Chapter 58: Fierce Fight

Lin Qi stood with his hands behind his back, smiling with great delight. Two magical beasts tangled with each other, spraying blood, saliva, and poisonous gas everywhere. Their huge bodies crashed into the ground, making loud, thunderous noises. Lin Qi’s smile made everyone except Jin look extremely grim. Ya and Ling, in particular, turned deathly pale, their beautiful faces losing all color.

Nothing like this uncontrollable event had ever happened before.

The Church had secret Divine Arts. As soon as Ya and Ling entered the Beast-Fighting Arena, they used a Divine Art to check the two magical beasts’ conditions. Both in terms of naturally restraining attributes and the magical beasts’ own strength, the Ice-armored Polar Bear held an absolute advantage!

But now, the Green-patterned Golden-eyed Python was overwhelming the polar bear in the fight.

Two shattered fangs made the giant snake go berserk. It completely ignored the blood pouring from its mouth, savagely tearing at the flesh under the broken ice armor of the bear. The fangs sank deep into the bear’s body, injecting large amounts of venom.

The snake even exhausted its Primordial Power, drawing from its Magic Core’s origin force, turning its life essence into jet-black venom and spraying it out. This venom was over ten times more toxic than the poison normally stored in its venom sacs. An ordinary person would rot and die upon even slight contact.

Moreover, the snake tightly coiled around the bear, its muscles twisting with an inexplicable efficiency. Its own bones couldn’t withstand the pressure from its muscles, and dozens of cracks appeared in the snake’s skeleton. But the snake felt no pain from its body; it just kept coiling around the bear, using all its strength.

The Magic Core grew hot, blazing hot. The snake’s Magic Core emitted a faint light, even shining through the skin at the seventh inch of its body. It was a dense, black glow, like a Demon’s eye embedded in the snake’s seventh inch.

“The snake has gone berserk!” Ya and Ling frowned, glancing at Lin Qi. A magical beast’s berserk state—such a rare occurrence, and he encountered it?

The polar bear struggled wildly, its ten-meter-tall body thrashing about. But no matter how it fought, it couldn’t break free from the snake’s grip. The bear’s four broad, thick paws were covered in thick ice armor, and its claws were sheathed in sharp ice crystals. Gleaming white cold light tore through the air as it madly struck the snake’s body.

The snake’s scales were ripped apart, its muscles torn open, revealing colorful internal organs and pale bones. But the snake just kept biting the bear, coiling tightly around it, completely ignoring the intense pain.

The time it takes to drink a cup of tea quickly passed. The white bear had turned completely black. The venom spread throughout its body, contaminating its organs. The bear fell to the ground, bleeding from all its orifices. Soon, its skin and flesh began to rot, and in no time, it dissolved into a puddle of pus.

The victorious snake raised its body high, looking across the Magic Array’s light shield at Lin Qi and the others. The snake let out a sharp hiss, spraying a fist-thick stream of black venom into the air. The venom hit the light shield and was reflected back to the ground. The sticky poison splattered on the floor, sizzling as it corroded the surface.

After spewing this venom, the snake collapsed weakly to the ground. It coiled up limply, its large head drooping powerlessly. In the recent battle, it had killed the bear, which was much stronger and whose ice armor naturally countered it. But the snake had expended enormous energy, especially consuming most of the life essence in its Magic Core. It had lost more than half its life.

Lin Qi gently clapped his hands. He gathered all the Gold Notes and easily collectible jewelry from the table into his pocket. As for the swords that were inconvenient to carry, Lin Qi generously tossed them in front of Jin. “These swords are worth a lot too. Consider them your commission for this round!”

Jin smiled happily and nodded repeatedly. The swords themselves were not worth much, but the gems embedded in their scabbards were quite valuable. All the jewelry on the swords combined was worth about two hundred thousand Gold Coins. As a commission for this high-stakes bet, Jin made a good profit.

With a cold laugh, Lin Qi looked at Ya and Ling, whose faces were ashen.

“Honorable ladies from the Vias Commercial Federation, born into top noble families, could you please release my friend? You see, I won!”

Lin Qi smiled triumphantly and radiantly, his words full of sarcasm.

He had every reason to be pleased. Originally, the snake was bound to lose. But just now, when Lin Qi’s Gold Note fell into the arena, he hurriedly jumped down to retrieve it and incidentally sprinkled a pinch of the ‘Berserk Potion’ made by Master Kocha into the snake’s cage.

Master Kocha hadn’t intended to create a Berserk Potion. He was trying to make a ‘Strong Spirit Potion’ that would allow a person to go without sleep for a month. But the study of Secret Elixirs is mysterious and unpredictable, with accidents often occurring. Master Kocha’s Strong Spirit Potion mutated into this Berserk Potion, which could multiply a creature’s strength several times in a short period but leave it nearly dead afterward.

Fully berserk and with its power multiplied several times, this Green-patterned Golden-eyed Python, which originally couldn’t defeat the big white bear, unexpectedly won through a desperate struggle. It won, and Lin Qi won too—a lot, a whole lot.

Even more wonderfully, the Berserk Potion made by Master Kocha would vaporize immediately after taking effect. Even if another Master of Secret Elixirs were present, they wouldn’t find any trace. This was truly the ultimate tool for cheating in the Beast-Fighting Arena, and Lin Qi had come here precisely for that.

After mocking Ya and Ling a bit, Lin Qi wanted to help Enzo up.

The middle-aged man snorted coldly and stepped on Enzo’s back, saying icily, “Without the young ladies’ orders, no one moves him.”

Lin Qi’s face suddenly turned extremely grim.

Jin’s expression also changed. He said very displeased, “Honorable ladies, this is the Golden Rose Lounge. Please follow the rules here! Control your servants, or you will become persona non grata at the Golden Rose.”

Ya and Ling didn’t take Jin’s words seriously at all. They just looked at Lin Qi with great interest, shaking their heads and sneering, “You win our money and think you can leave so easily? It’s not that simple. We… want to bet again.”

Ya and Ling smiled brightly, as if this were some fun little game.

Lin Qi’s face gradually darkened, eventually becoming as black as charcoal. He stared hard at Ya and Ling, slowly took out the Gold Notes they had used to bet, and casually threw them on the ground—over a million Gold Coins’ worth. Then he strode out.

As he walked, Lin Qi turned his head and snarled, “You two bitches, you’ll regret this! Soon, you’ll regret it!”

Ya and Ling’s faces suddenly flushed with anger.