Chapter 206: Cards and Points (1/2)

The next day as soon as sun rose, All the candidates assembled in the estate grounds where there was a stage similar to that of the southern star city's estate a man who has a sharp aura and looked around late thirties stood with hands behind his back.

He had a long sword hung on the waist.

His presence is as sharp as the sword he carried and it commanded absolute respect and acknowledgement. This aura cannot be born with, it was obtained with the efforts, failures and achievements.

He scanned the crowd and after some silence, he spoke.

”I am the Marshall general of the army of the empire of Orion. I am also known by the name Sword Marshall.

All of you are the candidates that are selected from the youngsters who are younger than twenty-five from all over the empire.

You all represent the talent, potential and future of the empire.

But this is just the beginning.

All of you will be facing the toughest of all the competitions you have been through all this while.

In all the competitions that you have been through, you have been protected by the rules and regulations which limited the usage of deceit, schemes and traps se by your opponents.

But this time, the competition is not going to be having that many rules that would protect you.

You can scheme, you can trap, but all that matters, is that you win.

For this challenge, do you have an army of followers who listens to your command?you can use them.

You can make the beasts do you bidden. Let them.

You cannot complete the task but can rob others of their fruits of labour, Rob them.

You can mislead all your opponents, do so.

For the next months, except for intentional kills and usage of the subordinates of superior level on your fellow competitors almost all bets are off.”

He paused for a second and looked at the candidates who are now whispering and discussing in hush voices, they didn't even dare to talk out loud. They are subconsciously lowering their voices so that they wouldn't catch the Marshall's attention.

After a brief pause of ten seconds, Marshall continued his speech.

”Your competition will start from today for another thirty days, on the thirty-first day, the youngest daughter of the Emperor of the Orion, the Princess Natalie is going to turn eighteen and the winners of the competition will attend that ceremony as the guests of honour.

Now, for the competition agenda and rules.

All of you might have gotten the cards given to you by your Duke. Those cards are the vital to the competition.

You aim is to get your hands on the cards and try to transfer the points from your opponents' cards to yours.

Apart from that, there are many empty cards hidden in the city in various places and there are of many grades.

Starting from Bronze card, Silver Card, Gold Card, Crystal Card.

The higher the card grade, the higher the difficulty to obtain it and higher the number of points you would obtain from the card.

The information on where to obtain these cards will be divulged by some specially hidden clues in the city itself.

The third method to obtain the points is accepting the military missions, City Guard missions, some special missions which might require your expertise on the various professions etc.

There is a mission board in this estate and an office with a person in-charge who supervises the issue of the missions.

So, the final and main goal of the mission is that all of you have to obtain points and as many points as you can.

The ten candidates who has most points by the end of the month will be the winners and the rest of the candidates will be eliminated.

The ten candidates who are selected will undergo hand to hand combat on the birthday of the princess in front of all the esteemed guests to decide the rankings amongst yourselves.

This is the competition's goal and for the rules as I mentioned earlier.

You can do whatever you want. But you cannot use your subordinates of higher level to suppress a competitor of lower level.

You can steal the cards, and transfer the points from that to yours and the point transfer is processed by keeping both cards in contact and using your spiritual energy and spiritual sense to force points from one card to another.

The cards which are hidden in the city work in the same way.

You can work in teams and or you can work individually. And one more thing is you can use multiple cards.

You can buy the cards in the mission office and you can also form a team card in case you want to store the points in the card meant to be for a team. The points in that card cannot be transfer to any individual of that team directly, there are only two ways to transfer them and one is at the mission office and the other way is for the person who wants to transfer the points to possess the rest of the teammates.

The opponents of that team however, have no restrictions to transfer those points to their cards.

Remember that by the end of the month only the points inside the individual cards will be counted and that too a candidate should only have all the points in one card, otherwise the card with most points will be considered leaving the remaining cards.