Chapter 66
The Top Eight, the title given to the First Warrior’s eight companions.
Members of the Top Eight must be strong and could never reject anyone’s challenge, lest they forsake their promise not to tarnish the honor of their name. Yet the claim that the members of the Top Eight were the strongest of all was not necessarily correct.
It went without saying that those with similarly powerful skills existed, including others who were hostile or simply neutral toward humanity.
Among them was the Chancellor of Galshdin Academy, a woman who’d been the chair of the academic board since the Academy’s founding. Her outward stance may have leaned toward showing humanity goodwill, yet she still insisted on maintaining neutrality.
Two of the Top Eight were known to be affiliated with the Academy. Unofficially, however, there were a total of three of the strongest players on the world stage—including the Chancellor—who positioned themselves with the Academy.
"Are you going to just let that happen?"
"It's just a childish prank, is it something this old man should care about?"
Gaillon the Beast King, one of the members of the Top Eight who’d kept his position there for quite a long time as a beastman, answered by chugging expensive liquor like water.
Even so, his white ears twitched, and his face showed clear annoyance.