Inside the Wardance Arena.
After Scott agreed to the bet, the group moved to the Wardance Arena. The venue here was spacious, much better than on the street.
March 7th looked somewhat nervously at the several towering IPC mechs standing behind Scott across from them, and clenched her fists tightly.
"Fu Zhu, do you really want me to do this? Why didn't you just bet that your [Iron Golem] is stronger than him from the start?"
"He's looking down on Xianzhou sword arts. As the inheritor of the Xianzhou sword arts, shouldn't you prove the Xianzhou's worth?"
"But I..."
Fu Zhu reached out and pinched March 7th's cheek, comforting her.
"Don't worry, I said I'm here for everything. How could I let you lose?"
Despite Fu Zhu's comfort, March 7th still lacked confidence in herself.
"What if I perform poorly and get disowned by Teacher Yanqing and Teacher Yunli?"
"If they dare to disown you, I'll expel Yanqing from the sect."
Yanqing, who was accompanying them from the side, instantly widened his eyes upon hearing that he was involved, looking at Fu Zhu with aggrievance.
"Master... Mistress... how could you disown her..."
Yunli watched Yanqing's deflated appearance and covered her mouth to steal a laugh, cheerfully asking Fu Zhu: "Then if I disown Little March, will you also expel Yanqing from the sect?"
Yanqing stared at Yunli in disbelief. He hadn't expected her to harbor such malicious thoughts.
"You!"
What made Yanqing even more depressed was that Fu Zhu actually stroked his chin and seriously considered Yunli's suggestion.
"That's not impossible, is it?"
This made Yanqing instantly cry out aggrievedly, "Master!"
"Just kidding."
After the joke, Yanqing gathered his emotions and looked seriously at Fu Zhu.
"Master, how do you plan to help Mistress March?"
Hearing Yanqing ask this, March 7th's face instantly fell.
"Huh? Even Little Yanqing thinks I can't win?"
"That's..." Yanqing scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, hesitating as he explained: "Of course, Yanqing doesn't think Mistress is inferior to those company mechs. It's just that those company mechs are complete systems the moment they are manufactured, while you have only just stepped onto the path of martial arts practice. This is obviously a very unfair matter."
Fu Zhu looked at Yanqing appreciatively. As expected of Yanqing, his EQ is maxed out. He even stated the reasons why he thought March 7th would lose so pleasantly.
"Yanqing, you're not wrong, but reality never speaks of so-called fairness. When you encounter a strong enemy, you can't exactly complain that the other side is stronger than you, right?"
Yanqing scratched his head and looked at Fu Zhu, not understanding why he was saying things that he already knew.
"Master, what do you mean?"
Fu Zhu snapped his fingers, smiling as he looked at Scott across from them, who was currently animatedly gesturing at the group of mechs.
"I never planned to have a fair duel with him."
Saying this, Fu Zhu pulled a [High-Grade Enchanting Table] out of his backpack and placed it on the ground, then revealed an [Anvil] directly from his body, placing it down as well.
"March, put these on, then give me your dual swords."
"Oh."
March 7th obediently handed the dual swords in her hands to Fu Zhu. After taking them, Fu Zhu shoved them into the [High-Grade Enchanting Table].
Clang, clang, clang. After fiddling with it for a while, he slapped all the enchantments he could currently use onto March 7th's dual swords.
[Knockback, Sharpness, Fire Aspect...]
He even enchanted conflicting enchantments like [Smite] and [Bane of Arthropods] onto them systematically due to the characteristics of the High-Grade Enchanting Table.
However, Fu Zhu felt that just this was a bit unstable. The power of enchantments capped at the normal levels was just okay. Plus, March had only started practicing martial arts not long ago; in case something went wrong and she got hurt, his heart would ache for a good while.
Fu Zhu simply activated his ability as an Envoy of Harmony directly, using [Commands] to drag the enchantment levels on the dual swords to an extremely exaggerated level.
"Done."
Fu Zhu took the dual swords out of the [High-Grade Enchanting Table] and glanced at the enchantments on them.
[Knockback 100, Sharpness 100, Unbreaking 100....]
"March, take them."
Fu Zhu handed the fully enchanted dual swords to March 7th, then shoved the armor he had taken off himself into the [High-Grade Enchanting Table]. After buying the [Apotheosis Mod] previously, there had been a period where he hadn't updated the enchantments on his own armor.
In the [Apotheosis Mod], there were many practical enchantments he hadn't applied yet, such as [Rebound], which could directly knock enemies back upon receiving an attack, and [Berserker's Fury], which belonged to the curse category of enchantments but granted a pile of positive buffs as health decreased.
Fu Zhu used the [Command] effect to slap these systematic enchantments onto the armor. After this operation, the hundreds of levels of experience he had instantly dropped by fifty or sixty levels. However, since these enchantments could continue to be used later, it wasn't a loss.
March 7th held the dual swords Fu Zhu had enchanted in her hands and swung them curiously. She didn't feel anything special; it was just that the blades were glowing with a faint purple luster.
"Fu Zhu, what did you do to my dual swords?"
Fu Zhu walked over to March 7th holding the armor, helping her put the pieces on while casually replying: "You'll know if you slash the ground once."
March 7th did as told, casually slashing her right hand holding the sword towards the ground. The hard flooring was cut open with a gash effortlessly, giving her a fright.
"So sharp!"
One must know that the floor here was the Wardance Arena, specially made. Even the weapons used by Yanqing and Yunli couldn't cut it open so easily, let alone March 7th, who hadn't used much force just now.
Yunli and Yanqing also gathered around curiously, scrambling to ask for the treasured swords in March 7th's hands, wanting to take them over and play with them.
"Mistress, can you let Yanqing take a look?"
"Little March, lend it to me to play with! I'll treat you to the Sleepless Earl's tea later!"
March 7th was naturally very generous and shared the two swords with the two of them, while she opened her arms and enjoyed Fu Zhu personally putting the armor on her.
After Fu Zhu finished putting the armor on March 7th, he thoughtfully made all the armor invisible.
"Move around and see."
March 7th immediately performed a backbend and a high leg lift. The flexibility of her body made Fu Zhu unable to stop himself from swallowing his saliva.
"It's amazing, I don't feel any restriction at all!"
After moving around for a bit, March 7th discovered the magical aspect of this suit of armor from Fu Zhu. The armor looked hard and rigid, and logically should have limited her movement, but moving around now, she didn't feel that sense of restraint at all.
"That's good." Fu Zhu felt relieved hearing this. He was worried that this armor would have some "side effects" appearing on someone other than Steve, but now it seemed his worries were superfluous.
While Fu Zhu's group of four was ready, Scott's side was also prepared.
He walked over with his head held high and an arrogant gait that recognized no kin, followed by eight company mechs he had carefully tuned.
"How about it, Heroine? Are you ready?"
Scott looked at March 7th gloomily, confirming she didn't have any extra strange objects on her, and finally felt completely relieved.
Just now, he was still worried March 7th would take some magical tool from that devil Fu Zhu's hands. Now it seemed Fu Zhu was confident in her, so he hadn't given her any props.
"Ready... are you?"
March 7th looked at Fu Zhu with some hesitation. Fu Zhu nodded encouragingly at her. Only then did she confidently take the dual swords back from Yanqing and Yunli.
"Of course I'm ready! Just come at me!"
"Don't cry when you lose later, hahaha!"
Scott laughed loudly and retreated to the side, giving the space to the eight mechs. Fu Zhu, Yanqing, and Yunli also retreated to the side.
Yunli looked at the two sides facing off in the arena and asked Fu Zhu with some worry: "Little March only just started training. Although the weapons were enhanced by you to be very powerful, I'm worried she won't be able to dodge..."
"No need to worry."
Fu Zhu smiled confidently. He leaned in and whispered, "I secretly used redstone circuits to invade the company mechs earlier. If March 7th can't avoid them, I can completely 'black box operation' it. The winner of this match will only be March 7th."
Seeing Fu Zhu so confident, Yunli didn't say anything more. Anyway, no matter what, with the three of them watching, even if something happened, they could intervene and help in time.
On the field, March 7th looked at the eight tall and burly mechs standing before her. She couldn't help but swallow her saliva, then grasped the treasured swords with both hands and rushed directly over.
Seeing this situation, Scott couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Oh? Facing my company's mechs, you didn't choose to circle around looking for opportunities, but charged directly? I admire your courage. Brothers, teach her a lesson."
Just as Scott gave the order, with a whoosh, a massive black shadow hurriedly brushed past him. The wind it kicked up directly blew his hairstyle and sunglasses askew.
Scott adjusted his sunglasses with a bewildered face and looked into the arena, discovering March 7th maintaining a swinging posture, while lying on the ground in front of her was a very familiar metal arm. It was obviously an arm from a mech, and there were only seven mechs left on the field.
Scott stared blankly, turning his stiff neck to look behind him. He saw a mech embedded in the wall over ten meters away, twitching there with electric sparks popping off its body.
March 7th, maintaining her swinging posture, also looked dazed at the sword in her hand. She originally thought this sword was just enchanted by Fu Zhu to be sharper; she hadn't expected that she had only used a tiny bit of force just now, and that mech flew directly out!
"So, so powerful!"
March 7th looked at the treasured swords in her hands, stars in her eyes.
Scott recovered from his initial shock, his eyes behind the sunglasses filled with gravity.
"March 7th, I, Scott, underestimated you. No wonder rumors outside say you are together with that devil. You really are a Devil Couple!"
Hearing Scott say she and Fu Zhu were a devil couple, March 7th scratched the back of her head somewhat shyly: "Are we that compatible?"
"I'm not praising you!"
Scott was exasperated. He pointed directly at March 7th and ordered the remaining mechs: "Hard target, all together! Seven against one, the advantage is on our side!"
The employees piloting the remaining mechs looked at each other and also felt Scott made sense. One of them shouted loudly through the mech's loudspeaker.
"So what if she has great strength and sharp weapons? She only has two arms and two legs, but we have a full seven people! Get her! Get her!"
The seven mechs immediately raised their riot-suppression special electric batons and charged towards March 7th. Seven large mechs striding forward together caused the ground to tremble involuntarily; the momentum was truly somewhat frightening.
March 7th was also scared pale by this formation, and simply waved the dual swords in her hands around blindly.
The company employees rushing up to surround March 7th laughed when they saw this. With March 7th's disorderly swinging movements, could she hurt them?
The incident of being knocked flying just now was estimated to be a sneak attack. Now that they had the lesson from before, as long as they weren't slashed by those two sharp swords, she would be easy to capture!
Thinking this, they spread out, not preparing to contact March 7th directly, but using the electric batons in their hands to restrict her movement directly.
The company's special electric batons were not ordinary batons. Ordinary humans and intelligent mechanical lifeforms only needed to be touched once, and they would instantly lose mobility and faint.
However, when one of them extended the electric baton in his hand preparing to zap March 7th, the sword March 7th was waving blindly directly touched the electric baton he extended.
In the next second, with a whoosh, Scott looked numbly as a huge black shadow hurriedly brushed past him, once again blowing the sunglasses he was wearing off his face.
The other six people were also stunned seeing this scene. Indirect contact also gets knocked flying?!
After waving blindly for a while, March 7th realized something felt wrong. She opened one eye to look at the mech that flew out, then looked down at her own dual swords, both eyes emitting light.
"This Heroine is extraordinarily powerful now!"
Having figured this out, March 7th giggled, brandishing the dual swords and chasing directly after the remaining six mechs. The remaining six company employees, having witnessed their colleagues being easily knocked flying like ants one after another, retreated back in fear.
But now that they had apprehensions, how could they dodge the unscrupulous pursuit of March 7th? One after another, they were directly picked off and sent flying by her random casual swings.
Before long, eight mechs were embedded in the walls of the Wardance Arena, unable to be pulled down.
Yanqing, watching the battle from the side, saw this scene and couldn't help but swallow his saliva, turning his head to look at Fu Zhu.
"Master, this... what is going on?"
Fu Zhu crossed his arms and grinned.
"[Knockback 100], magical, right?"
Yunli's small face collapsed, looking somewhat worried.
"Then wouldn't Yanqing and I also be unable to beat Little March? To be defeated by a student as a teacher... I want to retire from the competition..."
"Hehe."
Having finished dealing with the mechs, March 7th let out a long sigh of relief, happily walking back to Fu Zhu's side and giving him a big hug.
"Reward me!"
Fu Zhu decisively grabbed her waist, winking at her.
"I won't just give a little reward."
March 7th's face reddened slightly. She cleared her throat, then flusteredly changed the subject, looking at Scott across from them.
"So? Who won now?"
Scott groaned, straightened his clothes, then performed a direct sliding kneel right in front of the four of them, raising his head and shouting loudly.
"Company Mechs—Dogs won't buy—Xianzhou Sword Arts—Unrivaled Under Heaven—!"