Chapter 164 The dispute between the princes has always been like this (asking for monthly tickets)
When Cesare first asked Cosimo to play an exhibition match, Agubaru was actually more or less nervous.
It thought to itself: "Blackened elementary school student, what are you doing, elementary school student!"
But after thinking about it, the little shark felt relieved.
Firstly, Li Qingping was still there, and there was no way he would just watch Xizel get beaten; secondly, this was just an exhibition match, and even if the second prince wanted to kill, he wouldn't dare to do it in front of the queen and the people of the country.
To sum up, this exhibition match will only affect the reputation of the two princes.
If the third prince, who never leaves his house, makes his first appearance after several years and defeats the second prince in a nationally watched exhibition match, it will definitely cause an unimaginable sensation, and the second prince will probably be ridiculed for a long time.
It didn't matter even if he lost, since no one had any expectations for the third prince anyway.
"In this kind of situation where we already have the advantage of public opinion, it's okay to let Xizel act out his temper. It's better than seeing him being a coward who dares not resist." This is what Yagubaru thought.
However, there was another reason why it did not advise César. That was that deep down in its heart, Yagubaru actually had confidence in César.
But the source of this confidence is a little subtle:
——It belongs to the same ethnic group as César.
Of course, this does not refer to conspiracy theories such as César being a "descendant of a shark", nor does it mean that Yagubaru is a shark noble (although it believes that shark nobles are no less humble than box garden nobles).
It means...
Both of them are "blackened elementary school students".
The potential of the blackened elementary school student is self-evident: Ji Minghuan himself is the only restricted-level psychic in the world, and Sun Changkong is the holder of a mythical-level anecdote fragment.
This is enough to prove that the "blackened elementary school students" race has great potential and stands at the top of the world.
This incident is also recorded in the interview records of the Salvation Society.
Ji Minghuan: "Teacher, mentor, who is the most powerful superhuman in the world?"
Instructor: "Blackened elementary school student."
Not only that, the blackened elementary school students in this world seem to have the "Ke Family" Buff: the story of the elementary school student No. 1 beating up the refrigerator demon is still vivid in people's minds; and the elementary school student No. 2 lost control and knocked his adoptive father and mother to death with a stick.
With the blessing of multiple buffs visible to the naked eye, Ji Minghuan believed that even if Xizel suddenly exploded on the court, it would not be strange to defeat the Second Prince.
"Xizel, please don't embarrass our Black School Clan." Yagubaru thought to himself, shaking his tail in the crystal ball, "Give us some racial buffs, please."
At this moment, in the royal stands.
The second prince Cosimo sat silently on the stone chair and looked at Cesare for a while.
Immediately, the former snorted coldly and looked away.
"Let's go." Cosimo stood up from the stone chair and took out a picture of "moving stairs" and "pigeon messenger" from the atlas of curiosities.
"I hope my brother won't show mercy." Xizel said calmly.
Cosimo's face twitched slightly, and he crushed two cards with force.
A colorless light pattern flashed by, and then an almost transparent floating staircase slowly extended from the edge of the royal stand; a white dove carrying a mailbox appeared on the back of his hand.
At the same time, a letter suddenly appeared in Cosimo's hands.
He made a virtual gesture with his finger, and the fluorescent words appeared on the paper, turning into a line of plain black words printed on the paper. Then he put the letter into the mailbox on the back of the white dove. The dove flapped its wings and flew towards the host.
Inside the Colosseum, the crowd was still immersed in the fleeting performance of the seven members of the Royal Court Team and was talking about it.
At this time, the host was looking at the script and was about to use the "floating loudspeaker" to give a farewell speech, but was suddenly attracted by a pigeon messenger flying towards him.
"What a hassle! Can't you people in the small garden introduce mobile phones?" Yagubaru thought as he lay sideways in the crystal ball. "No wonder you were eaten by a shark because you don't know how to be prepared for danger and keep up with the times."
The host was checking the mailbox on the pigeon's back in surprise, and found the letter. He opened the envelope, took a look at the contents of the letter, and then stared at it exaggeratedly, and said in a trembling voice with a beaming face:
"This, this, this... Just now, I got an astonishing piece of news. The third prince Cesare and the second prince Cosimo will have an exhibition match in the Colosseum!"
With the help of the strange piece of news "floating loudspeaker", the host's voice resounded throughout the Colosseum.
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience fell into silence, and then broke into an unprecedented cheer.
Li Qingping was slightly startled, and slowly stopped. He turned around, raised his head, and looked at the white-haired and blue-eyed young man in the royal stand.
"Your Highness Xizel..."
He murmured silently.
In the royal stand, Carilena warned, "Cesare, Cosimo, you two should be careful and prudent."
"I know, mother," Cosimo said in a low voice, expressionless, "I won't bully my third brother."
"I understand, mother," Cesar smiled and said softly, "I won't accidentally kill my brother."
Lorenzo was slightly startled when he heard this, and the smile on his face faded.
Cosimo turned his head and looked at Cesare coldly: "What did you say?"
"I said I'm different from my brothers...I won't lay hands on my relatives."
After he finished speaking, Xizel turned around and stepped onto the floating stairs without looking back, leaving behind a calm back.
He descended step by step from the royal stands to the interior of the Colosseum. Everyone in the audience focused their attention on this young man with white hair and blue eyes.
Cosimo and Lorenzo looked at each other silently, and then Cosimo also climbed the floating stairs and followed Cesare.
Lorenzo raised the corners of his lips slightly, slowly turned his head, and looked at the crystal ball left on César's seat.
In the crystal ball, the chubby Nobel shark seemed to be aware of his gaze. It slowly turned its head, looked at him twice, and then swung its tail at him, shaking its butt, and making a fart sound in the water.
Lorenzo was stunned for a moment, and when he came to his senses, the Nobe Shark had regained its calm expression and was quietly overlooking the Colosseum from the crystal ball.
Soon after, Cosimo slowly fell into the Colosseum on a floating staircase that seemed to extend infinitely.
He and César stood opposite each other, a hundred meters apart.
The whole room applauded.
"After all these years, this is the first time I've met the Third Prince."
"He looks so strange, different from the other princes."
"I heard that the third prince is sickly and has been staying in the castle."
"It is said that the third prince suffers from autism and dares not come out of his bedroom. Being sick is just an excuse."
"Shh... no one can hear me."
There were many small discussions, and it seemed that no one could have expected this. The last time such a scene happened was at the celebration five years ago. After the performance of the previous generation of the Royal Court Team, the King suggested that the eldest and second princes come on stage to make a fool of themselves.
Many years later, this scene happened again in the Colosseum.
In the sunlight, Cosimo's eyes were as blue as the sea, and his long golden hair was shining.
He was very sure of his brother's strength.
The fragments of strange stories are divided into four levels: "Myth", "Generation", "Popular", and "Universal", with the strength decreasing in turn. Every strange story user can use the lowest level "Universal Strange Story" at will.
But the situation is different for the fragments of strange stories at higher levels. The strange story user must "bind" the fragments before using them.
Different Oddities can bind different numbers of high-level fragments. Based on this, Oddities are roughly divided into the following five levels:
D-level Stranger (can bind up to 1 "Popular" or higher level Stranger Fragment), C-level Stranger (2 pieces), B-level Stranger (3 pieces), A-level Stranger (5 pieces), S-level Stranger (6 pieces).
The messengers of wonder can only bind to fragments that resonate with them, and after reaching the binding threshold, if they want to bind new fragments, they can only unbind the previously bound fragments.
The second prince Cosimo is a C-level wonder envoy, and this level allows him to bind 2 ordinary-level fragments.
His younger brother, César, is a lowest-level D-level wonder user, which means he can only bind a fragment of ordinary level or above.
This fragment, of course, is a generational curiosity – the “Christmas Sleigh”.
Cosimo had seen Cesare summon the Christmas sleigh many times and ride it proudly in the sky.
In their eyes, the Christmas sleigh should be a pure "vehicle-type curiosity fragment" - this kind of fragment can be compared to "architectural curiosity fragments" such as the ancient Roman Colosseum, and does not have any combat capabilities.
With only this piece of strange news in his possession, Xizel naturally could not be his opponent.
Amid cheers like a tsunami and a landslide, Cesare and Cosimo called out the Atlas of Curiosities and took out cards from it.
The two cards held on Cosimo's index finger and middle finger are respectively the popular oddity "The Three-Headed Dog of Purgatory" and the oddity "Octave Prism".
"Octave Prism" is the most versatile fragment among popular anecdotes: it can be used for attack or defense.
Even the members of the Royal Court Team have an "Octave Prism" bound to their hands. That day in the mirror auction house, Li Qingping used the "Octave Prism" to protect the second prince, otherwise he would have died on the spot in the poker explosion of Qi Yuanli.
Soon after that, Cosimo returned to the whale's box garden and asked someone to find him an "octave prism". He was a mediocre person and it took him a long time to resonate with the fragment and make it his own weapon of protection.
He was confident that he could win this "exhibition match" with just this octave prism.
The next second, both of them crushed the cards at the same time.
A gust of snow and wind blew, and César's snow-white hair was suddenly blown high. Orange light patterns flashed in the air, and two elks came through the void.
They traveled in the sea, sky, wind and snow, and the sled they were dragging behind them looked like a blood-red curtain.
On the other side, Cosimo released the "Three-Headed Dog of Purgatory".
A three-headed dog bathed in molten lava rose from the ground, roaring and running forward.
At the same time, Cosimo crushed the "Octave Prism", and eight prismatic lenses followed the top of the three-headed dog and flew towards Cesare's body.
At this moment, César suddenly jumped up and landed on the Christmas sleigh that had just fallen to the ground.
The two elks stopped and marked their spot, rubbing their hooves against the ground like a herd of cattle ready to charge.
Every time their hooves stepped on the ground, the earth would shake and stir up a dancing snowstorm. Over time, the layer of snow covering the elk and the sled became thicker and deeper, as if it was going to swallow up the entire world.
"It's...accumulating power?" In the stands, Prince Lorenzo frowned slightly.
"What..." Cosimo was stunned. He could feel that the noise coming from the other side of the Colosseum was becoming more and more intense. At first it was just like the rising tide, but in the end it evolved into something like an impending tsunami. The sky and the earth changed color darkly, and the dust within a radius of dozens of meters was all swept away by the wind and snow!
The endless strong wind and heavy snow quickly wrapped the sled and elk into a giant white snake.
At the same time, the giant snake moved.
It crawled forward at an unprecedented speed, and the entire arena was shaking like an earthquake.
The three-headed dog that was rushing towards them and the octave prism that was flying towards them were swallowed up by the giant snake at the same time. All sounds disappeared in an instant, like a mountaineer falling into a bottomless valley. Not a single sound could be heard.
The giant snake that attacked him like an avalanche was reflected in his eyes. His pupils shrank to the size of malt, and his golden hair and robes were blown high. His body trembled and he retreated backwards, but no matter how he retreated, he could not stop the giant from approaching.
"Impossible... This is impossible..." Cosimo murmured hoarsely.
He staggered and fell on the yellow sand. He tried to stand up by leaning his elbows on the sand, but he couldn't... The huge snow snake was getting closer and closer, casting a shadow that covered the sky and the sun in the Colosseum, submerging Cosimo's figure in it.
Cosimo's scream of fear was drowned out by the howling wind and snow. He put his head in his hands and closed his eyes.
The next moment, a dark golden tower suddenly stood in front of the snow snake. It was Louis's strange story "The Tower of Babylon".
The sled transformed into a mad snake roared and crashed into the giant tower. At this moment, it was like thousands of bronze bells ringing at the same time. The body of the Tower of Babel shook violently in the roar, and a huge pit gradually formed on the surface.
After a few seconds, the snow and wind covering the elk and the sled slowly faded away, and the huge shadow of the Tower of Babel also disappeared in the Colosseum.
Louis breathed a sigh of relief, scratched his long brown hair with a wry smile, and murmured with his eyes rolling: “It’s really not simple… this third prince.”
Li Qingping was stunned: "Your Highness Xizel, almost broke through the defense of the Tower of Babel?"
The rest of the Wang Ting team also looked surprised.
The shadow that blocked out the sun and sky faded away, and César's figure was exposed to everyone's sight.
He fell off the sled and his feet landed on the yellow sand.
In the silence, he walked towards Cosimo who was kneeling on the ground with an expressionless face, his drooping hair hiding his expression.
After a moment, Cesare slowly stopped in front of Cosimo, looked down at him with an almost pitying look, and then stretched out his hand to him:
"Brother...you lose."
Cosimo followed the slender hand and looked up blankly. The white-haired boy had his back to the sun. In the shadow, his face was indifferent, and his blue eyes were shining. Those eyes were so cold that they seemed to be able to capture people's souls, like a beast that would choose its prey.
The next second, a burst of scattered applause broke the silence, and then other audience members were also drawn in, and overwhelming cheers rang out in the audience seats.
Cosimo gradually came to his senses, reached out to take Cesare's right hand, and slowly stood up.
Xizel suddenly smiled at him, just like the gentle boy as always, "I was just joking, brother, why are you so scared..."
He paused and said, "Ikar should have been more scared when you chopped off his head."
As he said this, he withdrew his right hand, climbed onto the approaching Christmas sleigh, and drove the reindeer towards the royal stand.
In the afterglow of dusk, he raised his blue eyes and silently stared at Lorenzo sitting in the stands.
Under the blood-red sky, the two looked at each other, and the applause and cheers almost drowned out the entire world.
(End of this chapter)
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