Multiverse Skill System

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The company focuses on its systems, but there is another pure trading group in the myriad realms: the Merchant Alliance. It is a force composed of a group of Great Dao Emperors that sells everything in the myriad realms. In terms of variety, it is far more extensive than the company. For the beings in the myriad realms, the Merchant Alliance is the real place to trade other things.

The overall strength of the business alliance should not be underestimated. Apart from lacking a leader, it is even stronger than the company in other aspects.

"Grandma Feng, I didn't expect you to be leading the team this time. So, how long are you going to stay here?"

"I can stay as long as I want, are you going to try and control me? Crazy Horse, I heard you've been in trouble lately!"

"Trouble? How could that be? With me here, who would dare to cause trouble? I'd slap them to death. They're just some incompetent juniors. These must be the new guardians, right?"

Grandma Feng called him "Madman." He appeared to be a very kind, fat man with small, narrow eyes.

In Yi Shuihan's perception, this madman horse seemed no different from an ordinary person. However, Yi Shuihan dared not treat him as an ordinary person. Being able to speak to Granny Feng like this meant that he was at least on the same level as Granny Feng. The more ordinary he looked, the more dangerous he actually was.

Beside Ma Fengzi stood a group of equally wicked Chaos Emperors, twice the number of Yi Shuihan's group—twenty Chaos Emperors, each posing a considerable threat to Yi Shuihan. This was also a group of geniuses.

The true identity of Madman Ma was soon revealed. He was actually the leader of the Chaos City branch, a powerful being ranked 1742nd on the Chaos Ranking. And that was his ranking billions of years ago. No one knows how strong he is now.

The formal handover to become the guardian was relatively harmonious. At least there was no obvious situation where the old guardian looked down on or suppressed him; at most, he was just a little cold.

The Chaos Emperors who came with Yi Shuihan quickly integrated into the branch. Each of them seemed to have already taken care of everything and found their own team in the branch. In the end, only Yi Shuihan and Bai Huaxiang were left all alone.

Yi Shuihan truly lacks a solid foundation within the company. As a newly promoted Chaos Emperor, he has relatively few friends. Furthermore, he himself is not particularly interested in joining cliques, is not proactive, and is content with the status quo, which is understandable.

Baihuaxiang is completely different. Her backing is too strong, and even in the branch, no one dares to mess with her. She doesn't need to join any cliques, and no one pays attention to her. In fact, if she wanted to, it would be easy to form a group of interests centered around her.

The guardians' job is simple: they can do whatever they want normally, and they are only called upon to take action when they encounter provocation.

Normally, three guardians are stationed at the branch, rotating every ten thousand years. During their stationing period, the guardians cannot leave the branch. Of course, if there is a real problem, they can use a clone or incarnation to go out. If the real body wants to go out, it can only ask Crazy Horse for leave.

Originally, Yi Shuihan, as a newly arrived guardian, would not have been immediately assigned to oversee the branch. However, by sheer coincidence, all the guardians who had been stationed there for ten thousand years had perished, and the replacement guardians had to be drawn from among these newcomers, Yi Shuihan being one of them.

Another Chaos Emperor, Lang Yun, was just as unlucky as Yi Shuihan. They were strangers who had met a few times but hadn't had much interaction, and were still a long way from being friends.

Perhaps because of the same situation, the other party showed a certain degree of closeness to Yi Shuihan.

"For the next two thousand years, we must get along well and support each other!"

"nature."

Yi Shuihan did not directly reject Lang Yun's goodwill.

In Yi Shuihan's opinion, this misfortune was nothing. After all, it was only two thousand years, while the original guardian had been guarding the area for eight thousand years. Thinking about it this way, it seemed that he had actually gained an advantage. Once these two thousand years were over, he would have at least nearly 10 years of free time.

Besides Yi Shuihan and Langdu, there is another guardian belonging to the old man, a chaotic emperor of the earth element, who is not difficult to get along with.

Nothing happened during Yi Shuihan's first month in office. However, on the first day of the second month, Yi Shuihan had a job: a Chaos Emperor clashed with the company at a branch office.

"Are you being unreasonable even though you're wrong? I came to you with a problem with the system I customized, and you actually told me you couldn't solve it, and even said it was because of my improper operation."

The aura of the Chaos Emperor was unleashed without reservation, causing the True Saint employees in the branch lobby to turn pale.

"It's Elder Zhushan. I'd heard he spent a lot of money to customize a system for his direct descendants, but I never expected it to have problems."

"The old man from Zhushan has a good reputation, so he shouldn't be deliberately causing trouble. Does this mean there's a problem on the company's end?"

"No way! The company is very reliable."

"Old Man Zhushan acted impulsively. This is the company's territory, and there are always guardians here. Although he is also a Chaos Emperor, he is ranked very low. He probably won't get away with it."

Upon receiving the notification, Yi Shuihan rushed to the scene and saw the imposing Zhushan Elder. The first thing he did was to walk to the lobby manager's side and shield him from the Zhushan Elder's aura.

"what happened?"

"Lord Yi Shuihan, it's like this, this is Elder Zhushan, not long ago he..."

The lobby manager briefly explained the whole story.

"Are you absolutely sure it's not a problem on our end?"

"We have already checked and the probability of the problem being on our side is very small, less than one in a billion."

"Then leave the rest to me."

Chapter 1356, The Battle of the Guardians

At Yi Shuihan's signal, the lobby manager stepped aside, and everyone in the lobby focused their attention on him, wanting to see what Yi Shuihan would do next.

"Speak! Who sent you?"

"What? Who sent me? Do you think I'm deliberately causing trouble?"

As if he had suffered a great injustice, the old man from Zhushan's face turned red, and his eyes glared angrily.

The old man from Zhushan has a good reputation, and most of the audience at the scene are on his side at this moment, feeling that Yi Shuihan is a bit domineering.

"How do you want to resolve this matter?"

Yi Shuihan asked calmly, wanting to see what other tricks the other party had up their sleeve.

"Give me a new system and issue an apology."

As soon as he said this, the entire hall became much quieter. The audience stared at Elder Zhushan in disbelief, hardly able to believe that he would be so bold.

It's true that Elder Zhushan is a Chaos Emperor, but he's facing a company! A Chaos Emperor is nothing but an ant in front of a behemoth like a company, easily killed with a flick of the wrist, yet he actually wants the company to issue an apology.

If he only wanted to compensate with a system, everyone would accept it and think it was reasonable. But to issue an apology? Nobody's stupid; they can naturally see that things aren't so simple.

If the company were to issue an apology as Elder Zhushan suggested, it would truly lose face and become a laughingstock throughout the myriad realms. Would a top-tier power in the myriad realms bow down to a Chaos Emperor? What would other powers of the same level think?

"Absolutely impossible."

Yi Shuihan decisively rejected the old man of Zhushan's conditions.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I never thought that a company of your stature would not even have the courage to admit its mistakes. I've seen it all today. It's truly unworthy of being considered a major power on par with my arena. I'm so disappointed, so very disappointed!"

A strange, sarcastic voice rang out, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice to see a handsome young man dressed in fine clothes, holding a fan.

"It's Varus, what's he doing here?"

"Varus has come here as the guardian of the Arena of All Realms; he's not here with good intentions!"

"This is going to be interesting. I wonder how the guardian of this company will respond. Maybe we'll even see a spectacular battle?"

The crowd of onlookers was excited; a clash between two top-tier guardians was a rare sight indeed.

"This was premeditated!"

Upon seeing Varus, Yi Shuihan instantly understood everything. The old man from Bamboo Mountain was merely a pretext to create an excuse for Varus to make a legitimate move. If Varus could defeat Yi Shuihan, and the matter were to spread, the arena's reputation would definitely surpass that of the company.

Somewhere in the branch, Madman Horse was confronting an old man.

"Jun Bu San, you guys are really despicable! If you want to fight, then fight! Why do you have to pull this stunt?"

"Madman, I don't understand what you're saying. This is clearly us standing up for your company's behavior, how can you call it despicable?"

"Standing up for the underdog? What a fine way to say that! Aren't you afraid of getting slapped in the face?"

That being said, Ma Fengzi wasn't that confident in Yi Shuihan. After all, Verus had come prepared, and his strength had already been proven. Recently, quite a few Chaos Emperors had been defeated by him.

"How about we make a bet? We'll bet on who wins and who loses. If Varus wins, I won't charge you anything, just 10,000 for the custom system."

The customized system mentioned here is naturally the highest-level system that the company can manufacture, which can help break through to the True Saint level. With ten thousand such systems, it is easy to cultivate thousands of True Saints if you are lucky. This is already a huge fortune, and the wealth of an ordinary Chaos Emperor is about the same.

"What if Varus loses? What then?"

"The arena will no longer cause trouble for your company."

"It's not like we're afraid of you. If Verus loses, I want a gold badge."

Jun Bu San pondered for a moment, and finally said

"Can!"

The golden badge that Mad Horse wants is a unique product of the Multiverse Arena. In the Multiverse Arena, badges are awarded for consecutive victories. The badges represent both honor and benefits.

For example, obtaining the lowest-level Black Iron Badge will grant you a 9% discount when exchanging special items in the Arena, and you will receive a certain level of protection from the Multiverse Arena.

With the Black Iron Badge, even a being without cultivation can disregard ordinary True Saints. True Saints dare not provoke those who possess the Black Iron Badge, provided that the True Saint does not have a power equivalent to the Myriad Realms Arena backing them up.

Above the black iron badge are the bronze badge, the silver badge, and the gold badge, and above the gold badge are the platinum badge and the supreme badge.

Even in the eyes of a Chaos Emperor like Madman Ma, the Golden Badge held considerable weight.

Each major power has its own unique items, and most of these are exchanged internally. The badges issued by the Arena of All Realms are equivalent to purchase vouchers.

While Ma Fengzi and Jun Busan reached an agreement, in the branch's main hall...

"If you beat me, the system can decide on the compensation; as for what I can't control..."

Yi Shuihan could sense that Verus was a formidable opponent, but he was not afraid. He was no ordinary Chaos Emperor!

"Alright, that's great. I'll beat you first and then continue to seek justice for Elder Zhushan."

Varus felt things were going unexpectedly smoothly, and without much thought, he accepted the challenge.

The battles between the guardians would naturally not take place in the main hall. Each major power had its own dedicated battleground for the guardians, which was reinforced with special formations to minimize the aftershocks of the battles.

Of course, even without formations, a battle between mere Chaos Emperors wouldn't be able to do anything to Chaos City. As the center of all the heavens and myriad realms, Chaos City is said to be able to withstand attacks from Great Dao Emperors.

The news that Yi Shuihan and Varus were going to fight spread instantly, and soon a large crowd of onlookers gathered, roughly no less than 100,000, including nearly a hundred experts at the Chaos Emperor level.

"Let this battle establish my reputation in Chaos City and announce my arrival. Perhaps my master will even come looking for me once he hears of my whereabouts!"

Chapter 1357, Equipment Gap?

On the battlefield, Varus was no longer dressed as a young nobleman. He was now wearing a sky-blue suit of armor, and his fan had been replaced with a spear. He looked every bit the young general on the battlefield.

Yi Shuihan was somewhat surprised that Varus used a gun as a weapon. At first, Yi Shuihan thought that someone as flamboyant as Varus would probably just use the fan he was holding.

A weapon that can be wielded by a Chaos King must at least pose a sufficient threat to him, so the spear in Varus's hand is definitely not simple.

A top-grade Chaos Spiritual Treasure? No, it's even higher; it should be a Primordial Chaos-level spiritual treasure.

Above the Chaos Spiritual Treasures are the Primordial Spiritual Treasures. Even the worst Primordial Spiritual Treasure is beyond the reach of a True Saint, as it can easily kill a True Saint.

Generally speaking, Chaos Emperors use Primordial Spiritual Treasures, and most of them use mid-to-low-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasures. Possessing a Primordial Spiritual Treasure means that one is not a novice among Chaos Emperors.

Clearly, Yi Shuihan did not possess any Primordial Spiritual Treasures, though he did have one top-grade Chaos Spiritual Treasure, which was a gift from the Chaos Emperor Academy after his breakthrough.

"Our equipment was completely outmatched!"

At this point, Yi Shuihan certainly wouldn't tell Verus not to use the Primordial Spiritual Treasure. Just because others have it and you don't, does that mean you can't use it? What a joke! There's no such logic. The equipment was obtained through others' own abilities, so why can't they use it?

With good equipment, Varus's strength can be increased by at least two levels, and for the Chaos King, these two levels are enough to be the key factor for victory.

"Why aren't the company's guards taking out their weapons? Are they that confident?"

"Could it be that there isn't one? If that's the case, he has a very high chance of losing!"

"It would be such a shame to lose because of equipment issues."

The onlookers, who were secretly pessimistic about Yi Shuihan's chances, already didn't think he had a good chance before the fight even started.

Yi Shuihan had no idea what the audience was thinking. At this moment, most of his energy was focused on his opponent, Varus. It was true that Varus was prepared, but Yi Shuihan also had a cheat device! Compared with his portable world and even the system, Varus's equipment had no advantage at all.

"What? You don't actually intend to fight me empty-handed, do you?"

When Verus saw that Yi Shuihan had not yet taken out his weapons and equipment, he was a little angry and thought that Yi Shuihan was looking down on him.

When asked by Verus, Yi Shuihan simply shook his head without giving a specific answer. He was a little embarrassed to tell the truth, as it would only show that he was poorer than Verus.

"Then you'll regret it later, I won't hold back."

"Can we begin?"

The question caused Varus's emotions to fluctuate, but Varus suddenly closed his eyes. When he opened them again after 2 seconds, his eyes were clear, filled with nothing but fighting spirit.

"Varus is not so easily provoked."

Jun Busan looked at Verus with a hint of admiration in his eyes, while Ma Fengzi opposite him had a serious expression.

"Damn it, if I had known it would turn out like this, I should have placed a few Primordial Treasures for the guardians to use in the future."

Ma Fengzi knew that Yi Shuihan had only recently become the Chaos Emperor, and he could guess that Yi Shuihan truly did not possess any Primordial Spiritual Treasures.

For the company, Yi Shuihan is an exception. Chaos Kings who can come to the Chaos City branch of the company usually have the financial resources to prepare their own Primordial Spiritual Treasures, after all, they have hundreds of millions of years to prepare. Who would have thought that Yi Shuihan, who has only recently become a Chaos King, is qualified to come here?

Initially, Ma Fengzi thought Yi Shuihan had only a 4% chance of defeating Verus, but now that chance has dropped to 2% in his mind.

On the battle stage, the battle finally began, with Varus taking the lead and kicking off the fight.

There was no small matter what; from the very beginning, Varus used most of his strength without even testing the waters.

"As expected of someone from the Arena of All Realms, their combat awareness and grasp of timing are too strong."

"Of course, Lord Verus is a Silver Badge holder. Combat is as simple as eating and drinking for him; it's completely instinctive."

"This guardian of the company is quite good! His combat awareness is no worse than Lord Varus's."