Ning had gone out to help the girl's mother who was sick and had only just returned after roaming around the city.
The Pros all stayed in rooms provided by the arena inside the arena, so Ning was also staying here starting now.
He had already been given the talk about pros and matches and everything he needed to know.
Being a pro ant that one had to schedule a fight that would be advertised for people to co and watch.
As a pro, one had a specific period of ti between which one could challenge soone and not get challenged by soone.
For the beast's scene, one had to fight every 2 weeks. Given that a fighter must be challenged 1 week prior to fighting, they really just had 1 whole week to choose a fighter.
Once they fought, their deadline would reset and they would once again have another week to choose a fighter.
On a good cycle, one could fight 4 tis in a single month.
Challenging soone was mutually exclusive to being challenged. One had a 2 week grace period in which they couldn't be challenged at all.
After the 2 week grace period passed, they were free to be targeted. If they were, they would gain another 2 week grace period after they fought.
The structure of such challenging and getting challenged was a little more lenient for the pros that didn't fight with beasts. Due to the number of people in that group, they had more grace periods as compared to the people on the side with beasts.
Of course, there were people who had special privileges as to the requirents, but overall, everyone had rules they needed to work by.
Ning had to find soone to fight within a week, so he was mostly chill for the mont.
He was feeling tired of the most part so he went to sleep. The next morning, he woke up and went to the cafeteria to eat a hefty al.
After that, Ning had nothing to do, so he decided to go to the arena to watch so battles and maybe bet a bit.
Just as he was about to walk out, Saphandra walked into the cafeteria. She found him and went up to him to talk.
"Hey, did you challenge anyone yet?" she asked.
"No, I have a week to do so," Ning said. "What about you?"
"I did, and you won't believe who I registered against," she said.
"Who?" Ning asked curiously.
"The strongest fighter in the arena," Saphandra said. "I decided to go straight for the top."
"Oh, what about the money?" Ning asked.
"This is how I get to earn the most, no?" Saphandra asked. "A newbie going against the best. Imagine the number of bets that would be against . So much money at once."
"That's… actually a very good idea," Ning said. "When's the fight?"
"Like… next Monday I think?" Saphandra said.
"Tomorrow?" Ning asked with a surprised look.
"No, next one," Saphandra said. "We need to have a week in between of course."
"Right," Ning said. "I should probably get my opponent registered too next."
"Let's go right now," Saphandra said.
"Sure."
After Saphandra finished eating her al, the two of them went to the registration area.
Ning started speaking to the staff about his registration and the staff gave a list of available opponents for him, as well as so basic information on them about their number of matches, their win-to-loss ratio, and their hair color.
Since they would be fighting with beasts, the last part didn't make much sense to learn for Ning, so he only focused on the first 2 parts.
"Hmm… this looks good. He's won 6 out of 10 matches, so he should be the favored one in the match. Considering he's fought nearly 22 tis, the crowd will also recognize him," Ning said to himself.
"Please register my fight against him," Ning told the staff.
The staff quickly prepared so papers and had Ning stamp his fingerprints on them.
After taking the print, the staff quickly called another staff and asked him to deliver the challenge notice to the person Ning had just challenged.
The staff walked out to put a na on the list of challenged and added Ning vs Hartmann as a match for next Thursday.
"More than a week away huh," Ning said as he saw the day.
"Hey Ning," Saphandra called out.
"What is it?" Ning asked.
"Are these two nas the sa?" she pointed to two nas.
"Barry and Barry. Yeah, those two nas are the sa," Ning said. "Not sure about the person though."
"They are the sa person too," The staff told them. "Mr. Barry is fighting this Saturday. It's quite a big event for the arena. To think he would fight twice in such a small ti."
"He's the big man, huh? I guess we can see what he can do soon then," Ning said.
"Yeah," Saphandra said. "I guess we will."
Once they registered, Ning and Saphandra went to the beach. While Ning went into the water for a little swim, Saphandra stayed at the beach to sharpen her language even more.
By now, she could easily understand the most basic sentences and could make specific requests and questions.
Still, there was a lot for her to learn. After that, they went to the arena to watch the matches.
The days passed just like that. Between studying the language and watching the matches in the Arena, Saturday ca by.
Both Ning and Saphandra were equally surprised to see the number of people gathering to watch the main event of the day.
Barry was fighting against the 5th most winning person in the arena. Due to the closeness in the rank, the importance of the event just increased by that much.
Ning and Saphandra got seats of their own for being pros and so they sat down and waited for the match to begin.
Only after watching this match would Saphandra truly understand why this man was the strongest in the Arena.
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