Hard to Lose, Heaven-Sent Talent, Unstoppable Winning Streak!

Lin Xia's stats appeared in the air.

The youth merely glanced at them before hastily retracting his fist, executing a smooth backflip to retreat several paces and widen the distance between himself and Lin Xia.

He then opened his mouth, stammering as if to say something, but ultimately gave up.

During this brief moment of hesitation, Lin Xia caught a flicker of timidity, though the emotion lasted only a heartbeat before being replaced by resolve.

"Your overall rating is 11 points higher than mine; the intensity is this high in the very first match..." The youth assumed a combat stance. "I can't just lose for nothing; I have to at least make you lose a layer of skin!"

With that, he charged toward Lin Xia once more.

Watching the youth's pressing figure, Lin Xia did not move; instead, he curled his lips into a smile and extended his hand toward the front.

The next moment, golden energy began to condense in his palm.

Immediately, a barrage of Energy Bullets whistled through the air, streaking toward the youth.

Although the youth managed to dodge a small portion of the projectiles, the majority struck him with precision.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!"

The youth was quickly obscured by the dust kicked up by the explosions.

The environment, already a Ruined City, was now riddled with even more craters by Lin Xia's bombardment.

"Is... is this the power of an SSR rank?!"

Though the youth had weathered the bombardment, he was so exhausted that he collapsed to his knees.

He gasped for air, and after glancing at his panel to see his health bar had dropped to 1%, he slammed his fist into the ground in frustration.

"I couldn't even land a hit during the second round of attacks... defeated so easily..."

The youth looked down at his blood-stained hands, his eyes hollow. "Truly, there is always a mountain higher than the mountain, and a person more skilled than the person... I must train harder!"

As the smoke cleared, Lin Xia, wearing a cold and arrogant expression, had already been waiting before the youth for some time.

"You win." The youth squeezed his eyes shut and turned his head away. "But I only lost to the numbers, not to you. When we meet again, I will definitely show you that effort outweighs talent!"

"Is that so?" Lin Xia sneered. "Then I look forward to our next meeting."

Having said that, he wasted no more words and finished off the low-health youth with a single Energy Bullet.

Lin Xia knew that for someone with this personality, a quick end was a form of respect!

Immediately, a beam of light rose from beneath his feet.

[Complete Victory!]

[Victory Points +30 (including Complete Victory bonus)]

"Right, a Complete Victory grants a bonus to Victory Points."

Lin Xia suddenly remembered this. "It seems for the upcoming battles, I must finish them quickly and not give my opponents a chance to damage me!"

"Wait, did I just receive a favorability increase...?"

Lin Xia opened his panel and checked the character index, where he indeed saw that the favorability progress bar for Vegeta had reached 20%!

"It seems acting cool earns the favor of the prince!"

Lin Xia chuckled, feeling that this setting was very much in line with the Saiyan prince's character.

"Swish—!"

The next moment, Lin Xia was automatically teleported back to his room.

Since ranks below Bronze did not allow for card characters to be deployed, he dismissed the idea of having Fat Buu farm points for him.

Instead, he clicked the match button again, hoping to reach the target of 50 Victory Points for Black Iron Tier 2 before tomorrow.

[Match successful!]

[Loading...]

[Loading successful!]

[The map for this match is: Ruined City!]

"This map again."

Lin Xia frowned, and the next second, he was teleported to the familiar location.

However, the traces left behind from the previous battle had not been preserved.

It seemed that the map refreshed and reset every time.

"Who will my opponent be this time?"

Lin Xia curiously eyed the beam of light slowly dissipating in the distance.

Before long, a male figure appeared atop the light ring.

The man was about 168cm tall, but he weighed at least 200 pounds!

He had short hair, wore glasses, and had headphones hanging around his round neck. Dressed in a black short-sleeved shirt and sweatpants, he looked like a shot put ball overall.

Of course, what intrigued Lin Xia the most was that the guy was still holding a game console...

"Hey, hello there, bro~!" The fatty waved, revealing a simple and goofy smile, and shouted, "I'm a freshman at Imperial University, preparing for the entrance exam. Just surrender and quit now, so I can get the Complete Victory Reward!"

Hearing this, Lin Xia, who had unconsciously started smiling at the fatty's infectious grin, suddenly frowned and dropped his smile: "Why should I quit?"

"Didn't I make it clear?" The fatty proudly pointed to himself and explained word by word: "Me, Imperial University, an average person, could get into this university?

The person I matched with just now was unconvinced and I instantly defeated him!

I thought to myself, isn't this world not about fighting, but about social interactions?

If you quit, won't we be friends?

Otherwise, won't this create a rift, and how awkward would it be if we met again in the future?"

"Uh..." Listening to the fatty's incessant chatter, Lin Xia felt speechless, but he understood why this guy brought a game console. He probably thought he could breeze through everything with his status?

"Boom!"

Lin Xia unleashed his aura, revealing his stats.

The moment the dazzling SSR appeared, the fatty's mouth dropped open, and the game console slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.

"S...SSR!?

Overall rating 82!?

Are you even human!?"

The smile vanished from the fatty's face. He grumbled as he picked up the game console, looking like he couldn't handle the loss. "Consider me unlucky."

With that, his figure disappeared.

A prompt then popped up before Lin Xia.

[Opponent has surrendered and exited, victory automatically determined!]

[Complete Victory!]

[Victory Points +30 (including Complete Victory bonus)]

[2 consecutive wins +10 Victory Points!]

[Total Victory Points: 40!]

[Current Rank: Black Iron Tier 1 70 Victory Points!]

"Surren...surrendered?"

Lin Xia leaned back slightly, still processing what had happened before being teleported back to his rented room.

However, seeing that he was only one match away from advancing to Black Iron Tier 2.

Lin Xia eagerly started another match.

In less than three seconds, the system displayed a successful match.

[Loading successful!]

[This match map is: Blazing Desert!]

Lin Xia first felt a wave of heat sweep over his entire body, and then his vision began to clear.

The surroundings were an endless expanse of yellow desert and sand dunes, with the only green being sparse, scattered cacti.

"Oh my god, what kind of weather is this? If I stay any longer, I'll be roasted alive!"

A familiar voice rang out.

Lin Xia looked at the figure gradually appearing under the dissipating beam of light and couldn't help but smile:

"Hello there, Pang Pang, we meet again!"