As soon as the fight was over I instantly got an angry message challenging me to a rematch. I click the message and what pops up is a huge muscled man with bright red hair shouting up a storm about how I cheated and attacked him when he wasn't looking.
I had to stifle my laugh. "Sure I'll rematch you but only if you raise the stakes and don't waste my time."
The man on the other end of the com started slamming buttons and soon $10000 popped up for a rematch with the arena being just a circular coliseum melee only.
I put in my bet and accepted.
Countdown starts.
There's a flash and I'm inside a virtual circular arena.
There's a loud shout over a powersuit mic as the man across from me rushes at me with his axe raised.
There's a whirr of a reel as I pull out my diamond tipped stone splitter and just swing it towards my opponent. The cable wraps around the opponents powersuits legs and with a click the spikes pop out locking it into place and tripping it. There's a huge crash as it faceplants into the arena with his axe skittering across the floor.
Before he can get up one of my clawed greaves stomps down on his powersuits head. A second later my star steel blade bites through the cockpit back pinning him to the ground and winning the match. $10000 more dollars right into my account.
Just to make sure he lost happily I send him another rematch with $100000 at stake. He declines saying he doesn't want to fight a cheater and leaves.
I just chuckle.
From then onwards I would use this arena as it was just easier to get straight to the point in a battle.
I started getting fight offers from anywhere between. 1000 and 30000 dollars. My win loss streak was there for all to see. There were boards where people could check out who was fighting and come in to watch. Videos would be posted of my battles if I wanted which I didn't really care.
There would always be people who loved to see a good fight and you could open up betting stations and the fighters if they won would get a chunk of the profit. I of course bought this option and immediately set it up.
After a certain amount of viewers you could charge for people to watch you fight. I didn't have that so my only option was to fight until I did. The girls were also earning money for themselves since they wanted to help out. They felt kind of bad that I had spent all of my money on stuff for them and they wanted to earn some of their own money. I mean I had given them bank accounts with quite a bit when we came here I just kind of bought everything myself.
News that 4 teens without pilots licenses were tearing people apart in the arena and making a fortune quickly spread.
Some people tried to pull tricks like no weapons only fists, or swords only or even tried to do other weapons. The only one who struggled a little was Isabella since she hadn't trained with a monster like Cassie since childhood. But she still came out on top using stealth and tricks. She was a perfect assassin and she was brutal and ruthless. With her cultivator abilities she was also quicker and could think and move faster than normal people. It also helped that our powersuits were absolute monsters beefed up with the best items and max efficiency I could do.
This was also great for our classes as we needed at least 200 hours of pilot time in the virtual world as a requirement to get our license.
Everyday after classes we would log in and rack up kills and money. We also started to gather up quite a fan base and earned ourselves quite the nicknames. Which were very fitting.
The Azure Knight because of my blue lights on my suit and the knight like armor and cape.
Silvia got the title of The Queen. Because of her royal colors and how her powersuit always acted gracefully.
Sasha was The Grim Reaper because of her massive scythe and black active camo cloak she wore she even had me put in Grim looking red lights for eyes.
Isabella funnily enough got the title Stalker. As she would slowly stalk her opponents and pick off piece by piece of their powersuit tearing it to shreds.
We started to receive offers to join companies and mercenaries and even the military. We had mastery over pretty much anything melee related. We had advanced military training in combat and were quick and effective.
Around the college we actually started to get requests for autographs and were quite well known.
This went on for a couple of months and the first semester started to end. I actually had gotten my T2 license which was for a starship. They were so common and people used them for every mode of transportation that it was like just getting a basic drivers license. It was actually harder to get the T1 license for a powersuit. Which was confusing for me until I realized they used it mostly for construction and military uses so it counts as a specialized vehicle. This made sense.
So I was happily waiting in my powersuit shop with the roof open waiting for my ships to arrive. After about an hour a couple ships could be seen on the horizon and they easily park inside my warehouse I had made sure to order a massive warehouse for ship docking. After a second a sentinel flies out and there's an exchange between my sentinel before it flies off leaving behind the ships.
Auto pilot mode is a thing so people didn't even have to drive it over.
I had been waiting for this for months. I've already purchased quite a few things for my ships and I was even going to upgrade them.