The Instant the battle began, Mu Bei's legs pushed hard against the ground, and his 100 points of distortion - force attribute instantly fully erupted.
Facing Mu Bei who was surging towards him, Aiges could even faintly hear the sound of a sonic boom.
When the distance between the two shortened to around 120m, Aiges made his move.
A point of white light appeared on the tip of his right index finger, and then he simply and easily swiped it towards the imposing Mu Bei, drawing a mark in space that was easy to overlook if not carefully observed.
This was precisely Aiges's professional ability, `Space Severance`, which ignored the target's armor and physical defense on their body. Its actual effect was similar to true damage, and its speed was extremely fast with high concealment.
Although Mu Bei's naked eye could not see it, with the perception ability brought by 100 points of Alienated Intelligence, he could detect a spatial force with sharpness or cutting characteristics rapidly approaching him.
Mu Bei did not dodge, still attacking Aiges at a speed exceeding the speed of sound, merely crossing his arms to protect himself.
The next moment, because his legs were severed, Mu Bei's forward momentum stopped.
Due to inertia, Mu Bei's upper body flew forward for another 60 meters before falling to the ground.
【You have received 40 points of Space attribute damage. Passive ability `Adaptable Evolution` triggered. You have obtained a new derived ability, `Space Resistance`.】
Mu Bei propped up his upper body and looked at his legs. The cut surface was on his thighs, and it was very smooth.
Space-type abilities were hailed as the abilities with the highest lower limit, without exception.
Mu Bei only received 40 points of damage just now, because Aiges's `Space Severance` only severed all the cells on the two cross-sections of Mu Bei's legs.
But!
The actual effect of this 40 points of Space attribute damage was to sever Mu Bei's legs!
This was the terrifying aspect of Space-type abilities!
Aiges slowly walked towards Mu Bei who was struggling on the ground. At the same time, white light points condensed on his fingertips again.
Actually, he could have used `Space Severance` to directly cut Mu Bei's head in half just now, but he didn't do that.
Because he had said before that he would make this big The Pot Man in front of him lose this Arena match in extreme pain.
His real purpose for doing this was definitely not to avenge Li Ya, that toy he was about to discard.
It was to establish his prestige as the head of the Arena!
The top 10 Contractors in the Paradise Arena ranking would all have one chance to force the head of the Arena to accept their challenge. If they won, they would be the new head of the Arena.
Although Aiges was not afraid of being challenged, he hated being disturbed by these people whom he saw as weak.
So he wanted to establish his prestige. He would cruelly torture those challengers who dared to force him to accept a fight.
"Your physical quality is quite good. It looks like you can last a bit longer."
While speaking, Aiges used `Space Severance` once again.
After a spatial fluctuation, Mu Bei's left forearm, which he used to support his body, was instantly severed, causing his upper body to lose balance and fall down again.
"Oh? You didn't even scream? Not bad, you seem to be a tough nut to crack." Aiges continued in a calm tone, "Actually, I quite admire those tough nuts and stubborn people."
"Alright then, after I've cut you into a human stick, I'll end this Arena match. You'll suffer less, and my goal of establishing prestige will have been achieved anyway."
After saying this, Aiges himself was amused by what he had done.
"You talk a lot of nonsense."
The seven clearly articulated words came out of Mu Bei's mouth, making Aiges unable to doubt if something was wrong with his hearing.
"You said, what?!"
The outcome was already decided, so why did this big The Pot Man in front of him still provoke him? Was he not suffering enough from the torture?
"Hahaha, good, very good. If your goal was to anger me, then congratulations, you succeeded. I've changed my mind. I'm going to slice you to death under everyone's gaze!"
After Aiges finished speaking, he used `Space Severance` on Mu Bei again. This time the target was his right hand.
"Hmm?"
To Aiges's surprise, Mu Bei's right hand did not break off as he had imagined. It merely had its skin broken.
The next moment, Mu Bei supported himself with both hands, and his 100 points of distortion - force fully erupted again.
Wait, supporting himself with both hands?
Hadn't this The Pot Man's left arm just been severed by him?
Aiges discovered in horror that Mu Bei's left forearm, which had just been severed, had actually reattached to his body, and there were absolutely no signs of it being cut off!
He was too close to Mu Bei at this moment, so close that he couldn't react at all before Mu Bei pierced his body with a hand blade.
Aiges's close combat ability was actually not weak. He also had passive abilities like `Close Combat Mastery`, and its level was 23 levels higher than Mu Bei's `Close Combat Mastery`, reaching LV.24.
But this 23-level difference in level could not bridge the chasm-like attribute gap between the two.
One had 50 points of normal attributes, the other had 100 points of distortion attributes. There was simply no comparison.
The purple quality suit could not block Mu Bei's hand blade at all. Aiges's liver was pierced and exploded, his spine was severed, and finally, it broke through the back of the suit again, completely piercing through his entire body.
After piercing Aiges with a hand blade, Mu Bei changed his right hand from a blade to a claw, gripping his back with a backhand, while simultaneously holding his right shoulder with his left hand.
At this moment, Aiges, who had lost all sensation in his lower body, finally reacted. Clenching his teeth and enduring the severe pain after his liver ruptured, he mobilized all his current mana points and unleashed his current strongest skill, `Spatial Storm`, towards Mu Bei!
If I don't succeed, I'll die trying!
The next Instant, as Mu Bei tore Aiges's right arm off at the shoulder, he himself also took almost the full damage from the latter's strongest attack, `Spatial Storm`.
Countless blood lines burst out on Mu Bei's body:
【You have received 1 point of Space attribute damage.】
【You have received 2 points of Space attribute damage.】
【You have received 0 points of Space attribute damage.】
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【You have received 1 point of Space attribute damage.】
After adding up the damage values in the nearly hundred prompts above, the total was 66 points of Space attribute damage.
The blood lines that burst out on Mu Bei's body only looked intimidating, but in reality, they were just superficial wounds that stopped at the epidermis.
After maxing out `Space Resistance` with 44 negative entropy points, Mu Bei had 100 points of Space Resistance, which meant 100 points of Space damage block + damage reduction after blocking.
For example, if `Space Severance` was equivalent to a sniper rifle, then `Spatial Storm` was equivalent to a shotgun.
Attacks like `Spatial Storm`, which are high-frequency but low-damage, were precisely less threatening to Mu Bei, because damage block would help him defend against a huge amount of damage;
If Aiges had used all his mana points on `Space Severance` just now, and released it in the right position, splitting Mu Bei vertically in half, he should have been able to deal an extra one or two hundred points of health damage.
But this was also useless, because Mu Bei's body had no vital points.
"What?!"
After discovering that his ultimate move had only dealt less than a hundred points of health damage to Mu Bei, Aiges's eyes widened. For a moment, he even ignored the severe pain coming from his right shoulder and torso.
Until the next second, Mu Bei brutally tore Aiges's left arm off at the shoulder as well.
The new wave of severe pain brought Aiges back from his previous shock. He could no longer bear the pain coming from his body and screamed:
"Ah—!!!"
After hearing Aiges's scream, Mu Bei slightly frowned, because he found the sound somewhat unpleasant.
So, he used his right hand, which had just been pulled out of Aiges's body, to grip his throat. With a firm squeeze and pull, he crushed the trachea and tore the vocal cords.
Aiges immediately stopped making the unpleasant screaming sound.
At this moment, Mu Bei's severed legs, which were originally more than 20 meters away, had crawled back by their own efforts.
Upon finding that his legs had crawled back to his side, Mu Bei first threw Aiges, who had exhausted his mana, lost both arms, and was completely paralyzed in his lower body, aside like trash.
Then, Mu Bei affectionately stroked his pair of legs that had worked so hard to crawl back. His expression at this moment seemed to say: How nice, I have a pair of intelligent and powerful legs.
Next, Mu Bei guided his legs and the remaining limbs on his body to recombine. On the two pairs of smooth cross-sections, granulation tissue grew interlaced, and bone cells reconnected.
The next second, Mu Bei stood up again.
Another second passed, and there were no signs of cutting on Mu Bei's thighs. Not even a scar was left, as if they had never been cut off.
Mu Bei slowly walked towards Aiges, whom he had just thrown aside and who was now barely breathing.
Under the latter's terrified gaze, he inserted the middle and index fingers of his right hand into the left eye socket, and his ring finger into the right eye socket,
These three fingers—middle, index, and ring fingers—gripped the skull from the inside of the forehead, and then the thumb gripped the forehead from the outside,
Mu Bei lifted Aiges up with one hand in this manner.
Subsequently, Mu Bei flipped his right wrist, turning his palm downwards and the back of his hand upwards. Aiges, whom he was holding with his fingers, also flipped around.
At this point, Mu Bei also inserted the fingers of his left hand into Aiges's eye sockets, gripping the latter's lower orbital bones tightly. Then he pulled forcefully with both hands to the sides.
The sound of bones cracking rang out. Aiges's skullcap was brutally pried open by Mu Bei's hands, revealing the brain inside.
"Aha—so, that brain of yours, which was so stupid it made me wait for an hour, looks like this?!"
Mu Bei whispered into Aiges's ear.
Before the battle began, Mu Bei had promised himself:
If possible, he would pry open the skull of that idiot who made him wait for an hour and see what the stuff inside looked like to be "stupid" to such an extent!
Mu Bei never joked.
"Such a stupid brain, I don't think there's any need to keep it."
After speaking, Mu Bei grabbed Aiges's brain with his right hand. The texture was wet and sticky. Then he pulled it out, and a brain was thus pulled out by him.
Thanks to Aiges's Constitution attribute reaching 50 points, otherwise his brain would have already been shattered before Mu Bei pulled it out.
Finally, Mu Bei threw the brain in his hand heavily onto the ground, and then stepped on it, allowing Aiges to achieve the accomplishment—
Half of being utterly defeated, although his liver exploded, at least his brain was smeared on the ground.
After the battle ended, the entire Arena was silent for a second, and then erupted in thunderous cheers.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators witnessed this tragic and shocking battle with their own eyes, especially the final scene where Mu Bei lifted Aiges's skullcap, which was enough to make everyone remember it forever.
Although battles in the Paradise Arena did not result in actual death, the mental impact and physical pain were one hundred percent real.
Aiges's crushing defeat was destined to become a topic of conversation among all Contractors after meals, and Mu Bei, this tough man wearing a big pot on his head, would also become a veritable legend in Tier 1.
【This Arena match has ended. You have achieved a 52-win streak!】
【You have returned to your exclusive rest cabin.】
【Congratulations, your Paradise Arena ranking has been promoted to No. 1!】
【Do you want to claim your Arena ranking reward (No. 1)?】
"Claim."
【You have claimed the Arena ranking reward.】
【You have received reward: Title · Arena Heavenly King (Tier 1).】
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On the other side, Aiges slowly woke up in his rest cabin.
He leaned back in his chair, his face pale, his eyes filled with anger and humiliation. He had never thought that he would be defeated by a challenger in such a brutal manner.
"Damn it... This big The Pot Man, what kind of monster is he?"
Aiges recalled every detail of the battle, especially Mu Bei's terrifying recovery ability. Whether it was limb regeneration or enduring `Spatial Storm` head-on, it made him feel deep fear.
"`Space Severance` couldn't kill him, not even weaken him... Is this still a human?"
He lowered his head and looked at his hands, a deep sense of powerlessness surging in his heart. It wasn't that he hadn't seen strong individuals, but Mu Bei's fighting style completely subverted his understanding.
What made him feel even more humiliated was the scene where Mu Bei finally lifted his skullcap... That naked humiliation was enough to make any Contractor break down.
"I want revenge... I want to kill him..." Aiges gritted his teeth, a hint of madness flashing in his eyes. But, he also knew very well that with his current strength, he was no match for Mu Bei at all.
At the same time, Li Ya also learned the news of Aiges's defeat from her exclusive room.
"Aiges... actually lost?" She was slightly stunned, then showed a complicated smile.
She didn't feel too surprised by Aiges's failure. In fact, after witnessing Mu Bei's terrifying strength, she had already anticipated that Aiges couldn't win.
"That big The Pot Man... is really becoming more and more interesting."
Li Ya lay on the bed, her finger gently tapping her lips, seemingly thinking about something.
"However... now is not a good time for me to actively approach him." Li Ya let out a light chuckle, "It's better to wait until he needs me before I actively appear."
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Title Name: Arena Heavenly King (Tier 1)
Title Type: Achievement Title/Growth Title
Title Effect: Increases the Contractor's actual authority level. When purchasing materials directly from Order Paradise, and when using infrastructure within Order Paradise (such as Attribute Enhancement Chamber, Skill Upgrade Chamber), only 90% of the paradise coins fee is required.
(Tip 1: When upgrading skills, this title can only reduce the use of paradise coins and cannot reduce the use of consumable items such as Soul Crystals.)
(Tip 2: If the wearer of this title is not ranked No. 1 in the Paradise Arena real-time ranking, then the wearer can only enjoy a maximum discount of 9% when using paradise coins.)
Acquisition Method: Obtain the first place in the Paradise Arena (Tier 1).
Growth Method: Obtain a top ten/first place in the Paradise Arena (Tier 2).
(Tip 3: If this title is advanced by obtaining a top ten place in the Paradise Arena (Tier 2), the title name will change to `Arena Master`, and the discount when Contractors use paradise coins will also decrease from 10% to between 9% and 1%.)
Title Evaluation: The strong remain strong!
(Tip 4: In a World progression, Order Paradise will issue a maximum of 1 new `Arena Heavenly King` title in each Tier.)
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