By now, the host was already warming up the crowd. He first announced the list of academies that had made it through the first round, then began introducing the groups.
Just as Wang Yan had predicted, the group Shrek Academy belonged to had eight academy teams competing in total. Shrek Academy was unquestionably the overwhelming favorite.
Overshadowed by Shrek Academy's brilliance, all the other academies seemed somewhat dim.
After all, no one had yet seen through Shrek Academy's predicament: a formidable exterior hiding a hollow core.
After a string of crowd-stirring drivel, the host shouted in his most impassioned voice, "Next, please welcome the team from the continent's number one academy, Shrek Academy, and their opponents, the Star Luo Empire's Yunluo Advanced Soul Engineer Academy, into the waiting area! Will the captains of both teams please come onto the stage to determine the format of their match?"
At Wang Yan's signal, Bei Bei stood and walked toward the stage, leaving quite a few spectators puzzled. The captain's position actually wasn't Chen Ping's?
Fortunately, one of the countless privileges enjoyed by the strong was that the strong were always right.
Chen Ping, the vice-captain, didn't even need to patch up that hole himself. He merely sat in the rest area, bored out of his mind, eating fruit with one leg crossed over the other, and spectators had already dreamed up a specific reason why he wasn't captain.
The captain's duties must be too tiring, so Chen Ping couldn't be bothered taking the role. Exactly! See, doesn't that mean Chen Ping doesn't have to go up and draw lots?
Once onstage, both sides exerted force simultaneously to draw lots, and a yellow ball representing individual combat dropped out.
The referee caught it and showed it to both captains and the Star Luo