The proud Snow Leopard Female Warrior ultimately compromised.
Though she absolutely despised Meng Chao's smile, and the feeling of being led around by the nose.
But there was no helping it. Meng Chao had helped her win far too much loot.
After her treatment ended, Ice Storm brought Meng Chao to the armory of Blood Skull Arena.
The armory, several hundred cubits in both height and length, rivaled Dragon City's largest warehouse-style supermarket. It was filled with enough Mandala Fruit to fill the bellies of tens of thousands of servant soldiers, as well as weapons capable of arming them to the teeth.
The walls appeared to be piled from irregular stones, yet Mandala Tree branches grew freely through the gaps like vines, sealing every seam tightly and forming a framework tougher than reinforced steel.
This made the entire armory as seamless as though it had been poured from a single mold of concrete. Like the other military buildings in Black Horn City, it had stood for thousands of years without collapsing and could still endure thunderous bombardment.
There was simply too much loot.
Ice Storm had no choice but to make Meng Chao help her take inventory.
The rewards for winning the Team Battle alone included five hundred Golden Fruit, five thousand jin of Totem Beast Flesh, two hundred jars of fragrant secret medicine, and enough armor and weapons to equip over a hundred servant soldiers—not shoddy junk haphazardly cobbled together from Mandala Tree bark and branches along with animal bones, but heavy weapons made from solid, full-weight metal.
The tens of thousands of spectators, their blood boiling as they watched and shouting in delight, had also awarded Ice Storm Squad a great deal of additional resources.
This was the arena's tradition.
The more breathtaking the battle and the more