All Her Secrets

Chapter 716 The Draw Result

After staying at the hotel for three days, the Bide Cup officially began. Styre University sent out two teams, led by Marshall for the EIE Team and Fergus for the Biology Team. Having two teams at once already made Styre University a strong contender among the nations.

The competition started, and the opponents for the first round were decided through a draw. Fergus’s team was the first to go up for the draw, and they ended up drawing the Isaranian Team.

The Isaranian Team wasn’t considered very strong, so winning against it in the first round wasn’t too difficult. The university leaders immediately sought Fergus’s opinion, asking about his team’s chance of winning. He gave a modest smile and gestured a number- sixty percent.

It was well known that Fergus was always cautious and liked to keep a card up his sleeve. When he said sixty percent, it probably meant at least eighty percent. Upon hearing this result, the university leaders felt reassured. If there was an eighty percent chance of winning, then there shouldn’t be a problem. Furthermore, this was the first round, the one with the lowest difficulty level.

The university leaders were quite happy about the result of the draw. They said to Marshall, “Marshall, it’s your turn now. Hopefully, you’ll be as lucky as Fergus.”

Marshall smiled and remained silent, looking very calm. However, his calm demeanor vanished instantly when he saw the result. No one knew what had happened to make Marshall, who was standing on the platform, suddenly freeze in place.

Although Marshall’s expression didn’t change much, his colleagues who had worked with him for over a decade knew him well. They knew that Marshall’s expression meant there was a problem. When the draw result was finally shown on the projection screen, everyone finally understood why Marshall was so shocked.

No one had expected that Marshall’s team would compete with the Johnville Team from Theisia, which had recently had a dispute with Styre University. The previous controversy had not yet subsided, and now they were confronting each other again. It seemed that enemies were destined to meet.

The Johnville Team’s strength was remarkable, and in the previous Bide Cup, its ranking was only surpassed by the Altonian Team.

Team, the Johnville Team seemed like

long been displeased with Styre Team and if it weren’t for Richard’s restraint, they would never have stooped to apologizing to a trashy team like Styre University. Now, with the draw result granting them an opportunity, they were determined

soon as he sat down. “How could it be? Didn’t the committee make pre-match adjustments for the sake of continuity of the match? The teams should have been divided into upper, middle, and lower tiers. So logically, a middle-tier

declared, “No need to guess. It must

forced to apologize on the official forum, causing them to lose face. What was initially thought to be a

lower tiers was an unspoken rule, it had been followed for several years without anyone

the result had already been announced, and no one could

We’re here to compete. We can’t just give up before the competition even begins, can we? The Theisian Team is strong, and even if we don’t face them in the first round, we’ll encounter them eventually. Are

sense

had a penchant for causing trouble. Now, their team was destined to be eliminated in the first round, and he relished the thought of how embarrassing it would be for Marshall’s team to return

sat to the side, wearing headphones and playing games. She didn’t want to come in the first place, as the draw wasn’t part of the competition itself, and she felt it was a waste of her time. However, Marshall had

pushed Catherine, and she removed her headphones, looking up at him. “What’s the

at

about what?” Catherine looked at him with

was slightly surprised. “Catherine, you didn’t happen

her that their opponent would be the