THE RANKINGS

Within the forest, in the competition, the things turned extremely heated. Another month passed in just a blink of an eye. All the weak teams were eliminated as they were devoured by the strong team. The poor people who had the Golden Pass in their possession were now in the most precarious situation. Right from the day one, they were targeted by every other teams.

These people came here with arrogant attitude. Since they could become the champions of the preliminaries, they wouldn't perform badly in the competition right? This was the thought in most of the people's mind. Even though they were constantly warned by their elders, they let it enter through one ear and let it pass through another ear. They didn't care much about it.

But the situation here was completely different. They suddenly came down from the Cloud 9. They understood that all this time, they were just the frogs in the well. They suddenly faced the real geniuses. And all their arrogance was crushed by them in an instant.

The situation here was much horrible than what their elders described back in their cities. Even the people with the Pink pass had easily defeated them. As of now, the majority of the Golden Passes has changed owners. As for the first owners of the Golden Pass, they even perished in this cruelty. Or they obediently surrendered to their opponents in order to stay alive.

Among 50 thousand teams within the forest, only less than hundred teams left with. As for the others, either they were dead. Or they all lost the will to fight. They no longer wanted to stay in this cruelty. They already got a huge hit in their confidence. All they wanted at this moment is nothing but to go back to their homes.

As for the Lifestyle Masters, they had nothing to lose. They were participating in the competition with peace of mind. If they lost anything, all they will lose is nothing but their place. Their lives were not in any kind of danger after all.

And obviously, the one who was still the center of attraction within the Lifestyle Hall is none other than Ellen. She was still one step away from reaching the Dao in forging. As for all her other skills, she already attained higher standards. Overall, she was on completely different league compared to others in the lifestyle hall. Others didn't even caught up to her shadows.

Some people already gave up any hopes for contending against her. And they were still participating in the competition is just because of one reason. They were waiting for six months to pass. After that, they will go home and try to improve their skills.

They had seen the vast difference between themselves and Ellen. They knew that it is impossible to defeat her as she is right now. So they admitted their defeat and decided to go back and reflect on where exactly they were going wrong. As for now, all they are doing is to watch how Ellen was doing and learn something from her.

And as of now, the ranking stood like this.

1 - The Raven (Captain - Bruce)

2 - Absolute Creation (Captain - Ellen)

3 - The Raven2 (Captain - Cohan)

4 - Flying Sabre (Captain - Ellen)

5 - Tycoon (Captain - Russell)

6 - Forging Sensation (Captain - Ronchi)

7 - Green Forest (Captain - James)

8 - Perfect Creation (Captain - Smith)

9 - Tyrannical Raven (Captain - Peter)

10 - The Best (Captain - Rogue)

Arjun's Star Moon Team was nowhere to be seen. It is obvious that he was not that far behind from others. But as of now, they were still behind others.

Peter was originally ranked 5th. But with his entire team wiped out, his rank fell to 9th. And with time, his ranking might not be in the top 10 as well. He hated Logan and others for this. He wanted to kill them very badly. But with his "Big Brother" stopping him, he had to wait for his time foe revenge.

It was all thanks to these people that he lost the his teammates. He no longer had any teammate to rely and move forward in his rankings. He wanted to kill them very badly. But he knew that he had to wait for his time a bit longer. His "Big Brother" is plotting something. So he had to wait a bit longer.

As for the people who placed their hopes on Peter in the betting house, they were cursing him within their hearts. They wanted to kill him for shattering their hopes with his overbearing attitude. But since he is from the Raven Sect, they had to wait a bit longer.

Bruce needed no introduction. He was already quoted to be the champion of the competition. So the people who placed their bets on Bruce were much more. And this number was increasing at a rapid pace.

They initially thought that Arjun might give a tough time for Bruce. But from the looks of it, Arjun was actually not interested. There were many people who placed all their hopes on Arjun. There were people who placed their bets on Arjun.

But what Arjun was doing?

He was actually sitting and meditating. Many people who placed their bets on Arjun started to curse him badly. They went and asked the betting house to return their wages. But once placed their bets, it cannot be returned. It was one of the rule of the betting house. And they were clear about this even before the competition started.

The In charge of the betting house were smiling within their hearts. Arjun was meditating instead of participating in the competition. From the looks of it, the things were pretty clear. Arjun had no intention to participate. He was simply wasting his time.

The betting house wanted to take advantage of this fact. So they intentionally raised their wages. They raised his odds to 1:25! That means, if Arjun's Star Moon Team wins, then the people who placed their bets on Arjun will win 25 Soul Stones for 1 Soul Stone.

But nobody placed their bets on Star Moon Team anymore. Judging from their attitude, they had no interest in winning the championship. So they will be idiots if the betting house think that people places their bets on Arjun's Star Moon Team.

The betting house didn't care though. They raised Arjun's odds because they wanted some fun. If people places their bet on Arjun, then they will have nothing to lose. It was just a form of guarantee that they will win the Soul Stones.

They thought that no one will place their hopes on Arjun. But there was actually a person who came and placed a whole sum of 5000 Soul Stones on Star Moon Team!

When people found this, they were initially shocked. But then they looked at this idiot tycoon who spent 5000 Soul Stones on Star Moon Team with a smile on their faces!