When Tom came back to his senses, he was already lying in his resting pod.
"How... how did I lose?"
His face was full of confusion, sitting blankly on the chair, unable to accept the fact that he had been instantly killed.
To figure it out, he decisively paid 1 paradise coin, opened the battle replay, and adjusted the playback speed to 0.1 times.
In slow motion, he finally saw the entire battle process clearly.
"Holy shit, are you cheating?! This speed, this reaction, what kind of joke is this!"
【You have received a message from your opponent in this match. You can choose to view it.】
Mu Bei felt curious. His opponent could actually leave him a message, so he chose to view it:
"You cheater, I've already reported you to Paradise. Just wait to be executed! Hahahaha!"
The barking of the weak had no value.
However, since the other party could leave him a message, it was also fine for him to leave a message for the other party.
Mu Bei decided to give it a try.
One minute later, Tom, who was adjusting his mindset in the resting pod, also received a message from his opponent. It contained only one seemingly light sentence:
"If you're weak, practice more. If you can't handle losing, don't play."
After reading this message, Tom's mindset instantly exploded.
"Ah—!!! You dead cheater actually dare to mock your Grandpa Tom! You're finished! You are really finished! I said so!"
【You have received a message from your opponent in this match. You can choose to view it.】
【You have received a message from your opponent in this match. You can choose to view it.】
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【You have received a message from your opponent in this match. You can choose to view it.】
Within less than a minute after Mu Bei sent the message to Tom, he successively received 29 more messages from Tom.
Based on the sender and frequency, Mu Bei believed these messages were likely garbage information that would be a waste of time to read.
Therefore, Mu Bei ignored Tom, who was having a mental breakdown and wildly raging at him, and directly initiated the next match.
Since Mu Bei's ranking was still very low, the matching speed was very fast.
The venue was still the familiar circular arena, but this time there were more people in the audience stands, about a dozen or so.
After all, Mu Bei's ranking had increased by an order of magnitude, so the attention he received should also have increased.
Mu Bei's opponent this time was a Contractor wielding dual sword and shield, appearing fully equipped:
Green quality bulletproof vest, hardened plastic helmet, camouflage pants. The overall style was a combination of modern and cold weapons, and his biological sex appeared to be male.
Just as the countdown was about to end, a familiar shout rang out from the audience stands:
"Go, brother with the sword and shield over there! Teach this exhibitionist wearing a big pot on his head a good lesson! I bet 10 paradise coins on you winning!"
Mu Bei looked up and couldn't help but smile—
Wasn't that the idiot he had instantly killed just now?
"This guy is really persistent..."
Mu Bei joked in his heart, but what interested him more was the information revealed in Tom's words.
Mu Bei immediately asked Paradise if he could bet on himself.
【Participants are not allowed to bet on their own matches, nor are they allowed to collude with others to bet. Those who violate the rules will be severely punished, and those with excessively large amounts involved may even be forcibly executed.】
"Tsk, truly merciless."
Mu Bei felt a bit regretful that the way to make money he had just thought of was stillborn before it even began, but he didn't dwell on it too much and focused on preparing for the upcoming battle.
【Battle Start!】
The moment the battle started, Mu Bei directly charged forward to his opponent's front.
The opponent tried to block with his sword and shield, but in front of Mu Bei, these blocks were completely ineffective.
Mu Bei easily grabbed the opponent's head and torso and twisted hard.
"Crack—"
The opponent's head was forcibly twisted off by him.
Afterwards, Mu Bei casually threw that head. The high-speed flying head directly hit the energy shield in front of the audience stands and exploded like a ripe watermelon.
No mosaic, no obscuring.
Viscous brain matter slowly flowed down the energy shield, the scene was sickeningly clear.
In the audience stands, Tom looked at the scene before him, his stomach churned, and he couldn't hold back any longer, vomiting out all the lunch he had just eaten with a "Ugh—".
The next second, the Paradise's notification sound rang out for Tom:
【It is detected that you have polluted the Paradise Arena audience environment, mandatory fine of 50 paradise coins.】
"I..." Tom's face turned green with anger, but he didn't dare to complain even half a word about Paradise's rules.
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【This match has ended. You have obtained two consecutive wins!】
【Tip: Achieving 5 or more consecutive wins will grant additional arena points.】
【It is detected that you used less than 3s in this match, you gain a large amount of additional arena points.】
【Arena Points +27 (9+18)】
【Your Paradise Arena ranking has increased, from 71625943rd place to 6925949th place.】
【You have returned to your resting pod.】
【You have received a message from your opponent in this match. You can choose to view it:】
"Killing is killing, why did you twist my head off?! Fuck you..."
Mu Bei just glanced at the message, too lazy to finish reading, and directly closed the message, choosing to continue matching.
As his ranking increased, the opponent's strength seemed to have slightly increased, but for Mu Bei, there was no essential difference in difficulty.
The opponent in the third match was a Contractor holding a staff, presumably a mage.
He tried to create distance at the start, but Mu Bei easily caught up and directly sent him away with a kick of Ground Shatter.
【This match has ended. You have obtained three consecutive wins!】
【Your Paradise Arena ranking has increased, from 6925949th place to 1825046th place.】
Although it didn't reach an order of magnitude increase, the progress was still significant.
Fourth match, fifth match, sixth match...
Almost every battle did not exceed 10 seconds. Mu Bei easily crushed his opponents, and the number of consecutive wins kept increasing.
【This match has ended. You have obtained forty-seven consecutive wins!】
【Your Paradise Arena ranking has increased, from 149th place to 46th place.】
After just two hours, Mu Bei, with 47 victories, directly jumped from a nine-digit ranking to a two-digit ranking.
Most of these 2 hours were spent on matching opponents rather than on fighting.
Whether they were ranged or melee Contractors, none had any power to resist in front of Mu Bei, and none could last more than 5 seconds.
Once ranged classes were closed in on, any casual Ground Shatter could send them away;
Melee classes weren't much better—as long as Mu Bei wished, he could use Ground Shatter activated with up to 2250 mana points to instantly turn the opponent into dust.
Of course, powerful skills also came with a price—
Activating Ground Shatter with 2250 mana points would cause severe recoil to Mu Bei himself, leading to physical injuries such as muscle tears and bone fractures.
However, after the match ended, Paradise would automatically restore the Contractor's physical state, which also left Mu Bei with no worries.
In addition, the time spent waiting for matches was not completely wasted. During this time, Mu Bei raised defensive abilities such as High Temperature Resistance, Oxidation Resistance, and Radiation Resistance to their current limit.
Oxidation Resistance and Radiation Resistance were obtained by Mu Bei after being hit by a Contractor dressed like a Naruto character, who used a move called Great Fireball Technique:
Derivative Ability 2: High Temperature Resistance, resistance to high temperatures +100.
Derivative Ability 3: Oxidation Resistance, resistance to oxidation +100.
Derivative Ability 4: Radiation Resistance, defense against radiation +100.
It should be noted that increasing High Temperature Resistance by 100 points cost Mu Bei a total of 13 negative entropy points;
Increasing Oxidation Resistance cost him a total of 14 negative entropy points;
The cost of increasing Radiation Resistance reached 19 negative entropy points.
It seems that increasing defense against different types of damage requires different amounts of negative entropy points.
Reasonable, very, even nine parts reasonable.
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"Continue Matching!"