532 Impersonating (1/2)

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

The Nomination Preliminaries!

Pearl Institute had ten nominations in total. Those who were nominated still needed to go through another two rounds of competition before deciding the candidates.

The rules of the Nomination Preliminaries were fairly simple: it would simply gather those in the top twenty in every Element School to duel with one another.

Most interestingly, the duel was not only one versus one, but four versus four, with randomly assigned teams.

Each student who was participating in the Nomination Preliminaries would team up with three other participants temporarily and fight against three other teams.

Although the outcome of the battle would affect their chance of being selected, losing the battle did not mean all hope was lost.

The overall rankings inside the Institute was not decided through battles between the different Elements, since one Element would be more effective against some Elements, and ineffective or neutral against the others. Everyone in the Institute was an Intermediate Magician, so they would only have two Elements at most. Those with only defensive or healing Elements would never be able to climb the rankings, yet those Magicians were always the most important persons in a team...

As a result, the Institute had made the Nomination Preliminaries a team battle instead. Every duel would have three referees, and each of them had eight points to spare. Regardless of the outcome of the battle, those who performed better would be given more points.

The participants with the highest points would be nominated, and the higher-ups would decide the final ten nominations.

Nominations simply meant the candidate had earned a vote.

Only those with four votes were able to represent the country in the World College Tournament. As for the source of the other three votes, it was a lot more complicated. They could come through the support from renowned families, Magic Associations, or the military ...it basically depended on the student's capability and reputation!

Mo Fan already had three votes, yet those were more like tokens of appreciation, and he was quite lucky to get them, too...

Therefore, it was important for him to earn the nomination, too!

He was extremely excited when he learned about the structure of the tournament. A one-on-one battle was fun, but it basically came down to who had the higher cultivation and equipment most of the time.

A group battle was more reliant on the skills of the participants, how to utilize their Magic perfectly, which could even grant them a chance to turn the tables!

Just like how he had worked together with Zhang Xiaohou and Zhao Manyan at the Drifting Sand River, this felt extremely good!

The World College Tournament was obviously based on teamwork, too, hence the preliminaries would also be testing the participants' abilities when working in a team.

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Ai Tutu had become Mo Fan's little tail. The girl was a fun seeker, and assumed that she would always find something interesting when following Mo Fan around, hence she energetically signed up for the Nomination Preliminaries on Mo Fan's behalf and helped him take the draw, too...

Mo Fan spent most of his time cultivating. His ears were shut off from matters outside of the window, yet he would still hear about all sorts of nonsense from Ai Tutu's mouth that never stopped talking, including how the granddaughter of the school's guard had fallen in love with some renowned family's Young Master...

Ai Tutu was dying from boredom, so she was fairly passionate about signing Mo Fan up for the Nomination Preliminaries.

After finishing the draw, she quickly visited the Institute's forum.

Once the draw was done, most participants would reveal their numbers on the forum, and would organize a meet-up fairly quickly just to learn what Elements each teammate had and practice together if needed.

Ai Tutu had made herself Mo Fan's secretary. When she saw someone assembling those with the same number, she quickly put on some makeup and went to meet the rest of the team.

Mo Fan's teammates had gathered at the field. When Ai Tutu arrived in her slightly exposed outfit, the other three had long been waiting for her.

”Is your team number eleven?” said a male student among the three.

”Ah, I know you, you're the handsome leader of the Lightning School, Gu Jian!” Ai Tutu's eyes flickered when she took a closer look at the student.