“The situation… seems to be different from what you said” Laura muttered in a low voice.
Gu Qing Shan felt his face a bit hot, turning his gaze towards the Professionists who were charging towards him.
“They merely haven’t understood pain”
Gu Qing Shan said, then waved his hand behind his back.
——-the skeletons moved forward.
Three skeletons stepped out among them and stood guard in three different directions around Gu Qing Shan.
The other skeletons flew into the air and towards the group of charging people.
In an instant, the two sides clashed.
The skeletons were summoned by the Deathmatch Dance, completely unafraid of death, fighting only to kill the enemy they face.
But the gladiators couldn’t ignore their own survival, so their advance was halted, some were even being forced back and beaten mercilessly.
——-they were all evil Professionists in their own Space Vortexes, but they were completely nothing in front of the current Gu Qing Shan who had comprehended Realm Force.
Suddenly, a shadowy figure escaped the horde of skeletons and charged straight at Gu Qing Shan.
“As long as I deal with you, those skeletons will immediately disappear!”
Hysterical laughter could be heard from inside the shadow.
Gu Qing Shan stood completely still, but the three skeletons around him disappeared.
At the very next moment.
They abruptly reappeared behind Gu Qing Shan and thrust their swords towards the empty void.
Shu——–
The sound of a sharp weapon piercing flesh was heard.
A Professionist was pinned in the air by three swords, completely restrained in the air without being able to move.
The three skeletons pulled their swords back at the same time, one of them using that movement to swing its sword——
The Professionist was beheaded in mid-air, his head falling into the skeleton’s hand.
The three skeletons remained silent and cautiously stood guard in three directions around Gu Qing Shan once again.
“These three skeletons around you seem to be quite a bit stronger compared to the others”
Laura commented.
“Yeah, they each have 70% of my total strength, my Four-sided Demon King incarnations that can fuse into my body at a moment’s notice” Gu Qing Shan explained.
The two of them stood still and silently watched as the skeletons fought against the Professionists
Professionists who can reach the Dusty World would more or less have hidden cards they can play, and the fact that they can reach this world system means they were all villains—–
So it wasn’t quite easy to deal with them.
Furthermore, Gu Qing Shan had only summoned the skeletons without actually dancing, so even though they managed to kill a few Professionists during this battle, most of them were destroyed through cooperation of the others.
The skeletons swiftly turned back into illusions and disappeared one by one.
The Professionists clutched their wounds while breathing heavily as they tried to charge towards Gu Qing Shan again.
“Hah… Hah… now you’ll accept your death”
『 He injured me, kill him! 』
“Fucker, I almost got killed by a skeleton”
“Everyone attack together!”
「 That’s right, attack together! 」
The villainous group called out, feeling strength in number.
Gu Qing Shan’s expression was completely unchanged as he observed them.
It wasn’t until these villains got closer that he raised his hand and clenched his fist again.
The void of space opened up.
Skeletons flew down from the opening one by one.
These skeletons wielded various weapons while standing firmly in formation behind him.
The villains slowed down, then eventually stopped.
The gladiator ring was completely silent.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
Suddenly, one of the villains raised his blade and shouted: “KILL!”
He swiftly turned his body and swung his blade towards another villain.
Clang!
The sound of weapons clashing resounded.
The other villain had stopped his attack and angrily shouted:
“Shit, you fucker, didn’t we agree that we’d go forward and kill that brat first?”
The blade-wielding villain shouted: “Then you go ahead, I still want to live for a few more rounds!”
“Die!”
The two of them started fighting.
Seeing that, the other villains snapped out of their shock and started fighting the other villains.
No one took another glance in Gu Qing Shan’s direction.
For the time being, the gladiator ring was filled with screams, cries, shouting, explosions of magic, weapon clashes, and a lively sense of death.
Laura propped her flower umbrella over her shoulder and took out a bag of snacks from her backpack, happily munching on it while watching the fight.
——-she had always sat in the front row to watch gladiator fights in the past, but this was the first time she had observed a fight on the gladiator ring itself, which was quite interesting.
Especially since these people are cruel and merciless in every meaning of the word, their attacks were all extremely vicious to ensure the enemy’s death, making for a highly exciting match.
While watching those people fight, Gu Qing Shan told Laura:
“Don’t eat too many snacks, I’ll make you something for lunch later”
Laura responded with a short ‘ah’, quickly ate a mouthful of snacks, then put it away.
“Gu Qing Shan, I remember they say that you need to survive three gladiator matches”
“Yeah” Gu Qing Shan replied.
“So how much longer will we have to stay here?” Laura asked again.
“These people are about the same level, so the entire match would probably take quite a bit of time, three matches… will be quite a while I suppose” Gu Qing Shan shrugged.
“What a long and tough process——-”
Laura stretched her back, casually reaching her hand into the void of space.
She pulled out a glowing black pearl from the void of space.
The glow on the pearl quickly crawled all over Laura’s body and enveloped her in it.
“Be a bit careful” Gu Qing Shan told her out of concern.
“Don’t worry, I’m very experienced with collecting things now, so I won’t fish up anything dangerous” Laura answered.
She carefully felt the glow and nodded:
“This glow will allow the owner to maintain eternal youth——- pearls of this quality are also quite rare”
Laura estimated the black pearl in her hand before putting it into her bag.
Eternal youth?
Gu Qing Shan’s eyebrows twitched a bit, then suddenly said:
“Ah right, this place is the Dusty World. In the previous world, you managed to collect the [Embrace of the Saint] battle armor, so perhaps you might be able to collect even better artifacts in this world system”
“Huh? That sounds like it could be true”
Laura became excited and continued: “When I collected the pearl earlier, I also felt like there were countless objects and artifacts waiting for me to grab them”
The two of them exchanged glances and understood what the other meant.
This was already the last world system they will stop in.
Once they obtain this world’s essence relic, they will need to leave the Dusty World.
In other words—–
This will be the last chance they have to collect treasures from the Dusty World!
Gu Qing Shan’s mind was clear and told Laura after thinking for a while:
“The fact that you felt that way probably meant that this evil world system should be more complete and vaster compared to the previous ones”
Laura excitedly: “Then——–”
“There’s no hurry. After I finish these three gladiator matches, we’ll need to better understand this world system before we can act” Gu Qing Shan told her.
While they were talking, the first gladiator match ended.
Only a few people remained in the gladiator ring.
The corpses had all been pulled down the stage, their blood completely cleaned up.
A number of ferocious-looking Professionists went up the ring again.
The resounding voice from before echoed again:
[Attention, the second gladiator match will now commence!]
[Cheer and scream, our audience! The bloody battle will resume!]
[3]
[2]
[1]
[Begin!]
Instantly, various explosions of light, weapon clashes, screams, and desperate howling resounded throughout the entire ring.
Gu Qing Shan’s side remained completely empty.
With someone else making an example for them, the gladiators were all very rational. No matter how excitedly they were killing their opponents, no one tried to bother him.
“Why do we have to wait for a while? Are you afraid that our Combination Skill would be discovered?” Laura continued to chat with Gu Qing Shan.
“It’s not about being discovered” Gu Qing Shan replied.
“———then is it because we can only take them to observe them? Or only borrow them for use?” Laura pursued the question.
Gu Qing Shan’s expression became a bit solemn and seriously answered her: “Laura, that’s a mistake. What do you mean ‘take to observe’? And ‘borrow to use’ as well? I need to ask you, what kind of world system do you think this is?”
Laura observed his expression and carefully replied: “A-an evil, wicked world?”
Gu Qing Shan answered solemnly: “That’s right, this place is an evil world, so do we really need to be reasonable with these villains?”
Laura was stunned.
Gu Qing Shan guided her step by step: “Whenever we take one treasure from these people, they would be unable to use that treasure to harm others and the forces of evil would weaken by just a little bit”
“——Laura, for the sake of the infinite worlds’ justice and peace, I wouldn’t spare the effort to swing my sword, so will you spare your stamina?”
Laura was only stunned for a few seconds before she clapped her hands: “Of course not, I will collect as much as I can! We need to use our Combination Skill to rob this entire world blind before we leave”
“That’s exactly right!” Gu Qing Shan replied.
While the two of them talked, the second gladiator match had reached a climax.
Those who can survive until this point are nothing short of the strongest Professionists.
Cheers rang out on the stands.
Someone suddenly shouted: “You people down there, who dares take a shot at that skeleton lord? I’ll pay 100,000 Evil coins!”
The ring became silent.
All the gladiators turned to Gu Qing Shan one by one.
Gu Qing Shan’s eyebrows twitched a bit.
Before he said anything, Laura had already spoken up:
“Big sis Shannu, where are you?”
“I’m here” Shannu replied.
“Can you give me a hand? I want to collect that guy’s wallet” Laura said.
“…That’s no trouble at all, let’s do it together” Shannu answered.
