Walking the Overlord's Road

When it was time to begin, we were directed to head to the field one at a time, while the announcer described some of our achievements. It was kind of like the entrance of the starting 5 of a home basketball team. When I started jogging out, the crowd definitely seemed to have more energy than I'd yet seen.

"And finally," I heard the announces voice while still on the stairs up into the arena, "he learns techniques and absorbs spiritual information like a fish swims. First ever to conquer the Library's Tower of Enlightenment, an astounding 7th place in the Flames of Perdition, and decisively undefeated in the Heaven's Challenger Selection. And I'm telling you all, I don't think we've seen half of what he can do yet! Captain representative of the 10,000 Scrolls Library, Initiate Division: Xu Zuhui!"

That honestly sounded about right. "Heihei," I murmured, as I walked up alongside him, "you haven't invoked the founder's name yet, right?"