Chapter 308: Final Registration (1/2)

”This actually makes very good sense. They had it the same way back a year ago too and this worked perfectly,” Zhou Mei said.

”Why though?” Alex asked. ”If the singles battles are the main attraction then, why not have it all be done at the last, instead of spreading it thought like this?”

”It's mostly to keep the competition interesting. If the audience knew that the Singles battle was at the end of the day, they would just leave for the day and come back when the singles battle starts,” the Second Elder said.

”Yes, if they do it like this, they can retain a lot more audience. Also, this helps the participants something other than just fighting continuously,” Ma Rong said.

Alex nodded when he heard those. ”By the way, are those 4 races going to take place at the same time? Isn't that a little disadvantageous for the Beast taming sects?” Alex asked.

”No, all the competitions you see in the list will take place one after another,” Ma Rong said.

”Alright, quickly look at what you want to take part in. I will call out the competitions and you raise your hands. Aside from the Singles which will take 4, every other competition is still going to only take 3,” Ma Rong said.

”Singles take 4?” Alex said with surprise. There was nothing about that in the announcement or the list.

”Yeah, its an information the competition holders don't reveal, but you can have 4 competitors in the singles competition. That usually gets thinned by the first competition,” Ma Rong said.

”Isn't that unfair? How are the new sects supposed to know that?” Alex asked.

”The world is not fair. If they are worth the 4 spots, they will find out on their own,” Ma Rong said.

”Alright choose now, Singles,” Ma Rong asked.

Wan Li and two others raised their hands. One was a girl with a 6th Meridian Tempering realm cultivation base and a man with an 8th Meridian Tempering realm cultivation base.

Anywhere else, these two would be a core disciple for sure. But in the Hong Wu sect where they measured achievement in terms of Alchemy, these two could only remain inner sect disciples.

”We can do 4. Anyone else?” Ma Rong said and looked around the group, but soon realized that they didn't have a very high cultivation base.

”Never mind, you guys won't even pass through the damage test,” she said and moved on to the next competition.

”The normal race one?” she asked.

2 disciples raised their hands. One of them was the man from just now. He hadn't taken part a single time the last 4 days, so he had all of his 3 chances still.

He also raised his hand in another competition.

”The Maze run?” Ma Rong asked.

Alex immediately raised his hand, so did the other girl. This was the competition Alex was looking forward to joining after seeing its name on the list. Mazes were intriguing, to say the least, and Alex was more interested in it since it was a race as well.

To him, this was much better than the normal races.

Ma Rong asked for a few more competitions, but no one really wanted to take part in them. ”Alright, Second Elder, go take them to their seats, I will get them registered,” Ma Rong said and walked towards the registration place with the few of them including Alex and Wan Li.