The Battle of Transcendence, as the name suggests, is about transcending one's own limits.
This is what's known as a challenge beyond one's level!
After a ten-game winning streak, players compete at the Sade Arena and receive a certain amount of remuneration for each match, mainly from a share of ticket revenue and other channel fees. Therefore, the more famous a player is, the higher their income per match.
The Battle of Transcendence is based on this and doubles it!
In the first round, if you successfully complete a challenge at a higher level, your income will double.
The second round, two levels higher, saw a multiplier of 8.
The third round, three levels higher, multiplied 32 times.
The fourth round, four levels higher, multiplied by 128.
In other words, if Lancelot's base income for a match is 10 Crimson Notes, he can get a full 1280 Crimson Notes after completing the achievement of four levels above him.
Of course, since the establishment of this sub-arena, no one has ever achieved the feat of surpassing four levels.
Even surpassing three levels is considered Legend, extremely rare, with only three Transcendent individuals on record achieving such an accomplishment.
Their names are still engraved on the outer wall of the stadium for posterity to admire.
The greater the challenge, the greater the reward, and naturally, the greater the appeal.
Every Battle of Transcendence held at the Sade Arena is a major attraction, consistently drawing large crowds, though not always completely sold out. Therefore, the Arena event will be postponed for a period of time.
This period was mainly used for promotion, ticket sales, and preparation for online live streaming.
The fame of the contestants participating in the Battle of Transcendence will affect the length of their preparation time.
Lancelot was a newcomer with few fans and low profile, so the arena was ready in just half a day.
Arena 125.
The stands were almost full, and the ring had been replaced with a semi-enclosed, extra-large octagonal cage.
A thin layer of energy shield enveloped the cage.
Lancelot stood in the waiting area inside the octagon. About 50 meters in front of him was a 5-meter-high, silver-gray, hydraulically operated metal door. The door seams were not straight and faintly shimmered with blue light.
The host was no longer Luomeng, but a charming woman with fair skin, a hot figure, and dressed like an anime character. Judging from the audience's reaction, this host Anqi was quite well-known.
Anqi's hosting style is very different from Mengduo's. She has a calm demeanor that can be surprisingly witty, and she can be serious one moment and make people burst into laughter the next. No wonder she has so many fans.
With Anqi enlivening the atmosphere, the Battle of Transcendence officially began.
Inside the stadium, most of the lights suddenly went out, except for the octagonal cage in the center, which remained brightly lit.
The metal doors slowly parted in the middle, a cold wind blew through, bringing a chill, and the audience fell into an unconscious silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Lancelot's first opponent then came into view.
This is a humanoid bio-beast, standing 2.8 meters tall, with a dark green body, smooth skin, and scattered blue-purple patches on its surface. It has four sharp, spiraling horns on its head, four protruding fangs, and a mouthful of shark teeth that can be seen when it opens and closes. These teeth are extremely adept at tearing and biting; if this creature bites you, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Its legs are also very thick and powerful, with bulging muscles, wide feet, and cone-shaped toes. Bone spurs protrude at the joints of its arms, and its twelve claws are sharp and long, like short swords that gleam with cold light.
This form is almost born for battle; it is nearly impossible for a normal organism, naturally conceived and iterated, to grow into this shape.
Above the octagonal cage, a virtual projection magnified five times allowed the audience to observe the bio-beast more clearly.
Upon seeing the bio-beast's ferocious appearance, some timid female viewers involuntarily covered their mouths, barely daring to breathe, seemingly afraid of attracting the monster's attention and having it jump out and devour them.
The bio-beast is currently in a dormant state. Its brain has a control device implanted, which can manipulate its behavior by emitting bioelectric signals.
Two bright red numbers suddenly appeared above the octagon cage—it was a countdown!
10,9,8,7,6...1,0!!
Drop!
When the countdown reached zero, an electronic voice sounded, and the bio-beast was fully awakened.
The pair of scarlet beast eyes snapped open and locked onto Lancelot, who was fifty meters away, in an instant. Then, without hesitation, it charged forward.
The oppressive feeling emanating from the bio-beasts was completely different from that of facing human Transcendent in the arena.
This is Slaughter who is truly prepared to kill himself and shows no mercy.
A feeling of both strangeness and familiarity washed over Lancelot. He stood there for a moment, savoring the moment, and his eyes gradually changed.
Cold as a blade, ruthless as a demon!
"Body of Steel!"
Without hesitation, Lancelot activated his Ability Energy, increasing his physique by 10 points to 19, and his physical defense and recovery also increased accordingly.
His exposed skin darkened to a blackish-gold color, and his cold, stern face gleamed with a metallic sheen under the lights. His legs were slightly bent, his muscles taut, stretching his tight-fitting combat suit to its limit, and then he shot out straight like a spring.
In an instant, from stillness to motion, the intense friction and collision between his body and the airborne dust generated an extremely powerful airflow that swirled around Lancelot's body.
The sound of the wind in my ears, the ferocious beast's shadow gradually enlarging in my pupils, my heart pounding wildly, my blood boiling...
Everything converged into a sharp edge that seemed poised to pierce the sky.
The bio-beast seemed to sense the threat from the human before it, its eyes becoming even more Berserk. When the distance closed to three meters, it bent its left leg, its sticky foot gripping the ground tightly. Its waist muscles bulged, releasing its core strength to the fullest. After a 180-degree spin, its right leg lashed out like a whip.
Snap!
The kick was so fast that it actually shattered the air, producing a loud bang.
The bio-beast's protruding bone spurs, like diamond drills, tore through the air wall formed by the stacked air currents, aiming at Lancelot's head.
"Flow Method! Heightened Focus, activate!"
Lancelot focused his mind, concentrating all his Divine Power on his right fist.
The higher the level of Ability Energy development, the better the controllability.
Not to mention he also has the aid of the Flow Method, which allows Lancelot to now perform extreme physical enhancements in specific areas of his body.
Now, what he has strengthened is his right fist.
In an instant, the metallic sheen on the surface of his right fist deepened, turning pure black, and his skin became as hard as a high-strength alloy.
This time it truly became an ' Iron Fist '.
Hadoken!
bite--
A crisp metallic clang echoed as the fist and the tip of the bone spike collided.
Lancelot's right arm muscles rippled like waves, his strength accumulating like a snowball, eventually transforming into a Destruction torrent that poured onto the bio-beast.
Click!
The steel-hard bone spurs shattered under the Iron Fist, and the terrifying kinetic energy contained in the fist sent the bio-beast spinning 360 degrees on the spot, its body seemingly twisted into a pretzel, its ferocious attack abruptly interrupted.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lancelot pressed his advantage, delivering a straight kick to the bio-beast's waist, causing it to bend 120 degrees.
Struck by this heavy blow, the bio-beast opened its mouth and spat out a glob of green liquid, its eyes bulging as if about to pop out of their sockets, one side of its ribs completely shattered, and its internal organs riddled with holes by the broken bone fragments...
In the audience, everyone's eyelids twitched, and they couldn't help but grin, feeling pity for the bio-beast's miserable state.