks very delicate and slender... she definitely doesn't look like that kind of samurai.
"You... are you sure you are Xue? A contestant?" The soldier felt a little pity in his heart, he couldn't bear to watch this girl go on stage and be bullied by a group of muscular men.
"Yes, I am." Despite the mask. But in the pair of exposed eyes behind the mask, there was a charming smile.
Afterwards, this "snow" walked out gently.
When the last contestant of this group stepped onto the ring, the lively din of the audience suddenly fell silent! But a moment later, an even louder noise broke out!
"Oh! Woman! It's a woman!!"
"Look! It's a female contestant! A female warrior!!"
"My God! She doesn't look much stronger than a cat! Did she come to die?"
"Oh! Baby. Take off your mask and let us see your face!"
…
Du Wei sitting in the box. Seeing the last female contestant come out, he was also a little surprised. He frowned: "Zach... Is there a female contestant among those who signed up? Why didn't I know the news?"
Little Zach flipped through the roster: "Well, there is one, and this is the only one. It's just a woman named Xue. Well, the warrior level is... first level. It's a small character, so I didn't report to you specifically."
Therefore, Du Wei's expression was fairly calm...but soon. He couldn't calm down anymore!
Because the "snow" on the stage was surrounded by cheers. Suddenly he raised his hand, lifted up the large robe covering his body and threw it away!
boom! !
There was cheering and shouting all around. Almost toppled the arena!
On the ring. This "Snow" standing among many muscular men took off his wide robe. Revealing her inner dress!
Words cannot describe that wonderful body! Her upper body is a tight and narrow bright red leather armor, the exposed delicate skin forms a seductive contrast with the bright red leather armor.
And the small waist exposed from the rough work is strong and full of elasticity, but it is so slender! Underneath is a delicate little red battle dress—pieces of red leather armor are stitched together perfectly, like a little lotus flower.
And those long legs... are simply enough to drive all the male audiences crazy!
strange!
Absolutely strange!
No! It should be said to be a monster!
The woman in the small red leather armor on the stage stood there. It's like a seductive goblin!
And above her ankles, there are two pure gold rings. There is also a bell inlaid on it. She moved a little bit, and the bell made a crisp sound...
Du Wei has grown his mouth...
"See! Damn it! Why is it her?"
His Excellency the Duke stood up abruptly. He narrowed his eyes and carefully stared at the red-armored woman on the ring, but suddenly looked around cautiously, up and down, left, right, and right.
"Boss... what are you looking at?"
"Zack... Zack! Quick! Let's see if there is any particularly powerful guy in this group of eight!"
Little Zach quickly looked through the roster, and then raised his head: "No! The strength of this group is not high, and the most powerful one is only level five."
"That's good." Du Wei heaved a sigh of relief, sat down, and murmured, "Fortunately, fortunately! If she gets hurt at all... I'm worried that the entire imperial capital will be demolished by that guy!"
"Boss, you look nervous... Do you know this woman? Is she very good?" Little Zach asked.
"Her? Her strength is just so-so." Du Wei curled his lips: "But she has a really awesome teacher... an extremely awesome teacher who protects her shortcomings! I can't afford to mess with that guy..."