If there is any standard building in the free zone, it must be the fighting gym. The fighting hall is for duelists, a relatively fair stage for fighting. Each fighting hall can accommodate about 200 people to watch the battle, and at the same time, it is equipped with 20 soldiers to maintain order. This is the only military configuration of the military in the free zone.
There is a magnetic defense force field around the arena of the fighting hall, and four high-power force field generators maintain such a closed protective cover, which can prevent the energy overflow of the two sides from hurting the audience. Of course, a defensive force field of this size can only stop the power overflow of ability users below the eighth level. For a ninth-order peak like Zero, if he does his best, let alone a defensive force field, it will not be surprising even if he raises the fighting gym to the sky.
There are certain conditions for using the fighting gym. First, both parties must present their own property notarization, which is the remaining points of the current game. Those who are less than 10,000 cannot use the fighting gym and can only participate in street challenges. It is also a wild fight with almost no rules, regardless of means or bets.
The condition of using 10,000 credits is to prevent the winner from having enough credits to pay the ransom in case of casualties between the two sides. The street challenge is different because the stakes are not limited. Even if it is the winning side, there is no guarantee that they will be able to pay the ransom, let alone pay for the use of the fighting gym.
The cost of using the fighting gym will be paid with 10% credit points from the bet paid by the loser. Even if the other party only has 10,000 credit points, the fighting gym can still get a commission of 1,000. For maintenance equipment and labor costs It's more than enough.
This is a set of strict usage mechanism. Fighting in a fighting gym means accepting the supervision of the military. Even if the winner kills, he still has certain privileges here, such as being able to go to the Thebes prison with dignity. Then as long as the ransom was paid, he could come back fully dressed and so on in a day at the earliest.
The street challenge is different, if the winner does not have enough credits to pay the ransom. The result is that it is taken away by soldiers, and then disappears mysteriously.
Accepting Raymond's challenge, he left the Prancing Horse Bar with him generously, and then headed all the way to the nearest fighting arena. I heard that Ling, a newcomer, was going to fight Raymond, and there were many good people in the Prancing Horse Bar, so they naturally clamored to follow. The muscular woman Ajroni immediately stopped at the door, asking for the drink, and those who did not pay would not be allowed to go.
At the end, even Gordon watched the bar become empty as he followed. Ajroni gritted her teeth and roared, "Close early."
Leaving her buddy behind, she also hurried away, following Gordon.
Walking through a side street, you can see the fighting gym. Since it is a competition venue set up by the military, the appearance of the fighting hall looks much more regular than any building in the free zone. It is a square building with two front and rear doors. It is only one floor high and has a ring and auditorium.
Raymond walked in front, yelled at the soldiers guarding the gate at the entrance, and pointed at Zero, to the effect that he wanted to have a fair fight with him in the fighting arena. The soldier nodded, took out a credit card reader, and asked both challengers to show their credit points. After Zero and Raymond swiped with their own guns, the results were displayed on two large screens on the outer wall of the fighting gym.
Each screen showed the head portrait of the owner and the number of points. The zero had 240,000, and Raymond also had 60,000. He was fully qualified to use the fighting gym, so the soldiers began to let them go. When Raymond and Zero walked in first, the crowd followed and wanted to enter the field to watch the game. At this time, several cars galloped from the other side of the street and stopped near the fighting hall with sharp brakes.
Following the first car, a man who could not be said to be very tall, he was probably in his forties. He was in his prime, with disheveled hair, a mustache, and a pair of dead fish eyes scanning the audience with a slightly crazy smile, making everyone who was touched by his eyes shudder. He casually took out a wine bottle, took a sip, and then yelled: "Tonight, the fighting hall is reserved by us, Bloody Blade. Except for our more than a hundred brothers, other people who want to enter the arena to watch the battle must be We agree. If those dare to make trouble, be careful that I will crush your bird eggs!"
With a laugh, the man strode towards the front door of the fighting gym. The crowd immediately parted because this man was Richard the Crazy. No one was willing to provoke him easily, including Ageroni and Gordon, so they also stood aside. Then, there were more and more cars on the other side of the street, and all the ones that got off were members of Bloody Blade. Regardless of their appearance, body shape, or differences in clothing, they all wore a turban with a blood-dripping dagger pattern on their heads, which was very recognizable.
When Richard walked through the crowd, he stopped in front of Gordon and Ageroni. Richard looked at them and said, "Old man Gordon, you are here too. Come to think of it, we haven't seen each other for a long time, right?"
"Five or six years."
"Time flies so fast. After this game is over, I'll invite you to the Prancing Horse Bar for a drink." He looked at Ajroni again, and said with a smirk, "I don't know if the boss welcomes you."
"As long as you don't smash the field, I certainly welcome you." Ajroni said directly.
"Very good." Richard called to the people behind: "This old man and this woman, give them a special seat."
After finishing speaking, he said to Gordon: "Your vision has always been very accurate. I don't know who you will see has a better chance of winning tonight?"
"Are you going to gamble?" Gordon laughed: "Then I will bet all my property on that newcomer."
"Raphael?" Richard smiled: "Interesting, you probably don't know. Raymond wants to kill this man all these years, and he has already advanced to the seventh level. In this case, you still think that newcomer has a chance of winning ?"
"Yes or no, you can only know if you fight, don't you?"
"Okay, I've made a note of your bet." Richard patted Gordon on the shoulder and said, "Have a nice evening."
"Each each other."
When Richard strode into the fighting gym, Zero and Raymond were already sitting on opposite sides of the stage, forming a diagonal line. Raymond stared fixedly at Zero who was pretending to be Raphael, while the latter closed his eyes, as if he didn't care about him at all. This made Raymond very uncomfortable. In terms of Zero's current strength, a mere Raymond really didn't give him much attention.
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-level dark system ability user. Abilities include the main abilities of Dark Touch, Invisible Cut, and Shadow Puppet. Touch of Darkness and Invisible Cut are a pair of combined skills. The former will cause the opponent to be blinded by the influence of dark elements by touching the opponent. In this state, Raymond can use the offensive Invisible Cut. Kill the opponent easily.
Shadow puppets are a type of element puppets, which can gather dark elements to form invisible shadow puppets. The shadow puppet has its own abilities such as death scythe and shadow rope, which are a kind of diversionary skills.
In general, Raymond's single ability is not outstanding, he is better at combining abilities. After reading his abilities, Zero can roughly infer his tactics. It is nothing more than using the shadow puppet to restrain the opponent. When the shadow puppet launches the shadow rope to restrain the opponent, then use the touch of darkness to impose a negative state, and finally kill the enemy with an invisible cut.
Zero closed his eyes and acted arrogantly, but in fact he used Raymond's ability to deliberate on his tactics before deciding on countermeasures. In fact, if Zero Combat Power is fully activated, there is no need to be so troublesome at all. Below the eighth level, sending it to his subordinates is not considered an instant kill. It's just that his current identity is Rafael, and his ultimate goal is to enter the Thebes prison, so he can kill Raymond, but he can't act too strong.
The proportion of which still needs 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 towards a certain direction in the auditorium, and then saw Richard. He didn't know Richard yet, but when he saw him, Zero knew that this man was the madman Gordon said. With just one glance, Zero recognized him. Then Zero nodded towards him, Richard was slightly surprised, his lips curled up, and said softly: "Interesting, do you want to challenge me?"
At this time, the fighting hall began to have spectators entering the arena one after another. Most of them are members of Bloody Blade, and the smaller half are people like Gordon who came here after hearing the news. However, except for Gordon and Ajroni, other audiences who entered the venue to watch had to pay 100 credits to Bloody Blade. This fee is not high, and the bleeding blade does not rely on this to make money.
The ones that make the most money are gambling based on the outcome of duels, Bloody Blade is naturally the banker, and more than a dozen handicaps have been opened in the free zone in a short period of time, frantically absorbing gambling money. As we all know, Raymond has been in Sin City for many years, and he is also the number one fighter in Bleeding Blade, except for Richard. In many people's minds, the rookie Raphael has no chance of winning at all.
Therefore, the victory-loss ratio between Raymond and Zero soared to a crazy level of one to ten before the game even started.
But there are also a few people who bet their money on the black horse Zero, because they also heard that just today, Zero cut off his bloody hand with a single knife. Blood Fang is only a second-rate character in Bleeding Blade, but Ling can slash his wrists and hands, so he is also a ruthless character.
What's more, he was burdened with a huge sum of money. A person with no ability would not be able to get so much money.
After the audience is seated, the challenge officially begins. When the duel restriction icon on the LCD screen above the stage changed from red to blue, the force field generators around the stage also started to work. A light waterfall like a water curtain rises from around the ring, and after closing in the middle to form a protective cover, the light curtain disappears, so that it will not have any impact on watching the battle.
Raymond stood up and said, "Raphael, do you know what I want to do after killing you?"
Without waiting for an answer, Raymond grinned and said, "I'm going to freeze your body, and then slice a piece of meat every day to serve as a dish. I think it must be delicious."
"It's a pity, I don't think you will have this chance." Zero said lightly.
"Just wait and see, soon, you'll have to kneel down and beg me to spare your dog's life!" Raymond laughed loudly, reaching out to the space next to Zero.
A large number of dark elements gathered rapidly, reaching a level that could be observed by the naked eye. Then the group of dark elements continued to twist and grow, and finally formed a faceless, humanoid shadow puppet with long arms and legs. As soon as the shadow puppet was born, it immediately rushed towards Zero. At the same time, Raymond threw out a lot of low-level abilities, such as toxin clouds, dark balls, dark beams, etc., and cooperated with the shadow puppets to bombard them indiscriminately.
Under the interference of Raymond's low-level abilities, Zero seemed exhausted. This allowed the shadow puppet to seize an opportunity, when its ten fingers grew violently, forming a shadow rope to wrap around Zero's arms and body. Raymond yelled "You're finished", his figure flickered, he walked around behind Zero and pointed a little, launching Shadow Touch. Then he retreated violently, waved his hands, and there was an invisible cutting wave cutting towards zero.
"Beg for mercy, Rafael. Now you can't see anything, how can you avoid my invisible cuts!" Raymond laughed wildly, waving his hands non-stop, throwing bunches of invisible cuts towards Zero.
"Look?" Zero showed a cold smile: "It's a pity, I have already passed the age of using my eyes to capture movements. On the other hand, you, Raymond, you have not improved at all these years."
So Raymond saw Zero turn around and face him exactly. To Raymond's chill, Zero closed his eyes. First, he broke free from the shadow rope of the shadow puppet, and then his body kept shaking. The direction and speed of his shaking are completely irregular. But every time it shakes, a bunch of invisible cuts just pass by.
Ling stepped on a small footstep, and approached Raymond with the five fingers of his left hand lightly resting on the scabbard of Blood Dusk. So far, Zero has still not made a knife. But regardless of the ability of the people watching the battle, they can feel that if Zero's sword is not out, it will be dead, and once it is out, it will be the time to decide the winner.
This is purely a feeling, the feeling conveyed to them by Zero's movements and aura!
On the other hand, Raymond seems to have the main attack, but whoever can see it. Raymond, who was attacking, was at a disadvantage. No one knew how Zero did it. Only Richard straightened his body, and the eyes of the dead fish burst into light. With his eyesight, it was natural to see that Zero had pushed Raymond into this situation purely with his own movement, which made Richard very excited, wishing he could end up fighting this battle for Raymond.
Of course Richard will not end, so Raymond can only fight back. He sent an idea to the shadow puppet, and the latter immediately pounced on it, its hands and feet twisted and stretched without substance, turning into a sickle shape. Then it bounced and rotated, forming a black storm and rolling towards Zero.
In the storm, the scythe of death is looming!
"After so many years, you still don't understand, instead of using so many abilities to cooperate, to achieve the purpose of restricting and killing the opponent. Why not focus all your energy on one ability, as long as you kill the opponent with one blow. Isn't it? It doesn't take so much effort to match these boring abilities..." Zero suddenly rushed forward, slightly lifting the scabbard in his hand.
Raymond was shocked. He felt that the speed of the shadow puppet was always slow by a line.
Then, when the light in the fighting hall went dark, people saw a red light like a rainbow, sweeping out a half moon and flashing in the air.
It's not that the light in the fighting hall is dimmed, but that the light of Zero's knife is too strong, so there is a huge contrast in light perception.
When zero stands still, the knife returns to its sheath. The black storm created by the shadow puppet, which was still impressive before, disappeared into the air without a sound, and the only remaining flame of the dark element was just touching the floating cloak.
Raymond was still standing there, bewildered by the audience.
Then, two words suddenly spit out from Raymond's mouth: "You don't..."
Before he finished speaking, his head slipped out of place and rolled to his feet. Then a wave of blood spurted out from the broken neck, and the headless corpse first knelt down on both knees, and then fell to the side of the head with a thud. On Raymond's head, his mouth was wide open like a dead fish, and Zero's figure was only reflected hollowly in his out-of-focus eyes.
In Zero's one-shot, Raymond suddenly realized that this man was not Lafayette. No matter how strong Lafayette was, he couldn't be so outrageously strong. That astonishing slash, the speed and strength of an instant burst, is no longer a level that a seventh-level ability user can achieve. So Raymond knew that this Rafael was fake, but never had the chance to tell it.
The knife was withdrawn at a glance, and even Richard didn't have time to understand the mystery. Only Raymond, a dead man, used his own life to personally feel it once. Of course, the price is huge.
After nearly a minute, there was a storm-like cry from the auditorium. Zero's knife is a scene that they will never want to forget in this life. Those who were able to sit in the fighting gym were all thankful that they had watched this thrilling duel, and now they would have something to brag about to others.
Gordon sat in his seat, and murmured with a wry smile: "Why do I feel like I'm on a pirate ship, damn it, am I really old, and I didn't realize that this little guy is a ruthless character. "
Then Zero won, but because of killing someone, the soldiers in charge of law enforcement were about to step forward. Richard suddenly yelled, stood up and said, "I want to add another duel, yes, with the guy who killed Raymond. The bet is naturally all my property!"
As soon as the words came out, the four exclaimed. Forget about Raymond, no one thought that Richard would still speak out and challenge when he had zero new victories and no momentum. He deserves to be called a madman. And his bets are equally crazy. Even those who don't know the details know that after so many years of operation, Richard's family property will never be less than zero. Even, I am afraid that there are already millions of credit points.
This is a wealth that is enough to make people crazy, but now it is easily thrown out by Richard.
Just ask for a fight!
Zero finally laughed, because the big fish took the bait. Next, it is naturally the stage of closing the net.