Chapter 729: The Beginning of the Battle Competition (1/2)
Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce
Not long after, Leo finally arrived at the arc door leading to the stage. Unlike the last time, though, there was no longer that strikingly bright light blocking his sight, apparently because he had long already got used to it. What remained still was the loud cheering noises coming from all the spectators, calling out the people they supported, just like all the previous games.
Without wasting any time, Leo stepped out of the arc door and saw the arena in front of him right after. At this moment, the stage of the Victory Arena is similar to almost all arenas throughout the entire Emerald Tree Kingdom. It was just a wide-open stage with nothing else in sight aside from the other nine remaining players spread to form a circular shape. Also, right at the center were Prince Elmont, Princess Tifa, and Princess Tila hosting the fifth game of the Emerald Elven Battle Competition while the staff were surrounding them.
Observing the surrounding, Leo quickly spotted Selina, Osborne, Edgar Pierce, Eme Clarity, and Faye. They nodded their heads towards him in greetings, which he nodded back in response. He didn't bother looking at the other four players as they are nothing worth mentioning.
”So, brother Elmont was really serious about not participating in the fifth game?” Leo asked Selina, who was just a few meters to his side, similar to the location of Elmont back then during the Survival Games. As everyone already knows, the person that participates in the Survival Games would also be the one to participate in the fifth game of the Emerald Elven Battle Competition.
”Brother Elmont said that it would be unfair if he participates since everyone might just start hesitating whenever he is their opponent. That's why he sent me instead,” Selina replied. After all, Elmont is the Seventh Prince of the Emerald Tree Kingdom, so it is expected already that his opponents would hesitate to hurt him in fear of offending the Evergreen Royal Family, especially considering the fact that almost all participants in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition are from the Emerald Tree Kingdom and all of them also desires to continue participating in the next year's event. If they want to continue staying in this territory and achieve that, then they'd better not do anything to displease the family of the King of the Emerald Tree Kingdom.
Selina continued, ”Well, to begin with, I was supposedly going to participate in both the Survival Games and the Battle Competition. But Elmont insisted on participating in the former as he wanted to play at least one game because his brothers previously did the same. The game makers agreed with this, so I had no choice but to accept his decision as well,”
”That's truly unfortunate,” Leo expressed his thoughts. Now that Selina is going to participate in the fifth game of the Emerald Elven Battle Competition, he'd have to change the plans they have prepared before.
After greeting everyone and talking with Selina for a brief moment, Leo turned to look at the center where Elmont and the others were, seemingly waiting for all players to arrive on stage for them to finally start.
A few minutes later, all the ten remaining participants that qualified to participate in the fifth game of the Emerald Elven Battle Competition finally arrived.
Seeing that everyone had finally arrived, Princess Tila then introduced everyone, ”Welcome everyone to the fifth and last game of this year's Emerald Elven Battle Competition. Just like what the name of this event suggests, it is going to be none other than a Battle Competition. During this game, all ten remaining players would have to fight against each other in a one versus one fight until only one player remains to claim the throne of the champion!”
Princess Tila took out a round glass with five small pieces of paper inside before calling out, ”Guild Leader Loki, Selina, Osborne, Edi, and Makky, please come in front of me to choose your opponents,”
With his name called by Princess Tila, Leo turned to look at the others first before walking in her direction.
As soon as they saw this, Selina, Osborne, Edi, and Makky also did the same, following behind Leo.
”It seems like you'd be the first to pick your opponent, brother Loki,” Princess Tila said while letting out a soft giggle.
”It can't be helped since everyone has decided to let me choose first,” Leo simply smiled and ignored the giggle that Princess Tila has just let out. When he looked at the other just now, all of them were pretending not to hear their names being called by Princess Tila, obviously implying that they wanted him to go first.
With a pout on her face, Princess Tila shoved the round glass in front of Leo as she muttered annoyingly, ”Go and Pick!”
”Okay,” Leo shook his head dismissively before putting his hand inside the round glass and beginning to pick a piece of paper. He really doesn't care who he was going to pick as he could, without a doubt, easily win against the majority of the people's names who are each listed in these five pieces of paper. Most of the people that he was concern about since they could post a threat against him were also in the same situation as him, which means to say that they can't pick one another as of this moment and would have to wait for the next round before they could fight each other. Needless to say, except for Edgar Pierce, as he is not one of the five players that Princess Tila had called out. But he could already expect that he wouldn't have to fight against him this early in the Battle Competition as that would ruin all the thrill and fun aspects for all the spectators watching.