"Are you ever going to stop?" Yue Bing glared furiously at the people before her.
They had all been her former teammates, fellow students at Upper Capital Academy. Yet now, they had become attackers ganging up on her.
In truth, it had not been just a day or two since Yue Bing had begun suffering enemy attacks. Almost every two or three days, hired mercenaries would challenge her through "three-on-three battles." Within the Heaven-Piercing Tower, as long as someone issued a challenge, after refusing ten times, a warrior had to accept one battle per day and could not refuse. Otherwise, battle points would be deducted. Once those points fell below zero, the laws of the Heaven-Piercing Tower would expel them. An expelled person needed to complete at least ten full Courage Quests before they could return to the Heaven-Piercing Tower.
Worse still, if a contracted warrior's battle points fell too low, the rank of their Summoning Codex would also be reduced.
If they continually refused to fight, it was entirely possible for a Summoning Codex to fall from gold or silver back to bronze!
Three-on-three battles had originally been a relatively fair form of combat.
Each of the two teams sent out three people for rotating one-on-one duels. Both sides could make tactical adjustments based on the enemy's battle beasts, and there were many possible fighting styles. It was the fairest and most exciting kind of contest in the world. Not only mercenaries, but even internal academy selection matches, elite arena matches between academies, and youth champion tournaments between nations all used this relatively fair "three-on-three battle" format.
Of course, three-on-three battles looked very fair on the surface, but for Yue Bing, they were a disaster.
Because she had no teammates. She was alone.
Others sent out three people, while