"Hehe, talk after you've actually beaten everyone. Besides, I'm competing in the team event. We can fight side by side."
Jean Grey smiled and held her hands out beneath herself, using telekinesis to levitate and fly over to the No. 7 octagonal arena. She nodded to the referee on the platform and took up her position as the arena safety officer.
In addition to the Howlett Extraordinary Academy branch in America, the Supernatural Elite Tournament also offered a certain number of slots to mutant-training academies that had gradually emerged across countries and regions worldwide, as well as organizations with superhuman powers.
Each academy or organization conducted its own internal selections to determine its contestants before sending them to the Superhuman Academy in New York State.
Given the unusual nature of superhuman abilities, contestants had to be between twelve and twenty years old. The tournament was divided into individual matches and four-person team matches, both using a one-on-one elimination format.
Alongside a series of combat rules and standards, the Howlett Group's energy protective suits provided the strongest safety guarantee for these teenagers with immeasurable abilities.
Mutant instructors skilled at controlling powers, as well as agents invited from the Order, would also serve as safety officers for certain matches, preventing dangers caused by abilities that were overly unusual or even beyond expectations.
Emma, the White Queen and principal of the tournament's host school, spread her psychic power across the venue to oversee the whole event. Meanwhile, Jean Grey, who was not participating in the individual matches, became one of the safety officers.
Her invisible, intangible telekinesis and unfathomably powerful energy output made her the ideal candidate for the job.
Hiss! Hiss!
A buzz-cut Asian youth twisted his neck to loosen up. He wore nothing but a thin black tank top, and dense,