Chapter 83

Seeing Huo Kun, Huo Kun asked straight to the point: "Do you know about the preliminary competition?"

"I know!"

"Are you signing up?"

"Didn't I promise?"

Huo Kun smiled and said: "That's good. I will help you sign up. I'll instruct someone to help you prepare the materials and such; you don't need to worry about it!"

Hearing Huo Kun's words, Su Yang was even more satisfied.

He had looked at the registration requirements; not only did he need to pay a registration fee, but he also needed to fill out a bunch of forms and needed several documents as proof...

This stuff looked very troublesome; without connections, he might have to run around for days.

As a result, one word from Battalion Commander Huo had someone else handle it for him!

"Battalion Commander, how many days will the preliminary competition take?"

"If it's fast, maybe ten days!"

Ten days—Su Yang could have brought the Earth Violent Bear to Silver-tier Top-grade!

When Su Yang encountered battles, the system would occasionally release missions.

But for all missions, the enemy's level must be roughly equivalent to his.

If he went to participate in that preliminary competition, he would likely not trigger any missions.

"The time wasted is a bit long!"

Huo Kun lowered his head and pondered slightly: "I know your strength very well. I will help you ask for the City Lord's opinion!"

"Thank you, Battalion Commander!"

"What's there to thank? You are one of my men. If you can achieve good results, I'll have glory too!"

"Don't worry, I won't let the Battalion Commander's expectations down!"

"I understand, go!"

Su Yang left Huo Kun's tent happily and returned to the First Squad, where he heard many people talking about the preliminary competition.

Several young Beastmasters under the age of twenty had already said they planned to sign up!

“We never thought about taking the top three; we’re just going to gain some experience!”

“Exactly, we just want to spar with others!”

“There are so many young experts in Seven Star City; being able to reach the semi-finals is already quite good!”

“……”

Seeing Su Yang approach, they quickly greeted him:

“Brother Su, are you participating?”

Without realizing it, Su Yang had already been promoted to the “Brother” generation.

Even Wu Wu Yuqing, who was quite a bit older than him, had started calling him Brother Su…

This made Su Yang feel a bit depressed.

Was he that old?

He was clearly still very young, alright!

“I am participating!”

“Then when are you going to prepare your materials?”

“Wait a bit, I’m not in a rush anyway!”

At this moment, Su Yang would absolutely not mention that someone had already signed him up.

Returning to his simple room, Su Yang soon fell asleep.

Three days later, Huo Kun sought out Su Yang again.

Huo Kun still had that direct and efficient military style of speaking: “The City Lord said that if you are busy, he will reserve a spot in the semi-finals directly for you. You will only need to spend one day then to participate in the semi-finals and finals… After all, you are representing our Seven Star City in the competition. If you don’t even show your face, there will be people in Seven Star City who are dissatisfied, and ordinary people will think we are pulling strings!”

“Is that okay?”

Su Yang felt that the backdoor he was using was a bit too arrogant!

“If you aren’t willing, you can still fight from the very beginning to the end!”

“I am willing, of course I am willing!”

No matter what, he, Su Yang, was using his own ability to walk through that backdoor.

As long as his strength was solid, he didn’t fear what others said behind his back.

At worst, he would just stand on the arena and fight a few good matches when the time came!

For the time that followed, Su Yang focused his main energy on improving the strength of his Earth-Shattering Bear.

The Earth-Shattering Bear focused on defense and strength and hadn’t yet comprehended any particularly powerful skills. When killing fierce beasts, he had to do it himself, and the efficiency was much slower compared to the Storm Eagle and the Hell Blood Vine.

About ten days later, he successfully brought the Earth-Shattering Bear to the Silver High-Grade.

After Su Yang returned to the camp, he discovered that all the beastmasters in the camp were looking at him with strange expressions.

Su Yang asked in confusion: “Why are you looking at me? Is my face dirty?”

Wu Wu Yuqing asked tentatively: “Su Yang, did you forget something?”

“What thing?”

“Haven’t you noticed that we are missing some people here?”

Su Yang took a look; the people chatting around the campfire were indeed fewer than usual.

“So what?”

“Su Yang, today is the preliminary round! You couldn’t have forgotten about this, right?” Wu Wu Yuqing said, looking a bit frantic. “This concerns whether you can represent our Seven Star City in the Southwest China Federation Youth Genius Competition… How could you forget such an important matter?”

Su Yang suddenly realized: “So it’s today!”

“Exactly! Everyone else asked for leave to compete. When I saw you leave this morning, I thought you were going to compete!”

Su Yang waved his hand and said: “It’s fine, don’t worry!”

“You don’t want to go?”

“Of course I want to go!”

“Then how could you forget such an important day?”

Other beastmasters from the First Squad also said:

“Yeah, how could you forget this day?”

“Su Yang, why don’t you go talk to the Captain?”

“……”

Seeing so many seniors concerned about him, Su Yang felt a bit embarrassed.

He walked to the campfire and said in a low voice: “Don’t worry, Captain Huo told me to participate in the semi-finals on the last day of the competition, so it doesn’t matter if I don’t go today!”

“Damn!”

“Holy crap!”

“Directly participate in the semi-finals?”

“That’s unheard of!”

“I was wondering why you, kid, forgot such an important day!”

“You made us worry for nothing, why didn’t you say so earlier?”

Su Yang said with some embarrassment: “How could I be embarrassed to go around saying that?”

“But then again, directly participating in the semi-finals, I guess there’s no one else like that!”

“People who don’t know would think there’s an inside job!”

“Su Yang, do you have connections with the higher-ups?”

“……”

One beastmaster after another started asking other things. Su Yang couldn’t take it and ran straight to the cafeteria to eat.

After staying in the military camp for another seven days, Su Yang asked He He Yuhua for a three-day leave. He He Yuhua knew he was going to participate in the preliminary rounds and even encouraged him a few times.

Returning home, Su Yang saw his mother and sister.

His sister opened her mouth and asked: “Brother, did you participate in that Seven Star City Young Genius Selection Competition? The one where if you get into the top three, you can represent our Seven Star City in the Southwest China Federation City Youth Genius Competition?”

Su Yang nodded: “I participated!”

Su Xiao asked in a low voice: “But why didn’t I see you, Brother?”