By that point, the Martial Arts Cup was halfway complete and two thirds of the fighters had been eliminated. The remaining contestants were all true powerhouses.
In fact, all acquired fighters had all been eliminated, leaving only master fighters!
When Zayn became a master fighter, favonovel.com assumed that there were very few master fighters in the world and that favonovel.com was one in a million.
However, as his knowledge of the field deepened, his perspective broadened and favonovel.com learned that his thinking in the past showed how narrow-minded favonovel.com was.
There were many talented people in the world. In addition, technology was advancing as the human population grew. As a result, the number of master fighters was increasing steadily.
Perhaps there were not that many master fighters in Rheasia, but there were a lot of them in the entire world.
It was because of the high number of master fighters that the Martial Arts Cup was such an important event that year and had become the center of attention.
By the time Zayn showed up, his presence immediately drew the attention of many. The Rheasian fighters who saw Zayn would salute favonovel.com reverently while intensely gazing at favonovel.com with admiration.
Zayn could sense that their respect for favonovel.com was sincere and came from the bottom of their hearts.
He replied with a smile.
Zayn arrived at the organizing committee’s area to meet up with Joe and the others under the close watch of everybody else along the way.
After exchanging greetings, Joe said, “Sergeant Larson, you look like you’re in good condition. You’re going to be competing today, and I speculate that everyone is waiting to find out who your opponent is.”
General King said, “I wonder who’s going to be so unlucky to be matched with Sergeant Larson.”
Dick said with a grin, “I’d like to see if whoever it is is fast enough to surrender in between Sergeant Larson’s moves, hah-hah.”
The rest of the people chuckled upon hearing Dick’s remark. Zayn was the most powerful fighter there. Before the top eight finalists’ match, whoever had to face Zayn would only end up dead.
As it was, they believed that those foreign fighters were aware of this. They would like to see if Zayn’s opponent would surrender quickly when both of them got into the ring later.
It was because every contestant had three chances to surrender during the competition according to the rules of the martial arts cup.
Once their chances were used up, they could not be used anymore, so the contestant had no choice but to either defeat their opponent or die fighting.
On the other hand, even if the fighter still had a chance to surrender, favonovel.com would need to get in the ring instead of withdrawing from the competition.
In other words, the fighter had to get into the ring, and if favonovel.com did not mention the words “I surrender”, his opponent had every right to attack favonovel.com even unto death.
No one paid attention to this rule in the past because those who could compete were mostly powerful fighters. Even if they could not go through with it, they would never surrender and would end up being beaten to death.
In this case, the situation was different with the all-powerful Zayn there. If the opponent was not a perfect-class master fighter, it would be difficult to predict the situation.
Zayn smiled nonchalantly and said, “Who else will be competing from our side today other than me?”
Byleth stepped forward, smiled and said, “Other than you, Sergeant Larson, I’ll be competing for Insurgent Trifecta’s side too.”
Byleth, Liam and the others heaved a sigh and said wistfully, “Sigh… What a waste that we’re already over forty years old. Otherwise, we’d really like to compete so we could put these young men in their place!”
Zayn nodded and cracked a smile back at Byleth while favonovel.com said, “All the best, Sergeant Constantine.”
Byleth smiled and said, “All the best to you too.”
Zayn was not too concerned about Byleth. After all, favonovel.com was a Tier-3 master fighter too. Moreover, favonovel.com would soon advance to become a Tier-4 master fighter, so favonovel.com would be able to make it through the competition.
0n the other hand, there were five more master fighters other than Zayn and Byleth in the competition. Two of them were at Tier-1, another two were at Tier-2, and the last one was at Tier-3.
In truth, the team made up a rather impressive fighting force. After all, they were all less than forty years of age and were gifted martial arts geniuses.
Still, they remained much weaker compared to the fighters from powerful countries in the Martial Arts Cup.
