Qiao Sang entered the contestant waiting area, just about to ask who Naden was.
Just then, the commentator's voice rang out:
"Naden has won again with ease! Among all D-rank Pet Tamer Arena Match rankings in the Upper Tenth District, he has consistently ranked around seventieth, and last year he achieved the outstanding rank of sixty-eighth! As a star contestant from our Third District, he has never let us down!"
Qiao Sang looked toward the holographic screen broadcasting the arena live.
The screen showed a close-up of a red-haired young man with sharply defined features.
"That's Naden?" Qiao Sang asked.
Tang Yi nodded. "That's how he was introduced just now."
A star contestant—no wonder he had an agent... Qiao Sang immediately thought of something and asked, "How are those rankings determined?"
Qiao Sang spent all day with her nose in a book and never spoke up in the group chat. Back then, she had not even known about points. She had only come to the Pet Beast Arena Competition, which was so popular on Superstar Planet, for the first time yesterday. Tang Yi was no longer surprised by her asking questions that everyone else already knew.
He explained:
"The Upper Tenth District holds the Pet Beast Arena Competition at a set time every year. Beast Tamers of every rank can participate, and the rankings are determined then. They're updated annually."
"The contestants ranked in the top hundred are star contestants. Most of them have dedicated teams behind them, and their overall strength is publicly recognized as the very best among Beast Tamers of their rank."
Qiao Sang looked at Tang Yi. "Then wouldn't contestants without teams be at a huge disadvantage?"
Unlike the National Campus Pet Beast League, many major competitions on Blue Star allowed the use of props and