"There’s nothing to fear."
"Since the leader has such an interest, let’s have two rounds. However, if my two companions win within three moves, I hope the leader will reconsider the contract. Our Cyan Sparrow Gang is very sincere."
Fluo couldn’t help but laugh, but his eyes were fixed on Lin Qi, completely unable to understand what this gray-clad gang leader was planning.
Fisher and Papu are genuinely advanced apprentices, with strength around 630 kilograms, and speed exceeding 20 meters per second. They both master an apprentice-level martial art, which is incomparable to the vagabonds in the wild who reach advanced apprentice level.
It’s safe to say that even facing the fourteen apprentices of the gray-clad gang, they could retreat unharmed, let alone in a one-on-one match.
Even if it’s just as Lin Qi requested, to engage in three moves of confrontation, Fisher and Papu could easily win within three moves.
No matter how you look at it, this competition is meaningless.
Unless Lin Qi himself steps in, but as a mere intermediate apprentice who doesn’t participate in deadly battles, what can he prove even if he withstands three moves?
However, Fluo wasn’t aware that Lin Qi never intended to go in himself, betting that the Cyan Sparrow Gang wouldn’t be able to win within three moves. With their currently achieved physical attributes at the basic apprentice level, players relying on multiple apprentice-level martial arts could possibly fend off advanced apprentices for three moves.
Especially with people like Luo Wushang, who mastered martial artist-level martial arts, if they can block three moves, it would prove the strength of the gray-clad gang’s apprentices. After all, if even the advanced apprentices of Cyan Sparrow Gang can’t win in three moves, saying the martial arts hall’s basic apprentices are insufficient wouldn’t hold up.
In the training field, as Fluo agreed, all the players present cheered jubilantly again.
"Hall Master, you’re awesome! Doubling the slots with just a word, truly deserves to be our Hall Master!"
"I could cry! Turns out we misunderstood the Hall Master. The previous rejections were for negotiating benefits for us, twenty slots! Now us newcomers have a chance!"
"Those two seem like advanced apprentices. Who do you think the Hall Master will have go up?"
The players present saw Lin Qi securing double the slots for them and all felt he was so good to them. Some even began to think that this usually stingy Hall Master seemed much more pleasing to the eye.
This scene made Fluo and the other two on the field suddenly doubt life itself.
"Fluo, do you think there was something wrong with how you expressed yourself earlier? Is that why they’re so happy?" Fisher couldn’t help but ask Fluo, feeling certain that Fluo didn’t make things clear earlier, causing these members of the gray-clad gang to be so ecstatic.
A gang leader sending more subordinates to their deaths, yet these subordinates are not angry or resentful, instead cheering and thinking the leader has done excellently, too right.
It even made Fisher wonder if their Cyan Sparrow Gang offering more slots was a huge mistake.
"I must not have been clear enough before." Fluo looking at the cheering players also felt he must’ve expressed something wrong.
If he told this to people from other gangs, they’d probably smack him awake.
At this moment, Lin Qi also turned to the players present.
"The time to strive for glory has come. How this contract is written all depends on you. Who among you will step up to claim this glory?" Lin Qi paused, trying his best to motivate using NPC-like words to give players some fighting spirit, "Anyone who wins will receive extra rewards, and if you lose, you know what the results will be."
As Lin Qi finished speaking, the players present became boiling with excitement again.
"This storyline is amazing! They’re actually giving us the initiative."
"It’s not just about giving us the initiative, didn’t you hear the Hall Master say that how the contract is written depends entirely on our performance?"
"So if we perform well, we could secure more slots? If we perform poorly, the slots will be reduced?"
"I get it, this time it’s a dungeon difficulty selection, depending on our strength, to see if we can unlock a higher difficulty."
"Then doesn’t that mean, to unlock a higher difficulty, we must win these two matches?"
Everyone was chatting, making Fluo and the other two feel confused but also understood the general meaning.
These members of the gray-clad gang were grateful that Lin Qi gave them the choice, and how many people they could finally send depended entirely on their performance.
For a moment, Fluo and the other two felt a chill, this chill emanating entirely from the members of the gray-clad gang present, for this feeling they three were very familiar with, was like being watched by a monster.
"Are these people lunatics?" Fisher looked at these players ready to fight for slots and suddenly wondered if they themselves weren’t quite right.
An abnormal gang member, is one who doesn’t strive for the gang’s interests.
A normal gang member, is one who would offer their heart for the gang’s interests.
"Let me take the first fight."
One Leaf Floating Cloud proactively stepped forward with a look that said leave everything to me, reassuring the organization at ease.
In this, Luo Wushang and Fang Zhen, among others present did not object, since presently no one matched One Leaf Floating Cloud in explosive force. Especially after three days of improvement, One Leaf Floating Cloud was no longer a quasi-apprentice but a veritable apprentice.
Strength had reached 235.7 kilograms, and after these days under Mentor No. 1’s guidance, the Spiral Demon Spear Kill had been perfected to a Fifth Rank of 16%, its power stronger than ever before.
Tested explosive force could reach about 2.5 times.
That is, a single Spiral Demon Spear Kill could unleash a force of 824.95 kilograms, a power already at the martial artist level.
Among the experts present, none could completely withstand such a move, so as One Leaf Floating Cloud stepped forward, naturally no one else would speak against it.
"Alright, then let me be your opponent." Fisher, seeing One Leaf Floating Cloud step out from the gray-clad gang, also walked forward with a smile.
The One Leaf Floating Cloud before her, under her strong perception, had a physique no more than a basic apprentice, with strength not exceeding three hundred kilograms. Arguably, a single punch from her could take One Leaf Floating Cloud’s old life.
"Then let’s begin." Lin Qi didn’t mind, directly announcing the start of the first match.
"Wait, are your people not wearing armor?" Fluo was surprised, looking at Lin Qi.
At this moment, One Leaf Floating Cloud was only wearing a distinctive dark gray long-sleeve T-shirt, with nothing else but an A5-level Black Steel Long Spear in hand.
In such a situation, even a scrape from Fisher’s battle saber could result in a severe injury, an oversight, and one’s life could be lost.
"Armor? Not necessary." One Leaf Floating Cloud shook their head, looking at Fisher with a spear in hand, confidently stating, "I, One Leaf Floating Cloud, have fought countless battles in my life, never wearing armor, and since this is a battle, I, One Leaf Floating Cloud, will go all out, without reservation."
"Today our match is to determine both skill and life or death!"
As One Leaf Floating Cloud’s voice faded, Fluo and the other two present were deeply shocked, especially Fisher in the match, feeling the greatest impact.
"Determine both skill and life or death?" Fisher looked at One Leaf Floating Cloud, who seemed utterly unfazed by the life-and-death struggle, and with growing respect said, "Alright! Then let us fight seriously!"