131: Chapter 132 Quick Kill Item Card! A Tactic Against Shen Mo!

The moon set and the sun rose. Early the next morning, Karin walked out of Shen Mo's room with a flushed face.

There was no helping it.

Shen Mo had given her simply too much!

The effects of the various Staffs and their corresponding gold costs, what stage each Staff would appear in, how to use them, and the operational strategy—Shen Mo had told Karin everything without holding back.

He had even gifted her several team compositions to face her upcoming opponents for free before she left.

In Shen Mo's words...

"I can't use them anyway. Give that kid Hakin a heads-up and try to get a good ranking."

"As for my side, don't worry about it."

Karin was deeply touched, but more than that, she felt a dreamlike sense of unreality. As a result, she even limped a little as she walked back to the Persian station with a flushed face, feeling very much like she was sleepwalking...

"What the hell are you all looking at me for?"

Shen Mo walked out of his room suspiciously, noticing that today's atmosphere was exceptionally bizarre.

The Staff members in charge of the Dragon Country's station were basically all looking at him with very strange expressions...

Did he have something on his face?

...

"Dear audience! Welcome to the second day of the Bloody Arena Challenge!"

"I am your old friend, Alodes!!!"

"Alodes!!"

"Alodes!!"

Boom—!

With Alodes's opening introduction, the atmosphere at the venue instantly heated up. The match hadn't even started yet, but the audience was already growing excited!

Shouts and cheers erupted wildly.

The void trembled!

Many people excitedly watched the contestants appearing in the arena one after another. Especially the moment Shen Mo stepped out, most of the eyes in the venue instantly locked onto him!

"Shen Mo! It's that kid from the Dragon Country! Hahaha, I must bet on him to win today!"

"I heard someone bet thirty thousand points on Shen Mo yesterday and walked away with a whopping one hundred and fifty thousand points when the match ended!"

"Hiss—how terrifying! That's a massive win!"

"You bet. After the match ended, I heard that guy went to 'a certain club' for the night and booked the entire place!"

The speaker said this with absolute certainty.

The surrounding spectators were so envious that tears almost came down.

Someone snorted. "That's not all. I heard that after he went to that 'club', he directly announced that 'Young Master Zhao will pay for all expenses tonight,' boosting that store's business by more than tenfold!"

"This morning, all the girls at that establishment took a collective leave of absence, claiming they were overworked last night..."

"???"

Is this "overwork" of yours... healthy?

...

"Hmph! That kid from the Dragon Country is getting more and more arrogant!"

Among the national factions, Mike of the Eagle Country spat in annoyance. He had never really liked Shen Mo anyway. Even though he had lost during the matchmaking tournament before, so what?

To Old Mike, that kid Shen Mo was actually just lucky in many of his matches!

But at the thought of luck...

Mike couldn't help but glance in the direction of Persia again, grinding his back teeth.

That bitch!

He heard she went to Shen Mo's room last night!

As expected!

Neither of those two are any good!

*Static, static~*

Over the earpieces, the voice of Korea's Xu Shijun sounded: "Does anyone still have objections regarding the results of last night's discussion? If not, we can begin once we get our number plates in a bit."

"Not from me."

"Me neither!"

Several different voices sounded in Mike's earpiece. Just as he was about to say he had no objections either, he heard the calm voice of Bernini from the USA: "I won't participate. You guys play."

The USA had withdrawn!

Giving up on the plan to jointly target Shen Mo!

The multi-person call channel fell silent for a moment. However, these countries weren't particularly surprised. After all, during last night's discussion, Bernini had already stated that he wanted to play against Shen Mo one-on-one.

With Bernini's status being what it was, the others could only pinch their noses and agree.

"Since Bernini isn't participating, I won't either."

Hashimoto Rika smiled gently. "If there's an opportunity, I'd also like to play against Shen Mo individually."

"..."

Another silence ensued.

Xu Shijun's face turned ugly. Gritting his teeth after a long pause, he asked, "Is there anyone else who wants to withdraw?"

Jointly sanctioning Shen Mo was the result they had agreed upon last night!

And Xu Shijun was the one who led it!

With two powerful countries withdrawing, in Xu Shijun's eyes, this was a direct slap to his face!

"Ahem, there shouldn't be anyone else."

"It's just one Shen Mo. There's no need for the two seniors to take action; we can handle it!"

France's Damiano quickly smoothed things over, and only then did Xu Shijun's expression soften a bit.

"Then let's proceed according to plan...!"

...

Last night.

In order to show off in front of Park Bushun, Xu Shijun had specially gathered various countries to organize a joint targeting campaign.

However, because Shen Mo's record on the first day was simply too formidable, most of these countries were rather uninterested.

But Xu Shijun's subsequent analysis actually made several countries' eyes light up!

Xu Shijun had discovered that there was a pattern to Shen Mo's matches: whenever he had a sufficient number of golden spatulas, he especially liked to play 'high-population' team compositions.

And a 'high-population' composition meant that Shen Mo would need to spend a massive amount of extra economy to level up.

As a result, his Health Points during the mid-game could not be maintained at all.

Several times, he had hovered on the brink of death, only winning the match at the very end with a sliver of health!

This provided them with an opportunity to defeat Shen Mo!

If they could entice Shen Mo into playing a 'high-population' composition, while they aggressively upgraded their own quality during the mid-game to deny Shen Mo any chance of scaling in the late-game, could they win the match directly?

Following this line of thought, after searching through the night, these people finally found an item card extremely suited for this strategy from among their respective countries' trump cards!

[Name: Fast Kill! (Item Card)]

[Type: Single-use Consumable]

[Effect: Upon use, during this game, an additional 2 points of damage will be dealt to the losing side!]

Once this card was used...

...it meant that the damage dealt in this match would be even higher. In particular, Shen Mo's most adept lose-streak strategy would be nipped in the bud. By blocking Shen Mo's lose-streak, it would be very difficult for him to accumulate an economic advantage.

Without an economic advantage, it would be much harder for him to reach level ten. Coupled with the fact that his piece quality during the mid-game was usually average, if he forced compositions like the Ten Demon Gods or Ten Dimensions, there was a high probability he would be eliminated before even reaching level ten!

An extra 2 points of damage might not seem like much, but they all understood that many a mickle makes a muckle.

By the end of a match, even a single point of health could become the key to victory or defeat!

Therefore...

...the only question was, how could they entice Shen Mo into playing a high-population composition?

After all, Shen Mo was no fool. If he noticed his health was dropping abnormally, he would definitely stop trying to go for a high-population build and pivot to considering his composition's quality, unless...

...there was something that would make him choose to take the risk!

To voluntarily choose to play a high-population composition!