A Hundred Consecutive Victories!

"Huh?"

Alisa slowly opened her eyes and saw the most unforgettable sight of her life.

Lu Li, more than half his body soaked in blood, was using one arm to clamp tightly around the python's vital point!

Seeing Alisa awake, he roared:

"I can't hold on much longer! Get over here and help!"

"H-Help?"

Alisa looked utterly baffled.

What was going on?

Hadn't Lu Li just been bitten by the Hellhound, unable to move?

How had he broken free in the blink of an eye and started dealing with the snake tail?

Since when had those three dog heads become so accommodating?!

Alisa turned her head blankly and saw the shattered dog heads nearby.

Oh...

So the three dog heads were already dead...

It looked like they had been blown apart by a single punch?

"What are you spacing out for?! Hurry up!"

Lu Li's shout came again, pulling Alisa out of her wild thoughts.

"Ah, sorry! I'm coming to help right away!!"

Alisa hurriedly responded and struggled with all her strength.

With the snake's head under control, the girl quickly broke free from her restraints.

Following Lu Li's instructions, she found the Bug Fang Dagger in one of the dog's mouths.

After clumsily stabbing it several times, she finally killed the python.

They had won.

Alisa slumped to the ground, staring in disbelief at the enormous corpse before her.

The deafening cheers rang in her ears, as unreal as a dream.

They had really won.

That man named Lu Li had led her to victory through a hundred gladiatorial matches!

Dior took tiny, excited steps forward and announced the result in an incredibly booming voice:

"Congratulations to [Lu Li] and [Alisa Bucky] for winning a hundred gladiatorial matches!"

"The match is over. All spectators, please proceed in an orderly manner to the Hub Hall, where complimentary drinks, beverages, pastries, and food will be provided."

"The two gladiators, please follow me to the lounge for a brief rest."

"There will also be talent recruitment and contract discussions afterward. If you are interested, you may..."

Halfway through his sentence, Dior suddenly realized that someone was missing from the arena.

Lu Li was gone.

After looking around, he discovered that Lu Li was crouching beside the Hellhound's corpse, apparently busy with something.

"Lu Li?"

Dior did not approach immediately. Instead, after calling out to him, he waited where he was with tactful restraint.

Lu Li had too many secrets.

Dior knew very well that if he wanted to befriend someone like this, he had to rein in his curiosity.

Only after Lu Li had finished what he was doing did he continue asking:

"Lu Li, may I ask whether you intend to participate in the upcoming talent recruitment and contract discussions?"

Lu Li casually tucked the Bug Fang Dagger into his belt and answered absentmindedly:

"Oh, I'll go take a look later... By the way, the arena probably doesn't reclaim this Hellhound corpse, right?"

Dior froze for a moment, then immediately understood.

"In theory, it should be reclaimed. But if the corpse was damaged during the match, then as the referee, I can only leave it unaddressed."

Lu Li caught his meaning and raised a hand, activating [Corpse-to-Crystal].

The corpse rapidly shrank, transforming into two gleaming azure sixth-tier Origin Crystals.

Dior pretended not to see. Only after Lu Li had put away the Origin Crystals did he hesitantly say:

"About that one ton of Adamantine you promised earlier..."

Thinking Dior was impatient to collect it, Lu Li frowned slightly:

"I'll pay you within three days."

"Ah, no, no, that's not what I meant..." Dior waved his hands repeatedly, the expression on his mechanical face as friendly as could be.

"What I mean is, you don't need to pay me that one ton of Adamantine."

"What?" Lu Li was somewhat surprised.

Dior smiled as he explained:

"Because I used the 700 kilograms of Adamantine you gave me to place a bet on you achieving a hundred consecutive victories."

"Now that you've won, the arena will pay me 350,000 tons of Adamantine!"

Lu Li raised an eyebrow. "That really is an enormous profit..."

Dior nodded.

"That's right! To thank you for helping me make such a fortune, I've decided to give you 200,000 tons of Adamantine."

Faced with this unexpected gift, Lu Li was caught off guard.

He remained secretly vigilant.

"You placed that bet. It has nothing to do with me, so why should I take your Adamantine for free?"

Dior's tone was utterly sincere.

"Consider it a gesture of goodwill. After all, without your victory, I might have even lost my original 700 kilograms."

Lu Li considered it for a moment. Seeing that the other party seemed sincere, he did not refuse.

The three left the arena and entered the lounge.

Before Lu Li and Alisa could sit down and rest, a commotion erupted outside the lounge.

The service robot responsible for guiding and receiving guests was smashed into two halves, crashing through the lounge doors with a bang.

Lu Li instantly became alert, his right hand quietly resting on Bug Fang at his waist.

"You pieces of trash barely smarter than microwaves, and you dared to stop me? Get out of my way!"

After a string of curses, two handsome, bare-chested men appeared at the lounge entrance.

Together, they carried a roll of red carpet, unfurling it all the way into the lounge.

Once they had finished, the two men retreated to the side and knelt respectfully on the ground.

Not long after, a lavishly dressed woman appeared at the lounge entrance.

She was extremely tall, and also extremely bloated.

As she walked, sticky, wet slapping sounds continuously came from beneath her skirt.

At the sight of Lu Li, a chilling smile spread across the woman's ugly face.

Without another word, she handed Lu Li a pure gold business card.

"Nice to meet you, Lu Li. I am Octopus Lady."

The vigilance in Lu Li's eyes did not diminish. He stared at the business card before him without moving.

The Hub Arena was filled with all sorts of people, but any dragons here were true dragons!

Lu Li did not know the Octopus Lady before him.

But judging from her display, she was clearly no insignificant figure.

Until he understood her intentions, he could only proceed with caution.

Seeing that Lu Li remained silent, Octopus Lady slightly closed her wide, grinning mouth.

She pushed the business card a little closer to Lu Li's chest and explained:

"Don't worry, I mean you no harm."

"Although I did initially want to acquire your body through purchase, you have now proven me wrong with your strength."

"So please, give me an opportunity—an opportunity to express my apology to you."

"If you ever run into any trouble, you can contact me at any time through this business card."

Dior craned his neck from the side and quietly added in Lu Li's ear:

"She's the ruler of the Neptune Domain. Take it quickly!"

"The Neptune Domain?"

Lu Li froze, related information immediately surfacing in his mind.

This star domain guarded a massive Demon Eye known as "Padtic."

In his previous life, when the interdimensional Demon Tide erupted on a massive scale, the Neptune Domain bore the brunt of it and was corrupted and destroyed by the Demon Tide.

This Octopus Lady before him had likely died in that Demon Tide, which was why Lu Li had never heard of her.

After all, in his previous life, Lu Li first entered the Hub Arena in the third year after Earth's apocalypse began.

"If I can enter the Padtic Demon Eye before the Demon Tide erupts on a massive scale, perhaps I can obtain that item more easily..."

"That item that can take [Soul Devour] to the next level..."