Chapter 268: Bruno VS Crimson (1/2)

(A/N: Pls. send your power stone to the book My Guardian System. Need help!)

The Rules were simple. They just have to win against every opponent they would be facing till the last enemy.

Since there were a total of 300 participants in the first elimination round, 150 participants would be disqualified and 150 would advance to the next round, and so on until 4 participants were left to fight for the championship.

After his announcement, it was followed by noisy applause coming from the audience.

Sitting in the judges' podiums were Head Instructor Stone De Guz Man, Elder Paan, and Chief Henderson. His second in command would be taking his role as the head of the army for the time being.

Although the energy in the plaza was rising, the people in the VIP room were talking about something, not related to the competition. Actually, they were more or less interested in the competition from a less popular academy.

Their reason for coming wasn't actually because of the competition. One of the reasons for coming was to meet with other bigshots in the same field as them.

The other leader from the other academies showed a mocking grin at the back of Principal Mar. Especially the principal from Human City Zone 1, Principal Kim.

He wondered what was in the mind of Principal Mar Marie for holding such an inside competition for his trainees. Hehe, what an unwise move it was. It would only drag them down to the bottom.

These past days and weeks, he was bothered by the sudden rise of the Human City Zone 7.

Although Zone 1 was always on the rise these past years, having a dungeon in their domain, like the Zone 7, was much fortunate. Because most of the merchants and big shot businessmen would be gathering to where there were resources.

On top of that, the dungeon wasn't part of the World Agreements. So all the resources that could be looted inside it, wasn't part of the prohibition.

It also means they could be exported away, from here to the other world.

Principal Kim could only pinch his head between his hands out of envy. After all, the city could do everything with the resources that could be looted inside it. He could only salivate at this fortunate event that was happening in Zone 7.

If given a few years, this city would rise to an unimaginable degree just by the appearance of the dungeon alone. Especially if it was well-managed by the admins of three major departments.

It could also raise the future trainees to unimaginable strength. Real-life fighting where danger was apparent was the best to train a real fighter. Principal Kim wasn't a fan of modern technology where everyone would be fighting inside the Virtual Arena. Although it helps them to breakthrough faster, the real sense of danger wasn't there.

And because of it, students or trainees would still be lacking a real combat instinct that a real warrior who experienced and survived through countless battles in which his/her life was on the line. Being high-level could make someone strong, but not stronger, and never be the strongest.

Only those who experienced real life and death fighting would truly ascend to become stronger and might possibly become the strongest.

He even dislikes the immortality effect brought by the resonance with the deities. The reason was as stated previously.

That's why he envied the people of Zone 7.

Actually, he already got information regarding the possible appearance of a dungeon in this city.

There was one time he visited this place to try to recruit the Ace of this academy at that time. But one of his escorts, a person with a high-level breakthrough sensed something underground.

And that when he started to get interested in this city. Unfortunately, before he succeeded with his schemes of breaking this city, they discovered it. They discovered the dungeon.

But even so, it wasn't like there was no way for him to take over on this land.

While Principal Kim was in deep pondering, the announcer Instructor Beth had started calling out the name for the first pair who would be coming on the arena.

The fledgling trainees were oozing with fighting spirit. Everyone was excited to perform. Each of them wishing to show their 100 percent in this competition. Especially that some of them had recently been motivated after watching a crazy competition from the Encantasia Empire.

And now, it's their time to shine. They won't be wasting such an opportunity to get sponsorship from the bigshots who were currently present today.

Together with his circle of friends, Kiko had a calm expression on his face. This competition wasn't only a mere inside competition for him. Because his bright future was on the line in this competition.

Not only would he become the Academy's Ace if he became the champion, but he was planning also to officially ask Almina Amulet to become his girlfriend.

He didn't even mind if she became his fiance. If being a girlfriend wasn't enough for her, then he would be fine being her fiance.

His eyes scanned the surroundings, then it landed on the specific girl. About 20 steps away to his right, Almina Amulet was staring at the large monitor in front of them, slightly above, while she was surrounded by her circle of friends. Kesha and the blonde were together with her. For some reason, Kesha was waving at him. Kiko smiled and nodded.

Yeah, it would be a fun competition. As expected, his dreams had slowly become reality. Especially that the most hated guy by him wasn't around anymore.