Chapter 108 - A Challenger?

Randy also thought that perhaps, it was because he was already used to killing with the help of those mutated beasts that he had hunted the last time, and that was the reason why he did not feel anything when he killed a person.

Nonetheless, he ultimately did not pay too much mind to the actual reason behind his behavior. 

With that out of the way, Randy tucked himself under his bed cover and proceeded to take some sleep to rest his tired body.

A few minutes later, Randy suddenly sprung up from his bed as he remembered something that he had been ignoring since yesterday that was crucial to the current him.

'I forgot about the knowledge points! Yesterday, I skipped on it and slept early but I can't keep slacking like this. Otherwise, when would I be able to accumulate enough to learn the remaining techniques.' 

Randy stood up right away from his bed and proceeded to the room next to his room— the virtual station. 

After entering the virtual machine and logging back in, he proceeded to do like before, sending out random challenges to others in hopes someone would accept. 

Naturally, before entering the virtual machine, he used his ancestral regression to transform into the same appearance from before— with crimson-red hair and amber-colored eyes.

Randy proceeded to wait for someone to accept his challenge, and he was not worried that no one would accept his challenge because now that he had beaten that famous sword cultivator, Li Weisheng, he has undoubtedly gained fame in the process. 

Sure enough, a couple of minutes after he sent out his challenge, someone finally accepted it, and they were all transported to the same virtual combat arena, which was an arena in space, or more precisely, a piece of land that floated in space. 

'Why the hell is it this place again? Can't they change the place we combat? If it wasn't because I do not know that many people and because of that, I have no choice but to randomly send out challenges to people like this, why would I be in this situation where I can't even wager where I will battle with others? I wouldn't be picking this virtual combat if the situation wasn't like this— I am already bored fighting in this place.' 

Randy complained in his mind, but he did not let it show on his face and calmly watched the contender the moment they both appeared in the virtual combat.

It was a young man with a sturdy but slim body with a blade in his right hand, looking all confident. 

"Are you Blood Venerable Fist God? I heard a lot about you and wanted to see how strong you are— the one that managed to beat the second place in the rankings and taken over the second position." The contender said. 

Randy raised his eyebrow slightly in surprise.

'Li Weisheng was second place? I knew he was strong and was definitely in the top 10, but to think that he was the second place…'

However, after thinking about it for a bit, Randy agreed with this discovery, as Li Weisheng was truly strong— So, it does make sense for him to be ranked that high in the rankings because even he was not confident in beating him straight-on in combat. 

"So what if I am?"

"…It's nothing, I just wanted to confirm that you are the real person and not a fake before I defeat you. Just so you know, I have already analyzed your fighting style and am very confident in defeating you in combat, so don't be too arrogant, because you will be losing soon!" The contender declared confidently. 

"…"

Randy was speechless by the other party's confidence as he did not expect that kind of response at all. 

'Who is arrogant? Aren't you being arrogant by saying those things before you even accomplish them?'

Randy could not be bothered with this guy and said: "So can we begin the fight now?" 

"That's right, prepare yourself to lose! And I forgot to mention this, but I am the fourth place in the ranking—"

<King of Blades Vs. Blood Venerable Fist God>

<Virtual Combat Shall Now Commence>

Before the contender could finish with his introduction, the virtual system had already announced the commencement of their battle. 

Hearing this, Randy did not wait for a second to pass as he quickly traversed several meters within a few seconds and stood in front of the King of Blades, leaving him shocked.

"What the— How are you so fast compared to before!" He muttered in disbelief and quickly raised his blade: "Shit! Die!" 

Before he could swing his blade, Randy had already charged his fist with enough magical energy and casually threw out consecutive punches.

[Void Rippling Punch!]

BAM! BAM!

"Ahhhh!"

The contender was hit directly on his chest at the same place twice, shattering his chest bones and the energy of the attack permeating his body and causing internal damages in his body.

He died almost instantly as his heart was most likely affected by Randy's consecutive punches.

He laid on his back, lifeless, as blood dripped from his mouth.

<Blood Venerable Fist God had obtained victory against King of Blades>

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[[You have fought and easily defeated your opponent in combat, thus obtaining 300 knowledge points]]

"Tsk! Just this much and you want to defeat me; Li Weisheng gave me a whopping 1000 knowledge points after defeating him. Ah, when would someone like him appear again?" Randy muttered to himself as he watched the contender, King of Blades's body slowly disappear from the virtual combat arena.

After a few moments of waiting again, he suddenly received a message from the system. 

[You have received a challenge Request! Would you accept this challenge Request from an unknown individual that is not on your friend list?]

<YES or NO>

These texts appeared before Randy's eyes, baffling him.

Because just as the virtual system said, he does not have that many friends, the only friend he had was Jiang Chen, and he had never used virtual combat before until a few days ago. 

So who would be challenging him in the middle of his random challenges? 

Randy initially thought that it was Li Weisheng when he saw the first few words.

But upon reading further, he realized that it was not him since Li Weisheng should be recorded in the history of people he had fought before.

In other words, his name should have been part of the message sent.

At this point, Randy was curious about this person who sent him a challenge, and without delay, he accepted the challenge with anticipation. 

'I hope it is someone strong… no, I hope it is someone with a mental ability or high intelligence. That way, I can harvest more knowledge points from them.'

Randy could not hide the wide grin that was full of excitement on his face. That was because, at this point, he was already tired of fighting these weaklings— there were not many people with high mental energy among the many he fought except Li Weisheng, who was a cultivator.

<Please Select the desired Virtual Arena among the various displayed arena for a wager>

At this moment, the virtual system abruptly prompted him with images of various areas within the virtual combat system for him to choose. 

That was because he received a challenge from someone this time. 

That was unlike before, where he was randomly challenging others without a means to choose the combat arena that he preferred.