"How is the exchange?" Shay put away his playful smile and asked lightly.
"Our martial school teaches combat skills. Since we are competing for skills, it is natural to fight against each other at the same level." Liu Shan smiled, "These five behind me are our martial school, First to Fifth Awakening stage students. Let them fight with your students of the same levels."
"This is the fairest, but also the most reflective of the students' actual combat ability in battle. What do you think?"
Liu Shan finished, with his hands in the air, although he was asking, he did not wait for Shay to reply and turned his head to look at a person behind him, "Le Yuanchen, you go first."
The first martial arts school standing on his left side was a teenager.
His face still looked like a child. He nodded, jogging up fast to the edge of the ring. Leaped with his toe tip and quickly jumped on the height of four or five steps on the ring.
The corner of his mouth slowly lifted up, his chin slightly upward, looking askance at the Extreme Martial School students below.
There was a leap of faith.
There was anger.
There was indifference.
There was also a look of lively expression.
He slowly opened his mouth, "One Punch martial arts school, First Awakening student Le Yuanchen here, anyone from the Extreme martial arts school can dare to fight me?!"
The atmosphere was slightly heavy.
This time, the students have all stopped training. They formed three or two-person groups and walked towards the ring.
They paid as a customer. They've been training here for a few days, but they lack a sense of belonging.
But looking at the cocky people from the One Punch school and Le Yuanchen's arrogant look. They were agitated.
After a short silence, a loud shout came from the crowd, "I'll do it!"
A sturdy man jumped on the ring and stood on Le Yuanchen's opposite side.
...
"The One Punch guy's aura is in the middle of the First Awakening Stage. The one on our side is at the peak of the First Awakening. He should have the upper advantage, right?"
The people below the ring stage murmured.
Next to him, Su Yan frowned. "There should be an advantage in physical strength, but…"
One thing for sure, the One Punch Martial Arts School dared to make a move first, so that means they were well-prepared.
What they had is the gap between the two schools. The Extreme school had not yet cultivated its signature students.
Even if there was no lack of strong hunter students, the competition between the same stage hunter could be divided into two parts.
One part is the mercenaries who have experienced blood and fist, while the other one was a martial arts student specializing in combat techniques.
There was no restriction between the two parts. But generally speaking, mercenaries with plenty of combat experience had their awakening stage higher because they often go out on a mission to hunt down demonic beasts.
While students who specialized in combat skills will inevitably delay their own awakening stage.
The most favorable evidence of this is that those who have succeeded in learning martial arts often have a much easier time than mercenaries who only experience slaying when facing the bottleneck of breaking through the Fifth to the Sixth Awakening Stage.
There is also a saying in the shelter that learning martial arts can make one's foundation more solid.
...…..
On the ring.
The two people did not immediately make a move, stalemate for a moment. The slightly stronger Extreme Martial Arts School students could not bear the pressure and were the first to rush up.
His muscles were tense, and he waved his huge fist and smashed it towards his opponent's face.
BOOM!
BOOM BOOM!
BANG BANG BANG!
Only to see Le Yuanchen of the One Punch Martial School avoided this straightforward punch, raising his hand to frame the opponent, and taking advantage of this opening and smashing several punches in a row, hitting the heart of the strong hunter.
A mouthful of crimson blood spurted out, and the strong hunter fell on his back.
"This..."
The other onlookers on the stage had thought about the One Punch Martial Arts School's student winning, but they didn't expect that the win would be so crisp and sharp.
The sturdy unconscious hunter was brought off stage by the martial arts school guards.
Although not life-threatening, he was hit by several heavy punches and was still severely injured.
Even with a hunter's strong recovery power, it would take ten days and a half months to recover without the aid of drugs.
For any hunter, the blow was huge.
The shelter has explicit provisions. They can not use sharp weapons in a fight, and they're not allowed to kill. Anyone could see the One Punch guy didn't kill him, but he was bloodthirsty.
The burly man's friend jumped to the ring, angered. He took a wooden combat knife from the weapon rack wall, weighing in his hand, and quickly attacked.
The hunter, also at the peak of the First Awakening stage, had more experience. He took a greatsword he was good at and waved the sword vigorously.
However, it only lasted for a few seconds before he was knocked down and his head hit hard on the cold stone floor.
Fast! Accurate! Ruthless!
The One Punch Martial Arts School people were good at killing people with a single blow, and the martial arts they learned were not fancy but real killing moves.
When the hunters saw this, they all drew a breath of cold air and got a chill. No one dared to take the field again.
......
At the main gate.
A few students from the One Punch Martial Arts School were joking and laughing, with insults flowing from their mouths.
The survivors who came to watch the fun we're talking about. Some shook their head, disappointed at the Extreme school.
Liu Shan clasped his hands in front of his chest, heard the discussion of these survivors, his heart filled with satisfaction.
The One Punch school students were carefully learning and had undergone a long training.
Compared with the Extreme school students who had just listened to a few lessons and trained for a few days.
But the onlooker survivors had no idea about this.
In most cases, people only recognize the results, not the reason. Indeed, this competition was unfair to the Extreme Martial Arts School.
However, once they were defeated multiple times, people were disappointed, ignoring the millions of reasons.
In contrast, the hunter onlookers were more aware of the One Punch students' power.
They thought the One Punch school's profit would rise after what happened today.
And Liu Shan thought he would get more salary.
...…..
Time passed by, minute by minute.
On the ring, Le Yuanchen's attitude became more arrogant when he saw that no one dared to play.
A student from the Extreme Martial Arts School looked at Shay. Now, Shay was calm and was ordering guards to take the two injured hunters for treatment.
He stood there, flung a cigarette from the cigarette case, held it in his mouth, slowly took out a lighter, and lit it.
After a while, he said, "You don't think that we don't have our own core students in the Extreme Martial Arts School, do you?"
Two young hunters came in a hurry from the back door of the martial arts school.
The male was in his twenties, with a plain appearance. He looked at the people from the One Punch Martial Arts School with anger flashing in his eyes.
The female is even younger. She was a teenager and looked a bit similar with the childish-looking face Le Yuanchen had on his face.
She gently leaped into the ring, "Extreme Martial Arts School, Xia Wanru, please teach me a lot!"
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Under the stage.
Liu Shan's eyes flashed with a fine light. He knew the previous two hunters that Le Yuanchen defeated were nothing.
It's just the little girl was the only one who could represent the Extreme Martial Arts School.
But anyway, as long as Le Yuanchen defeated this little girl, it also means that they can take this first game completely.
Liu Shan observed, "From the standing posture, the demeanor, this little girl had the power. She's definitely much stronger than the previous two. But how much stronger can it be just from a few days of training? Le Yuanchen's strength was not even half of the strength of the previous one, and he was able to defeat them."
He thought carefully. Looking at Shay and at the young man in his twenties behind him.
In his heart, he was even more secretly pleased. "It seems these two are the core apprentices. They haven't been training for long. Even if they win 3 out of 5, they still lost the first two. Of course, winning 5 out of 5 is my goal. By then, the chance of getting more customers is higher.'
...….
At this time, somewhere on the second floor in the audience seat, Tang Yu placed his hands below his chin, watching the battle below.
An escort ran over carrying a basket of drinks and snacks. "Headmaster, here are the things you asked."
"Hmm." Tang Yu waved his hand.
With the reverence of facing a supreme master, the guard bowed slightly before turned around and left.
Tang Yu reached out towards the place where the shopping basket was placed and then touched an empty space.
When he turned around, he saw the bamboo rat, Oguri, had torn open the snack packaging, opened the drink lid.
The basket full of food was rapidly reducing.
Even when Oguri's mouth is stuffed full, her hands still grasping for food non-stop and continue to stuff foods into her mouth.
Tang Yu sweatdropped.
So greedy. She can eat a lot without gaining weight. But she still can't grow taller. Damn.. does she belong to the 'Eat Ability' user?
In the audience seat, beside him and Oguri, his cousin Chen Xiaojia was also present. 180 degrees from Oguri's feeding frenzy. She only took some snacks and ate them.
"Food aside, the situation on the stage is quite entertaining."
The Extreme Martial Arts School core apprentices were not many indeed as Liu Shan had predicted. There were only two of them.
There were a lot of strong hunters like the Wild Lion who wanted to join as core apprentices. But what Tang Yu respected more than raw power was the character.
It doesn't matter if they're not strong enough as they can grow.
These people who belonged in a mercenary regiment must have close friends. Once they become a core apprentice, the secrets will leak to their friends.
Even if he could take care of the leaked information, Tang Yu would avoid it at all costs.
Among the two core apprentices, the young girl Xia Wanru had just awakened not long ago.
Her mother was dead, and she was separated from her father. She originally belonged to the bottom of the survivors, until one time, she was bullied by some punks and was awakened out of anger.
When they first awakened, they were often in an unstable stage.
The punks were gravely injured by her. The young girl who lived in fear and confusion had met her fate.
From then on, she embarked on the road of no return.. no, from then on to the road to prosperity.
Another core apprentice, Ji Ming, has been awakened for a few days. Ji Ming was originally a survivor of the bottom of the shelter. He barely lived l by receiving relief food and pick up some ragged goods. After the awakening, his quality of life has improved. However, even a hunter had difficulties having a good life.
Right now, finding a demonic beast in the wilderness near the shelter was rare. Some towns and counties were emptied by hunters before them, so they can't find valuable loot.
To travel to more distant areas or even complete the mercenary regiment's tasks, it was essential to join a team.
However, most mercenary teams already have regular members. They rarely recruit newcomers, especially a newly awakened hunter who had no combat specialties.
There were some temporary mercenary teams available to join. Most of the members were newly awakened hunters like him who had no permanent team.
These teams were weak. They couldn't complete difficult tasks with a generous reward.
Every time they met trouble, whether it's a disagreement of uneven distribution of loot, or sometimes the turn to fight demonic beast for the sake of spirit power.
Ji Ming's salary in the wilderness was too low for the risk he had to take. Even after several missions, he couldn't afford to but a decent weapon.
The last time he joined a temporary team, it turns out they were not recruiting newcomers but cannon fodders.
He was forced to explore dangerous areas to attract demonic beasts. Within two days, most of them were killed.
He was the only one who managed to escape from the chaos by deliberately attracting a few more demonic beasts.
He struggled in the wilderness as a lone mercenary, but his strength was improving very slowly.
He was lucky enough to be noticed by the martial arts school's master while training at the Extreme Martial Arts School. Ji Ming was excited and worked harder and harder at the same time.
His gaze fixed at the One Punch Martial School students standing behind the ring.
Now, it was time to prove his worth.
......
Most battles between the First Awakening stage hunters were just a bunch of fist and kicking scenes.
However, at this moment, the battle between Xia Wanru and Le Yuanchen on the ring made the onlookers amazed. They moved back and forth very quickly.
"Even I, a Double Awakening hunter, don't have a certainty of winning against either of them."
A hunter lamented.
The strength of the core students of the martial arts school made many people had their eyes sizzling.
Some of the passerby hunters who were onlookers made up their minds to go to the martial arts school for further training.
But this time, many passerby hunters were still torn, whether to choose the One Punch Martial Arts School or the Extreme Martial Arts School?
Their hesitation lasted for less than three seconds.
In the ring, the two who were still evenly matched. Suddenly, Xia Wanru's fist directly blasted Le Yuanchen while he set up the defense with his arms.
Taking advantage of this gap, she kicked the young man flying mid-air before landing heavily to the ground.
The change happened so fast that even Liu Shan could not react. He could not figure out why the young girl from the Extreme Martial Arts School's power suddenly increased.
Xia Wanru, who had won the round, did not walk out of the ring but looked at the students of the One Fist Martial School and spoke, "One Punch Martial School, who is next? Who?"
Just a few moments ago, the One Punch school students were putting up their arrogant faces. But now, the two sides were completely turned around.
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