Following the demands of the Barbarian Slave, Gu Chen entered a separate room embedded in the wall and began to wait.
During this process, he could see the scene on the arena through the room’s window.
At the mont, two Alien Race Warriors were engaged in a deadly battle on it, clearly new captures like him, with zero victories as Death Warriors.
Looking at the live broadcast in the upper right corner of his view, the chat inside had exploded.
Everyone was discussing the origins of the Ancient God Race behind the arena who were capturing people everywhere to participate in duels.
So players even said, why not just please His Excellency the Ancient God by committing suicide on the spot and returning to their dark little room.
But more players expressed their desire to see how the plot unfolds.
Closing the live broadcast display, Gu Chen was also very curious about how the story would unfold next.
Especially what the victory reward the Barbarian Slave ntioned would be.
While waiting, the room suddenly shook, and Space Spirit Patterns erged on the ground.
After a strong sensation of weightlessness, he found himself standing on the arena.
"Layered space?"
The two Death Warriors he just witnessed fighting were still going at it, and then he was teleported to an empty arena, which made him realize that the arena seed to have multiple layered spaces, just like the test tower.
Just then, a flash of white light flickered in front of him, and the figure of his opponent erged.
The Death Warrior who appeared had a humanoid body, covered in light armor weaved from beast skins and tal pieces, and wore a helt that seed to be made of ram’s horns, leaving only tight lips and slightly panicked eyes exposed.
Gu Chen could even clearly hear its breathing getting heavier.
Analysis Ability activated, information about the opponent flooded into his mind.
[Iron Helt]:
Hunting Level: 26
Target Information: A young warrior from the Beast Skin Clan of Bright Star Sea Worm Cave Island.
...
Seeing the opponent’s Hunting Level, Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Both his Power Barbarian Axe and Shattering Blade had reached Level 25, so winning this battle seed not difficult at all.
[Begin your battle, it ends when one side dies.]
Just then, the voice of the Barbarian Slave echoed from above, and the black bracelet automatically disappeared from their right wrists.
Before Gu Chen could make a move, the warrior wearing the Sheep Horn Helt took the lead and lunged towards him, with a clenched right fist harshly aiming for his head.
Facing the onslaught, Gu Chen decisively summoned his Power Barbarian Axe to et it.
But the opponent’s reaction was incredibly fast; Iron Helt quickly ducked to avoid the strike ant for its neck and then, gathering strength in its right fist, violently punched Gu Chen in the abdon, followed by a vicious knee strike as he involuntarily bent over.
Boom!
The knee strike made Gu Chen’s nose bleed and stars burst in his eyes.
Before he could react, Iron Helt pressed on, grabbing his right hand in an attempt to Disarm his weapon.
To this, Gu Chen did not resist, letting it take away the Power Barbarian Axe.
Just as Iron Helt was about to strike his head with the Power Barbarian Axe, a grim smile appeared on Gu Chen’s face:
"You hit so damn hard, say you’re sorry!"
As soon as he spoke, the Power Barbarian Axe in Iron Helt’s hand disappeared, while a new pale golden Power Barbarian Axe condensed in Gu Chen’s hand and harshly chopped at Iron Helt’s neck.
Blood splattered everywhere.
Iron Helt staggered back several steps, the eyes beneath the helt filled with undisguised fear.
Seeing Gu Chen gaining the upper hand, cheers erupted in the livestream chat, especially from the mbers of his support group, who spamd celebratory ssages.
This ti it was Gu Chen’s turn to take the offensive, hoping to secure victory with one swing of his axe.
But the Iron Helt warrior, though injured at the neck, proved more tenacious than expected, dragging his battered body to throw punch after punch, overwhelming Gu Chen with superior technique.
Five minutes later, with one arm broken, Gu Chen was trying to dodge the Iron Helt’s heavy punch when he realized the fist had yet to co crashing down.
Turning his head, he saw the Iron Helt’s body slowly tilting backward and then thunderously falling to the ground.
"Holy shit, finally won."
[Embarrassing, two Level 25 Life Souls couldn’t beat a Level 26 Hunting opponent.]
"It’s different, the Insect Tide and Black Tide have no intelligence, this kid clearly has practiced, his technique is too strong."
[Average warrior at best, strong technique my ass, it’s just that yours is too weak.]
Just as Gu Chen was about to talk back, the voice of the Barbarian Slave resounded from above:
"The fight is over, one victory."
As the voice faded, an array erged beneath Gu Chen’s feet, and when he opened his eyes, he found himself back in his room.
Compared to before, the room had clearly expanded and now included a wooden bed. Looking out the window, he didn’t see the view of the first level of the arena but rather an entirely different one, shaped like a gigantic sword, with the stage right in front of the sword.
This made him realize he had been transported to the second level of the Ancient God Arena space.
"Ancient God’s blessing, for one victory, you are awarded one low-grade Martial Soul Pearl, with 69 hours and 39 minutes of rest ti remaining (translated in hours)."
The voice of the Barbarian Slave echoed once more, and after the array on the ground flickered, a red Spiritual Pearl rose up.
Curiosity shot through Gu Chen, and he imdiately activated his Analysis Ability to inspect it.
[Low-Grade Martial Soul Pearl]:
Item description: A special item crafted from the soul of a living creature. Upon consumption, it can stimulate the body’s potential, enhance physical fitness, and rapidly heal injuries. It can also be offered as a sacrifice to Emperor Zhao, granting 2134 points of sacrificial power as a reward.
...
Realizing the value of the Soul Pearl, Gu Chen’s eyes widened.
According to the Barbarian Slave, the rewards from the arena would increase along with the number of victories, yet he hadn’t expected a reward of over 2000 sacrificial power points just for the first victory.
"Guidance, how much Body Refining Experience will this thing give if I eat it?"
[Approximately 1342 points. Its additional effect is to rapidly heal injuries.]
"Only a fool would eat it. It’s better to offer it to my bro, Emperor Zhao."
Gu Chen imdiately picked up the floating low-grade Martial Soul Pearl with his left hand and stored it in his Space Bag.
Afterward, he took out a Healing Potion from the bag and drank it heartily.
Just as Gu Chen was smugly thinking about the extra benefits, the players watching the livestream started getting restless:
"Fuck, you can get rewards for dueling in this place? I want in, give a way to get there."
"If you get three victories, wouldn’t that be striking it rich? The reward might even allow you to increase a whole Body Refining Level, or more, I want to go too."
"I’m really curious what the reward would be for 15 victories, it’s unimaginable. Give the coordinates, don’t wait to catch , I’ll go there voluntarily."
"Crying, I was just here to have fun watching the stream, how is it that I watch others get rich, and only I’m poor, all of you are getting rich."
"Dueling or whatever, I don’t really care about that, mainly I want to please the Ancient God, the kind of pleasing that’s all out."
...
The tale of Gu Chen’s ordeal, and the livestream excerpt, quickly spread on the forums.
Learning of such a place where you can win rewards for defeating opponents, all the players were green with envy, all expressing their desires to go to the arena to please the Ancient God and fight to the death.
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