novelraw Chapter 593 514: Banker's Hour [Double-Length]
Chapter 593 514: Banker's Hour [Double-Length]
"What are you doing?" Klosolan asked.
"Eh, you'll find out in a moment."
With a wave of her hand, Xu Xiaoyou made the die levitate, and behind her rose the shadow of a lucky roulette machine. The die transformed into '1' chip, accumulating on the tabletop of the roulette machine.
Xu Xiaoyou looked at the woman with a smile that didn't reach her eyes.
"Shall we begin, President Klosolan?"
"Stop putting on airs."
Klosolan scoffed coldly, closing the distance instantly despite the hundred meters between them. A powerful punch shot towards Xu Xiaoyou's face, who raised an eyebrow and lifted her right arm, taking a few steps back.
As she flicked her hand, the roulette machine behind her started to operate automatically, dropping two ancient bronze dice that spun around the roulette until stopping at the numbers '3' and '4'.
The roulette machine ceased running, the sound of 'lucky' played, triggering a critical roll, and ten chips clattered down. Including the initial chip, there were eleven chips stacked on the table.
"Not bad luck," Xu Xiaoyou nodded.
Klosolan shook her head, tossing a massive web coated with poison directly at her.
This web was a common attack type skill, Poison Net, of a Two Tier Street Fighter. If trapped, the target would become paralyzed and unable to move for a short time, leading to complete body decay.
Xu Xiaoyou sidestepped to avoid it. At this moment, a subtle sense of crisis rose in her heart. With a blank expression, she used [Thief's Steps] to retreat quickly, as a lightning bolt struck the ground where she had stood a second before.
Before the bounty match, she had researched President Klosolan, knowing her Divine Gift "Evil Cage Electric Armor" creates an 'Electric Quenching' field around her during liberation. Every minute and a half, a random lightning bolt would form, and getting struck deducted maximum Life Value, Resistance Value, and imposed a series of negative conditions.
If struck by her own lightning, Klosolan's physique would undergo tempering and enhancement.
Undoubtedly, her Divine Gift's characteristic destined her to become stronger the longer the fight, making a prolonged battle extremely disadvantageous for her opponent.
Klosolan's fighting style was always aggressive, not giving Xu Xiaoyou any chance to counterattack. Taking a few large steps, she rushed close again, extending her mechanical arm to catch the air, sand and dust gathered in her hand, and she violently flung a hand full of it forward.
Struck by the effect of the sand throw, Xu Xiaoyou fell into temporary blindness, reacting based on her senses, then endured a sweeping kick that sent her skimming tens of meters sideways to the right. With a sudden step, she barely managed to regain her stance.
Yet it wasn't over. Klosolan again charged forward, sliding tackle, skull-shattering knee bash, Poison Dragon Punch, Thousand Hands Secret, Dance of the Phoenix, Moon Capture Flame Explosion, with repressed anger, eager to unleash all her rage on Xu Xiaoyou, executing seamless combos, forcing the girl to keep retreating.
"Are you only capable of dodging?" Klosolan shouted.
Xu Xiaoyou remained silent as her long whip cracked in the air, intercepting the punch aiming for her head. With a slight wrist twist, Klosolan's form was spun to the other side, but she responded quickly, pressing her hand on the ground, executing another powerful sweeping kick.
Xu Xiaoyou took the hit, flying backwards, lightning struck her, leaving charred marks.
Staring at her declining life bar, she remained unfazed, lightly kicking the ground to briskly retreat. Silent Hand broke free from her dress hem, blocking in front of her, bracing to intercept Klosolan's forthcoming strike of Dragon Flame Explosion!
As the fire dragon's eyes burst out brilliant light, it roared and directly impacted Silent Hand, where waves of flame burst in a cross, instantly engulfing her figure.
Lingering echoes sounded like dragon roars, sending shivers through the audience.
"You can see, from the beginning of the match, that Klosolan has demonstrated her strong suppressive capabilities, continuously pressing down on the Dark Gold Rose contestant, forming a one-sided situation." The host shouted.
Seeing Xu Xiaoyou retreating step by step on the stage, the audience, already displeased with her, felt utterly delighted.
"Is that it, Dark Gold Rose? Weren't you quite the talker before, and now you can't even fight back?"
"I thought you were something special, but you only know how to run your mouth."
"No wonder Dark Gold Rose never unleashes her Divine Gift, turns out it's useless even if she does, hahahaha."
"I said it before, Dark Gold Rose has no real offensive abilities, just trickery. In a real fight, she can only scurry away like a rat!"
"Yes, keep it up, crush her, Klosolan!"
"What are you waiting for, use all those mysterious abilities of yours." People's cheers boosted Klosolan's fighting spirit, pressing forward, landing punch after punch on Xu Xiaoyou.
She thought Xu Xiaoyou would resort to the same old talking, but instead, Xu Xiaoyou slowly raised her eyes, those dazzling golden eyes calmly watching her, and spoke words she couldn't understand.
"The prize pool is still accumulating."
As she spoke, more dice fell onto the roulette machine, stacking the chips to 20. Punches rained down on Xu Xiaoyou, yet she didn't counterattack, using various action-oriented skill cards to maintain high-speed movement, engaging in a strategic play against Klosolan on stage.
"Are you trying to drag out the time with me?" Klosolan laughed as if she heard the funniest joke in the world, "Alright, if you want to play, I'll play with you."
"Let's see who laughs last!"