Chapter 241: The Game Pool

Bai Liu's clutch, the surrounding circle of players who had just run out of the room, all looked dumbfounded.

Mu Sicheng and Liu Jiayi choked and coughed, Muke, a player who had not yet met Spades officially, did not react but was vaguely aware of the man in front of him, and Tang Erda, standing next to Bai Liu, had her forehead jerked twice, reaching out to open Bai Liu's grip on Spades without saying a word.

At this moment, everyone is saying the same thing: Why are you messing with him?

But before Tang Erda could hit him, Bai Liu let go of his hand, put it behind his waist and shook it, stepped back, put a little distance between him and Spades, and smiled decently, "Sorry to pull you in so suddenly, but I mainly wanted to get to know you."

Spades sidled up to him, the water from the ends of his hair sliding down to his pale lips, opening and closing them slightly: " Spades ."

Bai Liu introduces himself: " Bai Liu ."

Spades' eyes, hidden behind damp hair, seemed to examine him, then with a slight nod, "I know you, you said in the forum to put your name on me."

Bai Liu: "......"

He had forgotten about it.

The scene was instantly awkward and Bai Liu pursed her lips and said calmly, "So what do you think?"

"Just win me." Spades replied, his voice light and elegant, "I don't hate your name, it's nice."

Already the onlookers next to him were sucking in cold air - where the hell is this going?!

Bai Liu's breath caught and the hand behind his back curled and clenched, but he couldn't see it on his face, smiling as he forced the conversation to continue, "Can I put it anywhere on your body?"

Spades didn't seem to find anything wrong with the conversation between them, looking calmly at Bai Liu: "Anywhere, if you have a particular preference for my body parts, you can ask me to prepare them in advance."

Bai Liu: "......"

Onlookers: "......"

Help!!! Is this something we can just listen to!

"All this assumes you can beat me." Spades looked levelly at Bai Liu, "but you don't have the strength to do that now."

Bai Liu averted his eyes imperceptibly, not looking directly at Spades, and blinked slightly, "I'm going to beat you at this game."

Spades nodded imperceptibly, "Then you can put your name on me all you want."

Bai Liu: "......"

He really isn't for this ......

With that, Spades gathered his whip and turned away without a backward glance, the player in front of him dumbfounded, giving way to the cold-hearted bogeyman, seemingly not expecting Spades to have such a harmonious meeting with the rookie league player who had so abruptly stopped him.

When Spades had left, Liu Jiayi leaned over silently, glancing up at Bai Liu's face and ears with pity, "You couldn't resist the first time Spades spoke back to you, you had to keep talking to him."

"That guy is a natural with no human common sense at all, immune to all opponents provocations and flirtations and mouth-breathing displays of affection, and can bounce off each other unconsciously, just look at you being flirted with in reverse by him ......"

Bai Liu kindly held Liu Jiayi's head down: "What did you just say?"

Liu Jiayi changed her tune: "I just watched Spades break out in a cold sweat at your provocation, you were great!"

Mu Sicheng couldn't help but say, "Why did you just mess with him?"

Bai Liu looked up in the direction Spades had left: "To make sure of something."

"So are you sure?" Muke inquired softly.

Bai Liu suddenly gave a very easy smile, "Sort of."

Apart from that person, there probably doesn't exist another person in the world who could choke him like that on first meeting.

It's not clear for the moment why this guy doesn't remember him, but that's okay.

Some not-so-good things are enough for one person to remember.

Bai Liu withdrew his gaze and turned to the play pool of flowing light, his dark eyes reflecting the colourful and treacherous hues, "Let the training begin."

"Yes!"

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Day 7 of training.

Charles sat down in his seat, folded his arms in front of the table and leaned forward: "We're getting closer to the tournament, and your guild members and I are handling the support for now, so you don't need to get involved for now, but I'm calling you here today because there are two other important things that you need to decide personally. -"

"- Team badges and weapon modifications!" Charles gestured two fingers with a smile, "You'll need a collective team badge, just like any other battle group."

"The big hitters, ranked down in order, are the first guild Killer Sequence badge is Reverse Cross, the second guild King's Guild is Crown, the third guild Golden Dawn Guild is Seven Strings with Wings, the fourth guild Kabbalah is Leaves of Life, and the fifth guild - which is my Gamblers Club, the badge is the Chip."

Charles flipped his fingers and a silver-rimmed chip badge appeared, which he placed on the table as he looked across at Bai Liu with a smile and continued.

"The sixth guild, the Deer Hunters, is the head of a deer, the seventh guild, the Masons of Paradise, is the folding cloak, etc."

"Your guild's original badge was a zombie tusk, but it clearly didn't fit the picture of your group anymore, so after a week-long discussion with the design team I found, a new badge has been designed for you."

Charles takes a box that looks like a valuables box from a nearby drawer, flicks it open with a gloved hand and looks to Bai Liu with satisfaction: "That's probably it."

Inside the box is a gleaming circular medallion with a diamond-encrusted platinum hexagonal star among which is a half-opened werewolf's eye with a blood-red jewel the size of a pigeon's egg in the centre.

Bai Liu lowered his eyes to examine it for a long time and spoke, "The hexagram is the symbol of Satan, and this half-opened werewolf eye I have often seen on werewolf killing game cards, symbolizing the werewolf card."

He looked up slowly and looked straight at Charles: "I remember my team was called the Wandering Circus and it didn't have anything to do with either Satan or Werewolf Kill, did it?"

"Be good at uncovering the hidden depths of your connection to this symbol." The smile on Charles's face became more and more meaningful as his gaze flicked over the reverse cross lanyard on Bai Liu's collarbone before he sighed regretfully, "- there was a better symbol for you than the six mangoes, the reverse cross, but it was already the Slayer's sequence badge now and had to be replaced."

Bai Liu's eyes rested for a moment on Charles' face before falling back to the glowing red badge.

Charles reached out to introduce it, "If you would like to adopt this design, this badge can be given to you as a reference, it costs about 10,000 points, which translates to about -"

"- 10 million." Bai Liu smiled and reached out to take the badge Charles handed him, "Thank you Mr Charles for your trouble, this is the badge for the Wandering Circus."

Next to Mu Sicheng, Muke, Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda: "......"

You just wouldn't accept the badge! 10 million makes you give in!

Yes, ten million dollars brought Bai Liu to his knees so quickly and unbelievably that he gestured for Charles to continue.

"And -" Charles steered the conversation back, "- the thing that is more important to you than the badge is the weapon modification. "

Charles leaned back lazily in his chair and snapped his fingers, and a system screen automatically unfolded in front of him.

The system screen itself is void-projectable, but this does not fit the aesthetic from Charles, so this person projected the screen onto a deep wooden board.

Liu Jiayi couldn't help but have a look at this wooden panel = = = - Charles, this guy has even given this projected wooden panel a gold edge.

What a luxury ......

On a screen projected on the board are rotating three-dimensional structures of various weapons, from black whips and playing cards to guns and bows, the weapons of the various Congress leaders are shown on it.

"There are two ways to make changes to one's weapon in this game, one is a change in one's core desires - like Muke's dagger."

Charles' gaze swept over Muke's body and then rested on Liu Jiayi's as he curled a haughty smile, "-and another, the transformation through someone else's skills."

" Hearts gives the little witch a skill playing card, which is a way of storing her skills into a playing card through my skill and giving it to you to use."

"For that, this queen has paid a price." Charles said slowly.

Liu Jiayi looked up in dismay - she did know that Charles' skill [Phantom Devourer] could turn someone else's skill into a physical object and store it, but she never knew that's how her playing cards came to be ......

Because Hearts had never been a good match for Charles, she would not have liked such a frivolous man, let alone working with him.

"My skills are well suited to weapon modification, so I can count myself as a not-so-subtle weapon modifier - I can demonstrate the process to you."

Charles gets up, stands up and walks over to Bai Liu, bends and reaches out like a street magician asking a passerby for a prop, he smiles and asks, "For example - this Mr. Bai Liu, can I have your skill weapon, your old wallet, for a moment? "

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows and pulled his old wallet out of the system panel and handed it to Charles.

Charles bowed and took the old wallet, wrapped his hands together, flipped it over, and it became a pair of yellowed, aged leather gloves, which Charles held between his thumb and forefinger and showed to Bai Liu.

"Wallet gloves, your notes are encased on the inside, they are easy to access, not as conspicuous as a wallet and easy for you to use for trading." Charles separates the inner compartment of the glove to show Bai Liu, "Your main weapon of use is the long whip, the glove is a better match for this weapon and protects your hands when using it."

Charles put the glove back in Bai Liu's palm in an inviting gesture, "You can try it."

The gloves were just the right size for Bai Liu, not too big and not too small, and Bai Liu tried his hand at taking soul notes out of the gloves as well as taking out the points coins.

By the hand of Charles, a magician, he can access the points as easily as if by magic, easily hooking a coin from the inner compartment of the glove and holding it between his fingers.

It is also much easier to use the long whip without rubbing the palm of your hand.

Mu Sicheng and Muke were both looking fresh - it was the first time they had seen a weapon modification live.

Liu Jiayi is silent without saying a word, and Tang Erda looks at the gloves with mixed eyes, then moves her gaze to Bai Liu's face, who is trying them on to perfection.

He had the feeling of seeing Bai Liu turn into Bai six in other timelines little by little.

Bai six's skill weapon is also a pair of gloves made from a purse, but they look much more expensive and elaborate than Bai Liu's, a pair of glossy black leather gloves that look like they cost a fortune, and it is said that the Wandering Circus Guild spends millions of points each year on the upkeep of these gloves ......

"I'm not being charged for this makeover, am I?" Bai Liu said as he put on his gloves and opened his ten fingers.

The smile on Charles' face froze for a second before returning to normal: "I'm happy to serve my chosen betting horse."

He said, his eyes lingering for a moment on Bai Liu's somewhat battered gloves, and pointed out rather forbearingly, "-but you should take care of your skill weapon, I've never seen a more worn and old one."

"How many points does it cost to maintain?" Bai Liu asked casually.

Charles straightened his face: "Each president's weapon maintenance cost varies, but the average maintenance cost for the top ten guild presidents is generally around 630,000, with the most expensive being Spades' Lizard Bone Whip, which cost 1.26 million points last year ...... "

Bai Liu was half silent and asked incredulously in return, "Is he such a good spender ......"