"Oh? This newcomer is kind of interesting..."
In one part of the Judgment Hall, several Advanced Academy students from the Bronze Race gathered around a huge Virtual Screen. It was showing Feng Doudou throwing Ba Lie over her shoulder.
The tall Bronze man at the head of the group stroked his messy beard and grinned.
He was none other than the number-one trump card of the Martial Arts Academy of Bronze Academy: Ba'ersi Copperbeard!
A powerhouse who had ranked fourth in the previous inter-academy competition, he was one of the top experts among the younger generation!
Beside him were all elite figures from the three major academies. None of them ranked below the top fifty, and many were actually not much weaker than Baers. The reason they ranked lower was that during the competition, they had supported Baers to help him achieve a higher ranking, sacrificing their own points in the process.
In fact, many academies operated this way. They supported the strongest person in the academy so that he could take the highest individual ranking. Otherwise, relying on individual strength alone, it was generally very difficult to secure a spot in the top ten!
There were exceptions, of course. For example, the Dark Horse Demon Star from the previous competition had seized a top-ten spot all by himself, because Tirisfal Academy had originally planned to promote someone else...
"Tsk, I thought Ba Lie was going to cause a huge scene. That ended with quite a whimper!" Among the crowd, a Bronze female dwarf with a ponytail stretched lazily and said with a curl of her lips.
"Heh..." The others chuckled. They had been watching the situation too, planning to suppress the two troublemakers as soon as they started fighting. They had not expected a little girl to end the