The matches among the top thirty-two academies carried immense danger, yet for Han Wu they posed little difficulty. Word of his team confronting the Holy Blue Academy’s accusations directly and the subsequent public apology had already spread throughout the arena, lending his team an air of authority.0

Even the Holy Blue Academy, last year’s fourth-place finisher, had fallen in defeat. It only seemed natural, then, that other academies would lose to Han Wu’s team as well. Match after match, day after day, they advanced without faltering. Each win granted them a flood of Assists, and their strength grew...0