“Are all the representative players out?” the host asked when he saw the players come to the stage. His eyes were quickly skimming over them. “One, two, three... eight. They are all out.”
The numbers were right. There were eight participating teams, and eight people had come onto the stage.
“JT Telecom has come out.”
“Red Bull America is out as well.”
“Manchester is out.”
Several players took turns calling out their team names and raising their hands. Moments later, all eight team names were mentioned.
“The eight teams have been confirmed. I’ll start explaining the draw for the siege order,” the host said. Then he stopped talking for a moment to wait for a huge picture to appear on the screen. He was caring for the crowd gathered at New York Arena Stadium.
The host pointed to the screen and started talking again. “The method for deciding the draw isn’t complicated. I have prepared a simple game. You can choose the number you want in the order you win the game.”
On the screen, there were two men with a small table in between them. Both men had their right arm raised on the table, and the two hands held each other. It was a situation that everyone knew.
Arm wrestling—this was the name of the action that the two men were doing.
“The prepared game is arm wrestling. The matchups will be made fairly through a program.”
The moment the host’s words were over, one person had a noticeably worse complexion. It was Reina. Her expression wasn’t very good as she never imagined that the siege order would be decided with arm wrestling.
‘I shouldn’t have come out.’ It was natural for Reina to have this thought. As a woman, she felt she couldn’t beat the men. ‘Still, I can’t give up...’
It didn’t feel good to have to participate in a showdown with a hopeless end. As Reina had a sulky expression on her face, the arm wrestling matchups were already displayed on the screen. Hyeonu soon found his name in the matchup for the second match.
‘The opponent... Aike?’
Hyeonu’s opponent was Aike, a man with impressive curly hair. Aike had fought fiercely against Hyeonu just a little while ago, and now he was matched against Hyeonu for arm wrestling. Additionally, the huge reward of determining the siege order was at risk.
‘Reina... Shouldn’t she change the representative?’
It didn’t make sense for an ordinary woman to participate in arm wrestling with men. Yet contrary to Hyeonu’s thoughts, neither Reina nor the host took any action. Reina was just standing still and waiting for the match, while the host had no intention of doing anything.
The completed match list appeared on the screen, and the host started to read it out. “All the matches have been determined. Match 1 will be played between Player Reina of New York Warriors and Player Mascherano of Red Bull America.
“The second match is a repeat of the event match. It is Player Gang Hyeonu of Crescent Moon against Player Aike of PSG. I think the key point of this match will be whether Player Aike can get revenge or if Player Gang Hyeonu will take the win from Aike again.”
The moment the second match was announced, New York Arena Stadium became heated again. The audience was very interested in the revenge match that would take place less than an hour later.
“The third match will be between Player Ryan of Manchester and Player Kim Jinyong of JT Telecom. Finally, the last match will be between Player Chiyou of Xuanhua and Player Karelin of Russia.”
Upon hearing the host’s announcement, Hyeonu moved his eyes and looked at the people whose names were called. He thought, ‘I don’t know about Ryan and Kim Jinyong, but... I know for certain that Karelin will beat Wang Chiyou easily.’
Ryan and Kim Jinyong had similar physiques—the normal physique of an adult male. However, there was a big difference between Wang Chiyou and Karelin. With a height of around 170cm, Wang Chiyou was shorter than the average male adult. On the other hand, Karelin was over 190cm tall and looked more like a wrestler or martial artist than a professional gamer.
The commentator looked at the players on the stage and talked about the surprise mini-game of arm wrestling: “There are some lucky teams and some who aren’t so lucky. In Zenith’s case, the presence of player Karelin on the stage has become a stroke of genius. I think that the New York Warriors and Crescent Moon are a bit unlucky.”
They hadn’t known how the drawing would be conducted, so Zenith was rated as lucky for having picked Karelin to represent them. Meanwhile, the New York Warriors were relatively unfortunate since a woman was representing them. In Crescent Moon’s case, it was unfortunate that Hyeonu came out instead of Dwayne, who had muscles that weren’t lacking when compared to Karelin’s. However, the players of Crescent Moon didn’t care much.
“Even if Hyung can’t win, don’t you think he will be at least second or third?”
“He can’t win against that bear-like person, but he can win against the others.”
“He will meet Karelin in the finals. I don’t think he will fail in the middle.”
The Crescent Moon players knew that Hyeonu was much stronger than he seemed. In particular, Dwayne often went to the gym to exercise with Hyeonu, so he knew it best. He said, “There is no need to worry too much. Hyeonu is very strong. His body is one that would still be considered as a player’s even if it is a sport and not a game.”
In spite of Hyeonu’s slim physique, he could actually lift a great amount of weight. He wasn’t much different from Dwayne who had been exercising for a long time. This was one of the reasons why Hyeonu’s body changed rapidly.
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