Days went on with the usual training and arena matches as they were still required for graduation. However today there would be a change up.
Coming to the registration point as usual, Grandmaster took out the Shrek Seven Devils' battle badge and presented it battle group staff,
"Excuse me, I'm signing up for team battles."
The staff took the badge like always, but when he saw the words engraved on the badge, his face paled and he gasped softly,
"Shrek Seven Devils?"
Grandmaster wrinkled his brow. The quality of staff of the Great spirit Battle arena was good, where their expression would not change much even if they met a high ranked Spirit Master. However, at this moment, the performance of the staff was clearly not satisfactory .
"I'm sorry, Sir. If I may ask, are you the Shrek Seven Devils' team leader?"
Grandmaster slowly nodded his head. " I can be counted as one. Would you please hurry it up a bit."
"Sir, please wait a moment." The Staff, under Grandmaster's surprised gaze, quickly left his post and ran toward the back, hands tightly clasping Shrek Seven Devils' team battle badge.
Although Grandmaster was extremely dissatisfied. The staff had already taken the group's battle badge used to register, and without it, he could not do anything even if he wanted to change districts and could only patiently wait there.
But what Grandmaster did not know was that as long as he appeared showing this badge in Suotuo Great Spirit Arena, in no matter what district, he would have experience the exact same thing.
Without having to wait too long, the staff member brought back another person to the registration point.
"Sorry for having you wait so long."
The staff member politely commented and presented the badge back to Grandmaster.
Grandmaster had an impression of the man that the staff brought along. At that point in time when Shrek's Seven Devils participated in their first group battle in the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena, he was their host and announcer.
Manager Ao smiled,
" Hello respected team leader sir, may I have a conversation with you. It will not take up too much of your time."
Grandmaster cooly replied,
"Are you representing yourself or representing the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena?"
Manager Ao quickly replied,
"Of course, I'm representing the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena."
Grandmaster nodded his head. He had already expected this to happen, after all, Shrek Seven Devils had obtained outstanding results within this past month. Not being noticed was an impossibility. Especially the one who was the most outstanding this entire month, winning all his battles, Ryan was sure to have been at the centre of their attention.
Even though Grandmaster was very unwilling to deal with the Great Spirit Arena, their sphere of influence was simply too great, even countries would be afraid to offend them. He too, naturally wouldn't voluntarily offend them, thus nodding his head. Following Manager Ao, Grandmaster was brought into a quiet back room behind the registration point.
"Mr.leader, I'll get straight to the point."
Manager Ao managed with some dignity:
"I'm representing the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena, in hopes that today, Shrek Seven Devils will participate in the Central Spirit Arena on the main stage."
"Oh?"
Grandmaster was not surprised but instead maintained a plain voice, "This doesn't seem to follow the rules. According to the Arena's rules, only Spirit Master of Silver rank or above can appear in the main stage, but the Shrek Seven Devils are only of Iron rank."
Since everyone started over for the school situation most of the kids where close to hitting silver as the upgrades come at the end of the month.
Manager Ao laughed bitterly,
"You don't have to be modest, with the battle history of Shrek Seven Devils within just this past month, after today's battle, they will all receive Silver battle badges. There is nothing wrong even if they are promoted to silver rank one day early."
Grandmaster's expression still had not changed.
"If that is so, then you wouldn't mind one day later either would you."
Manager Ao sighed.
" I'll just speak frankly then. Three days ago, a team of Spirit Masters came. They were an all Silver ranked Spirit Masters team, probably brought to this city by a few aristocrats. Because for two straight days, those more prestigious families have heavily betted on them, and they had won overwhelmingly, bringing a large loss to the Suotuo Great Spirit Arena. Maybe because they tasted sweet success, today many aristocrats again increased their bets, if we continue to lose like this, I'm afraid… …"
Grandmaster's doubts in his heart cleared like a clear mirror, he immediately understood Manager Ao's words.
The light in Grandmasters eyes flashed, after thinking for a moment, he said:
"If I remember correctly, when participating in the center of the main Spirit Fighting Arena, there should be an added bonus."
When Manager Ao saw that Grandmaster seemed to have a change of heart, he was secretly pleased, quickly adding,
"Of course, when participating in competitions of the main Spirit Arena, every Spirit Master will receive a direct reward of five thousand gold coins and if your party accepts our invitation and win this Spirit battle, the Spirit Arena would also like to pay an extra ten thousand gold coins as a reward. However, because Shrek Seven Devils, after all, hasn't gotten a Silver spirit fighting badge, the accumulation will be unaffected. Fortunately they have been always been winning consecutive battles, thus the accumulation is not little. "
Not giving Grandmaster a chance to open his mouth, Ao continued.
"For this spirit battle, please allow the Shrek Seven Devil's members to not participate in their individual and dual spirit battles today. Although we can not break the rules and give them extra points, within the limits of our influence, the Spirit Arena can count their individual and dual spirit battles today's as victories, by showing that their registered opponents surrendered on their own. Thus, Shrek Seven Devils would be able to go all out when facing the opponent. "
"Well, I'll accept your conditions. Please ready the opponent's information, I'll first recall my disciples."
"No need to trouble yourself. Let our staff recall the Shrek Seven Devils. I have the opponents' information already. You can discuss with them first. Later I'll take you into the main stage of the Spirit Arena to prepare. "
Manager Ao quickly turned away, obviously to report the matter of Shrek Seven Devils having agreed to participate in the spirit battle to his higher-ups and at the same time, to make the appropriate arrangements. There was an hour from now to the beginning of the group spirit battle, long enough for Suotuo Spirit Arena to make a lot of arrangements.
After a short while, not only did the staff bring all Shrek Seven Devils to the room, even Flender and Zhao Wuji were also invited over, clearly showing that Suotuo Great Spirit Arena had been observing their entire group for more than just one or two days.
Grandmaster calmly repeated what Manager Ao previously mentioned, at the same time, putting the recently received information flat on a table in the room.
While standing at the side Ryan suddenly understood something. There where rich suckers betting that he would lose and the win loss ratio was on the higher level team he could make a fortune. With the speed unseen by his previous companions he was out the door heading towards the gambling desks followed closely by Dean Flender both cackling up a storm. They went so far as to even release spirits for an extra speed boost.
No matter if they won or lost Suotuo City Spirit Arena would lose astronomical amounts of spirit coins this day.
Walking away clutching a ticket and being stared at by a gobsmacked desk clerk. On that ticket where the words Shrek Seven Devils to win. 17:1 deposit ticket 10000000 gold spirit coins.
Dean Flender beside him was happily holding a ticket that almost said the same except his was only 5000 gold spirit coins. He looked over at his genius student only to get his spirit half scared out of him by all the zeroes on his ticket. If Ryan won he would get 170million spirit coins he would have bet more but there's a newly implemented 10m bet limit.
Flender would only get 85000 spirit coins that was a huge gain to the money grubbing man but now it all looked so tiny.
I was going to have the Shrek seven Devils also gamble but they had quickly closed down the gambling desks learning from their mistake.