"Big brother."
Feng Hetang, who had been swaggering around outside, was now so frightened he was nearly in tears. He put on a long face as he spoke to Xia Ping over a video call. "Can we win this bet? If we lose, we'll have to pay 770 billion. Even if I sold everything I owned, I couldn't afford that much."
Even though he came from a wealthy family, the staggering sum had left him terrified. His legs were trembling; the pressure of that amount was simply too much.
"Relax. I'm definitely winning this match. They're just handing me money."
Xia Ping clenched his fist, feeling thoroughly pleased. If he won the bet, his wealth would soar to 1.54 trillion Federal Coins.
That sum was enough to shake a nation's economy. With a little more, he might even be able to buy humanity's greatest technological marvel: a Super Warship.
They said its weapons could even kill a King. Once he had such advanced weaponry, he'd be able to do whatever he wanted in the Cloud Sky Realm.
As for the big shots like the Silver Flood Dragon King, the Wolf King, and the Black Scorpion King, he wouldn't have to take any of them seriously.
"It'd be best if we win."
Feng Hetang was still trembling, his face pale. "When my dad heard about this, he called me right away and gave me a furious scolding. He said I was a wastrel and asked if I was trying to squander the entire Feng family fortune."
"If I hadn't talked him around and told him someone was backing me up, he wouldn't have let this go."
There was no helping it.
A sum of 770 billion Federal Coins was simply too shocking. Even the Feng family had been scared out of