972 Arena 2 (2/2)

Two middle-aged men in white uniforms stood at the sides coldly staring at the surroundings. They had a sign hanging on their chest, clearly displaying the words ”Ice Rainbow Sect”.

Garen had been in line for quite some time and it was finally his turn.

Walking to the front, he tapped his energy machinists key in front of the judge in charge of the registration.

Beep.

The key started to light up, the display screen in the hands of the judge also started to display the related information.

'Garen, 21 years old, Level 3 Energy Machinist, Training Method NIS Universal Simplified Version, Place of Birth: Frontier.'

”Level 3… Not bad,” the judge nodded, signaling Garen to wait at the side.

Garen breathed out a sigh of relief as he walked towards the group of other participants who passed. The Ice Rainbow Sect was one of the strongest major sects below the Big Three Sects, it was a Southern Sect. The arena over here was used only for preliminary testings. There would still be a secondary testing once they head over the headquarters of the sect where it was intermediate in difficulty.

Garen chose this sect because his current body did not have a good enough Willpower quality. It was at best considered average, if he attempted to head over to even better sects, he would no doubt be rejected instantly, wasting his opportunity.

This opportunity was something that everyone had only once a year. If he gets rejected this time, he would have to wait an entire year for his next opportunity. He did not have so much time and money to afford such a luxury.

It seems like the first batch of selection tests had already been done earlier, he was part of the second batch.

After thirty minutes, the number of registered participants had reached the quota. The people who still wish to register would have to wait till after this batch of selection tests are finished. However, no one was in a rush, the Star Core Plaza was open almost every day of the year, the big arenas are opened based on the schedules, whilst the small arenas are always open. As long as you had the potential, it didn't matter which day you come to take the test.

Garen stood in the middle of the group, he was surrounded by energy machinists' Willpower force. His Level 3 Willpower did not stand out at all in this group. Almost everyone here was Level 3, with the exception of two Level 2s who were extremely young, being at most twelve years old, and a Level 4 young man who was resting his eyes with his arms crossed.

The judge in charge of registration earlier headed up on stage and took out a sign to put on stage. It displayed the rules of the selection tests. It seemed like he was too lazy to even speak, he just pointed at the sign and went off the stage back to his seat.

The sign said:

Second Selection Test -- Elimination Competition. Top three based on actual battles, where ranking are decided based on the number of wins. Those who win 10 consecutive matches may stay. The remaining people will leave the arena.

Third Selection Test. Test for the appraisal limit. Those with high scores may stay, those with low scores will leave.

Final Selection Test. Participate in the combined selection test, those who ranked within the top one hundred will stay.

The rules were simple.

Immediately, two people had already taken the stage. It was a fat boy and a small girl. They familiarly released their respective energy machines, one was a big human-sized spider and the other was a flying swordfish. They were both elite templates. The two jumped straight into an intense battle. The spider's limbs were as sharp as a knife's edge, it could also spit out webs to trap the opponent; whilst the swordfish could instantly use an explosive acceleration to pierce through its opponent and had terrifying firepower. The swordfish was repeatedly weaving through the spider webs set up by the spider.

The judge was below with a computer positioned vertically, with the built-in camera pointing towards the stage, seemingly recording the battle.

Garen was stood at the side, observing the battle while paying attention to the two middle-aged men in white uniforms. The two were clearly men from Ice Rainbow. They did not talk to the judge at all, making the atmosphere very tense.

”What the hell?” The energy machinists on his side started whining.

Garen noticed that a batch of participants consists of 30 people, but they would only take in the top three and the people who managed to win ten battles consecutively. This made the competition very intense. Of course, taking the top three was much easier than to win ten battles consecutively.

Given that the Level 4 energy machinist was definitely going to take a spot, no one bothered even trying to take his spot form him.

As for the remaining two spots…

Garen looked through his belongings. He could not bring the biochemical pond over, it was left in the energy machinists' secret region. Except for his energy machinist key, he did not bring anything at all.

He started to consider how he would rank within this group of people.

He had no way of using energy machine evolved creatures, he did not have an experimental platform, nor did he have a micro-type evolved creature. He was in the same predicament as a lot of the other energy machinists here. There was a specialized public-use biochemical pond somewhere nearby and everyone was allowed to use it once for free. However, he was out of time, the Ice Rainbow Sect mainly targets support-type energy machines, focussing primarily on self-strengthening. Unless absolutely necessary, it would be better to just display his own self-strengthening skills.

Whilst the people on stage were still fighting, Garen saw a few energy machinists coming out from the public-use biochemical pond. There were flower-like items floating around their bodies. Energy Machinists then had countless tricks up their sleeves and he had no idea what those flowers were.

”Black Jade Dragon Beast!!!”

Suddenly, a loud insuppressible roar sounded from afar, almost as if it was the roar of a rhinoceros stampeding towards the arena. This caused everyone to look over at the direction where the sound was coming from.

”Black Jade Dragon?!” The judge's face lost color for a brief moment as he stood up and looked over at that direction, his face showing signs of jealousy.