The next week, when the day for the allotted matches for round two finally came, Kahn returned to the Xaphar city’s battle arena while being dressed as an assassin warrior.
After profiting over 9 billion gold coins that his people received, the first thing Kahn did was invest it in hundreds of real estate and agricultural land using the Bloodborne company’s name under the pretense of expanding their business network.
While the remaining went into bribing government officials under the table to gain their favor in order to create a favorable impression and strong connections with people in high places using the name of the Seven Deadly Sins.
If both of his official & unofficial organizations had to flourish.. Kahn had to make sure that they were always ways to funnel the cash flow and in case they were in need of money.
And there was no better investment than the land and housing market where the prices would keep fluctuating upward with time and bring stable passive income on the side.
And he could also use these lands to build hotels, restaurants, houses and keep the money coming in a large amount.
“Have all our people gotten mixed in the crowd? And do they have enough money? We have to raise the stakes here.” said Kahn.
“All has been taken care of, master.” replied Omega obediently.
“Good. You three know what to do.” said Kahn and ordered Omega, Ronin & Oliver to mix in between the audience.
Today, Kahn was going all the way in again. Because for the second round, more money and higher bets were going to be made as many strong warriors emerged after the first round separated them from the common weed.
When his turn finally came, Kahn’s people placed a huge amount on his match where the odds were 50:50. Means you get the same amount of money you used in the bet.
And his opponent was a female archer who was dressed in black hunting gear. The only visible things on her face were the eyes. Everything else was covered under the hood and mask.
As soon as the battle started, Kahn quickly used invisibility skill and disappeared from the spot without leaving a single trace.
Since there were no shadows present on the battle ring, he could not use Shadow Walk skill here and to make matters worse, the opponent was an archer who had tracking skills such as footprint tracking and body heat sensory skills.
This time, Kahn had no choice but to quickly finish the match before his activation time ended and he was exposed.
So before the opponent could even track his movements down, he used his real strength and appeared right behind the female archer without even making a sound as he used the Shadow Strike after so many months.
This was a skill that allowed you to teleport to the target’s shadow directly and you could make a lethal attack from behind.
It was also one of the skills he used during the fight with Solomon and killed the semi-saint mage.
As soon as he teleported behind her, Kahn waited for the invisibility skill to end as his opponent was still trying to figure out his location.
Clack!
As soon the skill time ended, Kahn’s dagger appeared right on the neck of the female archer and for a second, he released his aura on her.
“Admit defeat.” spoke Kahn in a deathly tone as his opponent was petrified from the intense pressure, unable to move in the slightest.
As soon as his aura waned, the female archer dropped on the ground and declared her loss. Her legs still shaking from fear of Kahn’s murderous aura.
[[Author : Female Archer Reference Art in chapter comments.]]
[Tell them to start.] commanded Kahn to his subordinates telepathically.
The Hive Mind skill allowed him to communicate with his subordinate within 5 kilometers radius so the three subordinates easily heard his command.
In dozens of seconds, a loud cheer resounded from the different corners of the crowd of a million audiences.
All the 5 levels of platforms made for the audience, each of which was as large and wide as an entire football stadium encircling the six hundred battle rings were filled with loud cheers.
“Look at that guy! He’s so skilled that he defeated his opponent in just 20 seconds and she didn’t even sense him till the very end.” spoke an elf.
“That guy is good. I didn’t even see him coming behind her.” spoke a bearkin on the other end of the arena on the 3rd floor.
Soon, hundreds and then thousands of people pointed out towards Kahn’s match and the projection screen also displayed how quickly he defeated his opponent with sheer speed and accuracy to the point that his opponent didn’t even see him coming until a dagger was placed on her neck.
After causing this small rouse, now half of the audience had been informed and many paid attention towards his match. This instantly made him popular amongst the audience and the masked assassin in black garnered the attention of a few hundred thousand people in just a few minutes.
Kahn left the battle ring after he was declared as the winner and headed to the resting area to wait for his next match.
In competitions like this.. Popular opinion swayed the audience many times than true skills and combat prowess. And that’s exactly what Kahn had planned for the first match.
In other words, Kahn was hyping himself as a contestant who was said to be very strong and with better chances to win. Not every participant could get that much attention so just one guy getting praised and acknowledged by thousands of people at once seemed like he truly had the ability.
[How much did we earn?] asked Kahn to his subordinates while sitting inside the resting area as he waited for his next match that would happen in a few hours.
After ten minutes, Ronin finally tallied the numbers received from their people hidden in the audience.
[Master, we have gathered 5 billion from the match. What do you want us to do now?] asked Ronin who was sitting in the crowd.
“Do you even need to ask me? Let the odds become clear first. After that..” spoke Kahn softly and continued..
“We will be swimming in gold.”