After closing in to the the third and final course of the race, everyone else had just made it past the second barrier. Tang Hao turned to face Ling Mengyu on her flying sword. "Mengyu what stage are you at?" he asked
She didn't say anything but revealed her cultivation stage, seeing the great difference in their cultivation Tang Hao exclaimed "What?! The peak foundation establishment stage?" he then smiled wryly as Ling Mengyu nodded her head and got past him
"She must be really talented to be at the peak of the foundation establishment stage, I wonder when she started cultivating. If she started at the same time I did then that may be a problem." he thought. Arriving at the final course a minefield, it didn't affect Tang Hao or Ling Mengyu as they were on their flying swords
The two then sped up and raced to the finish line, however near the end of the course, Tang Hao's qi started running low and the lightning sword stopped moving. Before falling Tang Hao quickly shoved the sword into the ground before swinging off it and landing then coated his feet in qi and ran as fast as he could
As Tang Hao begun to catch up to Ling Mengyu on her flying sword, she sped up again. An announcement could be heard throughout the stadium, "First place Ling Mengyu!" Tang Hao then made it a few moments after. Another announcement could be heard "Second place Tang Hao!"
On the screens at the stadium, Tang Hao could see Bakugo catching up with Todoroki, they grabbed each other whilst running, Boom! Midoriya riding on a piece of the Faux machine slid past them, the two begun to stop fighting and catch up to Midoriya. After a while Midoriya made it through the course with Todoroki and Bakugo catching up shortly afterwards
Another announcement could be heard throughout, "Third Place Midoriya Izuku, A tie in Fourth place Todoroki Shoto and Bakugo Katsuki!" Bakugo and Todoroki then looked at Tang Hao and Ling Mengyu who had made it way before they did before going elsewhere to rest. Tang Hao came up to Midoriya and said "Congratulations Midoriya kun in coming third place beating even Todoroki and Bakugo!"
"Hahah thanks! Though you and Ling Mengyu were amazing beating us by a large margin, also how were you guys flying?? And on a sword too?" Tang Hao looked at him and said "Well, let's just say it's something like martial arts you see in movies."
A while later Iida, Uraraka and others made it to the end. Tang Hao walked next to Ling Mengyu as they started to rest and regain their qi. After everyone made it to the end, points were distributed among the top 40 or so contestants
Midnight then introduced the second round, a chivalry battle, each team consisting of four people. One riding on top of two others behind and in front with each person holding a headband worth a varying amount of points
The person in first place's headband is worth 10 million points, Midnight then allowed 15 minutes for everyone to form a team. Naturally Ling Mengyu formed a team with Tang Hao as they were similar in strength and familiar with each other, Tang Hao then asked Ling Mengyu to let Midoriya be the third person of their team
Tang Hao walked up to Midoriya and said to him "Hey Midoriya kun, do you want to form a team with me and Mengyu? She already agreed to it also it'll just be us three."
"Oh? Are you sure you'll be ok with me? Alright then". The three then gathered into a small circle and Tang Hao shared his plan "Ok Midoriya here's what I think, Mengyu and I will be your support and you will be on top, you don't need to worry Mengyu's strong she won't have any trouble holding you and there are other reasons I don't want her on top" he said
Midoriya then looked at him and said "Alright, I won't be able to use my quirk a lot though so it may cause some inconvenience to you two."
"It's alright, the two of us have other ways to get through this, we will let you hold the ten million point headband and we will hold the rest. Since everyone will be targeting you, the two of us will use our speed to get around and not many will be able to catch up>" Tang Hao replied
"Mengyu, any problems with my plan?" Tang Hao asked. She replied softly "No" then sat crossed legged to continue regaining her qi. Tang Hao did the same shortly after until the second round begun
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Shortly after resting, the second round begun and the three formed their formation whoever it looked a bit funny since there were only three people. The second round then begun, every team then charged at Midoriya who wore the 10 million point headband
Tang Hao and Ling Mengyu looked at each other before nodding then Tang Hao used his quirk to coat lighting around both their feet in order to conserve their qi. Tang Hao and Ling Mengyu then started running around the field whilst being chased around by other teams, each time they went close to another team, Tang Hao purposely slowed down and enabled Midoriya and Ling Mengyu to grab some headbands before speeding up again
In this way they managed to grab a couple hundred points worth of headbands in only a couple minutes. Todoroki and Bakugo's team then came close to Tang Hao's team of three and surrounded them with others. Tang Hao used his spiritual sense to keep track of all movements within the surrounding area of up to 10 meters, using this he easily evaded Todoroki's ice and Bakugo's charging whilst enabling him to run around
Midoriya sitting above them said "Wow Tang Hao you two are really fast.. I'm feeling a bit sick though from all this turning..."
"Oh crap! I thought he'd be used to it since One For All allows him to move at high speeds, but then again he normally just goes straight with it." Tang Hao thought as he continued to evade the entire time