The Legacy System

Of course, the person he was thinking about was none other than Young Miss Long, his partner in this Arena.

Either she herself, her maidservant, or Young Miss Ling with her help had managed to actually poison his food earlier, ending with the current him.

Even though he had a cheat existence like the Legacy System on his side, he was still unable to actually notice it.

The reason for that was that this wasn't a complete poison, or to be more exact it hadn't been a complete poison before entering his body.

According to the post-analysis of the Legacy System, and his own deep thinking he understood that whoever had wished to poison him had separated the poison into three parts.

Each of them had been added to one dish, and only when someone ate all three dishes would the poison start reacting and activate.

What surprised him though was the fact that the poison wasn't lethal, but just paralyzing. Whoever had done this had certainly thought things through.

They had prepared a perfect trap to actually have him die inside the Cage and treat him as just one more dead body in this bloody Arena.

If it were any other man besides Eric who was going through this, then he would certainly have died in the previous match, he would be doomed.

Fortunately, he had his Legacy System on his side and the great benefits of buying from it as long as he had enough SP points.

His greatest point though was the fact that whoever had tried to do something like this didn't know his true Realm and had just treated him according to the information he had given.

Most probably there would be some doubts inside her heart from now on, but they had no other option but to remain as doubts.

'Very well, since you want to play with me, then don't blame me for playing with you!'

After carefully considering his options and plans, Eric finally seemed to have come to a decision. Things were bound to get more exciting from this moment forth!

…

While Eric was planning his next moves, three people were greatly rejoicing in the whole of Arena, Ren Jia, Cui Xie, and the beautiful assassin were hardly holding their laughter at the numbers on their tablets.

Besides Eric's 100 million dollars, they were using also quite a bit from their own savings to bet, as they had already earned many times what they bet.

While Cui Xie and Ren Jia had their own luxurious private boxes, the beautiful assassin had gathered quite a bit of attention.

A lot of people were looking at her with greedy eyes and planning on attacking her once she left the venue.

After all, just the first fight had odds of 1/40 against Eric, and with 100 million dollars, one would be able to earn 40 billion.

That was an amount that even the event organizers had never thought it would appear in front of them, and they were even thinking of making those bets invalid.

If it were only the beautiful assassin they might have done something like that, but Young Master Cui Xie and Young Miss Ren Jia weren't normal and simple people.

Still, at the same time, those were bets that they wouldn't be able to pay easily, as 120 billion were gone like that in just one match.

While they had earned quite a bit from other people betting, but it was nowhere close to their sum. If their boss knew about this, they would lose their lives.

They had to do something about this, and most importantly they had to do something about Eric! That kid couldn't be left alive!

…

Eric had no idea of this happening, even though he could estimate that there must be a great profit waiting for him, as he was more concerned about his current situation.

He had easily suppressed and was about to completely eradicate the poison from his system, but just as he was about to do that, he had a great idea.

Instead of a tragedy, he started looking at this as a big opportunity for himself. He was going to use his ailment against his bad wishers.

In other words, from the next fight on he would start showing the signs and symptoms of the poison in his body and win his matches' on limits.

Like this, he would start looking like he would be ready to collapse after each passing second, and that would easily increase his odds once again.

With those thoughts in mind, he decided to tell Ren Jia to wait for longer once the battle started, and not bet right away!

Ren Jia was an extremely intelligent beauty, so she immediately understood her man's intentions, and didn't question his decision.

It didn't take long for Eric's next matchup to come and get confirmed as he hadn't even taken the bother to go upstairs to his partner's luxurious private box.

Once again his opponent was a Realm 1 evolver, but this guy was bad news compared to the previous one.

Why!?

Extremely simple, this guy was a peak Realm 1 evolver, meaning that he was extremely close to Realm 2, and had been intentionally suppressing his evolution.

If he wished he could easily evolve during the fight inside the cage, and anyone else besides Eric would be caught in for a good surprise.

Now that he knew this though, Eric had no intention of waiting and falling for this guy's surprise, as it would be just too much for the current him.

After all, even though he needed to 'act' his poisoned and weak part, he couldn't do so against someone 1 Realm higher than his.

With these thoughts in mind, Eric immediately jumped into attack once he got inside the cage, as the two knives he had taken from the previous fighter appeared in his hands, and he went for the neck.

"Hmph~! Wishful thinking, who do you think you are!?"

Seeing Eric launch an attack towards him directly, with the intention to kill, the other guy only snorted coldly and was confident in his abilities he didn't even move from his spot.

Rather he took a swordsmanship stance despite wielding a blade, as he prepared to intercept Eric's attack, and then kill him in one move.

That blade didn't seem normal, and in fact, it was a 1-star artifact. That coupled with his strength and prowess this guy would normally be undefeated under Realm 2.

'Claaaaannnngggg…, Swwooosshhhhh~!'

Unfortunately, his luck was bad, and he had changed into someone that didn't abide by the normal law of strength, as the moment that Eric's first knife clashed with his blade, he threw the second blade towards the guy's throat.

It was such an unconventional way of fighting that the opponent didn't expect it in the least, as the knife landed on the right side of his throat.

Even though blood was leaking excessively, and the wound looked terrible, Eric could tell that he hadn't killed the guy yet.

So without wasting any more seconds he immediately grabbed on the man's blade, pulling it away before his second knife pierced through the opponent's hand, and then past his right eye.

The opponent had tried to copy him, and block his weapon through his bare hand, unfortunately, he had underestimated Eric's strength and skill once again.

Still, that didn't matter any longer as he had died, and Eric had just won his third match of the night, making him one of the indisputable experts of the night, shocking the whole crowd.

Everything seemed well and good until the whole audience saw him actually walk slower and with unsteady steps. This clearly showed that he wasn't in good and perfect health.

There were still 125 candidates left, so he would have to fight at least 3 more fights in order to reach the Top 10, and then rest until the next week for the final.

Even if he were in top condition he most probably would have trouble reaching that level, and now he was actually injured.

This made the majority of the people at the Arena think of his demise, and to bet against him. In their eyes, Eric was a goner.

Inside the luxurious private box of Young Miss Long, her smile had returned to her face, as she couldn't help but get startled at the help from heaven!

What she didn't understand though, was when was Eric injured!? During all these fights he hadn't suffered any great attacks, so it was weird.

Leaving only one possibility alive on her mind, and that was the possibility of him being poisoned!

But if that was true, then who did it!?

She had no idea to why or how it was happening, as the important part was that it was happening! She could finally get rid of this guy.

…

As Young Miss Long and her similar wishful people were rejoicing, other people looked at this scene with worry and fear. Especially Ren Jia, who didn't like this situation in the least.

'Bzztt…, bzz…'

Unfortunately, there was nothing she could do, as her phone vibrated and she received a text,

"How is my acting!?"

If Eric was in front of her at that moment she would have beaten and bitten him, fortunately for Eric, she wasn't, and she could only express her anger in a short text message,

"Great acting, terribly convincing!"

Eric could feel a chill run down his back as he read that message, but he didn't have much time to waste, as his next matchup was there…

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