Chapter 54: A Gray-clad Gang–style Shock
“What is there not to dare?”
“Since, Your Excellency, you are in such a mood, let us have two matches. But if my two companions win within three moves, I hope Your Excellency will reconsider the contract. Our Green Sparrow Gang is very sincere.”
Pap could not help but laugh, but his eyes stayed fixed on Lin Qi, completely unable to understand what this Gray Robe Gang leader was planning.
Fischer and Pap were genuine advanced apprentices. Their strength was around 630 kilograms, their speed had broken through 20 meters per second, and each of them had mastered an apprentice-level martial skill. They could not be compared to those vagrants in the wilderness whose strength merely reached the advanced apprentice level.
It could be said that even if the two of them faced the fourteen apprentices of the Gray Robe Gang together, they could retreat unscathed, let alone in a one-on-one fight.
Even under Lin Qi’s request to only go light and exchange three moves, Fischer and Pap could easily defeat their opponent’s apprentice within three moves.
No matter how you looked at it, this contest was meaningless.
Unless Leader Lin Qi personally took the field, but a mere intermediate apprentice who would not step into a death match, what would it prove even if he could withstand three moves?
But Pap did not know that Lin Qi had never intended to fight himself. He was betting that the people from the Green Sparrow Gang absolutely could not win within three moves. With the players who already had the physical fitness of beginner apprentices and had mastered multiple apprentice-level martial skills, blocking three moves from an advanced apprentice was not impossible.
Especially people like Luo Wu Shang who had mastered quasi-martial artist-level martial skills. As long as they could hold out for three moves, it would be enough to prove the strength of the Gray Robe Gang apprentices. After all, if the Green Sparrow Gang’s advanced apprentices could not settle it in three moves, yet still claimed their martial arts hall’s beginner apprentices were too weak, that would not make sense.
On the training ground, as soon as Pap agreed, all the players once again cheered excitedly.
“Master of the Pavilion is awesome! He opens his mouth and doubles the quota. Truly worthy of being our Master of the Pavilion!”
“I’m crying! So we misunderstood the Master of the Pavilion. He refused before just to fight for welfare for us. Twenty slots! Now we newcomers have a chance too!”
“Those two look like advanced apprentices. Who do you think Master of the Pavilion will send up?”
Seeing that Lin Qi had managed to fight for a doubled quota for them, the players all felt he was treating them too well. They even found the usually stingy, iron-rooster-like Master of the Pavilion much more pleasing to the eye.
This scene made Pap and the other two suddenly doubt their own understanding of life.
“Pap, do you think maybe there was something wrong with how you phrased it before? Is that why they are so happy?” Fischer could not help asking Pap, feeling that Pap must not have expressed himself clearly earlier, which was why these Gray Robe Gang members were so excited.
A gang leader sending more subordinates to their deaths, and instead of anger or resentment, those subordinates cheered happily and felt their leader had done very well, perfectly right.
It even made Fischer feel that perhaps their Green Sparrow Gang was suffering a huge loss by offering more slots.
“I must not have been clear enough before,” Pap said, looking at the cheering players, and also feeling that something had definitely gone wrong with his explanation.
If he told people from other gangs about this, they would probably turn around and give him a slap to wake him up.
At this moment, Lin Qi also turned to look at the players present.
“The time to fight for glory has come. How this contract is written depends entirely on you. Who among you will step up and fight for this glory?” Lin Qi paused, trying to use npc-style wording to ignite some fighting spirit in the players. “Any victor will receive an extra reward. As for failure, you all know what the outcome will be.”
As soon as Lin Qi finished, the players once again boiled over with excitement.
“This plot is amazing! They are actually putting the initiative in our hands.”
“Not just giving us initiative. Didn’t you hear the master say the way the contract is written depends on our performance?”
“So if we perform well, we get more slots? If we do badly, the slots decrease?”
“I get it. This plot is unlocking dungeon difficulty selection. Based on our strength, we see if we can unlock higher dungeon difficulty.”
“Then doesn’t that mean if we want higher difficulty, we must win these two matches?”
Everyone chattered back and forth, leaving Pap and the other two completely confused, though they roughly understood.
These members of the Gray Robe Gang were very grateful that Lin Qi had given them the right to choose. As for how many would be sent in the end, it depended entirely on their performance.
For a moment, Pap and the other two felt a chill run down their spines, a chill coming entirely from the Gray Robe Gang members present. It was a feeling they knew well, the feeling of being stared at by monsters.
“Are these people all lunatics?” Fischer looked at these players who were ready to risk their lives for slots and suddenly wondered if she herself was the one who was not normal.
An abnormal gang member was one who would not risk their life for the gang’s profit.
A normal gang member was one who would offer up their heart for the gang’s profit.
“I will take the first match.”
Yi Ye Fu Yun stepped forward of his own accord, with an expression that said, “Leave this entirely to me; you can rest assured.”
Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, and the others present did not object. After all, in terms of explosive power, Yi Ye Fu Yun was now second to none. Especially after these three days of improvement, Yi Ye Fu Yun was no longer a quasi-apprentice, but a genuine apprentice.
His strength had reached 7 kilograms. Under the guidance of Instructor One during these days, his Spiral Demon Spear Kill had been refined to rank five at 16%, its power stronger than before.
His tested burst strength could reach about 5 times.
In other words, with one Spiral Demon Spear Kill, he could unleash 95 kilograms of strength, already at quasi-martial artist level.
Among the experts present, none could completely withstand this move, so since Yi Ye Fu Yun had stepped up, naturally no one else would object.
“Fine, then I will be your opponent,” Fischer said with a smile as she walked forward, looking at Yi Ye Fu Yun from the Gray Robe Gang.
In her powerful perception, Yi Ye Fu Yun’s physical fitness was only that of a beginner apprentice, his strength no more than 300 kilograms. In her view, even a single punch from her could take his life.
“Then let us begin,” Lin Qi said casually, directly announcing the start of the first match.
“Wait, is your man not going to wear armor?” Pap looked at Lin Qi in surprise.
At this moment, Yi Ye Fu Yun was wearing only his trademark dark gray long-sleeved T-shirt. Other than the A5-grade Black Steel Spear in his hand, he had nothing else.
In this state, if Fischer’s battle saber so much as grazed Yi Ye Fu Yun, it would be a serious injury. One careless moment, and his life would be gone.
“Armor? No need.” Yi Ye Fu Yun shook his head, leveled his spear at Fischer, and said in a very pretentious tone, “I, Yi Ye Fu Yun, have fought countless battles in my life, and I have never worn armor. Since this is a battle, I will give everything I have and hold nothing back.”
“Today, our match is not only to determine victory and defeat, but also life and death.”
As Yi Ye Fu Yun’s words fell, Pap and the other two were deeply shocked. Fischer, who was about to fight him, was the most shaken.
“To decide not only victory and defeat, but also life and death?” Fischer looked at the Yi Ye Fu Yun before her, who showed no trace of pretending to be indifferent to life and death, and put away her contempt, unable to help but admire him. “Good! Then let us fight in earnest!”
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