CHAPTER 173 MEET BRUCE AGAIN (PART ONE)

It was the tenth fight and everyone's attention was focused on the platform.

In order to attract more people to watch the fight, the Prison Battle Arena declared to delay the tenth

fight roughly until two hours later than originally planned.

Soon, Darren's opponent came out to the stage.

A figure walked out of a black iron door with an iron chain in his hand. On the other end of the chain

was a young boy with long black hair.

Seeing the young boy, Darren felt a great sense of familiarity with him.

He thought about it for a while then shouted out loud, "It's Bruce!"

"Shit! Come on out quicker!"

At that moment, Bruce was shackled with a black iron chain around his neck and was dragged by

another young man like he was his dog. That man kept kicking him as if Bruce was his disobedient pet.

"What's going on? Why are they treating Bruce like that? Why won't he stand up for himself?"

Seeing what was happening, Darren felt intense anger surging through him.

That man dragged Bruce further to the fighting arena.

"Behave yourself well and make some money for me! If you lose, I will make you suffer a lot! Don't

disappoint me, you bastard!"

The young man kept speaking arrogantly as he also lashed Bruce with the whip in his hand. Then all of

a sudden, a sword was waved and the whip was cut in half.

"Stop doing that right now! If you continue to beat him like that, I will have no other choice but to kill

you!" Darren exclaimed with an extremely cold voice.

After his fight with Bruce the other day, Darren knew that Bruce had been hurt badly and that he was in

no condition to fight. Judging by the attitude of the chief of the Wei Clan towards Bruce, Darren knew

that Bruce would be maltreated even more harshly after that. But he never expected that Bruce would

be sent to the Prison Battle Arena to make money for others.

Now Darren just realized that the genius who won nine battles in a row yesterday was actually Bruce.

Among all the cultivators under the Wonder Realm, only Bruce had such distinct strength.

Darren also was clear about one thing. He won Bruce last time because his own pure demonic internal

force could weaken Bruce's strength and Bruce was frightened by his demonizing aura at that time.

Darren himself would stand no chance in defeating Bruce had it not been for those reasons.

"Are you trying to act and be a kind person? In a few minutes, this guy right here will kill you

mercilessly. Ha ha!" The young man laughed loudly and arrogantly. He was only at the second or third

stage of the Mysterious Realm.

He unshackled the iron chain around Bruce's neck. Then he took out an iron needle and roughly

pierced it into Bruce's back.

"Do not even think about escaping if you don't want to suffer from great pains," the young man said

with a cruel expression on his face.

Darren noticed that Bruce's eyes under his messy hair had a gaze of pain and despair.

"Bruce, are you alright?" Darren had no intention of fighting Bruce. He walked over to help him stand

up.

"Roar!"

A cruel expression appeared on Bruce's face and one of his hands tried to reach out for Darren.

Darren stepped back in surprise.

But Bruce looked up and saw the figure which had been deeply engraved on his mind. Bruce retreated

several steps away and groaned in a low voice. He had recognized Darren despite him wearing a

mask.

"No! No!" Bruce was looking at Darren with great fear and then he turned into a look of great pain.

"I, I have been defeated," Bruce said in a low voice. Thinking about what could happen if he was

defeated in the battlefield, Bruce became more frightened.

But he still dared not to fight against the masked man in front of him. He remembered Darren's dreadful

power clearly.

He stepped back slowly until he was in the corner of the fighting platform and curled up in fear. He

couldn't even dare to look at Darren anymore.

"Shit! What are you doing? Stand up and fight for me!" Seeing what was happening, that young man

who had dragged Bruce to the platform rushed over and gave Bruce a kick.

"If you refuse to fight, I'm going to kill you! You bastard!"

The audience couldn't figure out what was going on and the whole Prison Battle Arena was getting

impatient and making all sorts of noises.

They all remembered that the winner of yesterday transformed into a divine ape and showed great

strength they could have never imagined. But why was he so frightened by this young man?

"What is happening? Why aren't they fighting?"

"Shit! Is the Prison Battle Arena trying to steal our money? Where is the fighting we were promised?"

"Shit! Make compensation for us!"

The people in the audience area stirred into chaos. They started to throw random objects in the

direction of the fighting platform, like blades, spears, sticks and pretty much anything you could

imagine.

Seeing what was happening, Harvey Gu, the middle-aged man who was in charge of the Prison Battle

Arena, sent dozens of cultivators at the ninth stage of the Mysterious Realm to restore order and

maintain the peace among the crowd. On the other side, he stepped onto the platform to see for

himself what everyone was complaining about.

On the fighting platform, the young man was still beating Bruce who still refused to fight. NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

Darren moved and rushed towards the young man. He seized his neck and threatened him. "Do you

really want to die?" Darren asked with a cold expression in his face.

The young man widened his eyes and had no strength to fight back at all.

"Get out!"

Darren threw him away with ease.

"You! Wait for me!" The young man staggered outside the arena.

"Darren. Could you explain what is going on here?" Harvey Gu came to the platform in a hurry and

asked.

"Nothing important. But I am certain that this fight is not going to happen," Darren replied coldly. But

Harvey's confusion didn't disappear.

"Lose. I... I lose!" Bruce said inarticulately while curled up in the corner.

"You admit defeat before the fight even starts?" Harvey was surprised. How did Bruce, the genius who

was unrivaled the previous day, become the coward he was today?

"I have fought with him before and he is in no condition to fight me now," Darren explained to Harvey

briefly.

"What do you mean? Is it because he has been defeated by you before? Is that why he is so

frightened?" Harvey turned and asked Darren again. His face turned pale.