Martial Arts Worlds

"Hey…"

The little girl approached the table, and the ball with the brain freeze slowly subdued but left her slightly lightheaded.

"Place your hand on the ball…"

The black-suited man said with a tired look.

He thought this must be a prank of some of his coworkers and felt even more pissed to waste his time with some little girls.

"Yup!"

She put her hand on the ball and smiled cheekily.

With a disinterested look, the black-suited man looked at the ball, but slowly his expression changed.

He rubbed his eyes, but he still saw the same thing, and then he said.

"Please remove your hand and put it down again. I think we will need to do it again."

"Okay~"

She lifted her hand, then placed it back down, and waited.

The black-suited man looked intensely at the ball, and then, the exact same thing showed, which made his eyes tremble.

He didn't believe for one minute that the power crystal was malfunctioning, as it never had done that before, but he couldn't believe what he was seeing!

"L-Low Stage Martial Grandmaster?"

"How did you know my martial rank? Are you a seer?"

She asked with a giggle.

"…How old are you?"

The black-suited man was a High Stage Martial Grandmaster, and yet this little girl was almost the same rank as he.

"Fifteen!"

She said, and his eyes widened in shock.

"F-Fifteen?"

"Yup!"

"What's your name?"

He asked, as he had to know, because he was going to have to report this to his superiors, as they had probably never heard of a human with this level of talent.

It was unheard of!

However, he believed that as long as she signed the papers, she also wrote her real name there, but he wanted to hear it coming from her mouth.

"Antigone Collingwood."

Antigone said with a smile.

"A-Antigone… Okay… You meet the requirements, and you made it to the first selection rounds…"

He said, still looking like he was in shock.

"Yay!"

Antigone clapped her hands, thanked the black-suited man, and then took a lollipop from the bowl and headed into the street.

With her other hand, she pulled out her phone and opened the Martial Order app.

[Ballerina of Moon: I made it to the first selection rounds!]

[Hero Among Rulers: Good job]

[Old King: Good. Try your best at becoming representative. Martial Order cannot allow Animal Kingdom to win this tournament]

[Old King: Kiernan will be there shortly as well, and you two can link up. He is still busy digesting the potions we gave him, but once he is done with that, he'll be a force to be reckoned with]

[Cat: Beast Prince Arazimir is Martial King, so it will be difficult to win against him in combat, but with both of you working together, there is a chance for victory!]

Antigone licked the lollipop, pocketed the phone, and then skipped away with her twintails waving in the wind.

…

In the grand meeting room of the Human Government, twelve individuals sat around the big round table.

"Antigone Collingwood… Fifteen years old, and already Martial Grandmaster. Is it possible to delay the tournament three more years?

"When she is eighteen years old, I am certain that she will have reached Martial King."

A black-haired old man said.

"That's never going to happen. If we delay, Animal Kingdom and Beast King will think it's because we don't want to fight against Beast Prince, and if we delay, he cannot participate."

Another man said.

"Beast King Vladimir will never approve delays. If we even suggest that, I am sure that he thinks it's because we're waiting for someone of great talent to grow stronger, someone like Antigone!"

"We sure are unlucky. A talent like that comes once in a blue moon. The question is whether we should keep her talent hidden or use it in the tournament."

"It all depends on whether she is strong enough to be part of one of the seven. If not, then of course we shouldn't choose her, but if she is, then we should!"

"We cannot go with second-best fighters. We must pick our seven best, or we will definitely lose!"

In the high-end throne, listening to the conversations, Victor Daumont Le Juste, the Grand President of the World Martial Arts Federation, listened to them silently.

With his status, he was given seat in the Human Government, and was part of the peace talks with Beast King Vladimir.

They also needed to show strength during the peace talks, and that's why Victor was part of it, as he was a True Immortal.

"We will choose our seven best. No question about it."

Victor said, made the final decision, and the other members of the Human Government just nodded their heads.

…

Storm clouds hovered over the castle of Black Rock. It was surrounded with rocks of black hue, and raging waters crashed against the rocks below.

Black Rock was a small island in the World Sea. Most people didn't even know it existed. It was a small island with just a castle standing on top of a bunch of rocks.

However, this place was going to be the center of the world in the near future.

At the current moment, in the castle's grand hall, Beast King Vladimir looked silently at the high-end throne.

"…My King, the castle is empty."

One of the Beast Lords came and informed him.

"…I expected as much. This place hasn't been used for a long time. Prepare this place for the tournament."

Beast King Vladimir said coldly, walked to the throne, and picked it up with one hand, and he then approached the ornate window.

With a casual throw, he tossed the throne out of the window, and it fell towards the black rocks below, where it shattered.

The rain fell sideways, so it rained through the broken window and drenched the tiles under the window.

"My world… I am the only King."

Beast King Vladimir spread his arms wide as he stood before the broken window, letting the rain hit him, and he closed his eyes to take in a deep breath.

"ROAR!"

With a thunderous roar, the storm clouds dispersed, and the rain stopped while the sea calmed down as if scared by the roar.

"Hahahaha!"

Beast King Vladimir laughed.