Passing through the narrow, long pathway, "Shadowless" Duan Rui heard the tide-like explosions and screams. When he stepped into the observation room next to the test field, his heart tightened, as if he were back to a hundred and twenty years ago when he lurked in the dark, stinky sewers for three days and three nights, preparing to assassinate a colonel of the Imperium's army.
Duan Rui was one of the best assassins in the dozen or so Sectors at the edge of the third quadrant of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
The fact that he could retreat from more than three hundred assassination operations and live to more than a hundred and forty years old with all his hands and feet intact was indicative enough of his amazing abilities of assassination and survival.
Few assassins could live more than a hundred years in peace.
It was especially so after he pissed off the four major assassin organizations in the third quadrant of the Imperium and was hunted by them for more than twenty years. He even assassinated the leaders of two of the assassin organizations and forced them to reach a "truce" on his own.
In the past hundred years, in the circle of assassins in the third quadrant, "Shadowless" Duan Rui was the only one who had made such appalling achievements.
"Shadowless" Duan Rui definitely had something to be proud of.
Therefore, when he was recruited by Li Linghai, queen of the Imperium, at a high price, he thought that he was the best assassin under the queen's command. He accepted Li Linghai's secret support for years without any qualms and practiced his unique technique with the incessant Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures until he reached the highest level of the ninth level!
Finally, the Empress wanted him to surface and carry out his mission, and his invisible Heaven Punishment Secret Sword had been thirsty for a long time.
However, when he really came to "Deep Sea Palace", the queen's most confidential nest, and was faced with countless brutal men who were notorious for their brutality and slaughter in the entire Imperium, he finally broke out in a cold sweat and realized that he was just one of the most common experts under the queen's command.
Di Xinghun, an expert of mental warfare who annihilated the Blood Moon Sect in the Feiyang Space Zone single-handedly and who was known as "Soul Devourer"!
Mao Feng, "Space Hunter", who wandered in the sea of stars and made a living by hunting alien species!
Zhao Tiande, the super body fundamentalist who claimed to be able to dismantle a starship empty-handed without wearing a Crystal Suit, had infinite strength, and had mastered a variety of terrifying mutated techniques!
All of them were peerless villains whose fame and strength were not inferior to his in the slightest.
Like 'Shadowless' Duan Rui, the dozens of unparalleled bandits had long disappeared from their circles. Everybody thought that they were dead.
Little did he expect that they would appear in this place at the same time. Also, they had both been nurtured by Li Linghai's inexhaustible resources. Their Cultivation was even more advanced, and the brutality that was about to burst out of their eyes was even more condensed!
Many experts who had never met him before but had long heard of his ferocious name looked at each other with complicated feelings.
On one hand, they were deeply shocked by the unfathomable power of Empress Li Linghai, who was able to silently recruit so many desperadoes from all over the Empire.
However, there was also a trace of excitement. He knew that the Empress could secretly recruit so many peerlessly fierce powerhouses and gather them together. She was definitely going to do something earth-shattering!
With complicated feelings, everybody stepped into the observation room.
The tall man who had been standing at the center of the observation room for a long time, and who was as intimidating as a crystal bomb, however, surprised them all.
"It's' Bloody Butcher 'Wang Kou!"
'Shadowless' Duan Rui's pupils constricted to the minimum. The muscles all over his body were tightened beyond his control, and he subconsciously put on the highest alert posture.
The twenty or so fearless desperadoes next to him all held their breath, too, with subtle reactions in their muscles and joints.
They were all renowned brutal men, but 'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou was not on the same level as them.
It was almost like the gap between a killer whale and a tiger shark!
'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou was a gladiator.
The Imperium of True Human Beings worshipped strength. When there were conflicts between Sectors, it was often preferred to settle their differences in arenas.
Many powerful Greater Thousand Worlds would carefully nurture their own Combat Department experts, who were specially trained to shock everyone in the arena.
However, some of the weaker Sectors were short of powerful combat techniques. They knew that the enemy's gladiators were too tough, and their warriors would only be getting killed if they fought them.
Then, they would hire strong warriors from the outside world at great cost to fight on behalf of their Sector.
Therefore, the profession of 'wandering gladiator' came into being.
They were the 'professionals' who wandered in various Sectors and fought in the arenas for the benefits of their employers.
It was not hard to imagine that they would never have the courage to take on such a dangerous profession as' wandering gladiator 'unless they had absolute confidence in their own strength.
Once they failed in the arenas, even if they were not beaten to death by their opponents, they might still be blamed by their employers who had lost tremendous benefits.
'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou was one of the best wandering gladiators.
He had once been undefeated in fifty matches in the arenas and killed his opponents directly in forty-nine of them.
The only time he did not kill his opponent on the spot was when his opponent knelt and begged for mercy.
As a result, he was too lenient and only blew up his opponent's bones and internal organs, but he kept his opponent's brain intact. He even gave his opponent a chance to transfer his soul into an artificial body.
However, that was not how the nickname 'Bloody Butcher' came to be.
He was a man who regarded 'gladiator' as his religion.
He was also a man who regarded the rules of the arenas as inviolable heavenly laws.
Now that they had decided to settle their differences with a gladiator, they would have to accept their loss. Once the winner was decided in the arena, neither of them would be able to regret.
It was a pity that the morals of the world were deteriorating day by day.
Wang Kou's rules might have been followed a few hundred years ago, but at the end of the dynasty, few forces were not playing tricks in secret when the etiquette had collapsed.
It was Wang Kou's fiftieth match.
He met the strongest and most respectable opponent in his life, a wandering gladiator who also had an outstanding battle record and a reputation.
When one's combat ability reached Wang Kou's level, there was only one reason why they did not join a noble family and chose to continue their life of wandering and uncertainty — their passion for gladiators.
Wang Kou and his opponent appreciated each other.
The greatest way for the gladiators who appreciated each other to show their respect was to try their best to kill their opponent!
In the end, Wang Kou delivered a perfect death to his opponent and won the match.
However, the force that his opponent represented suddenly regretted and refused to acknowledge the verdict in the arena. Instead, they wanted to settle the problem with starships.
Wang Kou's force learned what 'gladiator's wrath' was, and it bore the name of 'Bloody Butcher'.
'Shadowless' Duan Rui knew 'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou so well because he had once accepted a mission to assassinate the guy.
It was after Wang Kou barged into the nest of the force that violated the rules of the arena in his fury and blew up three crystal mines of the enemy. He did not seem to be satisfied yet and seemed to be determined to kill until no one was left alive.
Ninety-seven assassins accepted the mission to assassinate Wang Kou.
'Shadowless' Duan Rui was the most patient and clear-headed of them all.
He watched Wang Kou kill the ninety-six assassins one after another patiently. Then, he made the wisest decision with a clear head.
He could not kill Wang Kou.
He would rather break the rules of the assassins, break with the four major assassin organizations, and live a life of desperation. In such a way, his odds of survival would be slightly higher.
'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou was as terrifying as that!
But right now …
'Shadowless' Duan Rui and the thirty or so bandits who had killed countless people were all dumbfounded. They could not have been more shocked!
It was impossible!
What was even more dreadful, shocking, and unbelievable than 'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou's appearance in this place was —
He was shivering!
'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou was shivering!
'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou, who had secured fifty consecutive victories in an arena and killed his opponents in the cruelest ways in forty-nine of them. He had also fought a powerful force on his own until the enemy's blood was flowing like a river and everybody was panicking. Yet, he had still taken care of almost a hundred assassins casually. Now, the super bandit of bandits who made Duan Rui, Di Xinghun, Mao Feng, and Zhao Tiande shudder in fear and dare not step forward was shivering in fear!
Even though he was still releasing a shocking aura, it was only to boost his courage. Wang Kou's hair, Wang Kou's fingers, Wang Kou's legs … In fact, in everyone's perception, even every hair on his body was shivering. It was the kind of shivering that could freeze one's bones to the extreme!
"What — What's going on? What the hell can scare 'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou like this?"
'Shadowless' Duan Rui and the other bandits swallowed hard. They looked past 'Bloody Butcher' Wang Kou and at the random gravity test field on the opposite side.
The air of the test field was empty, and the aftermath of spiritual energy was still spreading out like surging tides. A fierce battle had just ended.
The ground was full of broken, seriously twisted battle-damaged Crystal Suit. Blood and screams were spurting out of the Crystal Suit now and then.
The hundred elite commandos seemed to have just been crushed by a — no, a bunch of primeval beasts.
"This is too unbelievable. This is just a 'test'!"
'Shadowless' Duan Rui and the other bandits felt that their blood was freezing. "What was being tested inside just now? Was it a super strengthened alien beast of the latest species?"
"Shua!"
The door between the test field and the observation room was opened. A young man who looked rather young and plain walked out.
'Shadowless' Duan Rui blinked and looked around, only to discover that the other bandits were confused too. None of them knew the young man. He couldn't be a famous expert, could he?
But what happened next made everyone's eyeballs fall out of their sockets!
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