After emerging from the virtual studio, Oakland video-called De Lagar to check in on where they were.
Dragal had just finished a competitive match and came out of his room when he received his call. He immediately answered and saw his face flush with excitement. "Oakland, your call came at the perfect time. You don't know, ever since I equipped myself with the two emblems you gave me, I've been unbeatable. I've won seventeen consecutive matches! My name is on the D Zone competitive leaderboard! Even Lei can't stand up to me!"
Rachel smiled bitterly, "He doesn't have a defensive emblem..."
"Hey, I just made a crest that enhances speed."
"Ahhhhhh! I want it, I want it, I want it!" Dragal almost jumped up with excitement.
"But…I was planning on giving it to Rachel."
De Lagar's face suddenly fell, and Rachel quickly waved her hand, saying, "It's okay with me. Just give it to him first."
"A mecha can only hold three emblems. Are you sure you want to give the last position to a speed emblem? I might be able to make a better emblem." Oakland felt that once his cultivation level broke through one more level, his spiritual awareness should be able to recover to the level where he could make an elemental emblem.
Hearing this, Dragal immediately became happy again, "Yes, yes, I have to save a place for the elemental emblem!"
Oakland couldn't help but laugh. "And I think Rachel needs more speed. Her mech's defense is actually quite strong, but its weakness is its lack of agility. With the Speed Emblem, her combat effectiveness should be significantly improved."
"Right, right, right! You're so amazing, everything you say is right!" De Lagar had practically transformed into an Auckland fanboy. "Auckland, how come you're so amazing? You'll definitely become a super-powerful heraldry master in the future, even more amazing than that Ivan Percy!"
"Haha, you guys are in the arena, right? Send me the coordinates, I'll come find you." Although Oakland didn't respond to Delagar's words, he actually agreed. After all, he was once a talisman cultivator who had reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage. While not as good as those Yuanying masters, his talisman-making skills made him extremely prestigious in the cultivation world. Wasn't it natural that he was better than these little brats?
"Okay!"
In a matter of seconds, Oakland teleported to the coordinates sent by Dragal, and the two men looked at him with two pairs of shining eyes.
He couldn't help but laugh. He had always thought Rachel was a very calm and steady person, but now it seemed that she was still a bit childish due to her young age. But compared to De Lagar's erratic nature, Rachel was much better.
When Dragal first met him, he thought he was a very gentle and noble young man. Later, he found that he was very kind and wanted to make friends with him. But after getting to know him better, he realized... people can be so hypocritical...
But this is also good. He quite likes Dragal's cheerful and straightforward personality. Both of them are friends worth making.
"Here you go. This emblem has a B+ energy rating and a 38% attribute increase. It should be of considerable help to you."
"Okay, thank you." Rachel suppressed her inner excitement and took the virtual emblem.
"Let's go! Let's go to the arena right away to see the effect! You go and get a room!" Dragal couldn't wait to see the effect of this emblem on Rachel's mecha equipment.
Rachel was also eager to try, so she clicked on the arena's room list, randomly selected an empty room and entered. Before she could send the room number to the other two, she saw a shiny mecha appear on the opposite side, which was another JA-144.
In order to prevent the manipulation of win rates and points, the arena prohibits the two sides from fighting continuously. Many people will choose to be randomly assigned after entering the arena, and then people with similar points and win rates will be randomly assigned together.
"There are so many rich people nowadays? How come I can run into JA144 everywhere I go?" Dragal was stunned as soon as he entered the room.
Rachel, who was preparing for a fight, of course could not hear what De Lagar said. In order to prevent the fighting parties from being affected, the words of the bystanders could only be heard by the bystanders.
"Maybe it's not that one?" Auckland also came in to watch. He was also surprised when he saw JA-144, but he felt that it shouldn't be such a coincidence.
But after the fight started, both of them fell silent.
Some things are just coincidental. The mecha that is fighting against Rachel is the JA-144 that Dragal had encountered before, also known as George.
"Who do you think will win?" De Lagar asked Oakland.
"It's hard to say, either is possible." The JA-144 mecha's already high stats, coupled with its ice emblem, which can slow down the opponent by freezing them, makes victory a breeze. Rachel's TJ-538 mecha, on the other hand, is a type with strong defense and strength. With the strength-enhancing emblem, its attack power is greatly increased. Combined with its speed, if it can dodge the opponent's freezing attacks, victory is not impossible.
This time, their competition venue was randomly assigned to a wasteland without any obstacles or places to hide, which seemed to be very favorable for JA-144.
As soon as it came up, JA-144 launched a fierce attack. It seemed that it was also equipped with an emblem of enhanced defense, so it simply gave up defense and continued to attack with ice spikes.
However, Rachel was no pushover. She used her mental power to activate the speed-enhancing emblem that had just been equipped on the mecha. The mecha slid to the side at an extremely fast speed, easily avoiding the opponent's attack.
The JA-144 mecha glided and hit the ice spikes on the ground, causing Rachel's mecha, which was moving at high speed, to suddenly slip and hit the ground hard.
The JA-144 mecha seized the opportunity and fired another ice spike, freezing one of Rachel's mecha's right legs. It then drew out the Aurora Sword and slashed at Rachel's mecha's head.
Rachel activated the Power Emblem and kicked with all her might, finally breaking free from the shackles on her legs, but the Aurora Sword was already in front of her, and she had no way to avoid it.
Rachel subconsciously closed her eyes, her mental strength soaring.
However, the expected critical hit and the sound of the verdict did not sound. When Rachel opened her eyes, she found that she had somehow appeared five meters away from her original position, and the Aurora Sword of the JA-144 mecha was deeply inserted into the ground where she was originally located.
"What's going on?!" the operator of the JA-144 mecha shouted loudly.
"I don't know either..." Rachel stood up from the ground, completely confused.
Only De Lagar and Auckland, who were bystanders, saw clearly what was happening.
"Teleport, teleport, teleport, teleport?" Dragal was so surprised that he couldn't even speak clearly...
Just now, Rachel's mecha suddenly took off into the air, as if it was carried by some invisible airflow and flew a distance away. Dragal really couldn't think of any reason, so he could only explain it as teleportation.
Auckland seemed to have thought of something, and quickly took out another emblem from the virtual space, carefully identified the pattern on it, and then discovered... this one is a B-level emblem! ! ! !
Shocking mistake...
I accidentally gave the wrong emblem and it caused such a mess? Waiting online, a little anxious...
"You must have cheated! I'm going to report you!" George was furious. He could have won the game just now. As long as he won this game, his points would be promoted to Zone C. Ivan promised him that as long as he could get his arena points into Zone C, he would ask his father to give him a spot in the Rookie Mecha Competition.
But then he encountered a cheater. A TJ-538 mecha could actually teleport?! How is this possible?! He must be using some illegal wormhole hack! How could he possibly win at this rate?!
If he loses, not only will his winning rate drop, but he will also lose points. He has already agreed with Alvin that if he wins this game, he can be promoted to Zone C. Alvin even said he wants to celebrate with him!
The more George thought about it, the angrier he became. He immediately turned on the light screen and pressed the report button!
Cheating in the StarNet Arena is a very serious matter. Once verified, not only will your account be blocked, but you may also face imprisonment.
"What do I do? Ray couldn't have cheated! He didn't cheat!" De Lagar remembers yelling, but unfortunately, no one in the arena could hear him except Oakland.
StarNet also has network auditors, and after receiving the report, they immediately rushed to the arena.
At this time, a red prompt box popped up on the interfaces of other people in the arena - due to the discovery of suspected cheaters, the arena is temporarily closed for 10 minutes. Both parties are requested to exit the battle mode and this match will be invalidated.
Immediately, everyone started talking about it. At this time, everyone was basically on the Star Network. There were at least hundreds of thousands of people in the arena, if not millions. After receiving this prompt, they were in an uproar.
The Starnet News Station even released a real-time news story - suspected cheaters appeared in the arena.
The Starnet Network Inspection Team quickly entered the battle room and began to watch the battle surveillance video. After playing it in slow motion, they found that there were indeed suspicious phenomena. No software suspected of wormhole plug-in was found. However, when using the intelligent brain to analyze the battle process, they found that Rachel's mental power had soared at that time.
The inspection team leader pondered for a moment and then said, "Take off all the emblems on your mecha and show them to me."
Rachel obediently handed the two virtual emblems to the inspection captain. The inspection captain took out a more advanced intelligent energy detector and placed the two emblems on it one by one.
He first examined the power-enhancing emblem. He couldn't help but exclaim in amazement when he discovered its impressive energy level and amplification properties. Although he was a network inspector, he was also a mecha combatant. Any mecha combatant would be tempted by such a high-quality emblem.
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