A few days had passed, and things had started to settle.
The school finally gave the winning teams their spotlight, handing out rewards and recognition.
Posters were put up, pictures taken, and the names of the top performers were shared across every campus screen.
Rhian and his group hadn't even come close to making the cut. Not in the top ten. Not in the top twenty. It wasn't surprising.
They'd fought one E-Rank beast and a swarm of F-Rankers. And even that was fractured, as Damon had eaten the E Rank, and all the F ranks that he had on him and Nia.
And sinnce Rhian and Nia had been dragged off by that flying creature, and the rest had spent most of the three days trying to find them.
The group never had a real chance to push deep into the portal and gather the kind of points needed to compete.
Rhian himself had fought that E-Rank down in the ravine and the F-Ranks that slipped through walls like fog.
