(MZ) “Let’s go, the registering of the tournament is about to begin and if we are to miss that, we would not be able to participate.” Madam Zheng told the group.

(BM) “Yes, let’s go.” Baron followed her lead.

(MZ) “Being in the top 20 elders rank has quite a bit of privilege that most people don’t even know about. For example, I can skip the line and directly go in with any number of aides by my side.”

(MT) “Are you serious? Me and my brother has been to this tournament multiple times and whenever we registered we would have to wait in line for nearly a day.” Meng Tian said with a tone of surprise in his voice.

(H2) “That is unfortunate indeed, it is quite a waste of a lot of people’s time. I’m not sure why they insist on doing it this way when there are more effective ways to get through this long and arduous task.” The second husband of Madam Zheng said.

(BM) “Perhaps they have a reason for doing it like this that we just weren’t aware of. No matter, let’s just go in and prepare for the aerial battles.” Baron egged them on.

(GY) “Look, Sun Tzu is a person that strives for excellence and efficiency. It is unthinkable that he would leave something as big as this tournament to the hands of elders instead of his close aids and inner circle.” Guan Yu said.

(MZ) “I can answer that. Regarding the rumors that Sun Tzu left with all his close aides and inner circle members are in fact true. This type of expedition is absolutely unheard of in the history of the Chinese community. I believe that he brought all of them out is to participate in one of the most difficult simulation tournaments aside from the big deathmatch one.”

(H2) “Supposedly this tournament is so secretive, only Sun Tzu and his closest allies know the name of this tournament. We have not heard a peep of information of this tournament aside from it still taking place.”

The ten of them continued to walk down to the registering place and in a flash got through while many onlookers looked at them with jealousy. Though they were great strategists in their own right, they had not been able to befriend an elder of such high ranking. Many of them had no motivation to become one themselves since they would be responsible for so much more than what they currently had on their plates.

Baron and Madam Zheng’s group just ignored them and proceeded to make their way to their respective places. Every single one of Baron’s men was participating in the aerial portion of the tournament while none of Madam Zheng’s were. Therefore the five of them would just sit back and witness their ally’s performance and see how they managed to do against many revered masters of air warfare. Baron, Guan Yu, Yue Fei, and the Meng duo started to study the tournament rules and maps. These would be different from tournament to tournament, but there was a message to all this time around.

It read that since 1,000 elders of the Sun Alliance would be participating in this tournament, the prizes would be jacked up enormously. The 5 of them were one of the first to enter the enormous waiting area and just continued to study the map that they would do battle against. Gradually, the once spacey room was filled with more and more strategists eager to prove their superiority and the noise steadily increased with each passing moment. After what seemed like hours, all of the people had been entered into the tournament and a short speech was to be delivered to the strategists that would be in the first part of the tournament. An intercom system was placed into the room and a voice rang clearly through it.

(LG) “Hello everybody. I am Li Guang, one of the elders of the Sun alliance and also one of the top 20 elders within the Chinese community. Allow me to personally apologize to everyone regarding the matters of the 1,000 of my faction’s elders taking part in this tournament with you all and this is by no means a ploy devised by us to keep our treasures from you guys.” Li Guang started off.

“What do you mean 1,000 elders from your faction is going to be in this tournament?” Some people shouted as they had just come in and weren’t able to read about this piece of news before Li Guang began to speak. They were obviously unhappy that such a number of great strategists would be going to participate in the already difficult tournament.

(LG) “Allow me to be a bit clearer in my message. Of the 1,000 strategists, less than 100 of them will be going into the aerial battlefield. However, we have readjusted the prizes from previous tournaments to reflect the difficulty of obtaining a certain rank. These 1,000 elders will all be participating in the land portion of the tournament though so that part of our contest will be the most drastically changed. The rewards will also be properly adjusted.

“That’s more like it.”

“This is unfair.”

“Why are you doing this in the first place? Your people hardly ever bother with this tournament.” People kept shouting question after question nonstop.”

(LG) “The reason that so many of our elders have joined this tournament this time around is due to our elders believing that the 4 co-leaders that have been dominating the land part of the tournament the past couple of times need to be taught a lesson. Though I am not sure how that will turn out this is the last of my messages for you. Good luck to you all.” Li Guang said and the system went silent.

Many people began talking and pretty soon the room was deafening to be in. Meng Tian pulled the other 4 together just before they were all entered into the tournament and gave them some advice for how all of them would be able to meet up in the simulation.