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“You’re up against a stronger opponent, so you need to take advantage of everything else to stand a chance against them.”
The rock golem huffed at the attack, not intimidated in the least.
“Finish him!” chanted the crowd.
They were sick of the back and forth. They wanted blood.
The rock golem swerved. It was going to rush Max head on.
SMASH!
The golem had turned to the right to get on clear footing to rush Max.
There was just one problem.
Max had triggered the trait again and this time sent the ability right where the monster was going.
The trait already doubled the ability’s original power, so in fact, Max’s version of the rock golem’s ability was even more powerful than an average D-ranked ability, arguably even tipping into low C-rank in terms of raw power.
If you then added in the fact that the rock golem was moving at a quick speed to get into better terrain and Max’s attack had hit it by surprise, the resulting level of damage was significant.
The rock golem crumbled on the ground into so many stone pieces it would be impossible for it rebuild itself.
“Incredible,” said the audience in awe.
Even the people who had betted against him—which was the majority of them—nodded in satisfaction.
“Good fight, kid,” they cheered. “I haven’t been so surprised in a while. Well done.”
Max smiled at their accolades and walked over to the rock golem who had now disappeared, leaving behind a silver monster core and some coins.
He picked it all up and placed them in his pouch.
He couldn’t wait to drain the cores he’d won today to increase his mana affinity stat.
He briefly daydreamed of the number jumping by ten points, immediately ranking him up, when a loud alarm went off.
RIING! RIING!
Max looked around in a panic.
What was going on?
Someone yelled out, “RUN! THE CLIMBER POLICE ARE HERE!”
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Sakura rushed into the underground arena behind a squad of police climbers.
It was pandemonium as tamers tried to keep control of wild tower monsters and the gambling audience ran out the emergency exits to escape arrest from the police.
One police climber with an airbringer ability slammed the monster tamer against the wall with the force of the wind.
“You pathetic fools,” said the airbringer police climber. “You use your powers for such base entertainment, making yourself complicit in the death of young climbers. You disgust me.”
Sakura looked around. This was an insane operation. This was what the people of the tower-zone craved. To watch climbers use their powers for mere entertainment? And yet it was these same people who complained about why it was unfair that the city was divided the way it was. These same people who craved the entertainment of death and destruction.
Sakura rushed through the throng of police and criminals, moving through the chaos.