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Chapter 338 First Show Day (Combined)
Gray evening.

The floor-to-ceiling windows of the lobby of the new home were opened inch by inch, forming an extended unobstructed balcony. In the howling raindrops and strong winds, a technological airship with flashing headlights hovered in front of it. A man in a suit walked out of it, followed by two foreigners. Skeleton guards.

"Mr. Finitz, it's time to take the stage. Is our newcomer ready?"

The man in the suit opened his arms for a hug with a warm smile, but was rejected by Iliad's raised palm:
"Excuse me...Of course, it's ready, you guys are on time."

A trace of embarrassment flashed across the face of the man in the suit, and his enthusiasm subsided a little. He shook hands with Iliad and casually said:

"How are you preparing? Are you confident? This time you are facing a player ranked within [-] in the Xitu Arena. The odds are amazing."

"Thanks for your concern, Sean, but you have to try, don't you?"

Iliad smiled, and the sound of mechanical joints twisting came from the hall with the lights turned off behind him, attracting the attention of several others.

"Oh... Speaking of which, can I have a look at it in advance? The rookie king?"

Sean said, walking towards the hall on his own.

Accompanied by the sound of joints approaching, he was stunned after taking two steps:
"This……"

A fully-enclosed spider-shaped cage robot moved on eight legs and appeared under the wind, rain and light. The sound of steel colliding with the ground was layered, and it walked towards the airship at a leisurely pace.

"This is……"

"Some gimmicks, you understand." Iliad pulled Sean who was blocking the way of the spider robot, with a natural attitude, "Let's go up... Also, thank you for what happened last time."

"There is nothing to thank for taking money to do things."

Sean smiled and patted the rain on his shoulders, and the group walked into the airship.

The hatch painted with the Westland Arena logo and monster graffiti slowly closed from bottom to top, and a line of holographic slogans representing "Western Arena" and "Rookie King's First Show" floated on both sides of the boat, flowing slowly like an advertising tape .Accompanied by the roaring engine, the airship rose into the sky, passed through the sky-reaching buildings, and flew towards a giant Colosseum full of searchlights in the sky.

"who's that person?"

In the cabin, the sound of a monster came from Iliad's ear, and he had already returned to the side of the spider-shaped cage.

"Sean Wesley, a person I recently met in the Westland Arena, is going to develop a friendship." Some kind of biotechnology made all the rainwater on Iliad flow down into the drainage channels on the ground.

The airship is not spacious, and only one space can be reserved for Turing's cage.

"It's about to start, are you nervous?... That's different from the mayfly-level competition. Even if it's a survival-level arena, the scene will be full of people... There are no seats left. This sport is really crazy..."

"I'm not nervous. But you must be nervous. Wouldn't it be nice to let your knees rest for a while?"

The monster's voice echoed with the unique hollow cavity in the closed space, and Iliad was stunned for a moment, looking at his left leg, which was shaking non-stop, and the sole of his shoe was constantly hitting the steel plate floor, making a weak but clear noise .

"Sorry... I did..."

Iliad covered his knees.

"How about we go over the process again?"

Turing didn't answer, and Iliad spoke on his own, trying to relieve his nervousness.

The Westland Arena is located on the west side of Puniska. It has a huge area, and there are thousands of different Colosseums inside.Turing's destination is a survival-level Colosseum with a long number.

If competitive points are the background of an over-limit fighting beast, then ranking is a symbol of strength.

There are multiple ranking methods in the Colosseum, including the most popular list, the longest game time list, and the craziest list.But the most valuable thing is the most direct "number of wins ranking".

Mazan the Reverse Spiral Blade, commonly known as "Mazan the Sharp Blade", has won 37 games, ranking within [-] among all fighting beasts.And Turing currently has no wins, because the mayfly-level "sea election" is not included in the calculation, his ranking is more than [-], and there will be no overlapping rankings.

This means that there are more than [-] fighting beasts in this city, which is enough to explain the huge scale and madness of this sport.

At this time, there was a loud bang from the engine, and a noise that diluted Turing's thoughts and Iliad's thoughts, and the airship stopped.

"Gentlemen, we have arrived."

Sean's voice came from outside, Iliad stopped his chanting, and patted Turing's cage solemnly: "Let's go."

The giant pillars soaring to the sky, the vast class hall, the color searchlights sweeping around, and a large number of holographic billboards are suspended in the environment. The replay of the game was noisy.

"Look! There are contestants entering the arena!!"

Turing's transport airship caused a louder noise, and the crowd squeezed the isolation zone to surround them, watching the Iliad and a spider cage with flashing lights on their faces walking out of it slowly, all four An exoskeleton security officer is maintaining order.

"Is there no dedicated channel?"

"We're just survival-level..." Iliad said with a grin, and forced a smile to scan the crowd around him, "If we didn't make an appearance like this today... you can still come out and howl a little bit, symbolically mobilizing your emotions or something, But now..."

The whispered communication between the two was drowned in the crowd.

"This is the most recent King of the Arena! He wants to fight Mazan!"

Someone makes out the holographic title tagline on Turing's spider cage.

"Is that worth seeing? The ranking gap is too big..."

"That may be out soon, go buy a gamble, and you should make a small profit."

"If you want to see something interesting, then go to Hunters. Cctus is very popular recently."

"Mazan is here!!!"

The crowd scattered in large numbers in an instant, flocking to a medium-sized airship painted with skeleton graffiti.

"Tsk... that thing is really big." Iliad spat sourly, regarding the other party's means of transportation, "But you don't have to be too envious... Those are people from the support team, those made by the other party's publicity team Stuff. And even if there are real fans... it will only stay on the winner."

"I'm not envious, but you look envious."

Iliad loosened his tie and looked away from Mazen's technological airship.

"Of course I don't envy... I just..."

His muttering was interrupted by a scorching gaze.

Iliad turned his head and saw a tall and ferocious monster stepping away from the skeleton-painted airship, roaring loudly at the surrounding crowd, causing a large wave of excited noise.And that line of sight came from the bald man behind the monster.

For the previous phone call, Mi Luo didn't seem to take it seriously, but waved at Iliad and Turing's cage with a smile on his face.

And this also successfully attracted the attention of Reverse Spiral Blade Mazan.

This monster lowered its head, and was as high as six meters in a hunched state. Its forelimbs were extremely long, and its five fingers were all blades.The shoulder blades are abnormally protruding like shoulder armor, and the whole body is covered with bony spurs that roll upwards or forwards. A tail like a braid crosses the back from the back of the head and hangs behind.

If Turing, who had just finished the bloody arena, was in front of it, he would be like a little bean lying on his stomach.

It grinned an ugly and ferocious smile, picked up its long and deformed arm, popped out its thumb, volleyed over its neck, and swiped slowly and forcefully.

There were many other transport airships around, but this action made both sides the focus of the crowd, and caused a lot of noise and applause—

For these audiences, pre-battle provocations are like appetizers before dinner.They couldn't see the fighting with real swords and guns, and the sharp conflicts between them also made them feel excited.

Also, this is a kind of publicity.

"Humph……"

Iliad gave the middle finger to the opposite side, then stopped looking over there, and entered the Colosseum amidst boos.

"Blaze" hiding in the cage, compared with "Mazan" who stepped out of the airship with a big thorn, responded to the enthusiasm of the crowd in a high-profile manner and provoked the opponent fiercely, in their eyes, he was naturally inferior.

"Idiot audience... are you all right, Mr. Blazer?"

Turing was too lazy to answer, but observed the environment here through the internal holographic screen.

Leaving the entrance hall, the interior here is like the ancient Western Colosseum, but it is more like the appearance of multiple Colosseums spliced ​​together, a super building formed by multiple accumulations, with a wide internal area and many passages.

Half an hour later, they arrived at their destination—the physiological maintenance room provided in the arena.

However, a figure was already waiting there.

"Mr. Deceitful Blade's debut on the first day is so inactive... It seems that Mr. Finitz still has some concerns."

"Miluo..." Iliad's expression suddenly became extremely ugly, "Why are you here?!"

"In a survival-level venue, I am slick." Miluo spread her hands and smiled.

At this moment, only Turing's cage and the Iliad are left in the group, which is the standard configuration for newcomers.The on-site physiological maintenance room is much larger than the one in the new home. In the huge space, Iliad with the cage looks a bit bleak.

"I think, regarding my previous proposal, you have already made a choice. To be honest, Mr. Finitz, I don't want to force you, but..."

Miluo calmly walked up to Iliad, who took a step back alertly.

Milo's voice paused, he glanced at Iliad meaningfully, and then set his sights on the spider cage:

"But I still hope that you can reconsider my previous proposal."

"Go away, Miluo. You shouldn't be here. You have 30 seconds to leave, if you think your connections can reach the royal guard." A square instrument appeared in Iliad's hand.

"Heh..." Facing the threat, Miluo put away his false smile, looked at Turing's cage with great interest, and walked in slowly, "Speaking of it, why did you use such a small bean in such a big cage?" Wrap it up... such bravado is rare..."

Bang!
The sudden loud noise inside the cage startled Miluo, and she took two steps back abruptly, then tidied up her clothes a little annoyed.

"Not bad... very irritable, I hope it can continue to be like this in the ring. After all, Mazan... is much more irritable than this..."

Watching the other party's leaving figure, Iliad exhaled, and slowly put down the instrument in his hand, but at this moment, Mi Luo suddenly turned around again:

"By the way...Mazen and I have always been very friendly to friends, but for those who can't be friends..."

Speaking of this, Mi Luo couldn't control the malice in his eyes, put one hand on the heavy door frame, glanced at the interior of the room with ease, clicked his tongue lightly, and left Shi Shi abruptly.

"This bastard..."

Iliad gritted his teeth and looked towards the spider cage.

"It's still a while before we're going to play...let's make some final physical adjustments."

The spider cage made a soft bang bang bang bang bang bang, and the stuck position bounced up inch by inch, unfolded like a box, and slowly spread flat on the ground.

The sharp blade whistled, and Turing's slightly crouched tall figure slowly stood up, walked towards the unfamiliar physiological equipment with heavy steps, and connected the biological hose into the body.

"Everything is normal... Remember the process I told you before, and there are things that need attention. Due to the disparity in rankings, I can only do some limited means to make you more profitable after winning, more competitive points, and constitute It is similar to the status of the reward mechanism of the challenge, but the premise of all this is..."

"You have to win."

"To be honest...my wealth is all on you, I really didn't expect to encounter such troubles in the debut competition...a partner."

"Afterwards, I will be in the special stands, don't care about the voices of the audience, and don't care about the opponent's provocation, in short, I will play as usual, just like your first battle before the bloody arena... Sorry, I have a bit too much."

The bright red diamond-shaped pupils glanced at the increasingly nervous Iliad.

"let's start."

[Confirm that the players are in place——Blade of Deceit Blaze]

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Survival Arena No. 364.

In the huge circular space, there is a glowing crack in the center of the vast Colosseum, which spreads to the entire arena. Amidst the din of the audience, a figure rises from the center.

"Good evening! Puniska!!!"

The sound amplifiers all around spread the host's loud voice to every corner, and the sound waves from the audience suddenly rose.

"It's another brutal fighting arena, another visual feast. This arena may not be grand enough, but it's bloody enough."

"But today, it's a unique game."

The presenter with the mustache spread his arms and embraced the audience.

"This is a rare challenge for newcomers in survival events!"

Iliad's figure appeared at the front of the auditorium on the ring floor, looking down heavily.

"Challenge? Interesting."

Miluo took a seat beside him, and slowly moved over:
"Do you think this is useful?"

Iliad remained silent, slightly avoiding the approach of the other party.And the voice of the ring host below continued:
"A Douding who has just been promoted to the competition is about to challenge a popular player! Did you hear that terrifying, angry roar that tore everything to shreds—"

boom! ! !
The passage gate was cut into pieces by a sharp blade and exploded. Amidst the shouts that were higher than the next, a ferocious figure rushed into the arena like a sharp arrow, his head raised and hissed loudly——

"Dismemberment Maniac - Reverse Spiral Blade Mazan!!!"

Spikes pierced through Mazen's body, making a sharp sound of cold steel blades, and a layer of flame light curtain exploded behind him, exaggerating a warm atmosphere.

"The one who will appear next... is an unprecedented player..."

"In the just-concluded mayfly class event, the illusory monster that won the highest number of kills and audience votes - fraud..."

Bang! ! !
The thick door panel flew out like a blade, instantly breaking up the holographic figure of the ring host, roaring and smashing the spikes on the ground around Mazan, the reverse whirling blade, embedded in the flame holographic wall behind him.

The entire arena froze instantly.

The pitch-black metal claws tore open the door frame and expanded, and a huge figure wearing a pitch-black exoskeleton slowly emerged, and the thick and long tail blade swept across the auditorium, causing exclamations.

But the next scene left the people in the stands dumbfounded——

After the sharp and huge monster got out, the same figures continued to pass through the passage one after another, and overlapped each other, leaving one by one in place with the pace of walking around, grinning their sharp teeth.

Seven identical monsters, arranged in different postures, are located opposite Mazan, the reverse whirling blade, with a menacing aura.

The host was stunned.

He has never seen such a scene, isn't it one-on-one?
After a brief silence in the stands, a louder cry erupted——

"Look at that guy's size! Is this really a contestant who just went to the audition?!"

"Why are there seven?!"

"This is a fraudster! Six of them are fake!!"

Glancing at the inlaid door panel behind him, Sharp Blade Mazan snorted heavily, feeling a little annoyed that the audience's attention was being attracted by the other party.

In the special stands, Miluo's eyelids twitched, instinctively feeling that something was wrong.

No... there is something wrong with this body shape...

This doesn't look like a fighting beast that just left the mayfly class!
Miluo suddenly turned to look at Iliad, who was applauding Turing's wonderful opening, his face was flushed, and when he noticed Miluo's gaze, his eyebrows drooped a lot.

"Humph..." Miluo snorted softly, returning her attention to the ring.

Even if all 5000 points are invested in physical upgrades, there is no comparison with Blade Mazan, who has 37 victories.

In addition to intensity, there is something called experience.

Even if it's a little unexpected, that's all.

"...It seems that the tempers of the two contestants today are not very good..."

Under the renewed clamor, the host of the ring came back to his senses, but his exaggeration had been interrupted, and he could only make jokes with his skilled experience and regain his posture:
"A grand opening, an experience beyond imagination... But one of the wonderful monsters must fall here forever..."

"are you ready?"

Roar! ! ! !

The holographic image was torn to shreds by the roar of Mazan the Blade, and the spurs burst out, leaving a huge hole on the ground with the powerful hind legs, heading straight for Turing's real body.

The monster's mask closed instantly on the head, and the sensory eyepiece shone red to fully capture the opponent's movements. Turing circled around, and the holographic image flickered and disappeared. In the explosion, he slashed fiercely on the opponent's forelimb!
Stab it!

Bone dregs splashed everywhere, and the giant blade was easily slid away.

The first collision between the two sides sparked enthusiastic cheers from the stands, and burst into applause.

Ma Zan stopped his body, glanced at the place where there was a deep scratch, and grinned with sharp teeth:
"I'm going to disassemble you into 24 pieces and stuff that tail up your asshole and put it in my collection..."

"Roar!!!!"

The berserk figure slammed into Turing's body, but seeing a flash of light particles, he jumped into the air and slammed into the edge of the wall.

Colored noise flickered, and Turing's figure appeared on the side of Mazan. The exoskeleton on the side bounced up inch by inch, flashing explosive arcs, and finally hit Mazan's body hard with an iron mountain——

boom! ! ! !

The oscillating blue arc light exploded with the particles, and the impact unit mounted on the side of the body smashed Mazan into the wall in an instant!

Miluo's complexion changed, and she stood up abruptly.There was an uproar in the stands.

　good night
　
(End of this chapter)