Chapter 288: Cant You Read Your Minimaps? (1/2)
At first, Xi Wei wasn’t concerned with the fate of the other contestants since it wasn’t the same as ordinary logistics-reviving each of them would cost him some divine power.
And that was even with the contestants being inside the fragment of the divine kingdom under his rule, where the souls of the dead wouldn’t be pulled into the underworld directly. As such, he didn’t have to pry the perished souls from the hands of the Prince of Darkness, or the divine power he used would increase by several folds.
Be that as it may, Xi Wei realized that the mortality rate in the competition could prove extremely high when he drafted the rules for the first found. In fact, compared to being killed, it was not very likely for the contestants to be disqualified by factors such as ‘unable to gather 5 marked cards’ or ‘inadvertently being teleported out upon finding and accidentally touching the Lifestone’.
In other words, most contestants were either going to be killed by other contestants or by traps and monsters.
Even in the best-case scenario where half of the disqualified survived, that means over six hundred dead!
As such, while the citizens might not realize it immediately since they would be caught in the passionate atmosphere of the tourney, their sentiment might take a heel-faced turn when the first round was over.
After all, the preachers of most churches were no different from salesmen who depended on word of mouth-they would know how to incite the citizens and direct sentiment as they wanted to.
And when that happens, Lancaster’s mayor image as a steward of justice which was made after much difficulty would crumble instantaneously!
Even if they did make compromises, six hundred was a large number even spread across various churches, especially since those contestants who would participate the tourney would definitely not be weaklings.
If that many people died at once, the Church of Games would be blacklisted so hard that every church would label them cultists, claiming that the Twin City Cup as a measure applied to cull their opponents.
When that happens, it was like having mud dropping into your pants-it was shit regardless.
Hence, Xi Wei realized that it was not necessary to drive a grudge between himself and the other churches, and made it so that any contestant dying in the maze island to be promptly revived at Lancaster Square.
As for why the revived would have body parts missing, that was naturally because the other gods might realize that something wasn’t right if Xi Wei resurrected them perfectly. On the other hand, although the defective revivals would still cause suspicion, they would be less wary-moreover, having decided to promote the Church of Games with the tourney in the first place, Xi Wei was prepared to alert the other gods.
Yes. It definitely wasn’t Xi Wei being stingy, wanting to save some divine power while reshaping the contestants’ bodies…
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Unlike the Players who had learned through the forums in real-time from the outside world that ‘they are revived outside the maze island after death’, the wyvern knights of the Temple of Glory were caught between a rock and a hard place.
At first, they presumed the Twin City Cup to be a competition of martial prowess, magic, and sacred arts.
In fact, the Temple of Glory would organize such tourneys once every few months.
That certainly kept the wyvern knights brimming with confidence. They didn’t even bring along their lances or their mounts along, and simply arrived at the roll call with one sword and a few gimmicky trinkets.