14: Chapter 14 is just that amazing, so what?

On the other side of the spectator stands.

Chen Xi glanced at Lin Feng and the others out of the corner of his eye, a triumphant smile curling the corners of his lips.

He stood up from his seat and strolled over to the livid Lin Feng, asking in a calm tone:

"Are we still fighting?"

Lin Feng stared fixedly at Sun Lin, who was completely frozen and motionless like an ice sculpture in the arena, his lips pressed tightly together, remaining silent in his frustration.

Fight?

How could they still fight?

Sun Lin hadn't even touched the corner of the opponent's clothes before being knocked into a serious injury.

Having barely managed to stand up, she was frozen in place by the opponent's skill again, unable to even surrender.

From the moment Sun Lin stepped onto the stage, the outcome of this duel had already been decided.

Lin Feng said nothing, just clenching his fists.

Seeing this, Chen Xi couldn't be bothered to waste any more words.

He directly extended his wrist, flashing the light screen of his student bracelet in front of Lin Feng, his tone brooking no argument:

"If you're not fighting, then settle the bill."

Seeing that they were about to pay 500 points in public, Zhang Xinyu, who was beside Lin Feng, was the first to lose her composure.

She quickly stepped out, her face filled with a hypocritical and pitiful smile, and said to Chen Xi in a soft voice:

"Brother Xi... look, we were all teammates after all, why must you be so ruthless? It's not easy for us to earn points in dungeons... After all, Shenfeng Battle Team is your old home, you... you wouldn't want to see us fall out of the top three in the grade just because of these few points, right?"

Fang Yue, who was on the side, also hurriedly nodded in agreement:

"Yeah, Chen... Brother Xi... Let's just say we were in the wrong, we didn't know who we were dealing with! We... we all apologize to you, okay? Can we just forget about the 500 points?"

"Hmm?"

Hearing this, Chen Xi couldn't believe his ears.

He looked at these people, whose expressions changed faster than flipping a book, up and down as if they were monsters.

"Before the fight, you all spoke so sanctimoniously, calling me unworthy, calling me trash. Now that you've lost, you come to me to build rapport and act pitiful?"

Chen Xi deliberately raised his voice, ensuring that the entire audience in the arena could hear him clearly:

"You, Shenfeng, took the initiative to provoke us and set a 500-point wager against our Nirvana Battle Team! Now that you've lost, you won't pay up? Our school supports healthy competition! If you don't pay today, I'll take this matter directly to the Grade Leader's office! 500 points, don't even think about shortchanging me by a single point!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire arena instantly erupted in an uproar.

The onlookers, who were previously whispering, finally understood the sequence of events.

Gazes full of contempt and disdain were cast uniformly upon Lin Feng and his group.

"Isn't that Lin Feng, the captain of Shenfeng Battle Team? So it turns out they were betting on a duel!"

"Yeah! It looks like they lost and now they want to welch on the debt!"

"Really? A dignified third-ranked team in the freshman year, and this is their caliber? Initiating a provocation and still losing is embarrassing enough, and now they want to be deadbeats?"

The undisguised pointing and discussion all around were like steel needles, stabbing fiercely into Lin Feng's heart.

He gritted his teeth, glaring fiercely at Chen Xi, and squeezed a few words out from between his teeth:

"Chen Xi! Do you really have to be this ruthless?!"

Chen Xi chuckled and shrugged:

"Yes, that's exactly how ruthless I am, so what?"

Lin Feng's hands were clenched into tight fists, his nails almost digging into his flesh.

The result was already very clear.

Dragging it out further would not change anything, other than making Shenfeng Battle Team look even more shameful.

Sun Lin was doomed to lose.

He just never dreamed that the bet he was sure to win would be lost so cleanly! So thoroughly!

Now, he had been completely roasted on the fire by Chen Xi.

But that was a full 500 points!

Just then, Yan Zidong, who had been expressionless all along, suddenly stood up.

He glanced coldly at Lin Feng and said in a tone devoid of any emotion:

"A bet is a bet. The points can be given, but Shenfeng Battle Team cannot lose face."

After saying this, he didn't wait for any response from Lin Feng.

Yan Zidong turned around on his own and walked out of the arena without looking back.

These words became the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Lin Feng knew that there was no room for maneuver in this matter anymore.

Losing points was a small matter, but if Yan Zidong left the team because of this, that would be a huge loss.

Lin Feng gritted his back teeth, his heart bleeding, but he still very reluctantly extended his bracelet and clashed it heavily against Chen Xi's bracelet.

【Ding!】

【Shenfeng Battle Team has paid 500 team points to Nirvana Battle Team.】

【Nirvana Battle Team current team points: 500. Grade ranking: 15】

Looking at the skyrocketing points on the bracelet's light screen and the team ranking that shot up like a rocket.

A satisfied smile finally appeared on Chen Xi's face.

"Thanks."

Lin Feng's expression was ugly to the extreme; he glared viciously at Chen Xi and left a harsh threat:

"You wait and see! This matter won't just end like this!"

After saying that, he trotted away, chasing after the direction Yan Zidong had left like a pug.

Seeing this, Zhang Xinyu and Fang Yue also hurriedly got up and followed.

But before leaving, Zhang Xinyu didn't forget to look back, staring at Chen Xi with an extremely resentful gaze, and accused him:

"Brother Xi! You really have no team spirit!"

Chen Xi retorted unceremoniously:

"Who the hell is on the same team as you? Shut your mouth, stop trying to gild your own lily, I feel embarrassed for you."

Watching the few backs leaving in a dejected manner, and Sun Lin, who had been ruthlessly abandoned by her teammates on the ring.

There was only endless disdain in Chen Xi's eyes.

People like this who fly apart when disaster strikes, how dare they talk about team spirit?

Good thing he ran fast, otherwise who knows how many times he would have been screwed over by this group later.

Subsequently, Chen Xi turned around and waved at Li Murou on the ring.

"Coming!"

Li Murou responded.

With the excitement and thrill not yet faded from her face, she ran down from the stage, bouncing as she went.

"Captain Chen! I won! I really won!"

"Yes, you won."

Chen Xi nodded with a smile; he raised his bracelet, showing the brand-new ranking to Li Murou.

"And, you successfully secured 500 team points for our team, letting us leap to 15th place on the freshman leaderboard!"

Seeing this ranking, Li Murou was visibly happy, her beautiful big eyes smiling into crescent moons.

"Then are we still going to grind dungeons now!?" She was already feeling impatient.

However, Chen Xi shook his head.

"No rush, let's go back to the base room first."

The victory that seemed like a crush just now made Chen Xi, amidst the excitement, clearly realize a very serious problem.

Currently, Li Murou, after equipping the S-rank core card, had control abilities that were indeed monstrously strong.

And he himself, after teaming up with Li Murou, also synchronously gained her terrifying debuff skills due to the attribute sharing between team members.

But the problem was...

Both of them were pure supports!

Neither had a single proper offensive skill!

As for the skills of Lin Feng and his people...

They were too trashy!

Unless absolutely necessary, Chen Xi didn't want to use them.

The top priority was to go to the Team Store first to see if there were any powerful universal skill books for sale to make up for the team's shortcomings in output capability.

The Team Store was an internal shop specifically set up by the school to support various battle teams.

The items and skill books sold inside were of much better quality than those in the public trading houses outside, and they could only be purchased using team points.

This was also a means by the school to prevent some wealthy people from directly piling up strength through financial power, thereby disrupting the balance.

Consequently, Chen Xi brought Li Murou, who was still immersed in the joy of victory, back to the 301 base room.

Once they returned to the base room, Chen Xi immediately buried his head in front of the computer in the base room, opened the Team Store, and started searching for learnable skills.

Seeing this, Li Murou sensibly did not disturb him.

Instead, she tidied up the base room, which they had just moved into and hadn't had time to organize yet.

In front of the computer, after a round of searching, the results left Chen Xi somewhat disappointed.

"【Fireball】? It's universal, but this damage is too low."

"【Dimension Slash】? Looks good, but unfortunately requires a prerequisite talent—Sword Talent."

"【Spring Breeze】? A group healing skill, this actually fits Mu Rou's current style quite well... But the problem is, what we're lacking now is output, not defense and healing!"

After browsing through a large circle, Chen Xi sighed helplessly.

These universal skills in the store were either too weak in power or had various harsh prerequisite requirements, which were simply not very suitable for the two of them.

Could it be... that he really had to let Li Murou freeze all the monsters in the dungeon one by one, and then have the two of them go up and hack them to death one by one with basic attacks?

That would be too abstract, right?

Just when Chen Xi was feeling very troubled about the output problem.

Suddenly, the electronic doorbell at the entrance of the base room rang.

Ding-dong—