At this moment, Lu Ran looked like he was just playing around.
Flying in the sky, he casually watched Zhang Zheng on the arena.
He controlled his skeletons to cut through everything like slicing vegetables.
Although the skeletons’ normal attacks had the lowest damage, Lu Ran’s skeletons had been enhanced.
And on top of that.
Every single slash struck flesh!
It really hurt!
Zhang Zheng howled and struggled, focusing his fire on the skeletons.
After all that effort, he finally managed to kill one with everything he had.
Lu Ran casually summoned another one to replace it.
More wouldn’t help anyway—there wasn’t even room to squeeze them in.
Zhang Zheng’s burrowing time ran out. He wanted to burrow underground to dodge, but the constantly stacking control from Touch of the Undead made it completely impossible!
He could only watch helplessly as his health slowly dropped under Lu Ran’s attacks.
All his defensive skills were useless!
They could delay his death, but he couldn’t escape, and he couldn’t even touch Lu Ran.
Instead, they only reduced the damage, which meant he had to suffer even longer!
The spectators were all dumbfounded.
“As expected of the big shot Undead Mage—this is just ridiculous!”
“That skeleton is messed up, right? How is it this strong?!”
“So satisfying! That’s right, keep it up, kill that bastard Zhang Zheng!”
“Haha… beautiful! Let’s see if he still talks big now.”
“The champion truly deserves the title. With Lu Ran here, what’s the point of the other contestants even playing?”
“So it turns out, in this season’s Hundred Cities League, everyone except Lu Ran was just fighting for second place!”
…
Before long.
Finally, Zhang Zheng’s health hit rock bottom.
His expression was dazed at this point, and he just stood there frozen, not moving at all.
After Lu Ran was declared the winner, he dismissed his skeletons.
He returned to the arena and looked at Zhang Zheng indifferently.
“Weren’t you so confident you could win the championship? Is this it?” Lu Ran’s face was full of disdain.
To be honest, this wasn’t even Lu Ran’s usual personality.
A fight is a fight—if you win, you win; if you lose, you lose. It doesn’t matter.
But Zhang Zheng just loved to run his mouth too much, and Lu Ran couldn’t help but throw a few jabs back.
And at this moment, Zhang Zheng.
Suddenly snapped back to his senses, looked at Lu Ran, and heard his words. Yet there was not a trace of shame or resentment in his heart—only deep fear and wariness.
Especially after realizing that Lu Ran’s identity was none other than that mysterious Undead Mage big shot who dominated the Infinite Tower’s global rankings at number one, the despair in his heart became impossible to suppress.
And on top of that.
In the Death Arena.
Lu Ran had slaughtered left and right, killing so many of America’s high-level combat professionals.
Even when America’s five major guild leaders teamed up with a full roster and full loadout—tank, damage dealer, controller, assassin, healer, all assembled—they were still taken down by Lu Ran alone.
What right did he have to think he could beat Lu Ran?
There wasn’t even the slightest chance!
And don’t forget.
Lu Ran’s Spirit Wings weren’t just about flying.
He could also summon an army of the elf race to fight for him!
That was Lu Ran’s own ability, and he could use it whenever he wanted.
Who the hell could beat Lu Ran?!
Even.
The Blood Spear instant-kill and the invincible state now seemed completely reasonable.
“I lost…” Zhang Zheng said in a daze.
At this moment.
The spectators around him had no intention of letting him off easily.
“You already lost, so why haven’t you gotten off the stage?!”
“You still dare to run your mouth about my Lu Ran bro? Who gave you the nerve?”
“Lu Ran is Longxia’s glory, and you dared to mock him? You’ve got some nerve!”
“Zhang Zheng, right? I’ll remember you. Don’t leave after class!”
…
Listening to the noise around him, Zhang Zheng felt even more ashamed and quickly slunk off the stage in embarrassment.
No matter what, he was still the second place of the Hundred Cities League, yet he had instead become like a rat crossing the street.
It was also because the award ceremony only presented awards to first place.
The rest would receive rewards based on their ranking, distributed to them and their home city, without needing to participate in the ceremony.
“Student Lu Ran, please come up to the stage,” the host said with a smile.
Lu Ran looked at Su Ting below the stage.
She nodded and said, “Go on. It’s your reward.”
Su Ting had watched this Hundred Cities League from beginning to end, and she was completely convinced by Lu Ran’s abilities.
Especially at the end.
When she saw Lu Ran’s Spirit Wings, Su Ting was utterly stunned.
Lu Ran was actually that legendary mysterious Undead Mage!
Lu Ran was also looking forward to it, because Liu Xinxin and the others had said several times that the champion’s reward this time was extremely generous!
Although he didn’t know exactly what it was.
But if Liu Xinxin and the others all thought it was extremely generous, then there was no need to question it.
Then.
Under everyone’s gaze, Lu Ran flew directly onto the stage, and only then hid his Spirit Wings.
Watching Lu Ran put away his Spirit Wings up close—this feeling might only be understandable to humans.
It was just too stunning!
“Student Lu performed quite well.”
“I didn’t expect this season’s Hundred Cities League to be so exciting.”
“It seems our Longxia really is full of hidden talents.”
“We’ve all seen your performance in the Infinite Tower and the Death Arena.”
“Good job, Student Lu!”
…
Even those leaders praised Lu Ran without holding back.
This was treatment that the champions of previous Hundred Cities Leagues couldn’t even dream of.
Even Su Ting, when she won the championship back then, only received her reward at the award ceremony, and the leaders just said a few polite words before it was over.
But this time was different.
Lu Ran was not only the champion of the Hundred Cities League, but also the Undead Mage of the Death Arena, and the Undead Mage of the Infinite Tower!
He was someone who had truly suppressed Sakura, suppressed America, and brought honor to the country!
Naturally, the leaders wouldn’t hold back a few words of praise.
Lu Ran, on the other hand, politely responded with a few modest words, then looked curiously at the leaders.
In his heart, he was calculating—where’s the reward? What is it?
Fortunately, the leaders didn’t waste too much time on meaningless talk.
One of the top leaders stood up and took out a money bag.
He said, “First of all, as the champion of the Hundred Cities League, we have established a prize, jointly provided by the national treasury and the Full-Time Alliance. The prize is 300 million gold coins. Please accept it.”
Three hundred million!
That was pretty outrageous.
After all, it was a personal reward, though to Lu Ran, this reward actually felt like nothing much.
He didn’t lack money at all.
If he wanted money, he could just speed-farm some dungeons and trade equipment to become rich.
But three hundred million—if he could get it for free, then he’d take it!
What Lu Ran cared about was the other rewards.
But while Lu Ran felt it was no big deal, the spectators were all burning with envy.
“Even though I knew the champion reward was 300 million gold coins, I’m still so jealous.”
“Three hundred million! Damn, if I had three hundred million, I wouldn’t even bother leveling anymore. I’d just eat, drink, and wait to die!”
“To Lu Ran, those 300 million probably aren’t very attractive, right?”
“What are the other rewards? Last year, Su Ting’s rewards were pretty generous too.”
“With Lu Ran’s performance and identity this year, it definitely won’t be worse.”
…
Of course.
Those 300 million gold coins were also just a drop in the bucket to the major families in the imperial capital, so they didn’t care at all.
But they were equally curious about what the other rewards were besides the gold coins.
After all, they had been carefully prepared and selected by the state, so they shouldn’t be bad.
