115 Episode 115: Preliminary Match Begins! (1/2)
◆ Liliera ◆
”We will now begin qualifying for Princess Ryu's ritual.”
The voice of the referee echoes on the playing field.
”Because of the large number of participants in the ceremonial qualification, the Battle Royal will be fought in a random format that will allow multiple players to fight simultaneously. The qualifying round ends when there are five players left standing on the playing field, and the players standing will move on to the main game. Do this in four groups. Athletes who fall out of the match venue are disqualified immediately after being off-site.”
I mean, the 20 of us are sure to make it to the main fight.
Mina, who was listening on the side, calculates the number of participants in the main battle.
”No, up to 20 people”
And Lune immediately made the correction.
”Huh? Five people play four games, right?
”Mina, not everyone stays”
”... oh, that sort of thing”
Pointed out by Megli, Mina understands exactly what Lune intends.
You've just dived through the training grounds, and these kids don't seem like newcomers.
Yeah, well, there's a training ground to be dragged into.
More of a hell than a Ning Lo training ground?
”There may be only one person left in some games. Looks like there's a loser comeback if there's not too many of them.”
”Well done. There are only boulder locals.”
”Ah, yes. I was gathering information for my participation one day.”
and Lune, praised by Mina, grins shyly.
”Well, we're four, so we can all stay in the same group at worst.”
”P, Kuk......”
and someone who heard Mina's words leaked a small laugh.
Looks like the adventurous athletes who stood nearby were listening to this one.
They, no, rightly one of them was laughing at us.
”Kate, excuse me.”
”I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I smiled. You're too cute to let us all win.”
”Hey you...... sorry my buddy has a bad mouth”
”No, never mind”
In the meantime, I'll deal with them as an elder.
”Have you ever participated in this ritual?
”Oh dear...... yeah, about twice”
Twice, or... can we get any meaningful information?
”You guys, you better stay alert because this is a competition only women can attend.”
was an adventurer like Kate who laughed at us earlier.
”Even at the first tournament Atashi and the others participated in, the bullshit resistant guy won the championship. That was definitely S-rank strength.”
”Kate's right. Only a woman can participate, which is why a woman of strength comes. Because there are so many men who play in battle, so many come out to public competitions to show their strength.”
Hmm, it's certainly a lot of men adventurers who win games or something.
This is, well, sometimes it's simply because a man is more physically fit or more muscular.
Nevertheless, even women are sure to be powerful so that I could be an A-rank adventurer.
Even if you can't win with simple muscle strength, you can handle it with lightness, and if you're a wizard, muscle strength and physique don't matter.
So this is also a place for people who can't be recognized for that kind of strength to show off their power.
”Don't think about floating, focus on the enemy in front of you. Preliminary qualifiers can lose in no time.”
”Well, if you show your strength halfway through it, you may eat a concentrated attack from the adventurers around you.”
”Thanks for sharing everything. You guys are good people.”
”No, no, no, no.”
”Hehe, I laughed. Apologize.”
Kate turns her face red and turns that way.
Could you have told me to apologize for laughing?
Maybe he's surprisingly good.
”Then I'll call the number of the players in the first game more than this! The player you've been called to is asked to step up to the other stage of the game.”
The facilitator calls the number and the players go up on stage.
”Number 76!
”I'm coming because they called me.”
”Be careful, Liliera.”
”Good luck.”
”But good luck, Ryu...... Mr. Liliera!
”Good luck.”
”I wish you a good fight. Well, I think you can afford it.”
Not only Mina and the others, but even Kate and the others hang words of support on me.
And when I go on stage, the gaze of the athletes gathers to me.
”... that's the dragon...”
”I knew at first...”
Uh, this is totally noticed.
This is definitely coming. Hey.
”Then the first round of the qualifying match......”
The athletes on the playing field set up their weapons, but their cutting-edge is pointing this way without concealing their aim.
”Ha... can't help it”
I also put up my own spear to cope with it and work out my magic.
”Start!!”
”Aim for Princess Ryu - Yikes!!”
With the proclamation of the referee, the athletes arrived at me.
I'm not Princess Ryu.
Bandits and skinny light-dressed athletes attack me from the front and left and right.
Good collaboration, but could it be one of us?
Or were you working together beforehand?
Well, either way.
”Got it!
”I didn't get it.”
I froze my feet when I activated Ice Attribute Enhancement with Body Enhancement Magic.
”Wow!?”
Naturally, the ground freezes, and the three slip their legs and lose balance.
They rush into each of them in a hurry to get in shape, pushing the spear stone punch in a row.
”Gu!?”
”Damn!?”
”Oops!?”
As they stormed at high speed, they fell to the ground stuffing themselves under a counter with their speed on it.
”Fire Arrow!
”Wind Arrow!
”Ice Arrow!
Immediately after the fall of the three, a magical attack was imminent released from the rear.
”Sweet!”
I speared through the magic of the ice and intercepted all the magic unleashed.
”Lie!? Magic played!?”
”Could it be a magic item!?”
Sure, this is a magic item, but it's because your magic was weak.
Maybe they were learning magic not as a wizard in their position, but as an aid in closing the gap between them.
So you were overwhelmingly weak compared to the magic unleashed by Mina and Mr. Rex.
Because it was magic to that extent, strengthening the weapon with physical strengthening magic was enough to intercept it.
”Ha ha, you're alarmed!
And finally the group that came this way reached me.
They spread out like bandits earlier to surround me.
”I don't know what to do”
In the meantime, let the sword of the warrior attacked from the front pierce the ground without a spear.
”Wow!?”
Now the front is this player is in the way and the follow-ups can't attack.
”Ha!!”
Athletes jumped and attacked from left to right.
I mean, don't let your feet slip on the frozen floor.
But you can't avoid that.
I evade their attack.
”” Fast!? ”
Actually, I'm not moving that fast myself, am I?
It's a thin ice blade magically created on the back of my leg, just because it's slipping around on ice strewn out on the floor of the game field, it just looks that way.
Actually, these boots are magic items that create ice blades on the back by running magic.