Chapter 348: Isve Got Practice (2/2)
Three thousand five hundred and eighty to ... zero!
'The winner is Wang Tong!'
Hu Yangxuan swallowed down his indignation. However, his face was red as an apple.
Everyone burst out laughing at this comical development. They had thought that Wang Tong was a nerd who was only interested in studying and math textbooks. However, his skills at billiards had proven otherwise.
”It looks like you have at least four to five years of hard training behind you.” Kyaero marveled. ”It's almost at the professional level.”
”I hate you. Why didn't you tell me that you are this good?” Hu Yangxuan grumbled, still feeling hurt by his humiliating defeat.
Wang Tong grinned at Hu Yangxuan. Although no professionals had ever trained him, he did not tell anyone either that playing billiards at underground venues used to be his family's primary source of income.
”I had played a lot when I was young. Another round?”
”No way!” Hu Yangxuan had enough of defeat. He retreated and decided to never compete with Wang Tong on anything.
”Wang Tong, I want to learn.”
”Yeah, me too.”
Everyone followed Zhou Sisi's request, and Wang Tong quickly became the center of the group's attention.
Karl and Hu Yangxuan grimaced at each other knowingly.
”It's all your fault. You should have left him alone.”
”Well, it's not like I know everything about him.” Hu Yangxuan grumbled as he walked out of the pool house.
On the streets of the Moon City, it was evident that METAL tournament had garnered much more public attention than the fleet battle tournament. From the neon signs to the huge colorful banners, the streets screamed the unbearable anticipation. There were over six hundred players on the moon, and if one counted their friends, the number would reach thousands. Audiences from all corners of the universe would gather around, and their number was estimated to reach six figures.
Despite the huge logistical challenge, Wang Tong could tell that the Ivantians were well prepared. Although it wasn't Wang Tong's first time visiting the Moon City, the sheer volume of people on the streets gave him a drastically different feel.
Many of Wang Tong's friends were first-time visitors, and they were interested in almost anything in front of them. So advanced was the public infrastructure on the Moon that many of them were completely alien to the students from the Earth.
Unlike their friends, the contestants were less interested in sightseeing, as they needed to prepare for the enormous challenge ahead of them.
On the same day that Wang Tong arrived the Moon, he found out that the match schedule was already set up. With no time for a short respite, Wang Tong and his fellow teammates quickly went over the schedules and rules.
Upon reading the schedule, it occurred to the students that all of the team Ayrlarng's fighters had a match on the first day.
The playoff was grouped into eight sections. All three factions would then each assign eight first-class seeded players and eight second-class seeded players into the eight sections, and the results were listed as follows.
The first section: Patroclus, Moon
The second section: Li Shiming, Earth
The third section: Li Ruoer, Earth
The fourth section: Lie Jian, Mars
The fifth section: Michaux Odin, Mars
The sixth section: Heidi, Mars
The seventh section: Li Xing(heir of the Thunder Blade), Moon
The eighth section: Zhang Buyu, Templar
The other eight seeded players were Ye Kai (Templar), Guan Dongyang (Martian, Heir to the Sect of the Hidden Path ) Turbolix (Earthling, Heir of the wind cloud kick), Tevez (Ivantian, heir of the Dark Moon), Sammill (Kaedeian), Gongsun Wuce (Ivantian, heir to the Gongsun family), Wuma (Earthling, heir of the Dark Witch), and Allen Smith (Ivantian, heir of the Golden Wheels)
The sixteen players from each faction represented their best shot at winning the tournament. Although Wang Ben and many others had practiced renowned tactics, they didn't make it to the top sixteen, because they were less popular, or because they were deemed to have fallen from grace after the previous catastrophic defeat.
In the legendary Sky arena, the opening ceremony of the sixteenth pan-solar METAL combat tournament was about to draw back its curtain. The opening ceremony never lacked big-name performers ever since its conception. There were stars such as Mike, as well as heavyweight politicians such as Douglas, the chairman of the confederation council. Almost all the powerful men and women on the Moon had gathered inside the VIP room. Since the game had taken place on the Moon, it was expected of them to show up in support of their fighters. Plus, the House Lord of the Zhang as well as the Dower —two of the most influential players in the politics on the moon—would also show up. Therefore, no politician dared to be absent.
The exuberant opening ceremony boasted the Ivantian's marvelous technical advancements and substantial financial clout. The area of a few kilometers around the arena was covered with a virtual reality projection. Its scale and cost had deeply impressed the Martians and the Earthlings.