Chapter 43: The Classic Black Rose

Gun King Long Geli had already stood on the platform, waiting for the arrival of challengers.

Soon, the Black Rose, who appeared petite and slender in comparison, stepped onto the platform with elegant strides. Her only weapon was a thin rapier filled with destructive energy.

This kind of Mecha almost made people suspect that she was not here to fight, but rather a noble lady enjoying flowers and dancing with a sword in her back garden.

The audience below the platform let out a burst of boos. This was simply an insult to the hot-blooded, sacred battles in their minds.

The Black Rose remained unmoved, just standing there silently. The thin rapier in her hand pointed diagonally at the ground as she patiently waited for the battle to begin.

Among everyone present, only Gun King Long Geli noticed the difference in his opponent. The opponent was very calm.

From just now until now, the weapon in her hand had not trembled at all. This showed that her control ability was excellent.

Generally, those who chose this kind of unconventional Mecha were either show-offs or true experts.

Long Geli thought the latter was much more likely. He was very cautious, which had helped him win many times in a row.

“Battle… start!”

Long Geli fired his energy gun immediately. He had aimed it long ago.

But… he did not hit, because the Black Rose just happened to take a step to the side. The energy beam drifted past her.

This was a coincidence! Long Geli began firing shot after shot in a dense barrage, retreating while shooting, and also preparing to transform and take flight at any moment.

But the marksmanship he was proud of disappointed him.

Every beam of energy was either leisurely dodged by the Black Rose or extinguished by her thin rapier. None of them hit the Black Rose.

Long Geli was retreating, while the Black Rose was stepping forward step by step. The energy beams between the two completely turned into fireworks decorating the battlefield.

Long Geli soon found he had nowhere to retreat. If he retreated any further, he would be out of the platform. But the Black Rose was still approaching step by step, leisurely and calmly.

Below the platform, it had become a place of silence. This battle was too weird. The side originally considered the weak was playing the strong side like a monkey.

Yes, Long Geli gave people the feeling of being a monkey being played with.

The distance between the two was less than twenty steps. But at such a close distance, Long Geli still could not hit the Black Rose.

Long Geli was forced to partially transform and take flight to dodge.

But at this moment, the Black Rose moved. She used her thin rapier as the tip, shooting towards the ascending Long Geli like a black lightning bolt.

Lin Lei’s attack exploded with the maximum power of the Black Rose Mecha, displaying the sharp attack of the Black Rose Mecha like an assassin in the dark night.

The scene on the platform instantly changed from static to dynamic, and then in a split second, changed from extreme motion to silence!

With just this one strike, Long Geli’s Mecha was pierced through the chest, without giving it any room to counterattack.

Long Geli’s Mecha was skewered on the Black Rose’s thin rapier and directly pushed out of the battle platform, falling onto the ground outside.

Long Geli lay on the ground. His Mecha’s power system was paralyzed. The Black Rose stood beside him, truly like a cold and beautiful rose.

The victory announcement rang out: “Black Rose Fuweili wins one match, obtaining a bonus of 5,000 Galactic Universal Currency.”

This bonus was half of the previous platform owner’s, which was the rule here. If she won again next, it would be the combat money the opponent put up.

Hehe, it seems making money is quite easy too. Lin Lei grinned inside the Mecha. He checked the time; only a little over an hour had passed. Fuweili shouldn’t wake up this soon, so he could do a few more matches.

Lin Lei jumped back to the middle of the platform, becoming the new platform owner, and began waiting for others to challenge him.

There really was a rash guy who came up. This time it was also a close-combat Mecha, the Werewolf Mecha that Lin Lei thought very highly of. However, no matter how classic the Mecha was, it depended on the person using it.

Lin Lei was here to make money, so of course he sought to end the fight quickly. As soon as the battle was announced to start, he changed his fighting style from the one with the Gun King just now, and charged towards the Werewolf Mecha like a black hunting leopard.

Every step he took exerted the Black Rose’s maximum power. Every movement’s deflection was completed at extreme angles, giving people a feeling of being unpredictable and ghost-like.

The Black Rose Mecha used by women could actually be this fierce!!!!

The pilot of the Werewolf Mecha completely could not keep up with Lin Lei’s rhythm. After the Black Rose got close to him, in less than two exchanges, his neck was wiped by the thin rapier in the Black Rose’s hand. The entire wolf head was cut off, revealing the pale-faced pilot inside. If it had gone down a bit more, his head would have been gone.

With the wolf head cut off and the pilot pointed at the head by the thin rapier, he could only obediently admit defeat.

“Black Rose Fuweili wins two matches, cumulative bonus 7,000 Galactic Universal Currency.”

Keep going. He had to at least earn enough to buy a Space Jump engine. That thing was expensive; the worst one cost 100,000 Galactic Universal Currency. He had only earned 7% so far. He hoped Fuweili wouldn’t wake up this soon.

The opponent for the third match was also a Black Rose Mecha. It seemed the opponent was very confident, or perhaps deceived by Lin Lei’s performance, blindly thinking the Black Rose was amazing.

Actually, after playing two matches, Lin Lei knew this Mecha sucked. He couldn’t even give it his all, afraid that if he made a big move, he would overload and wreck the Mecha.

He thought about it. If he had chosen that Werewolf Mecha, he wouldn’t have needed to play tricks with Long Geli in the first match. He could have just gone up and hammered him to pieces.

So naturally, this opponent was KO’d again. Lin Lei just walked forward, suddenly accelerated, and thrust his sword. The battle ended.

…The opponents were too weak. Lin Lei was starting to get numb. All the challengers who came up took less than 20 seconds of his time.

This was inevitable. Lin Lei’s physical quality now was not much different from an ordinary soldier of a Level 8 Civilization. Moreover, in terms of combat awareness, Lin Lei, who had lived on a primitive planet for a few years and was in a state of high tension every day, was perhaps even better.

Obviously, in this amateur Mecha challenge competition held by civilians, the probability of any real experts appearing was very low, low enough to be ignored.

This created the myth of the Black Rose’s invincibility.

…

This was already Lin Lei’s 22nd match. His bonus had accumulated to a large sum, reaching 60,000 Galactic Universal Currency.

60,000 Galactic Universal Currency was enough to attract some experts to the stage, because as long as they beat Lin Lei, they would get 50% of Lin Lei’s bonus. This was the rule of the challenge. Of course, the combat money they had to pay also increased correspondingly, the amount being at least 30% of Lin Lei’s bonus.

Lin Lei waited longer and longer on the stage for challengers. In the 22 matches, he had kicked an opponent to pieces. It wasn’t a simple defeat; the Mecha actually exploded because Lin Lei kicked the opponent’s energy center.

The fidelity of the Galaxy public network was too high, resulting in a tragically miserable situation at the time. The unlucky guy inside sprayed blood over half the platform, and it took a long time for the System to refresh it away.

The direct consequence of this battle was that Lin Lei waited for nearly 15 minutes, and still no one dared to come up.

Maybe he should just call it a day. If Fuweili woke up and found out he was using her account to fight, she would definitely not let him off.

Lin Lei prepared to get off the stage, collect the bonus, and leave. But at this moment, a new challenger appeared. He chose the Werewolf Mecha.

Lin Lei checked the combat money he paid. Damn, it was 50,000 Galactic Universal Currency. That meant if he won this, his goal would be achieved.

The opponent was very confident and wisely chose the strongest close-combat Mecha here. It seemed this would be a tough battle and he had to take it seriously.

“Who are you?” This guy named Li Xiaoran asked such a question after getting on the platform.

“Wait until you have the skill to beat me, then we’ll talk.” How could Lin Lei tell him?

“Very well, then be careful, Miss Fuweili of the Apocalypse.” Li Xiaoran said seriously.

…Lin Lei couldn’t be bothered to talk nonsense. He was in a hurry. He definitely had to go offline after this fight. It seemed more than two hours had passed.

As soon as the battle started, Li Xiaoran adopted an extremely savage fighting style, charging and crashing, completely displaying the tough nature of the Werewolf Mecha.

A real expert had come! Lin Lei focused his mind. His Black Rose could not clash head-on with the Werewolf Mecha. Doing that would be suicide. The only thing he had on hand that could restrain the opponent’s offense was the thin rapier, which seemed to have no lethality but was actually very sharp.

The destructive energy on the sword was not for playing around. Stabbing any Mecha would result in a hole with no suspense.

The two performed a battle version of Beauty and the Beast on the platform. Both Mechas were exerted to their maximum combat power.

Many exquisite tactics and countermeasures were displayed one by one. These things were a natural outpouring of combat skills developed to the peak, simply impossible to imitate. So this battle was destined to become a classic.

With a harsh sound of metal tearing, the two Mechas on the platform exchanged another round. But this time, there was a substantive result.

A sharp claw of the Werewolf Mecha was cut off by the thin rapier, and the Black Rose’s sword was also destroyed at the same time.

Now the situation turned into a one-armed Werewolf against an unarmed Black Rose.

“You are strong! I was able to fight until now only because of the Mecha’s advantage. If we keep fighting, I’m not sure I can win.” Li Xiaoran held a deep dread for the Black Rose in front of him.

Although her weapon was destroyed, judging by the previous battles, the pilot of this Black Rose could turn any part of the body into a weapon. Just like in the previous match, he demonstrated the power to kick a Mecha to pieces with one foot.

One had to know, the energy center of a Mecha was always heavily protected. To be able to kick it to pieces with leg strength, the power of the legs was self-evident.

So the gap between the Werewolf Mecha, which had lost an arm and had its balance greatly affected, and the Black Rose did not narrow because her weapon was destroyed. Instead, it created a greater disadvantage.

The complete Black Rose was too flexible under the opponent’s control, so flexible that it didn’t seem like a machine, but rather like an intelligent life. The opponent could almost control the slightest disturbance of every finger of the Black Rose. This almost reached the limit of brainwave control.

Lin Lei didn’t talk nonsense. He directly kicked the severed arm on the ground towards the Werewolf Mecha, and then pounced over immediately after.

When he was about to touch the Werewolf Mecha, Lin Lei made a turn without warning, like a rigid collision, suddenly refracting out.

But this refraction turned into an arc after a step’s distance, turning towards the back of the Werewolf Mecha. Lin Lei aimed precisely at the Werewolf Mecha’s disadvantage of losing an arm and being unable to turn easily, manipulating the Black Rose to an extreme degree so that the Werewolf would lose its balance.

Fortunately, this was the virtual world. If it were reality, if he did this, the Black Rose would definitely be scrapped.

He succeeded. The Werewolf Mecha was indeed struggling to cope. One of its mechanical legs was kicked broken by Lin Lei’s Black Rose.

Lin Lei’s attack method of quickly raising his leg to kick parts below the knee was impossible to defend against. It was simply too fast. Especially when used on the already agile Black Rose, one could hardly see the movement of her raising her foot.

Lin Lei had no choice. The Black Rose’s arm strength was not enough to cause damage to the Werewolf Mecha. He could only press the weight of the whole Mecha onto his feet to inflict heavy damage.

If he came out himself, his hand and foot strength would be basically the same, because what he exerted was the strength of his whole body. But the Black Rose couldn’t do that. This was the limitation of the Mecha.

“Snap.” The other leg of the Werewolf Mecha was also kicked broken. It completely lost its ability to move. Now he only had one arm left. Unable to turn around, he could no longer pose any threat.

“Do you admit defeat?” Lin Lei asked. His voice was still Fuweili’s soft and gentle voice, but the cold flame mixed in it was audible to everyone.

This woman was truly strong to the point of abnormality! Where does this leave the face of the male compatriots in the Galaxy! Everyone who heard the voice thought so.

“Give me a dignified way to fail.” Li Xiaoran’s voice sounded a bit defeated. As a warrior of a Level 8 Civilization, he actually lost to a little girl from an Level 8 Civilization. He would definitely have no face to see people in the future.

Dignified, right? Lin Lei smiled mischievously and kicked the energy node of the Werewolf Mecha, creating another incredibly bloody explosion.

“Black Rose Fuweili achieves 23 consecutive victories, cumulative bonus 110,000 Galactic Universal Currency!”

Haha, Lin Lei listened to this beautiful voice and rushed off the platform immediately. He had to get the bonus, and then… go offline!

Below the battle platform, a group of dumbfounded audience members and an even more shocked David were left behind.