317 A Boring Figh (1/2)
The inner city of East City
There were many people crossed into the inner city from the outer city despite having paid a hundred gold coins. The cost to enter inner city became a hundred times expensive after the second phase of the Battle of Ascension.
Not only that, the price for food, the rent for a dwelling, and even an ingredient became much more expensive. This was the main reason that pushed the non-guild people to seek an asylum from the guild and only ten percent people stayed in East City while the rest migrated to a guild's territory.
However, the current East City was boisterous as there was a special event in the inner city of East City, it was the ninth of Ascension Tournament, and today was the final day of the tenth of Ascension Tournament.
The day to determine for the first place, second place, and the third place of the tenth of Ascension Tournament. Ascension Guild held the Ascension Tournament once a month since the second Ascension Tournament.
It was unknown what was the purpose behind the tournament itself? No one knew about it and each month, Ascension Guild would be bestowing a set of Legendary Armor for the first place.
However, since Randy, the leader of the Happy Guild from his unknown Journey. The Happy Guild monopolized the tournament. It started from the fifth tournament when Long Xinya swept all participants with ease.
She even defeated Wang Soo-Yeon, the strongest from New Korea Guild, Ryou Tokugawa the favored fighter from Eternal Shogunate, and Tang Ren second strongest in the Dragon Dynasty.
However, those three people were powerless when they faced Long Xinya. Less than ten seconds, those three were defeated by Long Xinya in less than three seconds.
East City was in an uproar at that time and the name of Happy Guild spread over to become the strongest guild with Randy, Zhen Yi, and Long Xinya as the leader. The sixth tournament, the people thought Ryou Tokugawa would become the winner with King Grade Bloodline integrated with him.
But it was not the case, the same happened in the beforehand tournament, Akihiro. An ex-guild member of Eternal Shogunate who joined Happy Guild swept the tournament with ease too.
Ryou Tokugawa met Akihiro in the final and Ryou Tokugawa proposed a death-match. What a pity, Akihiro declined, and the people thought Akihiro was afraid of Ryou Tokugawa. However, the result shocked them once again.
Thirty seconds and Akihiro defeated Ryou Tokugawa. It was unknown until now why Akihiro declined the death-match. Regardless, the result of the sixth tournament became a hot topic once again and the name of Happy Guild was in the focus.
The same for the seventh, eighth, and ninth Ascension Tournament. Happy Guild took the first prize for the seven times. Asuka, Udin, and Gusti took it from New Korea and Eternal Shogunate.
However, in the last nine tournaments, there were two interesting facts. First, there was only a member of Happy Guild that joined the tournament since the fifth Ascension Tournament and that one always took the first place. It was different from the other guilds which sent over ten members to join the tournament.
Second, it was about the Dragon Dynasty. Since Long Xinya defeated Tang Ren in the fifth Ascension Tournament, there were no Dragon Dynasty's guild members joined the tournament anymore.
The reason was unknown, but bad rumors about the Dragon Dynasty spread over. The rumor said the Dragon Dynasty was afraid of the Happy Guild. However, a rumor was just a rumor after all and no one knew why no Dragon Dynasty's members joined the tournament.
Many people entered the main Colosseum where the final took a place. Each people who entered the Colosseum would look to the west, the Happy Guild's seats. Three floors of Colosseum and the third floor devoted to a guild and its fifty members.
On the back and topmost of the seat, Randy and his two vice leaders took the seat, and the onlookers would look for five to ten seconds before they headed toward their seat.
As for why they looked at Randy, it because there were many nasty rumors about him. Yes, since the Happy Guild took over Indonesia and a half of Malaysia. A guild that originated from Malaysia demanded Happy Guild to hand over those territories.
But of course, Randy rejected that absurd demand. He conquered that piece of lands after fighting over the Enigma Kingdom and that piece of lands was full of resources. They found three mines and two herb gardens from there and it could be considered a huge resource for his guild.
Not only that, but Randy also found a hurricane land. It was a territory that full with hurricanes and that place was very useful for a person with Wind Elemental Power. They could absorb Wind Essence and it could enhance the Wind Elemental Power.
With those kinds of resources, of course, Randy rejected them outright. Except, they offered him an equal price, but they didn't even offer a single gold coin yet they claimed it was their territories.
Since then, there were many nasty rumors about Randy spread over. Like Randy was forcing Zhen Yi to marry him and resulted in a conflict against the Dragon Dynasty.
There was another rumor, it was said Randy was also forcing Long Xinya to become his mistress and exchanged with peace between the Dragon Dynasty and Happy Guild.
It also said Randy was tyrannical and forced many people with no guild to join his guild. Forcing many people to work under Happy Guild with low pay. There many more rumors about him and finally there was a post in the forum that asked Randy to share about the power he had.
Many forced Randy to leak his secret. However, on the second day, Randy announced his ”secret”. In the Happy Guild Forum, Randy posted about bloodline and Elemental Power.
He informed about it after thoughtful consideration. After fighting the Enigma Kingdom, Randy realized if it was another guild who faced them, that guild would get crushed for sure.
Because of that, he told about the bloodline and Elemental Power to increase the power of the human race to contend with the other races. As for the other rumors, Randy didn't even care in the slightest.