Chapter 216

Fate also has diverging paths

The grand voice of 【Order】 spread throughout the arena, and not to mention whether the prisoners in the prison could hear it, at least the death-match prisoners alive in the arena all had ugly expressions.

But the ones with ugly expressions were the prisoners, not the Punishing Knight behind Cheng Shi.

Upon hearing the High Judge commute the death-match sentences of these prisoners to death for blasphemy, he grinned hideously and clamped an iron hand onto the back of Cheng Shi's neck.

"Dare to toy with me? Go to hell, scum!"

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It wasn't me who swapped you onto the stage, why are you breaking down here?

If you have the ability, go find Zhao Si; if you find him, you don't even need to do it yourself, I'll help you kill him.

But now, saying such things is useless; this Punishing Knight, who was embarrassed and angry, just wanted to vent his anger on Cheng Shi. He seemed to think that as long as he killed Cheng Shi, no one would know he had been toyed with.

However, he thought too much; just as he was about to snap Cheng Shi's neck, Cheng Shi turned around and plunged his scalpel into the knight's throat.

"Ssh—"

The Punishing Knight lost his strength in response, and blood sprayed wildly.

"Uh... uh-uh, you..."

"Me what me?

If you want to kill, you have to be prepared to be killed back; that's common sense, understand?

Just right, let me borrow your clothes to wear!"

Saying this, while the chaos spread and the surrounding Iron Law Knights had not yet surrounded the arena, Cheng Shi stripped off the Punishing Knight's armor in a few quick moves and put it on himself.

As for this helmet... the prisoner helmet wouldn't come off, and the knight helmet wouldn't fit on, so let it be; it's enough to fool a fool.

However, his every move was still seen by the Iron Law Knights who were searching everywhere for death-match prisoners; the knights shouted the slogan of 【Order】 and immediately surrounded him.

Facing this small torrent of steel, Cheng Shi was not only not panicked at all, but instead laughed.

He gathered his strength and shouted loudly toward the entire arena:

"Little liars!

I hope you have already escaped!

If you are still here, then you must hide well, because I am about to find you!"

After finishing, Cheng Shi snapped his fingers at the knights surrounding him, activating the first talent of his curtain call performance:

Fate also has diverging paths!

Yes, fate also has diverging paths!

Cheng Shi's current fate is indeed heading toward misfortune: the prison was blown up, citizens are panicked, iron cavalry are surrounding the city, and he has been sentenced to death.

In the foreseeable future, if Cheng Shi had not resisted, then there would be no other path waiting for him but death.

So Cheng Shi laughed; since my fate is so unfortunate, then let it be even more unfortunate.

After all, only change can breed opportunity, and only with opportunity can one create a new life.

Thus he activated Fate also has diverging paths!

This talent, which looks full of disaster and pain, had no movement at the moment of activation, and not even a ripple was stirred up at the scene.

However, at the very moment the knights were about to charge their lances at Cheng Shi...

A certain pillar of the audience stand deep underground suddenly collapsed!

This pillar had long been unable to bear the weight due to rat bites and ant erosion, and the chaotic trampling and fluctuating pressure on the audience stand made it even more precarious.

Most importantly, at the moment Cheng Shi activated the talent, a slightly plump audience lady suddenly changed her escape route and ran tremblingly across the platform it supported, and this tremor was just like the last straw that broke the camel's back, causing this pillar that had only stood for a few years to meet its doom prematurely.

"Boom—"

The ground sank.

The audience stand on the southwest side of the arena collapsed without warning, and countless broken wood and flying dust, accompanied by screaming citizens, smashed into the underground.

With the collapse of one area, the ring-shaped roof of the entire arena began to collapse, and the audience stand, having lost its support, began a series of chain reactions amidst everyone's shock and fear.

"Boom—boom—boom—boom—"

Something even more terrifying than the explosion appeared: the entire arena collapsed.

The thousand-pound heavy wood falling from the roof was like a giant execution hammer, smashing toward the Iron Law Knights and Cheng Shi in the center of the arena.

Now, an even more unfortunate fate was right before their eyes, and it seemed there was no escaping it.

Everyone was doomed to die; even the Iron Law Knights were terrified and pale. They held their lances straight, seemingly wanting to fight for a chance, relying on the strength of their hands to block these giant woods falling from the sky.

However, the power of these few lances was too limited; the knights both underestimated the weight of the giant roof woods and miscalculated the speed at which they were falling.

Before the faint light of 【Order】 could connect into a piece, the "punishment from heaven" had already fallen before their eyes.

"No—no!!!"

"Boom—boom—"

Dust rose everywhere, and the ground shook.

Montelani today is destined not to be peaceful; the residents in the city were awakened by the violent shaking at this moment and simultaneously looked toward the direction of the arena.

And there, a cloud of dust that could be called huge was rising rapidly, and then dissipated into nothingness.

In the place where the High Judge's 【Order】 voice echoed, 【Fate】 arrived quietly and commuted the death sentence for all listeners of 【Order】.

As for Cheng Shi, the darling of 【Fate】 whose fate was supposed to go astray...

Where did he go?

That is a good question.

Actually, before activating the talent, Cheng Shi vaguely felt that this talent could make things big; what he wanted was to make the explosion more intense and cause more chaos, so that perhaps the Iron Law Knights would surround the entire arena, preventing those teammates of his who were causing trouble from escaping.

Since they were going to pit each other, they would pit each other to the end.

But he never expected that misfortune is contagious.

When the entire piece of misfortune was connected together, even 【God】 could not save His believers.

Thus the arena collapsed, the whole thing collapsed, burying everyone who hadn't escaped under the ruins.

Cheng Shi slipped away when he saw the giant wood smashing down on his head; he might not be able to escape the collapsed arena, but as long as he dodged these giant woods falling from the sky, he still had a way to survive.

So he activated the second talent of his curtain call performance, using the dice he buried when he fell down just as he exited the prison door, to swap himself into the ruins that had already collapsed to the underground.

And that ordinary die he swapped to the center of the arena, after being shaken by the ground, slowly rolled out a 6, as if mocking 【Fate】, freezing there, witnessing the tragic fate of the Iron Law Knights without moving.

"Cough cough... cough cough..."

Cheng Shi, who had taken a deep breath of dust, appeared in the underground ruins in a curled-up posture; the armor he snatched protected him from the "attacks" of many broken wooden thorns, but because of its thickness, it also squeezed his limited living space.

But the problem is not big; as long as one is not dead, one can always be saved.

Especially since Cheng Shi has so many medicines in his hands, and he himself is a warrior of the day.

Thus the warrior took out a bottle of Past Prosperity and a small magic lamp from his portable space.

He drank the potion without hesitation, and then his injuries were completely restored; as if possessing divine power, he cleared away the broken wood and residual steel around him, cleaning up a small space that could accommodate one person.

At this time, he listened carefully for a moment; except for the wailing and screaming in the surrounding ruins, the sounds from the surface seemed to be inaudible.

"Tsk, five days; if I hold on here for five days, does it mean I cleared the trial without pain?

Hmm, makes sense...

But the prophecy, what about the prophecy; could it be that my liar teammates didn't make it through?"

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi laughed.

The words he shouted on the arena were all fake, meant to scare people, because he wouldn't go looking for that group of little liars at all.

The prophecy of 【Fate】 had already revealed the ending; if they were going to die, looking for them would be useless; if they died at his own hands, then there would be no need to look for them, and he believed fate would push them to his side.

Just as he was thinking this, the broken soil and gravel in front of him moved twice, and a mouse with green eyes and "squeaking" noises drilled out.

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Cheng Shi didn't say a word, and the scalpel in his hand stabbed into the little mouse's skull without hesitation.

Look, didn't it just come?