Chapter 297: The Third Round (1/2)

Following the rules set before, Xi Wei ranked the contestants by their points accumulated, allowing those within the top thirty-two to qualify for the final round of the Twin City Cup.

The event was relatively normal duels.

At first, Xi Wei had intended to scale up the last round, to make it grander.

However, the second round had cost him more divine energy than he had expected-even if he had relied on the simulated divine kingdom to retain and revive the souls of those who died within with less cost.

He had fork out divine powers that he had stored before the entire tourney as well since the divine power he had allocated for the tourney was basically used up. Aside from the divine power required for maintaining the Players’ daily necessities and reserved for emergencies, Xi Wei had basically not one drop of excess divine power left.

That was why the last round had to be conducted so plainly. The citizens of Lancaster, however, were not dissatisfied at all.

One might even say that they were excited to see the usually high-and-mighty priest and clerics throw themselves at each other like a bunch of wrestlers.

In fact, when Mayor Corinth announced the format of the third round, the citizens actually looked like they were a little eager than the two rounds before.

On the three days of rest for the contestants following the conclusion of the second round, everyone in Lancaster was talking about the Twin City Cup. The hottest topic, of course, was who they were hoping to triumph in the end.

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Naturally, the ones tipped to claim the final victory were the monks of the Brilliant White Church.

Even if they top champion was eliminated from the finals and their top scorer in the second round was outside the top ten, the reputation of the Brilliant White Church as the top religion of the continent and the monks’ performance in the first two rounds had earned them the support of many conservative citizens, who were assured that these monks would last until the very end.

In comparison, the citizens who supported the Church of Games were scarce.

Nonetheless, the Players didn’t think much about that since most citizens weren’t even aware of the existence of the Church of Games before the Twin City Cup started.

Still, after strong performances in the first two rounds that drew much fans for them, the God of Games rose from an anonymous religious faction to become one of the dark horses of the tourney, which could be considered a profound development.

But behind the Brilliant White Church and the Church of Games, the performances which the remaining religious factions put up paled in comparison, and support for them naturally were less warm. In truth, the wyvern knights of the Temple of Glory hadn’t been lured by the monks of the Brilliant White Church and then directly blindsided, with only their champion Isaac and Jones, who happened to be nearest to Isaac alive and qualifying for the last round.

Still, those two were hurt considerably by the holy choir bombardment of the Brilliant White Church.

And unlike the first round, when Xi Wei revived the dead on the second round, he would stuff in some missing innards and put in some slapdash healing to prevent the revived from dropping dead immediately again from their mortal wounds.

Basically, he didn’t care much about anything aside from ensuring that they didn’t die.

That way, many would be left injured and, on the surface, Xi Wei, the God of Games would take a blow to his reputation-but that proved not to be case.