The match began.
With all eyes on them, the Shrek team entered Star Luo Plaza under Wang Yan's lead, went straight to Shrek's designated staging area, and sat down to wait for the draw and the match that would follow.
Unlike the spectators, whose cheers surged like roaring mountains and crashing seas, many academy teams looked surprised and bewildered when they saw the competitors Shrek had brought today. The reason was simple: the members Shrek had sent were far too young. No matter how they looked at them, they were clearly members of the Reserve Team. Yet now, those reserve members were being fielded as the main force. Worse, their opponents today were an academy that had reached the quarterfinals in the previous tournament, a formidable team whose current lineup included three Soul Kings.
As for the six hundred-thousand-year soul rings Huo Yuhao had revealed on two separate occasions, not a single person on these academy teams believed they were real. Only ordinary spectators did. In other words, the team Shrek intended to field was, at best, made up entirely of Soul Ancestors. How were they supposed to contend with three Soul Kings?
If the upcoming draw selected a team battle, Shrek would at least have a sliver of a chance. But if it selected an individual elimination match or the two-two-three format, they had no faith whatsoever in the current Shrek team.
Perhaps Shrek's legend of ten thousand years without defeat would end today.
But they felt no regret. They only wondered why the team about to shatter Shrek's undefeated legend could not have been their own academy's.
Time flowed past amid the spectators' cheers, and the referee on the stage had already called the representatives of both sides up for the draw.
Shrek Academy versus Zheng Tian Academy.