Chapter 121: Weeds-level team (1/2)
Chapter 121: Weeds-level team
For the national tournament people called the early confrontation between the future elite masters of the kingdom, the drawing ceremony and the main tournament both took place in the “Arena of Fire and Blood.”
The “Arena of Fire and Blood” was located at the highest reaches of Eichemalar, in Everlasting Square.
At the very end of the War of the Dragons, in the final decisive battle around the Everlasting City, there had been countless fallen castles, and also countless fallen dragons and arcane masters.
By chance, one dragon just happened to fall on Everlasting Square. It caused an elemental tide when it died, wrecking a huge crater in the middle of Everlasting Square.
Men who came after that built the crater into a fighting arena that could accommodate more than two hundred thousand people inside. They called it the Arena of Fire and Blood.
Outside this arena stood a blood-red dragon crystal monument.
These words were carved on the monument: “This is the land where countless dragons and brave warriors fell, a place worthy of being engraved in the everlasting memory of men. Countless braves used their lives and their blood to forever remind us: to have the courage to fight against enemies stronger than oneself, only this is genuine courage.”
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“Woah, that guy is really cool!”
“I think he’s probably a celebrity-level contestant in some powerful team.”
Walking on Everlasting Square, team Holy Dawn and team Agate Lake were about to go into the Arena of Fire and Blood and participate in the drawing ceremony. Stingham walked by himself at the very front, now and then displaying a handsome posture. On the way, when he heard some girls whispering among themselves as they talked about him, his heart would immediately blossom like a happy flower.
“So many people! There’s actually such a crowd.”
Ayrin’s eyes were bulging a little. The scope of this tournament far surpassed his imagination. Apart from groups wearing the same school uniforms that were clearly teachers leading their school teams, there were also countless student organizations, many groups of supporters shouting their slogans, and there were also many small groups that were doing who knew what, going back and forth in front of these teams.
During the tournament in St. Lauren, there had also been many people, but the crowd had been divided very clearly. For example, during the match between their Holy Dawn Academy and Iron Forest Academy, the gathered crowd were Holy Dawn supporters or Iron Forest supporters. As to the rest, they were from other schools, and merely came to spectate.
But in the present square, there were actually countless factions. It was especially diverse. The clamor was utterly chaotic, to the point he felt very unaccustomed, felt like he had a headache.
“This is only the drawing ceremony. Wait until the official start of the tournament tomorrow. The crowd will be twice bigger than today,” Sophia told Ayrin. “The tournament has already settled deep into the people’s consciousness in the kingdom. It’s not that extreme in our southern part, but it’s especially true in the west and in the north. The tournament is engraved even more deeply in the mores of the people there, because they have some teams that can often achieve good performances. For many Awakened young people over there, striving to join their academy’s team is even their one and only goal.
“Battles of life and death between some powerful arcane masters are surely crueler and more intense than the tournament, but in a peaceful era like ours, most people in the kingdom can’t see them. For the vast majority of them, the already extremely high-level tournament is the most spectacular, highest-level war between arcane masters that they get to see. That’s why, every year when the time comes around, there is an untold amount of people who rush their way here from every corner of the kingdom to watch. Arcane masters who can stand out from the crowd in the national tournament, those who can leave the deepest impression, they’re the real celebrity masters.”
Just while Sophia and Ayrin talked to each other, all the members of a school team wearing silver arcane robes seemed to be laughing mischievously.
Moss couldn’t stop himself from pulling Ayrin’s clothes and say, “Ayrin, I think there’s something wrong.”
It wasn’t only that team wearing silver robes. It seemed there were many teams in their vicinity that looked at them with strange eyes.
Among them, some teams looked at them with meaningful smiles.
“It seems there’s really something out of place.” Even Stingham noticed something abnormal. “All these teams seem to be looking at us somewhat weird. Don’t tell me it’s because I’m too handsome?”
“That was team Silver Trout right now. Does your team Holy Dawn have some contradiction with them?” Sophia asked in a soft, curious voice, looking at the team wearing silver in front of them.
“Team Silver Trout?” Ayrin shook his head. He never even heard of them.
“It’s the team ranked seventh last year, they’re very strong,” Sophia explained with a solemn air. “The five main members of the team are all celebrity-level contestants.”
“So this is team Silver Trout?” Moss’ suddenly paled.
Because this Silver Trout Academy was again related to the nine great clans of the kingdom. Among the nine clans in Eiche who possessed dragons, people from House Tully would all go to school in Silver Trout Academy after they Awaken. And those people from a super clan were all abnormal figures at the same level as Rinsyi.
“There’s no other reason, it must be because I’m too handsome, that’s why they’re jealous of me!” Stingham said, very firm.
“So that’s team Holy Dawn?”
“Correct, look at their blue uniform…”
“Hehe… A weeds-level team, they indeed look really rustic… They even say they’re going after the cup, that they’ll be champions for sure. Did they come to fight or did they come to put on a comedy show?”
At that time, some bits and pieces of voices from groups passing by drifted to the ears of everyone in team Holy Dawn and team Agate Lake.