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Chapter 70 Thor's Request

Afterwards, Thor briefly explained the rules of the arena.

The rules are simple: one-on-one matches, and the winner moves up in the rankings.

The player with the highest final ranking, who achieves ten consecutive victories, will receive a reward from Odin, the king of the gods, and their name will be engraved on the gladiatorial record.

Du Mu was in high spirits.

Ranked matches? He's an expert at that!

The rules are also very lenient. Apart from prohibiting lethal attacks or intentional maiming, there are basically no other restrictions, and even weapons are allowed.

Du Mu asked, "Any weapon will do?"

"Yes."

"Can I bring a sniper rifle?"

As he spoke, Du Mu pulled out an RPG rocket launcher.

Thor: "."

Unfortunately, Du Mu's idea was rejected because the permitted weapons here refer to cold weapons.

After all, this is an arena, not a battlefield.

Du Mu decisively signed up to participate in the gladiatorial arena.

Not long after, he faced his first qualifying match.

His opponent was a burly, bald man with fierce eyes, two striking black marks on his head, and a wildly designed giant axe in his hand.

Du Mu glanced at his opponent's information panel.

[NPC: Skorch]

Code Name: Executioner

【Favourability: 0】

[Evaluation: Dual-wielding warrior, the second-generation gatekeeper of Asgard]

"Oi!"

Skorch casually slung his giant axe over his shoulder, grinned, and fixed his gaze on Du Mu: "Black-haired kid, you're unlucky to have run into me, Skorch, in the very first match."

Du Mu ignored Skorch's provocation and instead stared intently at the giant axe in Skorch's hand.

"Your axe looks pretty good."

“Of course!” Skorch proudly raised his chin. “This is a weapon I commissioned the dwarves to forge at great expense!”

"So this equipment is very rare?"

"Of course!"

No sooner had Skorch finished speaking than Du Mu's muscles suddenly bulged, and he pounced forward like an arrow released from a bow!

He was greatly alarmed and hastily swung his giant axe, trying to repel the swift attack.

Unexpectedly, Du Mu was incredibly fast, reaching Skorch in the blink of an eye. He ducked to avoid the giant axe's attack, then unleashed a sharp, whistling punch that slammed into Skorch's face!

Bang!
There was a muffled sound.

Skorch's vision went black, his head was buzzing, and his body staggered backward uncontrollably.

"Except your weapons!"

Taking this opportunity, Du Mu reached out and grabbed the handle of the giant axe with both hands, and then kicked Skorch hard!
Under the immense force, Skorch was powerless to resist. He released his grip on the giant axe and flew backward, landing on the sand more than ten meters away, raising a cloud of dust.

Skorch was a little dazed from the beating and struggled to get up.

However, he saw Du Mu already standing in front of him, holding his beloved giant axe in his hand, the blade firmly against his neck.

"I surrender!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Skorch immediately raised his hands.

They knelt down incredibly fast!

"Red team wins!"

The Asgardians, acting as referees, immediately announced Dumu's victory.

A burst of enthusiastic cheers erupted from the stands. The Asgardians, who revered strength, always held the strong in high esteem.

After Du Mu won, he turned and left the competition venue to await the next ranking match. Watching Du Mu's departing figure, Skorch lay there in a daze.

No, you haven't returned my axe yet!
In the subsequent ranking matches, Du Mu won easily and even took away his opponent's weapon.

The opponents, whose weapons had been taken away, were too ashamed to ask Du Mu for them back, so they had no choice but to let Du Mu take them.

Unfortunately, the arena can only schedule a limited number of ranking matches per day, and Du Mu estimates that it will probably take quite some time before he can reach the top of the rankings.

So, in the days that followed, Du Mu frequently traveled between the two planets.

After finishing my daily tasks on Earth, I would run to Asgard to play ranked matches, which was quite fulfilling.

And you know what? It really brought back some of the feeling of grinding games back in the day.

Heimdall saw all of this, and his expression grew worse each day.

In all my years as a guardian, I've never seen anyone so arrogant!
Do they really think that he, the guardian deity of Asgard, doesn't exist, since he's always coming and going right under their noses?

But there was nothing he could do; since even his boss's eldest son had tacitly approved, he, a long-time Asgardian employee, naturally couldn't say anything.

I had no choice but to turn a blind eye, just like my boss did.

Odin: ●灬
Du Mu has really enjoyed the qualifying matches these past few days.

Asgardians are far more physically gifted than humans; each one of them would be considered a mini-superhuman on Earth.

The warriors of Asgard, in particular, were among the elite.

However, even without using other equipment or items, the GANTZ Enhancement Suit and his own numerical advantage are enough to easily crush his opponents.

And Du Mu's name gradually spread throughout Asgard.

Everyone knows that a Midgardian has appeared in the Asgardian arena. He is incredibly powerful and has defeated many Asgardian warriors in succession, causing his ranking to soar.

However, the Midgardians have a unique quirk: they like to steal their opponents' equipment.

Whether it's weapons or armor, if he sets his sights on something, he'll take it away during the battle!
So much so that some Asgardian warriors, especially the female warriors, would immediately surrender without hesitation upon seeing Du Mu as their opponent.

Although admitting defeat is a very humiliating thing, they felt that the former was much more acceptable than being stripped down to their underwear in front of hundreds of spectators.

Asgardians are not afraid of death, but social death is a different story!

During this time, Thor also found Du Mu and asked if his teleportation could carry people.

Saul was disappointed after Du Mu denied it.

Du Mu asked curiously, "What's wrong? Are you going to Earth?"

Thor nodded, looking dejected. "I promised Jane that I would go back to her after I was done, but I didn't expect the Rainbow Bridge to be destroyed. Maybe Jane is still waiting for me in Midgard."

Du Mu was a little surprised. After spending so many days with Thor in Asgard, this was the first time he had heard the name come out of Thor's mouth.

He usually heard the names Loki and Mjolnir the most.

As for Jane?

Who is this person? They seem unfamiliar. Are they a newly added NPC?
"But you can take a video, and I'll send it to that person for you when I get back to Earth," Du Mu suggested.

"This method works!"

Thor's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed that Du Mu was a genius. Then he used Du Mu's phone to take a video.

Thor, true to his reputation as a straight-laced man, shoved the camera right in Jane's face, giving her a silly, awkward look from a terrible angle as he recounted what had happened and explained why he hadn't returned to Earth.

It was normal at first.

But as they talked, his topic suddenly shifted to Loki.

In the video, Thor, looking distressed, recounts the trivial matters that have been happening between him and Loki these past few days.

For example, he discovers that his brother Loki was actually adopted; for example, he doesn't know how to mend the brotherly bond between himself and Loki; for example, Loki blah blah, Loki blah blah...
In short, it's hopeless!

Du Mu could easily imagine what Jian's expression would be when she received this video.

Imagine a girl's boyfriend running away to his hometown, saying he'd be back the next day, but then disappearing for over a month.

After finally receiving a message from the other party, it turned out to be all about the mess between the other party and his brother, with not a single word of concern for me.

What would this girl be feeling?
They probably wanted to kill him.

　I'm desperately seeking help!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)