No one knew how strong King was now because he did not participate in the competition. There were some rumors that he was as strong as a generals in the army and was much stronger than the instructors of the academy. It was said that only the elders and the principal were stronger than him. After the fight with the three, no one dared to fight with him again and when placed in a fighting arena, the opponents would just admit defeat. This led him to being banned from ever participating the monthly competitions. He was cold and aloof to everyone. He was never seen with anyone or even in a group. Everyone in the academy thought that he would be made the governor of the country in the next fifteen years to come, that was before he was even thirty five years.
Competition day came and it was to take three days. All the students headed to the arena. The arena was divided into eight smaller arenas. Each grade had two arenas .The eight arenas surrounded the main arena which was bigger than the others and was located at the middle. The students would first compete amongst themselves at the same level or class to have their uniform ranking and then fight other students in the academy. Grade eleven students had the east and south arenas .Mo went to the east arena which had the most students .The south arena had only seven students that is the one with indigo ,one with blue, three green and two yellows. Alvin was in the east arena. A student with orange uniform challenged another of the same rank and won after exchanging a few moves. The loser left the arena with a frown wondering why he had been defeated by someone he was always stronger than. There were a few challenges among the orange uniform. A student with orange uniform decided to challenge one with yellow. The battle was very intense but luckily the challenger won and was promoted to yellow rank whilst the loser demoted.
If one was challenged and won there wouldn't be any change to their rank. After some few hours, all the yellow uniform students were done with their challenges. There was even one who was courageous enough to challenge a student with green uniform but was beaten to a pulp. Kelvin, the strongest yellow uniform wearing student had always wanted to be promoted to the green rank. He thought that it was time to get his promotion and that would come through Mo. No one had challenged Mo because that would be testing the waters for the other students. Kelvin decided to be the first as he firmly believed that opportunity comes once in a lifetime.
He walked to the arena and upon entering, he shouted, "I challenge Mo! Mo, you have to be strong for the higher ups of the academy to have given you a green uniform upon your arrival. I hope you won't disappoint me!" If a higher ranked student was challenged by a student ranked lower than them, then the student had no chance to turn down the challenge. Mo walked to the stage while inwardly cursing Kelvin. There were so many green ranked students, why did he have to challenge him.
The judge shouted, "Begin!" Kelvin said, "Please guide me." The moment those words left his mouth he charged at Mo. Clearly he wanted to gain advantage by striking first. When he was just two feet away from Mo and was about to attack Mo shouted, "I admit defeat!"
Silence!
Everybody including the judge was dumfounded. Nothing of this sort had ever happened in the academy in the last ten years. Admitting defeat without even exchanging a move and yet the one who admitted defeat was the supposed to be stronger one, this was truly unbelievable! Unless one's opponent was King, nobody would admit defeat that quickly as they wouldn't be able to raise their heads high ever in the future. Inside the office of the principal of the academy, an old man shouted in anger, "Moses! You bastard!" The other six men looked at the one who had shouted in astonishment. The one who had shouted was naturally Feng. Five of the six men were the ones who had been informed of Mo in the secret location. The last man was an old Asian in his seventies. He was the principal of the military academy, Principal Lee.
Back in the arena, Kelvin forcefully pulled back his fists and suddenly exploded in laughter, "To think I thought you as a worthy opponent, you have broadened my horizons." Everybody looked at Mo and started talking among themselves. That happened to be the last challenge in their class. The green ranked students would probably challenge each other the following day. After that the tier challenge would begin such that the students would be assigned their badges. All the students left the arena and headed to their dormitories. Mo's news circulated spread faster than a wild fire. The whole academy came to know of the recently admitted student who even got a name without paying a single cent, 'coward'. Many students guessed that he would be demoted to red rank meaning he would have to wear a red uniform. Many anticipated to seeing a red uniform appear after all it had been quite some time since the last appearance of the red uniform. All the students who had previously fawned Mo thinking he was strong kept a distance, after all nobody would like to be associated with the 'coward'.
Alvin came to Mo's bed and asked in a low voice, "Why did you admit defeat that quickly? I trust that whoever brought you and those who assigned you a green rank aren't blind." Mo could feel the sincerity of Alvin after all he was the strongest in grade 11 and therefore had no reason to fake his concern. He told Alvin that he was more like 'abducted' and brought here and he didn't know how to fight as he had no military background. He also mentioned that the one who forced him here was an old fellow. Alvin said, "Maybe he has seen the potential inside you and want you to learn fast how to fight through pressure." "I don't want to and I don't care what he wants, all I want is to go back to my previous school. This place is unfavorable to me," said Mo. Alvin said, "Since that's the case I'll try to protect you but am afraid I won't be able to protect you in the competition if anybody challenges you."