Alex held a strange expression on his face upon hearing Zi Mengyao's words.
"That's a little too early to decide that I have lost," he said. "We haven't even completed the challenge yet."
Zi Mengyao heard him, but that did not increase her confidence in him. After all, she could not see someone like Alex, who had to have trained with alchemy and Daos his entire life, being any good with weapons.
"5000 stars, huh?" Firefang said with a slight laugh. "How many stars did you say you have?"
"Me? A bit more than 5000," Alex said. "Do you need an exact number?"
"No, that's fine," Firefang said. "I'll just increase the bet to 6000 stars instead."
Alex raised an eyebrow. "I don't think that's going to work out. I don't have that many stars."
"I know you don't. That's why I increased it as much as I did. So that when you lose, you'll be forced to pay all your stars to me."
