Chapter 382: The Strength of the Top 100 Rankings (1/2)
Lu Yin maintained a low profile and sat to the side, and beside him was the cold-looking male from the Tempest Flowzone with a scorpion tattoo on his face. He seemed rather strange.
This person paid no heed to Lu Yin, but he had not been included in the crowd’s combined pressure when Lu Yin had arrived on the scene.
“Seventh Bro, this bunch of scoundrels are shameless! You’ll need to be more careful about people scheming against you.” The Ghost Monkey was unhappy with what had just happened.
Lu Yin naturally knew all this. It was normal that he was not viewed favorably by Duke Blackhawk since he was from the Ross Empire. Fortunately, the Beast Tamers Flowzone’s Fayde had not acted against him. Otherwise, he may not have been able to resist the combined pressure.
The stone platform where Lu Yin was seated was where the witnesses were watching from. There were also seventeen other platforms floating around the plaza where the seventeen families were located.
The Seventeen families sounded like there were too many, and Lu Yin gave them nothing more than a glance. The only ones that were actually noteworthy were the three great families.
And Lu Yin paid the most attention to the Barthe Jacques family, but that was just because they were the richest.
His gaze swept across the crowd and towards the Barthe Jacques family’s floating platform. His eyes met a scene of such wealth and opulence that his mind went momentarily blank.
The floating platforms of the other families had concise layouts, with the sole exception of the Barthe Jacques family. Their platform appeared to be similarly furnished as Northgate Mansion. No, their platform was even more luxurious than Northgate Mansion! It wasn’t the platform’s decorations that stood out, but more so the various delicacies and wines. Lu Yin obviously could not recognize anything, but there were actually fluctuations of star energy coming off of the food, which was evidence that it was astral beast meat.
Lu Yin swallowed a gulp of saliva. This setting was just too luxurious and over exaggerated. Their family was clearly demonstrating to everyone else that they suffered from no lack of money.
On the Barthe Jacques family’s floating platform, the family head, Henry, suddenly turned to exchange glances with Lu Yin. His lips rose in a faint smile as he raised his wine glass to offer a toast from a distance. Lu Yin nodded in reply and maintained a slight smile, but internally, he was screaming. Those people were too rich, and everything that they ate was precious resources. If Lu Yin was given all of the Barthe Jacques family’s wealth, then he would dare to point at anyone in the Top 100 Rankings and challenge them.
“I know. He’s an enthusiastic fellow who has great potential for investment,” Henry replied with a smile.
Harold’s eyes flashed. “Does Father intend to rope him in?”
Henry laughed. “Rope him in? Your thinking is too simple. This brat is not someone that we plutocrats can hope to rope in. Even the Sword Sect failed to entice him. We just have to maintain a good relationship.”
“I’ve heard he’s offended the Daynight clan,” Banico spoke up. He was another one of the family’s heirs, as well as one of Harold’s competitors.
“It’s just a conflict between juniors,” Harold replied.
Banico contemptuously said, “Given the temperament of the Daynight clan, Lu Yin will run out of luck one day.”
“Not necessarily. It was also someone from the Daynight clan who proved Lu Yin’s innocence, which just goes to show that there are also people within that clan who support him,” Harold rebutted.
“But he offended Nightqueen Yanqing, Arbiter Zhenwu’s own sister. She’s a powerful person with great influence within the Nightking Clan.”
“It’s not Nightqueen Yanqing’s turn to make decisions for the Nightking Clan yet.”
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Henry frowned. “Alright, it’s not time for either of you to argue about such things either. We are just a family focused on business, so we have no need to meddle in such matters.”
“Yes, Father.”
“Yes, Father.”
Lu Yin did not know that his single glance of awe had incited two heirs of the Barthe Jacques family to argue about him. He was no longer a nobody, and the influence from his status was actually very impressive, especially within a specific context.
The time left until the start of the Northgate Platform Competition slowly dwindled away.
Suddenly, the sky became boiling hot, and everyone looked up to see a blue-green flame burning the void apart. A bone-deep chill struck everyone and caused their hair to stand on end. The chill was not from the cold, but was rather an innate response to the appearance of something life-threatening.
Suddenly, the scarlet radiance flashed once again and dispersed the bone-piercing chill. “Mister Poison Flame, please sit atop the high platform.”
The last witness to appear was the Blaze Realm’s Poison Flame. There were rumors that his fire was abnormal.
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed when he saw Poison Flame. This Poison Flame was the person who posed the greatest threat to Lu Yin out of everyone gathered here. Duke Blackhawk or Fayde would never act against a junior like him, but Poison Flame might not show such restraint since people from the Blaze Realm seemed to be more rash. And that wasn’t even mentioning the fact that Lu Yin had a grudge against his faction as well.
The Astral Combat Academy acted as a miniature model of the universe, and the conflicts within the academy were often extensions of real conflicts between great powers. Lu Yin had suppressed the Blaze Realm within the Astral Combat Academy to a point where they could no longer raise their heads, so to them, he was their enemy.
Poison Flame landed on the high platform and looked straight at Lu Yin. In that moment, Lu Yin’s heart raced, and his entire body tensed up.