Chapter 62 (1/2)

Chapter 62

Pre-Tournament

Bang

A loud sound echoed out as a 1 meter tall robot was sent flying backwards. As it hit flew out of the arena it dissolved into pixels before disappearing. A 1 and 1/2 meter tall black robot stood in the middle of the arena. It looked exactly like a human in black armor.

Chu Shen disabled the simulation. The entire arena including the area around him dissolved like snow in sunlight before revealing a plain white surface an inch or two above his head.

He removed the metal band around his head and got out of the simulation pod. Standing in front of the pod was the same robot as the one inside of the simulation! The attendant was in a chair beside it as well.

The attendant stood up. “Alright, let’s get back to the meeting room. The meeting starts in 30 minutes. Go ahead and send Mirror of The Void back to the workshop. ”

Chu Shen nodded. “I’ll do that now.” He fiddled with the small tablet in his hands. As soon as he was done, the robot immediately straightened up before marching fluidly out of the room. Looking at it march out Chu Shen had a thoughtful expression. ‘Five days sure doesn’t last.’

The attendant and Chu Shen went to the elevator and arrived at the meeting room soon. Sitting down in the chair with his number, 28, he waited for the meeting to start. He played around on his tablet while waiting.

“Alright, all of the contestants are here.” The main judge walked up on stage like last time. “Now it is time to explain some specifics of the tournament.”

There are exactly 32 people in the tournament this year. We are going to have a bracket compet.i.tion with the winners advancing up the bracket while the losers battle each other for their placement in the compet.i.tion.

First we will have the 16 beginning matches chosen by the AI’s to have the closest possible match. After that we will have another 16 matches. 8 of the matches will be the winners and the other 8 will be the losers.

The next day we will have the final matches to determine the exact rankings inside each group of 4. For example if you won the first match but lost the second then you will only be able to be placed in 5th-8th place.

After the rankings have been settled we will have placement challenges. If you wish to fight someone within the 5 rankings of you both ways you can challenge them to a fight. If you do then they must accept. If the challenger wins they take that person’s ranking. Of course, this only applies if the winner is higher ranked than the other.

You may challenge anyone however if they are more than 5 rankings apart from you, they can refuse to fight. For example. If 8th place challenged 3rd place, they would have to accept. But if 8th place challenged 1st place they could refuse.”

You may challenge as many people as you want. However, if you lose you cannot challenge another person. The challenge part of the Robo games can only last for 4 hours so be quick.

Now that you know the rules it is time to start. We will transport you and your robots to the arena right now. There we will clone your robot and start the games. Be prepared, the games start in 30 minutes.

Go with your attendants to gather your robots and head to the arena. May the best engineer win!”

““May the best engineer win!”” The contestants echoed. With that they all filed out. Chu Shen swiped at his tablet a couple times before going over to the attendant.

“Alright. Mirror of The Void is coming down to meet us. He should be here in a minute or two.”

“Good. Such a weird name though” The attendant smiled at Chu Shen before turning around. “As soon as he comes down tell him to follow me so we can get you to the arena.”

“Great.” After a while the elevator popped open with a ding revealing Mirror of The Void. Tapping a couple times on the tablet the robots head swiveled to lock onto the attendant. After that the robot marched behind the attendant and stayed a couple meters behind them.