"You said they wouldn't get hurt."
Ren Yunying's expression was not very pleasant as she stood by the fence, staring unblinkingly at the situation in the arena.
"Don't worry, my dear." Hurst sipped some wine, squinting his eyes as he said, "As long as I'm here, the arena is absolutely safe."
He tilted his chin, pointing at the three muscular men in the arena and smiling, "See those big guys? Not just them, everyone and every beast allowed to fight in the arena has a chip implanted in their body to control their actions and consciousness."
"With just one command from me, whether they're about to lose or win, they'll be forced to stop all offensive actions." Hurst sounded rather self-satisfied as he glanced at Ren Yunying, "So rest assured, your younglings are absolutely safe in my hands. If things go awry, I'll immediately make them stop."
He sighed, "After all, your students come from influential backgrounds. I'm just a merchant, so I dare not provoke the younglings of the Ancestor of the Vampire clan."
Hearing this, Ren Yunying finally calmed down a bit.
She had brought the younglings to the Barren Planet this time to let them experience real combat.
But she couldn't let them die in actual battle here, so after meeting with the academy leaders, they ultimately decided to collaborate with Hurst on the Barren Planet.
She quieted her mind and focused again on the fight in the arena.
Hang in there.
...
Chloe and the others were completely unaware of what was happening in the stands.
Their full attention was on the battle before them.
These big guys had fought their way out of the arena's brutal battles.
Daniel spun to avoid the tiger's attack, unable to stop himself from cursing:
"Why is this guy dirtier than Chloe?"
Chloe's hearing was sharp, and she glanced in his direction after hearing him, then immediately stood up from the sandy ground and flung her steel fork.
The fork sank into the python's chest, but Chloe wasn't satisfied. She nimbly leaped onto the python's shoulder, hanging upside down, and kicked the fork several inches deeper into its flesh.
Blood gushed from the wound. The python was the most severely injured of the three big guys, covered in blood from head to toe. The cheers from the audience in the stands nearly shook the heavens, and at some point, their mocking target had shifted to those few big guys:
"You can't even beat a few little brats!"
"I told you their muscles were just fat piled up!"
"Hahaha! They look like walking balls of fat!"
Such taunts undoubtedly angered the big guys, especially the python, who couldn't stand losing. He roared and pulled the fork out of his chest, throwing it to the ground and shouting furiously with bloodshot eyes:
"You insolent little brat, you're dead!"
Chloe was still hanging upside down on the python, curling her lip into a smirk, "Besides scaring people, do you have any other talents?"
The python raised his hand to try and pull Chloe down, but the person on his back was as slippery as an eel, slipping out of his grasp even when he thought he had a hold on her.
He gained no advantage, only getting beaten again and feeling pain all over.
How was this little brat so devilishly tricky?
Chloe sensed the wind coming from behind, swiftly reacting by turning her body sideways. Immediately after, a fist as big as a sandbag struck the back of the python's head.
The python let out a screech like a slaughtered pig.
Chloe turned her head to see that Green Dragon had thrown the punch.
Chloe: "..."
She whistled, "You guys really are great teammates."
Before Green Dragon could react, Anderson and Katherine blocked his way.
In the commotion, Green Dragon was turned around and punched again by the python.
The python and Green Dragon immediately began cursing at each other.
During the fight, Chloe realized her energy was rapidly draining. She knew she couldn't keep going against these three guys.
After dodging another attack from the cockroach, Chloe took the opportunity to signal to her companions.
Everyone immediately understood, simultaneously abandoning their skirmishes with the three big guys and running swiftly towards each other.
The three big guys, already fired up from the fight, raged when these little brats dared to run away and chased after them.
The arena was huge. After Chloe and the others gathered together, they counted down the time until their enemies arrived. When the big guys were about to catch up, they all leaped into the air at the same time!
The five tensed their abdomens and leaped upwards, joining hands in mid-air and tumbling sideways in unison.
At the same time, the three big guys failed to dodge in time and collided violently!
Chloe reattached her severed arm impassively, watching the three of them stagger dizzily, then glanced up at the frenzied audience in the stands.
She seemed to realize something, her voice weakening:
"...Kill them."
Upon hearing this, Qin Huaibei turned his head in disbelief, asking, "What did you say?"
"I said, kill them," Chloe said firmly. "If they don't die, we'll have to keep fighting in the arena. Don't you understand?"
A silence fell.
Qin Huaibei stammered, "But couldn't we just..."
"Are you chickening out?" Daniel interrupted, taunting, "As a military academy student, are you really afraid of this?"
Qin Huaibei became angry with embarrassment, "Nonsense!"
Seeing his hesitation, Chloe stood up, "If you don't want to, then I'll go kill them myself."
Daniel couldn't let Chloe take the risk alone, so he immediately stood up too, "I'll go with you."
Then he looked at Qin Huaibei and said:
"Don't be a coward."
Qin Huaibei: "..."
"I'm not being a coward."
He stood up. It was just killing a few people, he could do that too.
Chloe then looked at Katherine.
She had been very quiet the whole time until Chloe looked at her. Then Katherine slowly blinked and said:
"I have no problem with it."
As for Anderson, Chloe didn't even need to ask – she knew this guy had no psychological burden.
Once they reached a consensus, it was as if a switch had been flipped. They picked up their steel forks and struck quickly and fiercely when the three big guys came charging.
Daniel even took advantage of his tough species traits, not dodging or avoiding the big guys' attacks, allowing them to hit his body.
Simultaneously grasping steel forks, they drove the steel forks hard into vital areas.
It was a reckless, life-endangering attack.
The bulky creature could not catch them, and most of the time it was just enduring blows.
In the final crisis moment, Chloe surged up first, and with everyone's assistance, plunged a steel fork into the python's head!
The steel fork pierced horizontally, and the pure-blood hatchling's extraordinary strength caused this single steel fork to impale three people's heads.
They died instantly.
