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Join the ServerThe so-called arena had no specific rules.
It was merely a free area within the city.
The guilds loved such places. Settling disputes under the watchful eyes of surrounding players gave them a sense of being in the spotlight, and more importantly, it was an opportunity to expand their influence.
Jiangu and Dong Jun stood in the center. The two major guilds formed a human wall, sealing off the outer perimeter.
We stood outside the circle, our guild emblems hidden, watching from afar through gaps in the crowd.
“We meet again.” Jiangu clearly had no desire for small talk. His opening was concise, formulaic, utterly devoid of sincerity.
“Yes, we meet again.” Dong Jun’s smile was forced. “So, are we supposed to stand here like monkeys for everyone to watch?”
He left one thought unspoken: ‘A guild leader, personally stepping onto the stage—wouldn’t that be a laughingstock?’
Jiangu caught his meaning and smiled faintly. “I don’t plan to fight you. But you wouldn’t add me as a friend, so finding a chance to talk directly was a bit difficult…”
“Hmph.” Dong Jun sneered. “I don’t want to see your hypocritical face all the time. Enough nonsense—I’m buying the rights to all profits from the temple for two million.”
“In that case, I’ll bid five million.” Jiangu refused to back down.
“Hey! Wait! Have you ever asked for our opinion? It was our people who found the boss! Even big guilds shouldn’t be this domineering!”
A third person at the edge of the field protested as the two leaders haggled.
“The five million includes your compensation… of course, it might not just be five million.”
At Jiangu’s words, the representative of the independent players fell silent.
They knew that a boss like this was something they, as scattered fighters, could never hope to claim.
Never. Just getting compensation was enough—even if they knew the temple’s world boss was worth far more.
A level-50 purple-named world boss, and a humanoid one at that—it could catapult someone to the top… But since they couldn’t have it, a fee for their labor was better than nothing.
“Seven million. Mine.” Jiangu raised the bid again, drawing sharp intakes of breath from the surrounding independents.
Seven million gold coins—that was seven million RMB! With only a few hundred independents, after splitting evenly with Ten Thousand Souls Hall, each would get nearly ten thousand!
“Seven million? Too little.” Dong Jun sneered, casting a contemptuous glance at the independents. ‘A bunch of visionless fools, useless except for causing trouble.’
If not for fear that these guys might cause chaos during the boss fight, neither he nor Sword Sweeping the World would have considered compensation at all.
Fortunately, Minos City was too remote for other major guilds to mobilize troops in time; otherwise, more contenders would complicate things further.
“Seven million. Final offer. No more talk, or we fight.” Jiangu’s tone was resolute, as if losing patience. He turned to leave.
Before Dong Jun could respond, a sudden change occurred!
“Bastard, don’t run!”
A childish shout erupted beside Jiangu, followed by a petite figure leaping high, driving a dagger viciously into the back of Jiangu’s neck!
Jiangu entered a forced stun state, unable to act.
An assassin? Someone daring to assassinate Jiangu?!
“You again?” Jiangu’s voice was thick with helplessness.
The figure didn’t pause. The dagger rose high again—over her head—then struck downward with full force… and stabbed into Jiangu’s left buttock.
Yes, over the head, then a dagger into his buttock.
Jiangu broke out of the stun and released a Lightning Nova, trying to stagger the figure.
But she was prepared. She leaped high and stabbed down again!
This time, the dagger pierced Jiangu’s left shoulder. He spun around, raising his staff slightly. “Enough… Frost Nova!”
The figure couldn’t dodge, frozen in place, unable to move.
“My turn… Light shines from afar, hope gleams in the gloom, eyes emerge from dark clouds, lightning descends in wrath! Go! Finisher—Faraday’s Cyclotron Railgun!”
A small pitch-black cloud appeared above the arena. Electricity crackled within. The next second, a laser beam shot out!
“Crackle—boom!”
-1856
Such terrifying damage! Even higher than my grandmother!
“Aghhh… Such a horrible skill! You cheated, bastard Jiangu!” The petite figure was furious, but under the laser’s glare, her HP hit zero. “I’ll be back! One day, I’ll kill you, you bastard Jiangu!”
After tossing a weak threat, she was one-shot, reduced to charcoal, dead without a trace…
The giant beside Jiangu twitched his mouth. “Boss… just a boring little assassin… no need to use your finisher, right? You revealed your strength…”
Jiangu showed a cruel smile. “Killing a chicken to warn the monkeys. Let these assassins remember… and understand why everyone wants to kill me, yet no one ever succeeds.”
Then Jiangu turned, his face instantly switching to a flawless, practiced smile. “A minor interruption is over, Dong Jun. If you don’t decide soon, I’m leaving. Drag it out any longer, and neither of us will claim that boss.”
“Enough, stop acting. Your hypocrisy makes me sick! Fine, seven million it is. Deal. Let’s move out immediately.” Dong Jun’s face was full of disgust.
“You really don’t know how to chat. In this game world, having a guild leader as bad at conversation as you is like a single green leaf in a sea of flowers… Anyway, no more wasting time. Let’s go! I hope the brothers of Ten Thousand Souls Hall will work wholeheartedly this time and not have any crooked thoughts.”
Perhaps stung by the ‘don’t know how to chat’ remark, or wanting to retaliate, Dong Jun forced a painfully fake smile. “Alright, alright, since we’ve been paid, our brothers will go all out to help you take the temple… See, now I’m suddenly good at chatting, aren’t I? Just like you?”
Jiangu spread his hands regretfully and shook his head. “Not really. You haven’t learned my sincerity. You’re too superficial; the dirty tricks in your gut are written all over your face… I’m different. I, Jiangu, treat people with utmost sincerity—that’s a well-known fact.”
“Hah.” Dong Jun sneered, watching Jiangu lead his people away, then waved for his own to follow.
I took off the roasted sweet potatoes that had gone cold on my body and tossed them to the roadside for the stray dogs.
These two guild leaders, with their veiled words and scheming—what a show.
Also, the skill Jiangu used to kill that loli assassin dealt a terrifying 1856 damage, enough to one-shot everyone in our team except me! If I hadn’t seen it, we might have suffered a huge loss fighting Sword Sweeping the World’s elite squad.
I rubbed my chin and gestured for the others to follow the merged player army. “Let’s go. There’s another big battle to watch! And maybe… we can make a guest appearance…”
At the temple—if what that pet trainer said is true—we might do more than just guest star. We might steal the protagonist’s role!
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