Seeing the Poison Dragon sprawled like a dead dog as Ben Hong tossed him to Miss Betty, Chen Rui finally remembered that Pagliu had taken the initiative to strike up a conversation with Ben Hong back then, and seemed to have made some sort of wager with her.
They had set a one-month limit: whoever had lower strength would have to agree to do one thing for the other.
It now seemed that the lust-blinded Poison Dragon had finally understood what terrifying existence he had approached. This was a textbook case of courting death if you refused to die.
What Chen Rui did not know was that Lola and Isabella had joined forces to fleece Pagliu once more. Lola had baited him with the promise of helping him advance to demigod as soon as possible, while Isabella served as witness, and taken all of the Poison Dragon's private savings as payment. In truth, Lola had indeed helped Pagliu break through to demigod and form the rudiments of a true kingdom centered around Blue Wave Lake.
When the Poison Dragon broke through to demigod, Ben Hong had only been at the peak of the Kingdom stage, with eighteen days remaining before the wager's deadline.
This wager had an order-of-arrival rule: within the stipulated time, if their realms were equal, whoever reached that realm first would count as the winner.
Just as Pagliu thought victory was already in the bag, Ben Hong finally "belatedly" "broke through" to demigod on the fifteenth day.
Pagliu soon lost his smile, because on the twentieth day, Ben Hong "broke through" to the middle stage of demigod, then took another five days to "break through" to the peak of demigod.
The Poison Dragon simply could not believe his eyes. In less than thirty days, she had risen