Chapter 199: Final Round (1/2)

The announcement was over and neither Duke or Sam didn't bother to explain themselves to the candidates.

Duke went on with the event after announcing the rankings as he addressed the candidates again.

”The names I announced are the fifty people who are promoted to the next round.”

The candidates who were selected all cheered, but Duke's next words damped their excitement again.

”So, now let us discuss the next round. There would only be ten people who are going to pass the next round and the rest of the forty will also be eliminated. So, do not celebrate too early.

Because, the next round is going to be conducted today, right here, right now.”

The audience became silent. They didn't expect this turn of events.

Ten minutes later, the fifty candidates were assembled in the arena within the same estate, while the 150 eliminated candidates took seats as audience.

Duke, along with the General Spark, regiment commanders and the General mercury who came later, sat down at the special viewing platform to oversee the next round.

”The last round of the competition in the southern star city will take place now and that would happen in two stages.

In the first stage, ten candidates will be selected from your fifty by a royal rumble.

The last ten candidates that are left standing will fight it out tomorrow in second stage to decide on the rankings within themselves.

So, for the first round, the whole field is your battle ground. The stage the surroundings, anything beyond the barrier separating the field and the audience is off the limits and within the field you can do anything.

The first round will end only if there are ten people left standing.

A candidate will be considered lost and eliminated, if he surrenders willingly or knocked unconscious, left the field or died.”

As he spoke up to this point, his voice was still as calm as ever, but the candidates didn't feel so. Mentioning death means, killing isn't forbidden in the battle. This left them feel cold.

Only Nicholas is showing an excited expression.

He is dying for a battle.

Duke looked at the candidates with a sweeping glance and without even giving them any time to mentally prepare he said out loud.

”Begin.”

The candidates were stunned a bit and then immediately came to themselves.

One person even launched the first strike on the person standing before him.

Sam is in the last row, but he didn't attack anyone immediately.And he is not the only one who did so, the top ten candidates took a step back and didn't act offensive.

As Sam was observing the surroundings, he suddenly sensed something and dodged to the side. A dagger struck the air in the spot he was previously in.

He turned around and saw a person in black looking at him coldly.

”You are the weakest of all the people here, so why bother staying? You better surrender now or you might not survive this.”

Sam then looked around and saw that several people are looking at him.

All of them want to take down Sam first. They might say that he is the weakest and has no right to participate, but they just want to eliminate him first because they are jealous of his points.

They want to enjoy his misery of getting eliminated first even after obtaining so many points in the military and business phase. These guys have a disgusting quality which was hidden in almost all human beings. Schadenfreude.

Sam didn't answer the guy at all and just stood there with his hands in his pockets. His expression was calm and collected.

The person who attacked Sam was a bit pissed off due to Sam's nonchalance, he waved immediately moved as he blurred into a dark shadow.

This guy is a dark element user and that too, his dark element is of shadow kind. After all, not all dark element users are same and the pure dark element is rare. Even the pure light element is rare, but since the light element is not deemed useful in the battle by this world, they didn't research it more.

Sam saw as the guy skipped from one shadow to another with a dagger in his hands. He is using the shadows of the surrounding people and objects as transfer points as he moved from one place to another.

At the same time, he started making his move on Sam.

Within a few seconds, Sam knew this guys battle style. He is an assassin. He is not even a Warrior mage, he is only a mage, but the norms restricted his shadow element from using it with versatility and he doesn't have many attacks.