Chapter 591

Chapter 591: The Opponent Is Announced

"Next, we need to choose the fighter and the match time."

The registration staff explained, "Unless it is a special type of challenge, fighters cannot directly specify a particular opponent."

"However, fighters can choose the level of their opponent as well as the time for the match. The earliest match can only be scheduled for one day later."

"Same level, one day later, and the rest will be random!"

Yi Chen replied without hesitation.

"Okay!"

The registration staff took out the relevant contracts for Yi Chen to sign while continuing the introduction.

Once he signed the contract, Yi Chen did not linger and immediately left.

The registration staff didn’t mind.

Those willing to participate in life-and-death battles were mostly risking their lives for resources and treasures, and their personalities were often eccentric.

As long as the relevant contracts were signed, that was sufficient.

According to the coliseum rules, each fighter who signed up for a life-and-death battle could receive a palace equipped with barriers as a place to rest, heal, or train based on their identity badge.

However, Yi Chen did not choose to claim one and instead entered his flying treasure directly.

Next, he just needed to focus on his training and wait for the coliseum matches to be announced.

Bai Ruo Xin controlled the flying treasure, wandering around with the Little Gold Ball while keeping an eye on the match arrangements.

The reason the Stag Coliseum required registration one day in advance was that it announced the matchups for the following day every hour.

Once the matchups were revealed, betting would follow immediately.

The betting channels would only close one hour before the match started.

This method maximized the betting amounts for each fight.

For any coliseum, ticket revenue only covered various expenses.

The real source of profit came entirely from the betting commissions.

To seem fair and just, and to reduce the doubt of manipulated outcomes, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s coliseums mostly adopted a commission system.

The odds for each match adjusted based on the betting amounts, and the coliseum would take only 1% of the total amount as a commission.

Despite being just 1%, when betting amounts were substantial, it could lead to unimaginable returns for the coliseum.

Of course, some unscrupulous coliseums would secretly place bets based on inside information and even directly manipulate the results.

However, if such actions were to be revealed, the coliseum would totally lose trust, and it would no longer be able to operate.

Morris, the third envoy sent by the foreign affairs department of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe to this star cluster, managed a coliseum in the Tree Star Cluster.

It was because Morris sought to earn greater profits and manipulated match outcomes that his actions led to a scandal. Once the information leaked, the coliseum’s reputation fell sharply, leaving it empty and facing the risk of closure.

After just over an hour, Yi Chen’s opponent was officially announced.

It was another fighter at level 150.

The difference was that this opponent was not from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe but from the Flame Tribe.

To increase the appeal of the coliseum, the major coliseums do not forbid fighters from other tribes from participating. They even go so far as to spend large sums of money to buy or recruit members from various tribes as fighters.

"Your Majesty, normally, this is the territory of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe. The fights between the Tree-Dwelling Tribe and other tribes should tend to favor the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s victory, so why do people not seem confident in you?"

Bai Ruo Xin asked, confused. "It has only been a short time since the betting began, and your odds have dropped to 3.1 to 1, meaning if someone bets on your victory of 100 immortal stones, they would receive 310 immortal stones if you win. Of course, after the coliseum’s commission, it would only be 307 stones."

"That’s because the Flame Tribe has an advantage over the Tree-Dwelling Tribe!"

Yi Chen recalled the memories of the Ka Yue Tribe warrior and knew that the Flame Tribe’s innate ability was fire, which was extremely strong and a natural nemesis of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

He estimated that it was also because he did not impose too many restrictions when selecting his opponent that the coliseum matched him against a Flame Tribe fighter.

After all, he was participating in a life-and-death duel. Losing meant death.

Most fighters naturally wanted to choose opponents who were at a lower level than themselves.

But this situation was rare because most wanted to find opponents of a lower level, so encountering someone willing to challenge a higher-level fighter was almost negligible.

Therefore, finding an opponent of the same level was most common.

Among those of the same level, ordinary tribes or even those tribes that were weakened by the Tree-Dwelling Tribe were undoubtedly the best choices.

Most level 150 fighters would not include this Flame Tribe fighter on their list of competitors they would face.

Since Yi Chen did not blacklist the Flame Tribe fighter, the coliseum matched him with that opponent.

"No wonder!"

Bai Ruo Xin understood now.

"Shadow King, give Thomasen a batch of resources and treasures. Then, take a Shadow King to find my competitor and see where he is."

Yi Chen looked at the Shadow King, who was not far away, meditating with the Heart of Time. In just over twenty days, he had advanced several small realms.

"Sure!"

The Shadow King immediately interrupted his training, nodded, and handed over a prepared Space Stone to Thomasen.

As Thomasen took the Space Stone and used his Perception Ability to examine it, he was instantly dumbfounded.

Inside was a space of over ten thousand cubic kilometers, filled with countless low-grade and mid-grade immortal stones and immortal materials piled high.

The total value reached an unimaginable extent for him.

The Shadow King ignored Thomasen’s astonishment and nodded to a Shadow King before leaving the flying treasure with him to search for the whereabouts of the Flame Tribe.

"You go place bets and watch the odds closely. Gradually bet on my victory until the odds drop below 2 to 1!"

Yi Chen instructed Thomasen.

"Understood!"

Thomasen wanted to see Mares’s attitude, but remembering Mares’s stern warning, he quickly left the flying treasure.

He headed to the betting area.

When Thomasen arrived at the betting area, Yi Chen’s odds for victory had risen to 3.2 to 1.

After carefully calculating based on the total betting amount, he took out 100 million low-grade immortal stones and wagered on Yi Chen’s victory.

As a result, the odds dropped from 3.2 to 1 to 2.5 to 1.

"What’s going on?"

"What a guy! Which big shot has insider information, knowing this Tree-Dwelling Tribe called Yi Chen is a genius who can defeat the Flame Tribe?"

"A bet of 100 million low-grade immortal stones right off the bat—impressive!"

"Is this your first time at the Stag Coliseum? The Stag Coliseum strictly prohibits any leakage of fighters’ information. Spectators can only compare the strength of these fighters based on their past matches or the information provided by the fighters themselves."

"If there is any insider information that is verified, there will be a secret investigation, and anyone found will be dealt with severely. If the leak comes from insiders in the coliseum, they will refund all bets to the losing side."

"So, any so-called insider information from the Stag Coliseum is almost certain to be a rumor."

"However, suddenly placing a large bet on the weaker side could also indicate that a confident fighter is placing a bet."

"Just a level 150 fighter. If they can truly come up with 100 million low-grade immortal stones, why would they come to participate in life-and-death battles for treasures?"

"Who knows? We will have to see how things go. It could be a genius trying to force a breakthrough by pushing themselves into a corner while having access to plenty of resources and treasures."

"Or it could be a genius under a big shot, and the big shot is fully confident in their subordinate’s strength. It might also be a big shot casually placing a bet without caring about the 100 million low-grade immortal stones!"

As the odds changed dramatically, the spectators paying attention to and betting on this match buzzed with excitement.