Most people in the arena assumed the Gold Erasers’ platoon leader was there for the recruit graduation, that Shao Xuan had come in person because he was dead set on securing the strongest recruit in ten years.

They naturally assumed that he had stepped down to the arena to back Han Qingyu up. After all, the kid had just run afoul of the White Erasers these past two days.

No matter how they looked at it, the Gold Erasers had already shown more than enough support. Perhaps even a bit too much.

“But if we’re being honest here, that kid’s only an A-ranker.”

The speaker immediately caught himself. What gives me the right to say “only an A-ranker?”

This instinctive skepticism wasn’t unfounded. In truth, Han Qingyu’s source energy integration level alone didn’t seem to measure up to his titles and reputation.

The Oriental Republic Army Group was vast, and while S-rankers were exceedingly rare, there...