Chapter 347
**Zelan·Fengtang**: I’ll buy your curse slots.
**Zelan·Fengtang**: If one player backstabs, I’ll buy once. If a hundred players backstab, I’ll buy a hundred times.
**Zelan·Fengtang**: Right now, there are 2,857 players in this trading area. Even if 2,000 players backstab in the end, I’ll buy 2,000 times.
**Zelan·Fengtang**: How about that?
**Zai Jiu·Xun Ge**: I’m fine with it.
**Zelan·Wu Ren**: Let’s talk about the price.
**Zelan·Fengtang**: Sure.
**Zai Jiu·Xun Ge**: Great.
Under normal circumstances, Fengtang and Xun Ge would have exchanged a few words with Wu Ren, but with time pressing, neither of them had the heart to chat idly.
For Xun Ge, she actually preferred Wu Ren to take the lead. Even with Fengtang, she couldn’t be sure that the other wouldn’t take advantage of her.
No… just thinking about Fengtang’s sharp tongue, Xun Ge was certain that Fengtang would drive a hard bargain. After all that, she might end up with a worse deal than what Wu Ren would offer her.
**Zelan·Fengtang**: Anyone else have something to say?
No one responded, but the players in the 8017 special trading area expressed their stance through action, all gathering behind Zelan Fengtang.
By now, everyone knew that Zai Jiu Xun Ge had just stolen the ancient curse from Donghai Sharkeng, making it a well-known fact.
Especially since Zai Jiu Xun Ge had cursed Donghai Sharkeng just a few hours ago, practically putting the matter on display.
So, with Zelan Fengtang vouching for it and Zai Jiu Xun Ge personally agreeing to the proposal, the players in the 8017 special trading area naturally had no objections.
Killing players could happen at any time. If they couldn’t get through this special plot of the mechanical rebellion, this divine game would be a bust.
No one was worried that Zelan Fengtang and Zai Jiu Xun Ge would go back on their word.
In battle, one could throw caution to the wind; as long as they won, even underhanded tactics could be justified as strategy.
But this act of stepping forward and making a promise to unite over two thousand players was something else entirely. If Zelan Fengtang were to renege afterward, it would be like throwing her face on the ground for everyone to trample.
Not to mention, Zelan Fengtang’s title was “Fiery Wine and Heroism.”
Of course, the players were so obedient for another crucial reason—Zelan Fengtang had the highest combat power on the field…
As all the mechanical beings gathered, the leader B801507 spoke in the language of the rubber owls: “Looks like you’re ready. This will be a fair war.”
Nearly a thousand massive mechs stood on the other side of the field. Fengtang, wielding a spear of lightning, pointed it directly at B801507: “You talk too much.”
With that, she was the first to charge into the ranks of the mechanical beings, heading straight for B801507.
B801507 shouted, “Kill!”
At the moment the lightning spear lunged toward B801507, every player felt their fighting spirit ignite.
Even though Xun Ge sensed that this surge of bloodlust was out of character for her, she couldn’t suppress it.
This was likely Fengtang’s skill.
Xun Ge quickly boosted herself, applying all her enhancement skills before raising her gun to shoot.
She aimed at a 9th-tier mechanical being, but she didn’t use skills like “Buy Life with Full Payment,” which would drain all her mana.
This would be a prolonged battle lasting nearly an hour; she needed to ensure her sustainability.
She also needed to reserve some mana for emergencies to heal herself.
**Chapter 451: Divine Game: Diamond Miner 19**
The number of players was double that of the mechanical beings, yet the latter’s average combat power far surpassed that of the players. Not to mention, the mechanical beings were united, with their combat support distributed extremely rationally.
In contrast, the players were all thinking differently. They could fight, but no one dared to claim they were giving it their all.
Take Xun Ge, for instance; she couldn’t use “One-Person Party” to restrict the mechanical beings on the battlefield and assist all the players present.
She would rather see this divine game fail than expose her strongest trump card so early.
But she wasn’t slacking off. With her agile flying ability and several skills from “Midnight Exile,” she grew stronger with each battle, her power rivaling that of the 10th-tier players.
Unfortunately, after fifteen minutes of fighting, the players had completely fallen behind.
Even Fengtang’s skill to ignite the players’ fighting spirit was no longer effective.
Facing an outcome that was all too clear, the wise began to weigh their losses:
Rather than continue to expend their strength, it was better to conserve it, especially for those high-cooldown ultimate skills. If they didn’t use them now, they could still protect themselves once they transitioned to the abandoned zone.
Almost one-fifth of the players began to slack off.
In the game, slacking off could be detected, let alone in reality. Everyone had fought their way here; how could they not understand?
Xun Ge frowned as she watched. Although she felt that this special plot was unlikely to succeed and that the divine game would probably fail, wouldn’t it be better to take down a few more mechanical beings?
Even without rewards, the fewer mechanical beings there were when they transitioned to the abandoned zone, the safer they would be.
Dodging a punch from a mechanical being, Xun Ge conjured a “Cheers” lightning ball that looked like a bacterium and tossed it forward. The lightning ball landed squarely on the mechanical being’s face, exploding like a small firecracker.
Though this was the third strike under the effect of “Midnight Exile,” amplifying the attack by 25 times, creating a crater on the opponent’s face, the visual effect of this skill was rather infuriating.
Xun Ge felt a bit embarrassed.
Just then, she heard a light laugh.
After the laughter, Fengtang’s clear and bright voice soared into the sky: “Zai Jiu Xun Ge, watch closely! This is what ‘Cheers’ really looks like!”
Time seemed to stand still as Xun Ge witnessed Fengtang’s battlefield prowess up close once more, experiencing the complete and most powerful “Cheers” in existence.
A sky full of beer mugs made of lightning filled the marketplace, with nearly every player and mechanical being having one or two floating around them, filled with flowing lightning and lightning balls that bobbed like “ice cubes” within the mugs.
All the mugs danced, collided, and cheered in the air, the thunder roaring like a grand celebration.
The sounds of explosions and gunfire faded away, as if the battlefield had been paused, with all mechanical beings and players halting their actions.
Fengtang’s “Cheers” had evolved again, or perhaps the version demonstrated to her back in the tower was just an incomplete one.
A lightning beer mug floated toward Xun Ge, gently touching her hand.
Xun Ge didn’t dodge; she could clearly sense that this beer mug posed no harm. The moment it touched her, a multitude of training methods for “Cheers” flooded her mind.
Before she could discern them, with a light shout from Fengtang, all the beer mugs surged into the battlefield, arcing through the air from various angles toward B801507’s energy core.
Each beer mug that exploded unleashed a storm of lightning, affecting all nearby targets.
Fengtang flung out lightning chains, pulling away any players who might be caught in the blast.
In less than three seconds, B801507 was brought to one knee by the explosions of the beer mugs.
Fengtang hovered silently in the air, looking down at B801507.
At the moment all the beer mugs exploded, B801507 had been reduced to a dark, shattered wreck.
In that instant, it felt as if time had frozen, with all players and mechanical beings silently gazing at Fengtang.
In a clash of equals, Fengtang had won, and she had done so spectacularly.
Xun Ge could hear her own heart racing.
—“I’m about to get serious!” activated!
She aimed at a 14th-tier mechanical being positioned diagonally behind B801507. That mechanical being had been too close to B801507, and for every time B801507 was blasted by “Cheers,” it had been affected as well.
Now it was left with only 1% power!
Due to the sheer audacity, the players and mechanical beings present were momentarily stunned.
All eyes were fixed on the bullet that struck the 14th-tier mechanical being D3851130.
D3851130 tried to dodge, but Xun Ge had activated “I’m about to get serious!”
Moreover, this strike was the fourth hit of Midnight Exile, amplifying the attack power to a staggering 125 times.
D3851130’s energy core was obliterated.
All the players turned back to stare at Xun Ge, silently holding their breath.
Even Fengtang looked at Xun Ge.
Xun Ge smiled slightly at Fengtang: “Thank you, Mother.”
You’ve taken advantage of me so many times; it’s only fair I take advantage of you once! Surely that’s not too much to ask! You’re not getting mad, are you, dear Mother?
Fengtang nodded with a smile: “Just like me.”
Xun Ge: “…” How do you insult someone like that?!
Players who understood the rubber owl language fell silent.
Those who didn’t understand it also fell silent, wondering why these two rubber owls looked so nauseating!
After this little interlude, the situation on the battlefield began to shift. Although the advantage still lay with the mechanical beings, at least the players could see a glimmer of hope.
The strongest 15th-tier combatant on the opposing side had been dealt with by Fengtang, freeing her up to tackle the 14th-tier mechanical beings.
The mechanical beings immediately sent five 14th-tier units to swarm Fengtang.
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