Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Ever since Yousi had proven his strength that day, there were fewer and fewer people who came to find fault with him in the group arena. Thus, they started to carry out their original plan, and the group arena became a training ground for the two of them.
Although Yousi was firmly in seventh place, to prevent any accidents, the two of them had to quickly adapt to all kinds of practical combat experiences, especially Su Chen. He needed to learn how to skillfully use the Broken Steel Sword as soon as possible.
During the continuous training, Su Chen could feel his own improvement. Therefore, he made an appointment with Yousi to start experimenting with the characteristics of the Broken Steel Sword. Was it as they suspected, that the Broken Steel Sword was meant to be nourished with blood?
This time, Yousi and Su Chen did not go to the group arena. Instead, they sneakily found a place where no one was around. Su Chen cut his hand and let his blood flow onto the sword. That was it. However, he did not feel the same feeling as the other day when he had the strength to run around, a strength that filled his entire body.
“What’s going on with this sword? Could it be that you haven’t given it enough blood?”
As Yousi said this, Su Chen continued to squeeze out more blood until the sword was completely covered in it. Only then did he realize that the sword was beginning to feel different. The sword began to tremble.
“It seems to have a reaction…” Su Chen said happily, but he could already feel that he was beginning to feel weak because he was bleeding too much. Yousi quickly noticed it and stopped Su Chen from bleeding out.
“You can’t keep bleeding like this. If you continue, it’ll exceed the limit of your body. Let’s continue tomorrow.”
Just like that, they repeated it for a week as Su Chen bled continuously every day. They discovered that the frequency of the sword’s vibration was increasing gradually.
When they had lunch together, Lotte said, “Is it possible that to use the Broken Steel Sword, you need to feed it with blood every day? Just like us humans, we eat every day.”
Yousi teased, “Is the sword really like a human and needs to eat every day?”
However, after listening to Lotte’s words, Su Chen felt that such a phenomenon did make sense, so he began to feed the sword his blood regularly every day.
The time for training quickly passed. Suddenly, there were only three days left until the duel in the arena. The broadcast suddenly rang in the morning.
“Everyone, please, gather at the field! Everyone, please, gather at the field!”
Everyone followed the instructions of the broadcast and went to the field. There were a lot of people gathered there. Minida was standing on a high platform, looking down at everyone. She saw that almost everyone had arrived, so she took out a microphone and said loudly, “Congratulations to everyone for holding on until now! You’re all the remaining brave warriors of our concentration camp! I admire your courage and ability! However, I have bad news for everyone… There are only three days left until the duel in the arena, but only three people will be able to stand in the arena alive, which are the top three on the final ranking list.”
“What do you mean by ‘standing in the arena alive’?”
Su Chen had just finished speaking, but somehow, Minida had heard him. She immediately became excited as she stood on the high platform.
“That’s right! Some of you may have noticed that only the top three in the concentration camp will survive. We’ll dispose of the rest as garbage.”
After Minida finished speaking, everyone below was in an uproar. There were even some who were not convinced and rushed toward Minida angrily.
“You b*tch! What right do you have to decide whether I live or die! I’m just giving you face…”
However, before he could reach Minida, Minida took out a throwing knife from her waist. The throwing knife was thrown straight away, and before he could finish his words, he fell to the ground.
Blood flowed all over the ground, but Minida continued the broadcast as if nothing had happened.
“If you want to resist, you’ll be like him. You won’t be able to escape either. You should’ve seen our soldiers when you came in. The entire concentration camp’s filled with them. Next, I’ll announce our schedule for the last three days. On the first day, we’ll officially determine the top ten names, so everyone must seize the time to challenge each other and climb up the rankings. On the second day, we’ll eliminate five people from the top ten rankings. On the last day, only three out of the five people remaining will survive in the entire concentration camp. I look forward to everyone’s performance.”
After saying that, she leaped and disappeared, leaving behind everyone who was panicking.
“Ah!”
With a scream, Su Chen looked at the crowd. A person actually stabbed his friend next to him with a knife.
“I… I… I don’t want to die… So… So, you must die!”
The crowd seemed to be overwhelmed by the sudden despair and went crazy. They began to attack the people around them. Su Chen felt that something was wrong. He looked at Yousi and they decided to leave this place with Lotte immediately.
After the three of them successfully left the chaotic area, Lotte seemed to be in shock in the room. Su Chen patted him and tried to comfort him, but he didn’t expect Lotte to collapse. He was stunned for a while before he faced this reality.
“I’m fine. I’ve learned a lot from staying with you during this period of time. If I can, I want to live with you.”
Looking at Lotte’s determined eyes, Su Chen’s heart calmed down. Yousi immediately began to analyze the current situation with Su Chen and Lotte.
“Listen up, tomorrow’s goal is to fight for the top ten rankings. What I want to do tomorrow is to protect my seventh-place position, and the two of you must try your best to fight for a position in the top ten. Su Chen, you have to try your best to solve the problem of the Broken Steel Sword today. Little Fatty, I’ll have another special training for you today. Tomorrow, the three of us will try our best not to be eliminated by this damn rule.”
The three of them surrounded each other, hugged each other, and gave each other strength. Yousi left with Lotte, leaving Su Chen alone to continue studying his Broken Steel Sword.
In the past few days, although Su Chen was still feeding it blood, the Broken Steel Sword still did not trigger the feeling from that day.
At this moment, Su Chen remembered that he still had Xiao Yuan.
“Hello, Master.”
Su Chen was shocked by the sudden voice.
“Why does your AI look like a ghost? Xiao Yuan, help me check if the sword reacts to blood.”
He had tried to check before.. If he could not find any information about the Broken Steel Sword, then Su Chen would start with its basic characteristics and see if he could find anything.