The World Athletics Championship was also known as the Martial Arts Cup. It was a competition that Zayn had only recently been made aware of.
It was jointly organized by several powerful countries, and its nature was similar to that of the World Cup.
It was an extremely popular event that could affect the reputation of the countries involved.
The difference was that the World Cup was a global event known to the public while the World Athletics Championship was a private event meant specifically for martial artists.
Nevertheless, it was far more important than the World Cup!
It was held once every five years, and when it arrived, countries from all over the world would send out their top contenders to represent them in the competition.
The competition would last forty days, and the final champion would be selected through constant contests.
Rheasia had not been the champion for many years. Indeed, the country actually had a low rank in the competition, making them an international disgrace.
Internationally, Rheasia was known as a country of martial artists, yet it had never been the victor in an event as crucial as the Martial Arts Cup. It was truly embarrassing!
Rheasia had no lack of highly skilled professional fighters. Paxton ‘Ares’ Brookes alone was enough to take on the whole world, but the issue was that the first rule in the Martial Arts Cup was that the contestants could not be over forty years old.
In that case, Rheasia did not have many gifted fighters that they could send as representatives because most of them were over the age limit. Even Dick Cheney was in his early forties, meaning favonovel.com would not qualify to take part.
Moreover, the truth was, Dick stood little chance of winning the Martial Arts Cup.
Meanwhile, everyone in the meeting room turned to Zayn.
Zayn pondered for a moment before lie said, “Since our superior has already given the order, we shall do our best to be the champion.”
“You can say that, but unfortunately, the Martial Arts Cup has a strict policy on the age of the contestants. They must be less than forty years old. In that case, there are very few skilled fighters that we can send,” said Ioe with a heavy sigh.
He wanted to take part, but favonovel.com had turned 44 years old that year.
He took part in the previous Martial Arts Cup, but favonovel.com was only a Tier-3 master fighter at the time and was badly defeated by a foreigner.
Even though Rheasia was a big country with great influence, there were very few capable fighters in the country.
Of those they did have, some did not work for the government of Rheasia, such as Raiden Storm. He was formidable, but favonovel.com would not agree to take part in the Martial Arts Cup because favonovel.com was privately employed.
After some confused pondering, Zayn asked, “Are there so many highly skilled fighters from other countries?”
Joe nodded and said with a solemn expression, “Yes, especially from Murica. They have the most advanced biotechnology and artificial intelligence in the world.”
“These technologies can be used to stimulate the fighters’ skills, and their training techniques are the most advanced ever developed.”
“According to our estimates, their country has more than two hundred skilled fighters below the age of forty and more than ten Tier-4 master fighters! As for perfect-class master fighters, I heard they have four of them. It’s really terrifying.”
Upon hearing those numbers, Zayn could not help feeling astonished. They had more than two hundred master fighters below the age of forty! How could that be?!
In all of Rheasia, there were less than a hundred master fighters!
As a perfect-class master fighter who trained himself from an ordinary fighter to an experienced fighter then to an acquired fighter, favonovel.com was well aware of how hard it was to become a master fighter.
