Chapter 7.2 (1/2)

Chapter 7. We came, we saw, we won.

“In just a moment, the first battle between the four schools will begin. I am the narrator for this particular compet.i.tion, Mara. Next to me is the Empire’s government official Mata, along with knight Martin.”

“Yes, I am Mata.”

“Martin.”

The two of them both seemed to not care about the compet.i.tion at all, hence the reason why the empire decided to invite Mara, the professional MC.

“Haha, our names are pretty similar, but please don’t get confused! Then now, who do you think is the top candidate to win in this compet.i.tion?”

When Mara quickly asked the two a question to loosen up the mood, the two people spoke in conjunction with each other.

“Arucia.”

“Mercaria, of course.”

The former was said by Martin, and the latter by Mata. Of course, these two were graduates of the two schools they just mentioned!

“Yes, yes… an expected answer. In any case, I’ll now introduce the compet.i.tion today to the audience. Due to security concerns, I just received the contents of this compet.i.tion in this paper bag. Now, let’s take a look at what they hid in this thing…”

Mara opened the paper inside the bag.

“Right, this is one of the cla.s.sic compet.i.tions that’s been seen multiple times already! It’s the labyrinth maze compet.i.tion, that tests the battle capabilities and strategic capabilities of the students. To think they’d use ‘labyrinth’ and ‘maze’ together in a single t.i.tle… well, despite the boring t.i.tle, it is indeed a compet.i.tion that shows much of what the students are capable of. Due to the fact that this is the twentieth compet.i.tion of the festival, several new rules has been set in place. Flying is now forbidden, due to the fact that on the third compet.i.tion a flying student from Marcis was put on the verge of death after being sniped by the other three school. Digging tunnels is forbidden, as several students awakened a drake by accident during the twelfth compet.i.tion. And recently, due to Sir Ryan winning by cutting down all the walls in the compet.i.tion, that has become forbidden as well.”

The attention of the audience got directed to Mara, thanks to his pro MC skills.

“Right, this compet.i.tion is simple. Each school will send eight students to a labyrinth somewhere through a gate. After getting there, the students simply need to use whatever method possible to escape! The three students who gets out first receives the points. As these points contain both student points and school points, it would be good for three students of the same school to go through at once. But the student points might turn those of the same school into potential enemies! Even best friends might betray each other over points! In other words, this is a friends.h.i.+p destroying game that will not disappoint!”

The entire capital was filled with shouts of excitement. Mara, hearing this, became proud of his job as an MC, and shouted out with pride.

“Now, let us watch the best compet.i.tion of our lifetime!”

And so, the compet.i.tion began.

And.

“…What in the world?!”

After three minutes, it ended.

With Yugrasia as the victor.

4 minutes ago.

“Victory is!”

“Arucia’s!”

“Uoooooh!”

Right be

fore getting on the warpgate, student council president Ruan, along with the students of Arucia, huddled up together to get the team’s spirits up.

“Now, then!”

“We’ll be back… with victory!”

“Don’t you worry about us!”

“This big bro will come back after a total victory.”

Each one of them entered the gate with a large smile on their faces.

“The first place is mine, though!”

The student points were there in order to pick out the best student in the empire’s festival. Therefore, it was a given that these points would be what sets up the foundation for Ruan’s future. Arucia’s victory came first, but Ruan needed to take points for himself afterwards.