Challenge, Hundred-Billion Bet!

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, it was already Vinina's seventh day at the Elite Training Camp.

Over these seven days, Vinina's strength had soared, especially her Battle Intent. Because she was a Direct Descendant of the Polenas Family, it had practically doubled.

After all, as one of the nine core families of the HR Alliance, the Polenas Family naturally recruited students at the Elite Training Camp just like the other major factions. Vinina was a direct member of the Polenas Family, and her talent was so astonishing that she might one day become their superior or colleague. Under such circumstances, with Vinina offering them a few favors, their superficial recognition of her was inevitable.

And once she had gained their recognition, mobilizing their Battle Intent became much easier. Although she could not enter the wilderness and stimulate their Battle Intent through slaughtering monsters, competition within the Elite Training Camp was already fierce. Combined with the pride of these geniuses and the fact that all of them were at least High-level Battle Generals, only four people produced far more Battle Intent than the War Eagle Squad, Li Xun, and Justin combined!

Under the uninterrupted twenty-four-hour tempering of that Battle Intent, Vinina improved rapidly. Most notably, her combat techniques!

With a War God level Martial Artist personally teaching her, answering her questions, and allowing her to practice in the Trial Tower, the results were naturally tremendous. During this process, Vinina's movement technique successfully entered the "Subtle" realm, while Annihilation also advanced to its second level!

That meant that, when her body erupted at full power, it could unleash two additional layers of force. All three layers amounted to ninety percent force, for a total of 270 percent!

And with the boost from Battle Intent Power—

At full strength, Vinina could throw a punch with 40,000 kilograms of force!

A full forty tons!

Even throughout the entire Elite Training Camp, that was an excellent result.

Because within the training camp, Combat Power Amplitude was the key. Combat Power Amplitude was calculated by multiplying "Punch Power Level" by "Trial Tower Level." Punch Power Level was simply how many times more explosive force one could unleash on top of their original strength.

The 270 percent from Annihilation meant 2.7 times, or a Punch Power Level of 2.7. Even without factoring in the nearly twofold boost from Battle Intent, multiplying Trial Tower Level 1.6 by 2.7 already gave her a Combat Power Amplitude of 4.32!

At the Elite Training Camp, that was enough to cross the qualification threshold.

The four Elite Training Camp members recruited by the Polenas Family all had Combat Power Amplitudes between 4 and 8, roughly on par with Vinina. But Vinina's Trial Tower Level was certainly far above 1.6!

"It was time to show what I could do."

In the underground chamber beneath the villa, Vinina looked at the number in her bank account with some helplessness.

Seven days ago, she had nearly five billion Huaxia Coins in her account. Now, it was about to drop below ten digits.

Most of it had been spent on winning people over.

The four geniuses recruited by the Polenas Family had each received one billion Huaxia Coins' worth of benefits from Vinina. Otherwise, they would not have acknowledged her so readily upon first contact and allowed her to mobilize their Battle Intent.

Of course, the money had definitely been well spent.

But the fact remained that she was nearly out of money. She had to find a way to make more, and the obvious target could only be the Polenas Family.

She would put on a display, then keep asking for investment.

With that in mind, Vinina rose, left the underground chamber, and headed toward the Nine-Story Building.

"Vinina Polenas!"

As Vinina walked along the stone path toward the Nine-Story Building, she halted and turned around. A dark-skinned young man was walking toward her with a smile, causing Vinina to frown slightly.

It was nothing else. Seeing Blackie simply annoyed her.

"My name is David Baghdadi, and I am from the European Union."

The Blackie youth seemed not to notice Vinina's frown as he spoke enthusiastically. "I have always been curious about America, and there are many genius Martial Artists from America in the training camp. Miss Vinina, you were even admitted separately. I would very much like to have a match with a beautiful lady like you and exchange pointers."

"I don't have the time."

Vinina refused directly, but the Blackie youth did not give up and continued eagerly, "We can do it in the training room. There is no danger, and Miss Vinina, you can also gain a deeper understanding of the Elite Training Camp students' strength during the match. Why not?"

"David!"

A cold snort sounded beside her. "You really have no shame! Miss Vinina only just joined the training camp. She's a newcomer, and you want to gamble against her in the challenge room? You're practically trying to hand her money! If you've got the guts, come challenge me!"

The speaker was one of the four Elite Training Camp students recruited by the Polenas Family, Tiemu Field. His strength was not particularly outstanding; among more than 140 people, he had only barely squeezed into the top hundred. But David's ranking was clearly not much higher. Faced with Tiemu's provocation, he still looked at Vinina. "Miss Vinina and I don't need to gamble too much. One billion Huaxia Coins, how about it?"

"That little money is probably just a drop in the bucket to Miss Vinina. Do you think everyone is as dirt poor as you, Tiemu?"

"Miss Vinina, what do you say?"

"One billion Huaxia Coins?"

Vinina narrowed her eyes as she looked at David. The contents of the "Student Handbook" regarding the challenge rooms immediately surfaced in her mind, leaving her somewhat speechless.

She remembered that the Elite Training Camp had this sort of thing: old students would take advantage of newcomers being unfamiliar with many of the rules, enthusiastically drag them into gambling matches, and make a hefty sum off them.

But she had never expected someone to try it on her.

This Blackie had probably noticed how lavishly she had been spending while winning over Tiemu and the others recently. His eyes had turned red with envy, and he wanted to fleece her.

"How strong is he?"

Vinina turned to Tiemu and asked.

"Miss Vinina, don't believe this Blackie. They specialize in bullying newcomers. They don't dare bully people openly, but through gambling matches, plenty of newcomers have suffered losses at their hands! This Blackie's Combat Power Amplitude is 'average.' It isn't high, but it isn't low either. Newcomers usually aren't his match, especially since Miss Vinina, your physical fitness has only just reached the Initial Battle General level—"

"I accept."

Before Tiemu could finish, Vinina looked directly at David. "But one billion is too little."

"I've spent more than that in the past two days."

"Let's make it a little bigger. You don't mind, do you?"

"Make it bigger?"

Vinina nodded slightly. "Add a zero. If you dare, then let's play. If you don't, get lost."

With that, Vinina fixed her gaze on David and waited for his response, her eyes filled with mockery.