Chapter 81 - Star Mercenary Selection Starts (1/2)

The night before the competition, Bary Casfiu came to talk with Krune's group, some people saw that but no one paid much attention, he the left a few minutes after, only the Yule Continent Contestant were a little puzzled, but they couldn't simply go ask what it was about, not to mention that Krune's group probably wouldn't tell them anyway.

The next day came fast, soon the contestants were already close to the arenas prepared just for it, each continent formed a group of their own and waited by the sides, all the Guild Heads came forward with their elders and took their position, it was then that a man came forward to announce the rules, surprisingly, it was Bary Casfiu, the Yule Continent Guild Head.

”There is a total of 229 contestants for the five available slots, we will separate you into eight groups of thirty two, obviously, there isn't enough people for each group to have thirty two participants, so a few of you will receive a free pass to the next round, luck is also part of one's strength, so we will draw lots to decide which Mercenaries who won't be battling in the first round, to make sure that the contestants with the highest chance of getting the five slots won't battle each other before the finals, we have decided on eight seeded Mercenaries, each one of them will be put in a different bracket.”

He looked at everyone and then continue.

”To make sure that things like cultivators or demon beasts of the same continent going easy or losing on purpose won't happen, we separated the five continents contestants as bests as possible so that they will hardly fight people of their own continents, of course, sooner or later they will end fighting each other, but at least you won't need to be afraid of that happening in the first stages of the competition.”

So far it was pretty much as everyone thought.

”Additionally, after the victors of the eight brackets come out, they will battle every single winner of the other brackets, the five with the highest number of victories will be the representatives of the Mercenary Guild Alliance this time.”

He then looked at some of the Mercenaries and said.

”The eight seeded mercenaries are:”

”Lina Jue, Makui Continent, First Arena.”

”Rog Werer, Sky Fall Continent, Second Arena.”

”Tasier, Borle Continent, Third Arena.”

”Lofa Harcken, Ice Continent, Forth Arena.”

”Arlan Rosier, Makui Continent, Fifth Arena.”

”Shad Forgon, Sky Fall Continent, Sixth Arena.”

”Jack Biurer, Ice Continent, Seventh Arena.”

Bary then paused for a while and looked at a woman's direction.

”Yusa Shen, Yule Continent, Eighth Arena.”

”Those are all the seeded players who are going to be put one in each of the eight groups, that's all for the seeded players, now I will draw the names of those who are not fighting in the first round.”

Everyone found it strange that Yusa, an 8th Stage Foundation Establishment got the Yule Continent Seed Slot, there is quite a few people in the Yule Continent side with cultivations at the peak of the 9th stage, but those who were the most confused were obviously the Yule Continent Contestants themselves, they know that Krune is probably the strongest between them, even if not him, it should have been Ao Sulian at least, after all, they saw his strength first hand back in the Headquarters, so the decision of putting Yusa Shen as a seeded player puzzled them greatly.

Going back to the last night, Bary Casfiu had visited Krune's group to talk about this issue exactly, in the end, Krune and the others decided for Yusa to take the Seeded slot, Bary was taken aback with that decision, but then Ao explained.

”Between the three of us, Yusa has the lowest attack power, her skills are more focused in support, of course, she is very strong too, but for the three of us to get a better change to enter the Martial Gathering together, it will be better to have her as seeded player, I'm a lot more focused in attack, while Krune could be said to be all rounded.”

Yusa heard the last part and couldn't help but laugh.

”Can Krune even be considered a normal all rounded? He is overpowered in both attack, defense and movement, I'm only a little better than him in support and that's because I mostly focus on it.”

Shinja and Ao heard that and laughed as well, after so many spars between them they had to admit that it was true, Shinja only had the advantage at moment basically because of her much higher cultivation, and even so it wasn't easy to beat Krune.

Krune heard that and got a little embarrassed, he thought that maybe he should take it easier on Yusa and Ao next time they spar.

Bary Casfiu was taken aback, it was obviously that their confidence on Krune was as high as it could be, but since they decided that it would be better to have him take a normal role, then he will follow their requests, besides, if Krune can't even beat the seeded players of the Mercenary Selection, then let's not even mention the Martial Gathering contestants.