Cruel Duel

A champion powerhouse who had dominated the Sakaar Duel Arena for ages?

Kyle was slightly taken aback. Bai Bo seemed to have revealed a crucial piece of information, but before he could look into it further, the surrounding alien spectators erupted into fierce shouts. Their excited faces twisted into hideous expressions, releasing the pent-up savagery within them.

"Kill! Fight already! Eliminate them! Eliminate them!"

"If you want to live, kill the other creatures!"

Urged on by the collective cries of hundreds of thousands of alien spectators,

the challengers released from the Underground Prison had already grown to nearly a hundred in number.

They entered the brightly lit Duel Arena. Without wasting words, they guarded themselves coldly against the other challengers around them, their killing intent palpable.

Only the last four challengers standing could continue living. In this arena of life-and-death duels, elimination meant death.

This was the Grandmaster’s rule, and also Planet Sakaar’s supreme law!

"Aah!!"

Within the Duel Arena, a humanoid challenger was the first to scream, having been violently ambushed from behind by a Giant Two-Headed Snake.

The Two-Headed Snake raised both heads high. One mouth bit down on his head, while the other clamped onto his struggling feet and shoved him toward the first mouth, devouring the living prey.

In less than three seconds, the humanoid challenger had completely vanished without a sound, armor and all swallowed into the snake’s belly.

The Giant Two-Headed Snake flicked its blood-red tongues, its silver slit pupils staring coldly at the remaining challengers. Its tail hissed as it slapped against the floor, making everyone’s scalp tingle.

The horrifying sight of a living creature being swallowed ignited the spectators’ cheers and threw the chaotic melee in the Duel Arena into full eruption!

"Mr. Kyle, look!" Bai Bo seemed to have spotted something unexpected. It raised a claw and happily pointed toward a corner at the edge of the arena.

Kyle followed its gesture. At the edge of the raging battlefield, a green Big-Eyed Alien was trembling as it crawled across the ground, clad in a full suit of steel armor.

Wasn’t that the Big-Eyed Alien leader he had seriously injured last night?

"Many challengers are actually slaves and criminals captured by the Grandmaster’s men. If they want freedom, they can only fight until the end in the Duel Arena, then defeat the final champion defending the arena." Bai Bo smiled and narrowed its eyes meaningfully. "Trying to survive until the end by hiding and refusing to fight simply won’t work."

Not long after Bai Bo finished speaking, a two-meter-tall Brown Stoneman ran past, wielding a spiked mace and smashing it brutally down on the Big-Eyed Alien leader lying on the ground.

After that strike, the Stoneman did not even spare it a glance. Carrying the bloodstained mace over its shoulder, it left and charged back into the battle. On the floor behind it, the Big-Eyed Alien leader had become a pile of mangled flesh. Its armor had been crushed into the ground, leaking disgusting green blood without end.

"Nice." Bai Bo chuckled. It had disliked the criminal gang the Big-Eyed Alien belonged to for a long time.

Kyle shook his head as well. Under the Duel Arena’s brutal rules, the first to die in this kind of group melee would always be the creatures that avoided battle and the weak.

Since there were four spots for survival, the powerful challengers would naturally avoid one another at first, picking off the weaklings one by one. Once enough challengers had been eliminated, they would be safe.

It was like raising venomous insects in a jar: the weak were prey to the strong, and only the fittest survived. The ones left alive were the strongest and most capable combat creatures.

Kyle watched the battles and slaughter unfolding in the Duel Arena. The fighting between creatures of all kinds of races across the universe was truly eye-opening, far beyond the experience of watching beasts or insects fight on Earth.

He saw a hulking man with muscles and skin made entirely of rough stone, carrying a steel spiked mace as large as half a car. With a roaring swing, he unleashed several tons of force and smashed a four-meter-tall giant into a bloody pulp!

He saw a tall, thin man resembling a praying mantis, his hands in Scythe Form. His movements were agile and nimble, his speed reaching supersonic levels as he slashed with a hand-blade and split a Stoneman known for its strength and defense in two!

He also saw an alien child covered in flesh-colored tentacles, with black-red eyes. It displayed extraordinary regenerative abilities, extending its tentacles into sharp weapons that stabbed a frogman and a Big-Eyed Alien, draining them into dried husks!

In ten minutes, more than half of the hundred challengers had been eliminated. The eliminated creatures had become corpses and wreckage strewn across the arena, their red, green, black, and purple blood interweaving to paint the scarred floor of the Duel Arena.

At the same time, the chaotic battle reached a fever pitch, and the cheering from the stands grew ever louder and fiercer.

"Absolutely worth the price of admission. The challengers this round are exceptionally good." Bai Bo clicked its tongue in admiration, waving its claws excitedly. "Only monster-like creatures from the depths of the universe can remain standing in this Duel Arena."

Kyle nodded deeply in agreement. The faint light in his eyes flickered as he felt a certain amount of pressure.

The combat standards of the alien creatures in the Duel Arena far exceeded his expectations. Immersed in a desperate battle of survival and slaughter, the challengers had to fight with everything they had, using their species’ innate gifts and abilities, if they wanted even a chance to live.

Even with his dominant strength on Earth, if he were down in that Duel Arena, one careless mistake could cost him his life on the spot!

Fifteen minutes later.

Alien corpses lay piled haphazardly across the Duel Arena. Shattered weapons and vividly colored blood covered the ground, creating a terrifying scene straight out of hell.

All of a sudden, the fewer than ten remaining challengers stopped fighting at the same time. After the brutal elimination battle, no matter how strong they were, they had all been wounded. They swept cold gazes over one another and fell into a brief standoff.

"Eight remain. The climax of this duel has arrived," Bai Bo said, holding its breath.

"That’s right." Kyle agreed.

There were fewer than ten challengers left in the arena. At this point, none of the creatures still standing were weak opponents who could be dealt with easily.

All they needed was to find one opponent each and eliminate them.

Kyle’s expression was serious and solemn as he memorized the appearances, racial traits, and innate abilities of the various creatures in the Duel Arena.

Their preferred methods of attack, fatal weaknesses, unique and powerful offensive techniques, unexpectedly tough defensive abilities… all of them were inhuman, utterly monstrous.

Kyle believed that as long as he remained in this universe, even if he returned to Earth, he might encounter them someday.

He might possess hundreds of combat techniques, but they were fundamentally designed for humans. Against these monstrous races from the depths of space, if he ever faced them while relying on ordinary combat principles, he might not even know how he died!