The next group go to fight, but there is no Tier 7 there, and nobody challenged the Tier 7 monster, but in the next group, almost everyone are Tier 7.Everyone is excited, but they don't fight against the monster.
Everyone is confused, but they understood, those who are Tier 7 are normally rich.They won't reveal their cards just for some energy stones.
The last group is called and Ryo is there, the whole group only has Tier 7, so they easily win the first rounds.Only against the Tier 7 monster they don't fight, probably all of them can win against a novice Tier 7 monster, but their rivals would know about them.Even then, 5 people challenged the monster, it was Ryo, and other three guys and a girl.
Even though Ryo's father is of a high position, he wants to earn his own things.He only used the energy stone that his father give to him because it is a critical moment to breakthrough, but he wants to earn it by himself.His father is a genius too, only is older, but if he don't spend resources in him, he might be in the peak of Tier 7 already.
Looking to the 5 who chooses to challenge the monster, the others competitors are serious.It means that they are poor or have confidence to kill the monster without showing any significant card.Even thought they can kill this monster without using their biggest card, but the others one will be exposed.
Everyone has a ultimate card, that is using all energy in one go, only the effecs will be different depending which power you have.So it is useless if you know all others attacks, you won't able to surprise the opponent.
Ryo just stood in the field waiting, when the monster entered the field and ran to him, he just hold the hilt of the knife in his back.When the monster is near, it made a stone armor around itself, but Ryo just attacked with his knife.
The knife cutted the monster in half like butter even with the armor, and his knife looks normal, without blue flames on it.The others ones finished in a blow too, but it isn't so spectacular like Ryo, the monster attacking the girl died suddenly without wounds, one of the guys used speed to behead the monster, the other one just killed it in a frontal battle, and the last one burned the monster from inside.
Everyone got surprised, they expected that those who had the courage to confront the Tier 7 monster in this situation is strong, but they killed the monsters with a blow each, this is stunning.Even some officials here had difficulty doing it, after all, the Tier 6 is much more harder to breakthrough, so humans need time to construct their foundation.
'The hell flames are accumulated inside the knife, this is fusing their strengths.The fire is strong but he is spreaded, while the knife is a solid thing, but is weak.So using the fire internally, it don't support the knife, it make it stronger.' Lucas thought remembering Ryo's attack.
Even though they look easy killing these monsters, but it's unknown how much strength they used.At least Ryo used more than half of his power, his hell flames are just in the knife, so probably only Lucas and Marcos noted this.
His other power is just a metallic enhancement to the sword, even though is simple, but that plus his hell flames can cut almost everyone in the same tier.Even Lucas will be hurt in the same tier, only if he gets a evolved defense meaning, then he would be invulnerable against Ryo.
"Everyone got tested, so all those who win at least a round is qualified to go to the federation.So we have 4.286 who can go to the federation, to accelerate the things, only those who win two rounds can continue in the contest, so only 1.228 will have the chance to go to the best schools in the federation.We will go back now to determine the ranking, and you will go to the determined school according with the ranking, you can choose between equally leveled schools, but they have limited spots too, so only the top ones can chose more differently. " the Vice-Admiral said calmly.
There is people happy, bitter and several others emotions, but they don't complain, they see the difference between them.In Lucas's group, only Liz and Edward are bitter, Liz had problems killing the initial monster, so challenging the next one is impossible, and Edward killed the first one quite easily, but he didn't have much confidence against the next one, so he doesn't challenged it.
This is probably a test too, if you don't have the courage, then you don't deserve continue in the competition.After all the federation is the hope of the humanity, news of monsters breaking the border is normal now, even though humans are stronger now.The only relief is that humans territory is huge, so the monsters normally don't encounter nothing, or small cities, but now these cities are evacuated, so this isn't a problem.
"Don't worry, courage is build, nobody is fearless.You passed anyway, so going to the federation will have benefits." Ryo patted Edward's shoulder and said.
"Yeah, your power might be invaluable in some occasions, so don't worry about just strength." Bai comforted Liz too.
The two looked to them and nodded firmly, they don't need be the best in the world, just doing their best and being better than the previous you is already incredible.If you get better each day, one day you would be noted.When they are talking, everyone started entering the helicopters again.
"Hey Liz, I will teach you something." Lucas isn't good with words so he wanted to show something cool to them.
Lucas caught Liz hidden dagger and penetrate his own hand, but it passed through and stooped suddenly.They are stunned, they know about Lucas 'copy' power but this power is different from Liz's power.
"How did you do that?" Liz asked unbelievable.
"You can do it too, just need a little more control.You can make your hand pass through the blade and suddenly make it go back to the normal, except the part where is stabbed of course, so it is like your flesh is holding the blade from the side, like those guys who stop the sword catching it by the sides." Lucas explained.
Liz looked dumbfounded, if the power can used this form, it has a much better utility.Even though isn't going to increase much the combat power, but it still a great help.
"Hey Edward, your water lasers are strong, but water is versatile.You don't need just attack with it, it's defense only loses to earth power, and it's the 3rd fastest.It isn't the strongest in any way, but it is the most versatile, if you use it well, you won't have many weak spots." Lucas explained to Edward too.
Edward looked thoughtful and don't responded, he and Liz only recovered when Lucas is entering a helicopter.They immediately followed him and entered the helicopter too, but during the travel, they didn't speak nothing.
When they got out of the helicopters, everyone is stunned.They are in out of the coliseum like building in the capital, but the coliseum was very loud.When they are here before, it is like a ghost place, there is nobody and it is silent.Now it looks like a festival was happening.
"These days that you are doing the preliminaries, we told that the contest will be today in the coliseum, so there is people all around the country here, but 2 days is little so the majority are from the capital." a official said to everyone.
"All of you will enter there, but only the 1.228 who passed will compete.The others will wait in a specific place in the coliseum, you guys will see fights above yourself, so I hope you pay attention.You lose, but entering the Federation is only the beginning, the schools there will be given resources depending in the performance of the students.Even if you started in the worst school there, you will be given good resources if you have good performance." the Vice-Admiral said and entered the coliseum.
The 3.058 who can only go to the federation and can't continue in the contest got excited, even though they told to themselves that, but hearing the infrastructure of the federation, they got happy.A person truly give up only when he doesn't see hope, not when it is hard.If it's hard, they still can see the light, but without direction, even the toughest man can't last long.
'This system is really good, it incentives the weak and out pressure in the strong, so both try their best.In the end, everyone will benefit from it.' Lucas wanted to know who make this.