One by one, the teams of the 12th through 100th ranked sects filed in and assembled after us, followed by teams from 28 more sects who had earned the right to attempt to breach the top 100. Idly, I wondered if the Thorned Lily Sect would be somewhere near the back—as I recalled, they weren't far off from Rank 128, and the way I understood it, the slots weren't given purely on a rank basis after the top 100.
"Stop fidgeting so much," Bing Hei hissed at me, "you're drawing too much attention to us."
I rolled my eyes at him. "But I'm boooored," I said in a loud whisper, "I hate this stuff. Why can't we just get right down to it?"
He made a strangled, exasperated noise. "You're practically the Initiate Division squad leader, the heavens are watching, show some professionalism!"
I glanced over at Shokoya, and from the look on his face, he agreed with Bing Hei. I huffed and straightened up. "Fine, I'll try."
