My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Xia Zuo's teeth ached... he remembered the sound of chalk slipping on the blackboard in his previous life...

Fabian clashed with his opponent for a few more rounds, then stumbled and retreated, his chest heaving violently, indicating that he was quickly expending his energy.

Augu followed with a sinister grin, scattering a large patch of caltrops on the ground around Fabien with his left hand, while a sharp spike emerged from his right steel fist with a whoosh, and white gas surged from his wrist as his fist closely followed his opponent's dodging movements.

Augu was tall and had a significant advantage in close combat; a casual sweep of his arm was extremely threatening.

Fabien stood expressionless on the barbed wire, locked in combat with Augu, and gradually retreated to the edge of the wire mesh, with nowhere left to go.

"Kill him! Augu!"

Smash his head!

"Take off his left arm! It might be a treasure!"

The audience seemed to witness the blood-soaked scene, their eyes gleaming with a bloodthirsty light, and the atmosphere at the scene instantly reached a fever pitch.

Several people who had invested heavily in Fabien gritted their teeth, clenched their fists, widened their eyes, and roared:

"Fight back! You idiot! Fight back! Is that all you've got?!"

Fabian leaned against the barbed wire, panting heavily. Several barbed wire spikes pierced the soles of his feet, but strangely, no blood flowed.

Augu walked up to his opponent like a victor.

Inside the glass VIP section on the second floor, the dark-skinned, fat man raised his right hand and casually waved it in front of him.

Augur understood, raised his arms, and shouted, "Die! You scum!"

"Hooray!" The audience cheered in unison.

Augu swung his steel fist sideways, drawing an arc along his side, a vicious swinging punch about to explode into a spray of blood on Fabian.

Right now.

Xia Zuo suddenly noticed that Fabian had a palm-sized, three-edged bone spur on his left hand.

The snake-tearing man raised his right arm and used all his strength to deflect the fist with his bone dagger. His right arm was instantly broken in half, and the three-edged bone spike in his left hand insidiously pierced Augu's lower ribs.

"Bang!!" The steel fist slammed into the wire mesh, causing the wire to rattle and shake incessantly.

Augu seemed frozen in place, refusing to retract his fist.

Fabien pulled out a triangular bone spike and plunged it into Augu's neck.

"Pfft~~" Blood gushed out like a pillar, splattering all over the competition field and staining the barbed wire red.

Augu fell stiffly to the ground.

Fabien opened his arms and closed his eyes in the blood.

The audience was silent.

Most viewers seemed to have been caught off guard by this turn of events.

Those spectators who had bet on Fabian were stunned for several seconds before they reacted.

"Hahahaha! I won money! I won money! Ten times! Ten times!"

"Fabien! Fabien!"

"August is dead..."

"Unbelievable... Why didn't he move at the end?"

Xia Zuo knew the reason for the inaction.

In those few seconds, he used his detection spell and discovered that Augu had been poisoned by some kind of toxin with a powerful stiffening effect.

Clearly, the poison was on that three-edged bone spike.

The bone is poisonous... Could this be related to the bone cyst?

Xia Zuo looked at the audience member who had mentioned the bone sac. This person stared at Fabian, his eyes flickering, with an inexplicable meaning flowing in them.

The spectators who lost money crumpled their lottery tickets into balls and threw them onto the field, while the winners cheered and ran to the prize redemption table to exchange their lottery tickets for banknotes at face value.

The stadium was empty of spectators.

The chubby, dark-skinned man in the VIP section on the second floor chuckled smugly, patted his belly, and rubbed the maid beside him a few times with his jeweled right hand. Satisfied, he stood up, put his arm around her waist, and left the room.

It's all a scam; never gamble.

The winners are often confused, believing it's due to their own skill and luck.

Those who lose everything also believe it's because they lack skill and luck.

Actually... it was all set up perfectly long ago.

Xia Zuo clicked his tongue silently.

The barbed wire surrounding the competition area was retracted into the ceiling.

Workers went up to remove the barbed wire.

A thug with a head full of wounds, wearing a black vest, came to Augu's corpse, bent down and fumbled on the steel gauntlet for a while, then pressed a button on the inside.

With a hiss of the air valve expiring, the boxing glove split in two, revealing a bare right wrist.

The thug pulled out a dagger, dissected Augu's corpse, and picked out some bloody and mangled parts from various parts, putting them into a metal box. Then, he picked up the boxing gloves and the metal box, exchanged a glance with the host, and left the arena.

Fabian limped off the platform, pulled the caltrops off the soles of his feet, and collapsed to the ground like a rag doll, coughing incessantly, green juice spurting from his mouth.

The host, sporting an exaggerated goatee, walked over, pulled out a handkerchief, and tossed it on the ground. "Well done, Fabian. Come backstage for your reward later. Be back at this time tomorrow."

He glanced at the figure on the ground, nudged the person with the toe of his leather shoe, and said, "Hey, did you hear me?"

“Yes…cough cough cough…I heard it…” Fabian said between coughs.

Seeing that his condition was not right, Xia Zuo released his detection spell.

..

[Strength] 4-3

[Agility] 5-4

[Endurance] 5-3

[Vitality] 3-3

(Due to unknown effects, the attribute value has been reduced.)

..

Hmm... this bone magic has side effects.

The temporary increase in attribute values ​​averages about 6 points.

The average decrease in attribute values ​​after use is approximately 3 points.

The price drop is still acceptable.

It would be even better if the negative effects didn't last long either.

Xia Zuo scratched his head and had his No. 1 servant secretly create a blood dot that did not contain a spiritual ocean, to be used as a marker to track the target.

He placed the blood marker on Fabian and tried to sense the marker.

very good~

Both the main body and the No. 1 servant can clearly sense the location of the marker.

Fabien slowly got up from the ground and staggered toward the large iron gate leading to the backstage area.

Xia Zuo controlled Servant No. 1 and floated towards the audience passage.

This is a corridor covered with posters.

The alchemical lamps overhead illuminated the posters on the wall.

Some advertisements feature scantily clad women striking alluring poses along with several seductive slogans, widely informing passersby about places like hotels with excellent service.

There are also quite a few advertisements promoting addictive drugs.

Even small advertisements selling gunpowder firearms and alchemical bio-armor can be seen more than a dozen times.

Xia Zuo marveled at the journey.

The cultural traditions, social structure, and order system here are completely different from those of the Silvermoon Federation.

If the Silvermoon Federation is likened to a civilized nation, then this place is a primeval forest with only a civilized shell, adhering to an inefficient and costly social operation mode of survival of the fittest.

Xia Zuo took a blank notebook from his desk drawer and wrote down the location mentioned on the poster.

Having finally made the trip to the depths of the interior, it wouldn't be right to not thoroughly investigate these gray areas on the ground.

Servant Number 1 lingered in the corridor for a moment, passing several crowded competition venue doors, and arrived outside the building.

Smoggy weather.

The sky was obscured by gray clouds, and three- or four-story buildings lined the streets, with chimneys on their roofs reaching into the sky, from which gray smoke drifted high into the air.

Pedestrians carried weapons: single-handed axes, longswords, or revolvers at their waists. Some even had double-barreled shotguns with thick barrels and ammunition belts hanging on their shoulders.

Their clothing was similar; they wore a durable, hard leather trench coat as an outer layer, paired with a wide-brimmed hat, so they didn't need an umbrella when it rained.

Several four-wheeled motorcycles with black smoke billowing from their tails drove by, the smoke drifting into the sky and blending into the gray clouds.

The motorcyclists were uniformly dressed, carrying shotguns, and their eyes scanned the pedestrians and vendors on both sides, as if they were local security personnel.

Passersby seemed to have gotten used to the black smoke billowing from the car's rear; they would fan their hands, move away, cough a few times, and then continue walking.

Xia Zuo wandered around the streets for a while and saw a large metal sign with the place name engraved in front of a dried-up fountain:

Jingshui Town

"Hmm... Should I ask Rexor for a map of the inland region? Also, some information on the factions there, along with teaching materials on the Limb-Splitting Arms and knowledge of bone magic..."

Xia Zuo rubbed his chin, lost in thought.

There will be a 6-day holiday in the future.

Anru will stay home with Janice while she studies.

He, as a toxicology researcher, was supposed to be on duty at the Pershing Building...

However, while the Church of the Otherworldly Demons took away the elemental puppets, they also sacrificed all the Otherworldly Demons in the laboratory…