Chapter 200

Chapter 200: Demon Claw (Part One)

Han raise his head, saw his opponent. He was shocked and couldn’t help but frown.

It turned out to be the Violent Grappler.

Han completely didn’t expect to actually meet him in the first round. It didn’t seem like it was a coincidence?

In the camp, there weren’t a lot of genetic biology experts, about 3 or 4 hundred by the looks of it. Compared to the assassins and mercenaries counted in the tens of thousands, this was a minority occupation.

In accordance with the dark net’s rule of selection, the top twenty genetic biology experts could live without any punishment. As for whether they would be following the dark net founder to go on the mission, it will be up to that founder’s choice.

So, Han’s goal was very simple, he just needed to stay in the top 20. He didn’t want to get too high a ranking, and that was why he didn’t go battle every day to improve his points.

But the Violent Grappler was a completely different person than Han. He was passionate about fighting, and as he claimed, he must get first place or else he will not give up.

So he fought all different kinds of people here today, whereas Han only followed the minimum requirement and participated in a selection battle once every three days.

So far, the Violent Grappler was ranked first among the genetic biology experts, whereas Han was ranked 18.

According to the complex rules of the selection war, Han should not have to encounter the Violent Grappler. Right now he’s already in the top 20, so he only needed to battle people with a lower rank to defend his spot in the top 20.

Thinking of this, Han looked at the floating screen. He won three out of three battles so far, although his battle count was the least among all genetic biology experts, due to his perfect victory record, his ranking was still good, sitting at the 18th place. But, the Violent Grappler had 10 wins out of 10 battles, ranked first, and was already at his 11th battle.

Yesterday, Xiao Man came to find Han and reminded him that he was drawn to face a very powerful opponent who was ranked at 20 something, but how come things suddenly changed after he got on stage?

“Look! The Violent Grappler is up against Wind Speaker!”

“Wait what? How did they meet in the preliminaries? Didn’t they say that the people in the top 20s don’t have to face each other?”

“Did the rule temporarily change?”

The people that came to watch all felt that it was strange and couldn’t make sense of what was happening.

Xiao Man angrily walked to Ting Bu and said in a deep voice, “What is going on?! Isn’t Han’s opponent today the Heart of Beast? How did it change to the Violent Grappler?”

Ting Bu coldly said, “The Heart of Beast wasn’t feeling too well and chose to temporarily withdraw from the battle today. The Violent Grappler had a long 10-win streak, he has the right to pick his next opponent. He chose Wind Speaker, and that’s his privilege.”

Shua~

Xiao Man turned her head and angrily stared at Violent Grappler.

Violent Grappler was a middle-aged man with a red birthmark on his face, giving off quite a domineering feeling. He didn’t really care how Xiao Man looked at him, and just nodded before saying, “I just want to practice my skills on this brat. Seeing that odd-looking fusion beast makes me sick! Today I’m going to teach him a lesson.”

Xiao Man’s face became red as she fiercely stamped her foot. Slightly shivering, she looked over to Han, but saw Han was just crouching down and very carefully cleaning a dirty spot on the Demon Claw’s head. He was very focused on the task and didn’t look nervous at all.

“Peers of the same profession can really easily become enemies. Although Wind Speaker’s ranking isn’t that high, but everyone knows that he has some strength reserved and doesn’t want to go full out. Well, now he became the Violent Grappler’s prey.”

“Who cares, I have long wanted to see these two masters duel. From the fusion beasts’ perspective, Wind Speaker’s Demon Claw is most unique, but the Violent Grappler’s Jade Kylin has the strongest combat strength. This battle is going to be very enjoyable!”

“You are thinking too much, his Jade Kylin had won 10 out of 10 battles. It didn’t take a single hit and destroyed all opponents in one round. The Demon Claw is not going to win.”

“I agree. Although the Demon Claw uses Demonic Star Chaser crab claws and is very strong, the Jade Kylin is the combination of a Dark Star Lion and a Purple Star Celestial Eagle. From creation, the Jade Kylin is more than a level higher than the Demon Claw.”

The spectators began discussing, and the general consensus was that Han was going to lose.

In fusion beasts, there was a saying about origin. The theory states, whether a fusion beast was strong, one needed to look at its origin. If the origin was some extremely rare star beasts, then the beast will naturally be very powerful after being made into a fusion beast.

Although the level of genetic biology experts also played a role, but it was limited.

Just like a 1-star esper versus a 3-star esper, even if the 1-star esper had a warlord level teacher, that’s still not going to make him win against an esper 2 levels higher.

In other words, due to the fact that Han’s Demon Claw’s origin was lower level than Jade Kylin, despite how skilled Han was, he still wouldn’t be able to train the Demon Claw to the degree of winning against the Jade Kylin, and the result was already predetermined by the origin level.

“Remember what you promised me.” The Violent Grappler deepened his voice and said to dark guard Ting Bu.

A hint of acknowledgement showed in Ting Bu’s eyes. Seeing the still sulking Xiao Man and the calm Han in the distance, a feeling of hatred raised in his heart and he replied, “Don’t worry. As long as you help me disqualify Han, I will naturally honor the promise. The Demon Claw is his best fusion beast; you must tear it apart completely!”

Violent Grappler disapprovingly replied, “Humph, to the Jade Kylin, that ugly thing is a piece of cake. Look at how blankly it looks, it’s completely not the Jade Kylin’s match.”

Han obviously didn’t hear this conversation. He just cleaned up the Demon Claw a bit, then left it on the stage and went out himself.

Shua~

The Violent Grappler let out the Jade Kylin from his dimension ring. Suddenly, a green light emerged in the room, and then a terrifyingly large fusion beast stood at the center of the stage.

The Jade Kylin was obviously very strong, the combination of a Dark Star Lion King and Purple Star Celestial Eagle. It was a mad lion with wings, covered in a layer of jade scales which came from a jade sea dragon, a type of giant aquatic lizard.

The Jade Kylin was powerful and majestic. In contrast, Han’s Demon Claw was like a little spider. Four in the front and five in the back, with a total of 9 claws, pitch black, also looking a bit stupid, forming a strong contrast with the Jade Kylin.

Han had his hands in his trouser as he watched, and saw his opponent, the Violent Grappler, suddenly make the gesture of slicing his throat.

Chapter 200: Demon Claw (Part Two)

Han slightly frowned, but ignored him. There were many disgusting people in the world, and the Violent Grappler was just one of them.

“Start!”

With Ting Bu’s order, the fusion beast duel started immediately.

They just saw the Jade Kylin carry its dark jade color light and prowl towards the Demon Claw, with its mouth open, exposing sharp teeth, while the Demon Claw rushed to the Jade Kylin’s side and charged up.

That is the characteristic of Demon Claw, although it looks a bit simple, this thing didn’t know fear. It was like Han, as long as there was a fight, it will keep charging forward until it died.

After the distance was closed, the Demon Claw leaped into the air and tried to directly pierce with its claws, but the Jade Kylin just used its forepaw and slapped the Demon Claw’s body.

To be honest, the Demon Claw was actually at a disadvantage in this type of fight, because it was a master at drilling, the battlefield had a thick layer of alloy on the surface so it couldn’t hide itself to launch surprise attacks and had no choice but to fight the Jade Kylin head-on.

Rumble~

Sure enough, the Demon Claw was sent flying by the Jade Kylin’s slap and collided onto the energy barrier that covered the stage and then bounced back, heavily landing onto the ground.

The small scales that emitted a dark light was what the Jade Kylin was proudest of. It came from a giant lizard called the Jade Sea Dragon. In the animal kingdom, only the strongest breed could be known as dragons.

Just moments ago, the Demon Claw wanted to pierce the Jade Kylin’s front leg with its claws, but it only left a shallow scratch on the Jade Kylin which showed just how strong the defense of this fusion beast was.

Ceng~

The Demon Claw clumsily got up and shook its head as if it got a little dizzy from getting beat up by the Jade Kylin.

At this moment, the Jade Kylin aggressively advanced again, and this stubborn Demon Claw actually charged up towards the Jade Kylin again, and used the same move, getting close to leap, and trying to pierce the Jade Kylin’s eyes this time with its claws.

This time the Demon Claw did improve. Knowing that the layer of armor on the Jade Kylin’s body could not be penetrated, it chose to attack the relatively weaker eyes.

Unfortunately, the difference was still too big, and the Jade Kylin suddenly flashed its wing, causing its body to lift up so the Demon Claw couldn’t reach the Jade Kylin’s eyes, but was instead given another slap from the Jade Kylin and was sent flying again.

“You see, I’m right, the Demon Claw is no match for the Jade Kylin.”

“Yep, the gap in level is too large. The Jade Kylin not only has higher defense, its reflex is also far quicker than the Demon Claw.”

“If someone can give out orders, maybe the situation would be better. The Demon Claw is too stubborn, only knowing to charge head on. Although this kind of attack was really touching to see, but that still depends on who the opponent is.”

“Useless. If the Wind Speaker give Demon Claw orders, perhaps it will get more chaotic the more he commanded. After all, Wind Speaker is only a genetic biology expert, not a professional fighter.”

Not only did the people around them start discussing the Demon Claw losing, even Han himself laughed and mumbled to himself, “This thing indeed has a simple mind, letting him fight on his own makes him completely no match for the Jade Kylin. Going on like this isn’t a way out, might as well surrender now.”

Thinking of this, Han raised his hand up. The Demon Claw’s dare-devil fighting spirit was indeed worthy of praise, but the fact has long proved that if there’s no Han, this thing’s combat strength simply couldn’t be fully displayed. In the face of strong enemies, the weakness of the lack of tactical thinking was revealed.

Han didn’t mind losing one game, so he raised his hand and shouted, “I asked to end the battle, I lost this game.”

After all this wasn’t the real battlefield. Han’s bones were tough, but that also depended on who he was facing and where.

The Demon Claw was the first fusion beast Han finished, it had loyally followed Han for a long time, escaping death many times. Letting it battle head-on against a much stronger opponent for some game points, Han really couldn’t bear it. After all, he had emotions towards the Demon Claw.

As the referee of this battle, Ting Bu fiercely stared at the Violent Grappler, giving a strong hint.

Violent Grappler immediately shouted, “I don’t agree to truce! Putting all my points on the line, this time I must crush stupid claw beast into pieces!”

Han suddenly hesitated, up until now, there had never been a situation like this in all the games.

You have to leave some room for the opponent, so it won’t be awkward seeing them later. They were both working with fusion beasts, was it necessary to be like this?

Han already surrendered and intended to hand over the points, and the Violent Grappler actually disagree?!

That’s too much!

Han held back the anger in his chest and said to the Violent Grappler, “We will see each other in this small camp often, you don’t have to be this aggressive right?”

“None of your business! I just don’t like how your fusion beast looks and want it to die!” The Violent Grappler shouted.

Han gritted his teeth and continued, “If you agree to surrender, how about counting it as a favor I owe you?”

“No need, I don’t need your favor!” Violent Grappler shouted again.

Hula~

Everyone around are all shocked, they’ve never heard that the Violent Grappler and Wind Speaker had grudges for each other. The two of them had never been the same type of people. The Violent Grappler was hungry for victory and honor, but Han preferred to be low-key, how did they end up like this?

At the same time, the Demon Claw was sent flying by the Jade Kylin again, heavily falling onto the ground and could only see stars in its eyes.

But the Demon Claw tenaciously got up, shaking left and right, and still wanted to charge up!

The Demon Claw not under Han’s control, was the most fearless hot head. Besides charging, it didn’t understand anything else.

The Demon Claw was definitely a silly little thing.

And that’s what Han liked about him!

The Demon Claw had a strange appearance, and even a bit ugly.

But Han liked the Demon Claw’s ugliness!

Ugly and silly Demon Claw, it was more loyal than anyone! Brave! Fearless!

Hot blood rushed to Han’s head, he could no longer suppress it and was completely enraged!

When Han raised one hand pointing at the Violent Grappler, the Demon Claw also stopped its silly charges, this was because Han already took control of the Demon Claw.

From now on, everyone of the Demon Claw’s actions would be decided by Han!

“Since you want a fight that doesn’t end until death, then I will give you one!” A touch of cold light burst out of Han’s eyes as he emotionlessly stated.