Chapter 135: It’s Just Barely Fighting, Right?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
While the staff member continued to explain the sources of the cultivation ingredients in the gift package, Fang Ning was focused on reading the System Notifications that had popped up, as well as the information of his opponent in the game book.
[The System used Wind Dragon’s Celestial Punch to attack Turtle Demon N’gun.]
[N’gun activated Natural Trait Defense Skill, “Impenetrable Sheath”.]
[The System’s attack failed.]
[The System halted its attack.]
[N’gun. Sex: Male, Hobbies: N/A, Age: N/A. Identity: Chief of a tribe in Africa.]
[Alignment: Evil.]
[Power Level: Pond-level Powerhouse. Description: Size of a swimming pool, depth limited, high defense and high durability.]
Fang Ning knew that they had in the bag after reading everything, but he asked anyway, “Eh, this is your first time giving up on a strong monster, why is that?”
The System deadpanned, “Why are you asking the obvious?”
Fang Ning laughed, “As expected, you’re terribly perceptive when it comes to matters about money. You must be thinking of that one line in the rules and regulations of the tournament, ‘The prize of every match is as below…’ Without defeating that monster through a proper match means your forfeit the prize money.”
The System sneered, “What nonsense, of course I wouldn’t let any money go. There’s no threat this time, so you don’t have to start accumulating Aggro. Don’t waste time here, go and cultivate ‘Atmospheric Morality Technique’.”
Fang Ning was dumbfounded; he thought that he would be able to watch a great battle in peace, since it was seldom for him to find out that they had secured victory so early. There was no need for him to be worried, or to work for it diligently.
Fang Ning then said, “I of course want to quickly cultivate the technique successfully, but I’ve hit a wall with cultivation. I was just about to ask you about it.”
“Spill.”
“Didn’t you already successfully cultivate ‘Atmospheric Morality Technique’, so why do I have to cultivate it again? Where did all that Morality that you accumulated go? Show some to me so that I’ll be able to experience it properly.”
“Just because I’ve successfully cultivated it doesn’t mean you have. I’ve already activated the Morality Module so all Morality is of course stored in the Morality Bars, just like Aggro. As for where are the Morality and Aggro Bars, there’s no need for you to know, all you have to know is that it’s not in your body. Your body is but a vessel for me to execute it. Only the Morality that you cultivate will be stored in your body; like the yellow dog, it can act as backup for me. Letting you experience some of it won’t make a difference; with all those impure thoughts in your head, you’ll be burnt to death.”
Fang Ning was stunned, “I’m really pure, okay? When was I even burnt all those times you used my body to cast Morality?
“All these problems aside, how about all that vital energy you have? You use my body for practice daily but why do I not know even a sliver of your ultimate techniques?”
“Vital energy isn’t stored in things like vital energy bars, it is directly stored in your body and technically speaking, sharing it with you is possible. As for those ultimate techniques, they operate on the same logic as ‘Atmospheric Vitality Technique’, the fact that I know it doesn’t mean you do too. I’m afraid that if I directly instill those techniques into your brain, your memory will be messed up in the process and you’ll suffer a mental breakdown. You learning it by yourself is a much safer way…”
Fang Ning was quite shocked; his plan to take the shortcut had failed, he could only sadly return to his books.
Not long after, a loud wave of voices could be heard from outside the lounge.
“Dragon God, Dragon God!!”
“Dragon God!! Dragon God!!”
“We want to see the Dragon God!!”
Hearing the chanting made Fang Ning’s heart waver, he silently set his book down and used the System View to peek at things.
The television in the lounge was currently showing the introduction video of the challengers of the upcoming match.
Due to the fact that they were both Supreme Challengers, which meant that they were the crème de la crème of the current martial arts world, it would make sense that the introduction video was extremely detailed since most of the audience members were regular folk.
To be honest, promotional tactics like this had long already started since Fang Ning agreed to compete.
However, because of how long Fang Ning spent holed up in the System Space, he was completely oblivious to the entire thing and he didn’t care enough to check on it either.
For example, Fang Ning had no idea that the appearance fees for those top boxing stars that the System could defeat with a single punch were billions of dollars. The System would have to spend a few days risking its life just to defeat a Boss to only earn money that couldn’t even compare to a boxing star spending ten minutes in a match.
However, just like what the staff member said, with the gradual publicization of the Dark Tournament, a lot more rich elites would stop paying attention to boxing matches and would turn their attention to Extraordinaire battles.
Extraordinaire challengers would sooner or later earn appearance fees far more than even the most famous boxing stars.
This was a simple logic; heavyweight boxing would always be more interesting than lightweight boxing.
With the extraordinary abilities Extraordinaires possess, who would want to watch boxers punch and kick each other?
At this moment, the television was currently broadcasting N’gun’s previous battle scenes.
Fang Ning was terribly displeased after watching the broadcast; it was no wonder a majority of the audience kept asking for the Dragon God, Vigilante A, to be shown.
In the broadcast, the Turtle Demon N’gun’s battle area was simple and boring, all he did was use his turtle shell to cause his opponent to give up. He would then attack when his opponent was feeling frustrated so that he would either win or they would battle to a draw.
All his battles depended on his opponent to draw the audience’s attention, yet he would always win in the end, it was no wonder the audience was displeased.
The last time he was almost killed by Anderson, thankfully the organizers stopped the match in time.
The new challenger this time was the mysterious Dragon of the East; when they had started to publicize things in secret last time, they had already tantalized all the rich elites.
The organizers knew their audience well; they purposefully hid things and only show a scaled claw in their videos.
A lot of rich elites didn’t have the information network since that would be a bit too expensive, it would never be able to compare to the price of watching the battle in person.
The introduction video was finally broadcasting Vigilante A’s part.
A long and slender flame dragon could be faintly discerned from amongst the fog.
Instantaneously, a roar thundered once again from the outside.
“Oh!!”
Hearing the exclamation was more than enough for Fang Ning to imagine the awe on everyone’s face…
Fang Ning turned to look at the television and saw that it was currently showing Vigilante A’s astounding achievements.
The first time he had dragonized into the flame dragon, the time he had killed the Lord of Seven Emotions, which was also interspersed with the daily acts of justice that Vigilante A did, followed by the scenes of Vigilante A defeating various Bosses; the entire sequence was edited extremely well and was incredibly interesting, whoever watched it would feel pumped up for sure.
After Fang Ning finished watching everything, he was in awe, ‘These people are amazing. Most of those battles didn’t have a lot of witnesses and yet they managed to find footage.’
Fang Ning already had a brief idea of the powerful presence behind the Dark Tournament; it was obvious that its organizers and the Truth Department weren’t heading towards the same goal.
They had entirely imitated the commercial competition routine that boxing matches took; using their capital and their market to transport their resources, which would allow them to quickly mobilize existing private capital to invest in the cultivation of Extraordinaires. They were practically killing two birds with one stone; it was a matured business model that had high efficiency which allowed for massive earnings.
The most important thing was that they could take the chance to converge a large group of powerhouses as the potential resources of the arena, so that they had a base to plan and prepare their next ideas.
At least Fang Ning was clear that once Sir System had tasted what it was like, it would continue supporting this platform as long as nobody messed around.
Right after Vigilante A’s part finished broadcasting, the time for the match neared.
Two staff members entered the room and politely asked for Vigilante A to prepare for his match.
When Fang Ning was watching the broadcast, he had thought of lots of things, so he promptly gave his orders, “Don’t fight too fast. Remember to focus on it being impressive and exciting. Use the designated time to its full extent and remember to lock that fella into the System Prison in the end…”
The System huffed, “So many requests, it just means I have to feign fighting right? Don’t you worry, go focus on your book.”
Fang Ning dejectedly returned to his corner, but he wasn’t going to just read his book…
…
Vigilante A returned to the glass skyway once again; under the lead of the staff members, he arrived at the entrance to the dome-shaped arena. There was an admission rest area, so he took a seat here.
At this moment, the sphere-shaped arena once again roared with cheers; giant screens lit up all around the arena.
Fang Ning nodded his head in satisfaction. He didn’t notice the screens before they had lit up.
If the audiences felt that lifting their heads to watch the battle was uncomfortable, they could just watch the giant screens.
At least the screens would have replays, slow motion replays, as well as descriptive subtitles… After all, Fang Ning has experienced lots of battles first hand he always needed to rely on the System Notifications to understand what had happened; he doubted that the audience would be better than he…
The giant screens were currently showing Vigilante A and N’gun arriving onto the arena, which was accompanied by the last introduction before the battle.
“The challenger on the right is Mr. N’gun, who has competed in the Dark Tournament qualifiers match for three consecutive years. His best result was when he entered the Supreme Challenge last year, in which he obtained Duke of the Dark Tournament in the end. He has only suffered a single defeat, where he lost to the champion of the Dark Tournament, Anderson.
“Mr. N’gun spent the past year practicing and has improved greatly. He’ll be challenging the champion of the Dark Tournament once again this year!!”
In the middle of the dome-like arena, a host was speaking into a microphone.
A majority of the audience exploded into thunderous applause; despite N’gun’s cruel nature and terrible appearance, but he was still a familiar face on the battlefield. They had witnessed his power first hand and a lot of regular audience members knew who he was, which made sense for them to support him.
Fang Ning used the System View to peek at the audience below; the better seats in the audience were filled with people but the rest were all empty. From the looks of things, the audience members were significantly lacking in number.
However, Fang Ning knew better. He knew that there were at least a few million seats below; a big soccer arena could only fit 100 thousand audience members, not to mention this place was located in an alternate space.
The audience members that had already arrived weren’t lacking in comparison to the audience members of a soccer arena; there should be at least 60 to 70 thousand of them already. However, when dispersed across seats of a few million in number, it would make sense for them to seem sparse.
However, the imposing presence they brought wasn’t all that bad. With the Recovery of Vitality, a majority of the audience members must be quite wealthy, which would allow them to cultivate some things using money alone. They might have eaten some miraculous things too, which meant their throats weren’t that of regular people anymore.
To these wealthy audience members, the tickets weren’t too expensive. Even if they sold the tickets at an average of ten thousand dollars per ticket, they would still have earned 600 to 700 million alone from ticket sales. It was no wonder their championship reward was so high.
N’gun had gotten quite an overwhelming support since his occasion was welcomed with enthusiasm. From his expression seen on the giant screen, he was quite satisfied.
However, when compared to Vigilante A’s upcoming appearance, he would only be seen as a mere clown.
The host then started introducing Vigilante A.
“The challenger on the left is Your Excellency The Eastern Dragon God, who had recently defeated the previous champion of the Dark Tournament. There’s no need for me to share his battle history. Although it is his first time participating in the Dark Tournament qualifiers match, he is one of the most popular candidates for the champion of this year’s Dark Tournament!!
“What’s the most difficult to believe that this Eastern Dragon God is a just man that serves justice and helps the weak. He is the true hero of the east and a real-life Batman. He is the leader of justice and humanity’s hope for the future. Let us cheer for this warrior of justice among the Extraordinaires!!”
Right after the host finished speaking, the audience members down below had all already started giving standing ovations.
“Dragon God, Eastern Dragon God!!”
“The Dragon God will emerge victorious!”
“Justice will prevail!”
Fang Ning scanned the crowd below in detail; a majority of the audience members were cheering wildly and some foreigners were cheering even more enthusiastically than the Asian audience members.
N’gun’s face on the giant screen was already flaming red. Thankfully, his tanned skin didn’t make it too obvious.
Just as Fang Ning turned to look at the screen, a System Notification popped up.
[N’gun’s Aggro towards Vigilante A increased rapidly and is at maximum. Extraction is possible, but all Aggro Bars are full so extraction will not commence.]
‘Hmm, the warm up before a battle actually brings advantages? Why have I never realized this? It might be because I always kill all my opponents before they get the chance to actually start accumulating Aggro.’
