National Fortune Golden Shovel: I Can See Hidden Bonds!

126: Chapter 127: 60,000 points credited! Position! Entry! Synthesis!”I also choose to be a defender!”

”Me too!”

Two voices rang out simultaneously, belonging to Hakin from Oil Country, holding the No. 5 card, and Karin from Persia, holding the No. 6 card. Both of them had been brought up by Shen Mo, so naturally, they wouldn’t challenge him.

With three consecutive people choosing to be defenders, the original five blue circles were suddenly filled with four.

Only the last one remained lit!

Once the five blue circles were filled, subsequent contestants could only choose to be challengers and challenge those who had become defenders. Now, the four defenders were: Shen Mo, Hakin, Karin, and Damiano!

Among the remaining countries, those who hadn’t challenged yet were—

No. 7, Germany, Hans!

No. 8, Sakura Country, Hoshimi Sakura!

No. 9, Giant Bear Country, Hogni!

No. 10, Eagle Country, Mike!

”I also choose to be a defender!” Red-nosed Hans said sullenly. He was No. 7, and he had no choice. Although they had discussed sniping Shen Mo at the joint meeting, the current situation clearly wasn’t right.

Shen Mo had defeated two people in a row, and his arena points had reached 20!

Apart from Giant Bear Country remaining neutral, Oil Country and Persia belonged to the Dragon Country camp; expecting them to deal with Shen Mo was definitely unrealistic.

Among the three remaining countries that hadn’t competed yet, Hans from Germany had no confidence in defeating Shen Mo, while Mike from Eagle Country was very unconvinced by Shen Mo, but even if he teamed up with Hoshimi Sakura from Sakura Country, if the two of them won, Shen Mo’s points would at most be wiped to zero.

But that was meaningless!

USA was currently at -10 points!

The ROK was also at -10 points!

With Shen Mo at 0 points, it wouldn’t serve as any kind of sanction. Besides, there was a chance of failure; Shen Mo wasn’t a pushover you could just knead. He had even crushed a 3-Star 5-Cost unit, so who could guarantee a win?

If they didn’t defeat Shen Mo and ended up giving him another 20 points, the so-called Western joint sanction conspiracy would probably become a joke before it even started.

[5 defenders have been born!]

[From now on, defenders cannot be chosen. Contestants, please select any defender to challenge!]

[Please note, contestant Shen Mo from Dragon Country only has one challenge opportunity left!]

[After the 3 challenge opportunities are used up, you will not be able to challenge contestant Shen Mo today!]

[If multiple countries choose to join forces for a challenge, it will only consume 1 challenge opportunity!]

Alodes’ voice rang out.

The on-site audience immediately turned their gazes over, and many were already whispering. The choice of No. 8 was crucial. If Hoshimi Sakura chose to challenge Shen Mo, it meant that the people behind her would have no more chances.

But if she didn’t challenge...

”Hey, do you think Sakura Country will challenge Shen Mo?”

”It’s possible, but even if they challenge now, it doesn’t make much sense, right?”

”That’s not necessarily true. They can launch a joint challenge. Didn’t you hear the judge? A joint challenge only counts as one challenge opportunity. If three countries unite, and Shen Mo is at the bottom, 30 points would be deducted directly!”

”That may be true, but Shen Mo isn’t stupid either. With three people, can’t he beat even one of them?”

”Uh... that makes sense too.”

The void audience couldn’t reach a conclusion.

On the other side, the audience in the Dragon Country livestream was also waiting for Hoshimi Sakura’s choice.

”Do you guys think Hoshimi Sakura will challenge Brother Shen?”

”Heh... she dares! Brother Shen is on fire right now. That Bae Soo-hyun from ROK and that guy named Lena didn’t beat him, so why would Hoshimi Sakura?”

”I think there’s a sliver of hope if that person called Hashimoto Rika makes a move.”

”After all, she’s an old-timer from the past. Maybe she has some trump cards up her sleeve.”

”What kind of hope! I unconditionally believe in Brother Shen. It doesn’t matter who comes, he’ll just crush them, no questions asked!”

Shen Mo’s strength had already made the Dragon Country audience a bit arrogant. It was a feeling of ’who cares who comes, I have Shen Mo anyway.’

On the arena, Hoshimi Sakura walked forward gracefully, looking at Shen Mo with a smile in her beautiful eyes, and said softly: ”I choose to challenge Arnault from France...”

As soon as these words were spoken, even Shen Mo couldn’t help but look over in surprise.

Huh.

This person didn’t challenge him?

Not challenging him was one thing, but weren’t they allied to snipe him?

What was going on now?

Hoshimi Sakura actually chose to challenge France. Was this an internal conflict?

Shen Mo muttered a few words but couldn’t figure it out, so he simply stopped caring. If they didn’t challenge him, so be it. It was just a pity that there were no challenges left, so he had no chance to place bets.

But on second thought, he calmed down.

After killing a 3-Star 5-Cost unit in a rage in the last round, the Gods Arena had already lowered his odds to freezing point. It was estimated that the 1:5 odds made the arena lose a lot of blood, and the current odds were only 1:1.5!

”1.5 times the odds isn’t even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth!”

Shen Mo grumbled, quite unhappy: ”Alodes, I want to exchange for traits and upgrades, how do I do that?”

It was the same old saying, having money and not spending it was foolish.

60,000 points were just sitting there; he might as well synthesize traits!

Silver-tier traits only cost 3,000 or 4,000 each. According to this ratio, he could synthesize at least 6 Gold-tier traits!

Shen Mo didn’t believe that with 6 chances, he wouldn’t get a top-tier one.

[After purchasing Silver-tier traits from the shop, you can open the inventory to synthesize them.]

[Each trait will have specific upgrade descriptions.]

[Different levels of traits cost different points when upgrading. You can view the details on the trait page!]

[Please note, since you currently do not possess ’Status’, you cannot equip traits after purchasing or upgrading them. You need to pass the Gods Ladder trial to obtain ’Status’ before you can equip them!]

Alodes rambled on a lot.

Only then did Shen Mo realize.

So that was it. Status and traits corresponded to each other. Only the powerful who passed the Gods Ladder trial and entered the Second District could equip traits. They could only purchase and synthesize them for now.

So, traits were exclusive to the powerhouses of the Second District?

No wonder people like Hoshimi Sakura used item cards instead of traits back then, and no wonder the arena didn’t allow contestants from the Second District to participate in matchmaking. This made perfect sense!

After all, if people from the Second District came to play matchmaking, with an extra trait skill, the newcomers probably wouldn’t be able to beat them at all.

It would seriously affect the fairness and justice of the matchmaking!

If this continued, the spots to advance to the Gods Ladder would probably be completely monopolized by old-school powerhouse countries!

”Fine then...”

Shen Mo took a deep breath and muttered to himself: ”It’s fine if I can’t equip them. Although it’s a bit of a pity, it’s not a bad thing. There are still 6 days left in the arena tournament, just enough time to polish the traits.”

”If I can create a max-level Iridescent-tier trait, the chance of passing the Gods trial will be much higher!”

”Alright... let’s do it!”

After figuring everything out, Shen Mo immediately opened the shop and started buying Silver-tier traits!