Chapter 982: Refresh

Su Xiao walked towards the arena, his steps neither fast nor slow. Because his third-tier arena ranking was too far behind, this trip was likely to bully newcomers.

Bang.

A contractor walking towards him bumped into Su Xiao's shoulder. Su Xiao looked at the other party sideways. For some reason, at this moment, a trace of anger rose in his heart.

Being looked at by Su Xiao, the second-tier contractor took several steps back.

"Brother, I was a bit distracted just now. Your look... it shouldn't be that serious."

The second-tier contractor felt cold in his heart from being looked at by Su Xiao.

"It's okay."

Su Xiao walked away. The trace of anger that rose in his heart just now was not because he was narrow-minded. If it were in the past, he wouldn't care about being bumped on the shoulder.

The reason for this was because he devoured a small amount of the Reborn Dragon's energy. After all, that dragon energy passed through his arm and most of his shoulder. No matter how gentle the Reborn Dragon's energy was, it was dragon energy. The biggest characteristic of dragon energy was violence.

This violence wouldn't affect Su Xiao forever, just in the next few days, Su Xiao would be more irritable. Fortunately, he could control his emotions well. After a few days, the side effects of devouring dragon energy would disappear.

Soon, Su Xiao arrived at the arena. Contractors entered and exited in front of the arena. Here, one could hone combat experience without worrying about dying in battle. It was the facility contractors liked to come to most, none of them.

【You have entered the arena, please choose a mode.】

【Arena Mode/Spectator Mode.】

【Spectator Mode: Can watch other contractors compete, costs 5 Paradise Coins per hour, can choose to watch matches.】

【Current matches: 7354.】

【To watch the top 1000 arena matches, it costs 30 Paradise Coins per hour.】

【To watch the top 100 arena matches, it costs 100 Paradise Coins per hour.】

【To watch the top 10 arena matches, it costs 300 Paradise Coins per hour.】

Su Xiao had never watched a match, nor was he interested in watching, so he chose the arena mode directly.

【Arena mode is divided into "Individual Battle" and "Team Battle", please choose.】

Su Xiao chose individual battle. A sense of teleportation appeared, and he was teleported to a lounge.

The structure of the lounge was very simple: a crescent-shaped sofa, a coffee table in front of the sofa, food, fruit, drinks, etc. placed on the coffee table, all could be eaten for free. The treatment of third-tier contractors was different.

A translucent screen floated in front of the sofa, with Su Xiao's information and ranking marked on the screen.

【Hunter arena ranking has been refreshed, current ranking 125,743 (Third Tier).】

【Competitor: Su Xiao.】

【Status: Good.】

【Ranking: 125,743 (Third Tier).】

【Consecutive wins: 0.】

【Top ten rewards: Not obtained.】

Su Xiao's ranking was around 120,000, which meant that over 120,000 people in the third tier had participated in the arena.

This didn't mean that there were only over 100,000 third-tier contractors. The death rate of contractors was extremely high, and they all died in derived worlds. It was very difficult to count the specific number. One thing that could be known was that there were definitely more than 100,000 third-tier contractors. Contractors were promoted to the third tier every moment, and there might be hundreds of thousands of third-tier contractors, or even more.

【Matching opponents for the hunter.】

【Matching...】

【Matching complete, opponent ranking: 125,641.】

The opponent's ranking was about 100 higher than Su Xiao's, so it shouldn't be difficult to deal with.

A sense of teleportation appeared. It was still a stone circular arena, surrounded by circular spectator stands. Unlike when Su Xiao fought in the arena in the second tier, now his ranking in the third-tier arena was far behind, and there were no more than ten people in the spectator stands.

"Garlic, come on~"

"I feel like Garlic is going to lose."

"Impossible, Garlic's defense ability is very strong, the opponent is obviously melee, and can't do anything to Garlic for a while."

The few spectators were friends of Su Xiao's opponent this time, basically equivalent to no spectators.

【Three, two...】

The countdown began. Su Xiao looked at his opponent. This opponent was very strange.

The reason for saying the opponent was strange was that the man named Garlic held a shield in each hand, and carried a defense similar to a pot on his back. If stripes were drawn on it, it would be a turtle shell.

Not only that, the opponent wore a yellow safety helmet, and the safety helmet flashed with dark purple light. This was actually a dark purple piece of equipment.

Overall, this opponent wrapped himself tightly, seeming very insecure. The only exposed place was those eyes.

"Actually matched with an opponent with a difference of more than 100 places, luck is bursting."

Garlic raised an eyebrow at Su Xiao, his behavior quite provocative.

【Arena, start!】

The moment the start was announced, the Zhan Long Shan at Su Xiao's waist was unsheathed. His eyes subconsciously looked around, a habit developed from long-term fighting.

Once the battle started, Su Xiao would immediately burst out his aura. This was almost his instinct.

A dark red metal mask covered the lower half of Su Xiao's face. Coupled with the aura he burst out, Garlic, who was more than ten meters away, suddenly felt cold on his back.

Bowing, his feet stored power.

Boom!

Su Xiao rushed towards the opponent like a cannonball out of the chamber, and the air rippled due to his high-speed charge.

"This is not good!"

Garlic panicked. He originally thought this battle had a chance of winning. After all, the opponent's ranking was more than 100 places different from his. In the third-tier arena, a difference of 100 places would lead to a one-sided battle.

"Brother Garlic, surrender, durability!"

A cute girl in the spectator stands shouted. Fighting in the arena would not die, but if the equipment was damaged, it would also need to be repaired for a fee, the same as the durability damage of equipment in derived worlds.

Hearing this shout from the spectator stands, Garlic immediately wanted to surrender. Unfortunately, a pale red aura swept towards him.

The pale red aura swept past, and Garlic felt stinging pain all over his body, which made him pause, who originally wanted to roar to surrender.

Whoosh~

A piercing wind sound came. Garlic hadn't reacted to what was going on when he suddenly felt the world spinning. In his perspective, he vaguely saw a shield cut into two halves.

When Garlic recovered consciousness, he was already in the exclusive room. Garlic, holding half a shield, still maintained a defensive posture, a bit funny.

A few seconds later, Garlic reacted to what was going on. The strength gap was too big, and he was killed in seconds.

Because the shield was broken, Garlic, whose lips trembled with heartache, opened the battle record.

【Prompt: You have been eroded by an unknown ability, have fallen into a panic state, Stamina consumption +27%, physical defense -15, when releasing skills, there is an 8% chance of failure.】

【Prompt: You have suffered fatal damage (beheading), damage statistics are as follows.】

【You have been eroded by unknown energy, and have lost 205 points of Mana.】

【You have suffered 328 points of true damage + 240 points of damage ignoring physical defense + 267 points of blade damage + 64 points of true damage + 305 points of basic damage + 438 points of fatal damage.】

【The damage suffered has exceeded the maximum HP limit.】

【Vital parts have been hit, due to the arena mechanism, the instant death judgment failed.】

After seeing that series of damage ignoring defense + blade damage never seen before + terrifying amount of true damage, Garlic swallowed. He couldn't help but think, what would happen if he encountered such an enemy in a derived world? He would definitely die. With the speed burst by the enemy, running away made no sense. ===== CHAPTER 983 =====