Over a thousand arenas.
Figures of participants appeared one after another.
Ben swept his gaze around and spotted a familiar figure.
It was that classmate Conrad!
Unexpectedly, this kid was on stage in the first wave.
Conrad's opponent was a monster with a human head and a snake body, over ten meters long, with a pair of vertical pupils—very frightening.
Seeing Conrad, the monster flicked its tongue but didn't rush to attack.
Suddenly, the monster opened its mouth, spraying a large amount of venom from its two fangs, showering it toward Conrad.
The venom was red, and when it came into contact with the air, it made a "hissing" sound.
This showed the potency of the venom.
Conrad naturally didn't dare let the venom reach him.
"Great Inferno!!"
He roared, throwing a punch!
His fist quickly turned into magma, forming a huge fist shape that blasted toward the snake-like monster.
All the venom along the way was instantly evaporated by the high temperature.
"Boom!"
The punch was swift, and the snake-like monster couldn't dodge in time. It was hit on the spot!
The magma fist exploded violently, its power astonishing!
A large part of the arena was blown up.
As for the snake-like monster, its entire upper body was completely blown to smithereens, leaving only a scorched tail in place as proof of its existence…
Seeing the miserable state of his opponent, Conrad snorted coldly and left the arena with a flourish.
After he left, the arena was immediately restored to its original state by the spiritual realm.
"This Conrad… I didn't expect him to be so strong?"
"Although this kid is very arrogant, it has to be admitted that his strength is amazing!"
"One A-level mission evaluation, one S-level mission evaluation… How could he be so strong?"
"I heard it's because the Magma Fruit is powerful. This fruit is a high-level fruit even among the Logia types. This guy's attributes increase by seventy or eighty points every month of training!"
"No wonder…"
Hales and the others whispered.
Even Clara was a little surprised when she saw Conrad's performance just now.
Only Ben's expression remained calm.
This kid Conrad's move just now, "Great Inferno," was a hundred thousand miles away from the real Red Dog's Great Inferno.
Of course, considering that Conrad was just starting out, his current strength was indeed impressive.
Among the participants who came on stage in the second wave, Ben saw the "seed of the strong" from the Federal State.
That was the one who used the Green Lantern ring.
This guy's fighting style was simply taking flashiness to the extreme.
Green light scurried around the arena.
Sometimes it turned into an AK-47, sometimes into a large pair of scissors, sometimes an axe, a fist, or even a fly swatter…
To be honest, Ben suspected that his opponent couldn't stand the flashiness and took the initiative to leave the arena to admit defeat.
In addition, Ben also discovered that this "Green Lantern" wasn't very strong at present and could only change some simple objects.
The only thing that was a bit troublesome was that the opponent could fly.
A moment later.
A prompt popped up in Ben's left eye.
"It's my turn!"
He said and left his seat, appearing in the arena.
His opponent appeared at the same time.
It was a little giant over three meters tall, with extremely developed muscles, standing there like a small hill.
The giant's arm was thicker than Ben's waist.
Seeing Ben, the giant grinned and strode toward him.
Ben, however, was too lazy to waste time with such a minor opponent. He threw a punch directly.
Fist Wind Impact!
"Puff!!"
The giant's head, along with half of his shoulder, disappeared completely.
Due to inertia, his body still took a few steps in the arena before crashing down…
Ben easily won again!
In the audience, many people who noticed this scene showed surprised expressions.
"What's going on with this kid? What kind of ability was that move?"
"I don't know, I've never seen it before, but it's incredibly powerful!"
"Fist wind? Doesn't look like it!"
"Isn't he the pretty boy who's always with Clara?"
"Him? Impossible! Does he really have that kind of strength?"
"His family must have given him some powerful transcendent skill!"
Ben's performance surprised many people.
He, however, was used to it.
By now, his strength attribute had exceeded a thousand, and with the three-times blessing of Super Strength, it was equivalent to three thousand strength points.
When he only had three hundred strength points before, his Fist Wind could already crack a big tree.
Now, with three thousand strength points, his Fist Wind Impact was on a whole different level!
"Brother Ben, mighty!"
When Ben returned to his seat, Joe Root immediately started flattering him.
Then, he eagerly asked, "Brother Ben, that move of yours just now was so fierce… Is it a talent ability of the Kryptonian bloodline?"
Ben smiled, shook his head, and said, "No, it's a transcendent skill given by the family, called 'Fist Wind Impact!'"
Anyway, since everyone would lose their memory after leaving the spiritual realm, it didn't matter if he mentioned it.
"Fist Wind Impact?"
Rickleton suddenly exclaimed in surprise. "I know this skill! My dad learned it too, but he's already at the fourth level, and his Fist Wind Impact isn't as powerful as yours, Brother Ben!"
That's because your dad wasn't as good as me, to begin with!
Of course, Ben didn't say that.
He just smiled and continued observing the arena, looking for strong opponents.
The quality of the second round was noticeably higher than the first.
The weak had mostly been eliminated in the first round.
Now, many strong seed players had to show real skills if they wanted to win.
After observing for a while, Ben identified a few formidable opponents.
One was a humanoid lizard monster with incredible speed and strength.
The students facing him couldn't even react before getting eliminated.
Another was a giant over ten meters tall, so massive that his opponents had no way to hurt him.
But among all these monsters, the most troublesome one was a guy with an ordinary appearance.
He looked completely human, with the same facial features and limbs.
The only difference was a vertical pupil between his eyebrows!
Currently, this vertical pupil had not been opened.
Even without it, he had already defeated multiple human transcendents with one move!
Ben had already noticed him in the first round.
His intuition told him that this guy was not simple.
The second round of eliminations lasted five hours before concluding.
By the end, the number of participants had been cut in half again!
Currently, the top-ranked team in the human division was still Conrad's team.
He had earned 8 points in the second round, indicating that only two of his teammates had been eliminated.
With a total of 18 points, he firmly occupied first place.
In second place was the Thunder Fruit ability user from the Great Bear Country, with a total of 17 points.
His Logia Devil Fruit had immense power!
Meanwhile, teams ranked third to fourteenth all had 16 points, making the competition incredibly close.
As for Clara's team, who were once considered champion contenders…
Their total score was just 8.
Their ranking?
Outside the top 10,000!
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