Chapter - 80 [ Festival Tournament First Day - 1! ]

The whole of Capital city Deegle was decorated with various items and the streets were filled with stalls for different purposes. Today was the first day of tournament.

The whole of city was filled with people. And the amount of people coming, didn't stop there. It was increasing with each minute.

The reason for this was, the announcement of attendance of the talented youngest Advanced Master Knight, and a surprise prize of a new Artifact level weapon.

Artifact level weapon was something rare, that even the other countries only had one each only if they are truly lucky. This announcement made even the other kingdom to take interest in this year's festival tournament. Even the dwarf kingdom which was supposed to be staying silent, was interested in it, as an artifact level sword was something even they can't make.

Besides, they all wanted to know who and if possible invite the young talented man to their side.

For the remaining three days, Academy allowed the students to take leaves and let them have some fun.

Today's preliminary and sub fights would be beginning at morning. First will be of course the preliminary, which they all decided to be a battle royale. They will allow all the participants to fight until the number reduce until only sixteen of the strongest participants are still standing.

As for the sub matches, the remaining 16 fight in a dual and selects 8 strongest. Sub-semi will select 4 from remaining 8. Semi will select 2 from the 4. The last two will be the one to fight in the finals.

So, on the first day, everything will be starting off with the preliminary and sub matches. Sub-semi and semi matches is decided to be carried out on the second day, while the final is to be on the third day.

The king and royal family will only be present at the time of semi and final. It seems, his other children, who were born from his other wives will be returning to the country from the seaport kingdom of brine after their education.

There were other academies as well on other countries. They incidently chose that country. It seems they have some kind of circumstances. In Adam's guess, the other cousins were either engaged to that country's nobles or strictly based on educational purposes.

Now, Adam and the others were looking after everything to make this a successful program.

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Inside a large venue owned by the Royal Family, a crowd uncountable was buzzing like bees. On one side of the venue, a decorated stage was arranged. Above it, was judges and above it being the guests.

In the seats of judges, Adam and Resta in her granny figure, together with four more others seated. The two of the four was the Royal magister and the Royal knight Captain. While one of the two is the head of the ducal family who is Adam's father, Arthur and the other being an unfamiliar man with black hair and a suspicious mask.

Of course Adam knew who it was. Only King Rastus who was in the Royal castle and Adam who was in the judge seat knew the true identity of this man. It was the previous vampire king, Damon.

In the guest section, some of the other noble heads and some people from other countries were present.

With a bang of a bell, the commentator, announced,

"Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen..! Our long waited festival tournament is about to begin now...!!!"

"I, your favourite Gerla, was selected to be the commentator for this year's tournament..!! For anyone who didn't know about this year's schedule, we have already put it on the notice board. Now!! Today will be seeing two different matches...! First of all, for the selection of worthy warriors, we decided that the preliminary matches will be a battle royale..!!!"

To her words, the audience soared like thunderclaps. There was some cheering and badmouthing people as well. But, as this was normal for the days of festival, none minded such a thing.

"We have here, the judges ready if any problems were to arise...!!! Now, all the participants, are already in the ring...! It's time to announce the rules."

RULES :

1. Can fight anyone alone or by teaming up.

2. No killing Allowed. (Unless, that person choose to fight till his/her death)

3. No use of poison or any medicinal weapons.

4. Can use weapons or hand to hand combat or magic.

5. No use of attack against the audience.

6. Getting out of the line is considered defeat.

7. Attacking someone who surrendered is considered punishable and will be excluded from the future matches.

"These are all the rules..! Now is there anyone who doesn't agree to the above rules..?!"

She waited for a few moments and seeing that none is raising their hands, she continued,

"That's decided then..! Now then, When the judges ring the starting bell, all the participants are allowed to fight with their all...! The time limit is till the judges ring the bell again...! The match will also be finished, once the number of the participants is reduced from this 120 to 16..!"

Everyone waited. From the judges seat, Adam's father, Arthur rang the bell three times.

"START..!!!"

Booom..!!

Just as the lady announced the beginning of the match, a loud boom was heard as the body of a bald man with scars on his face flew towards the walls of the venue.

Everyone was silent. When they turned towards from where the bald man flew, they saw a young man standing with his right leg raised, like a martial artist. The other participants were also startled by this. But quickly recovering, they all began their own fight while ignoring the young man.

Although they were planning to give them a few hours on Adam's recommendation, it didn't last that much as the last 16 people were standing victoriously among the fallen participants. The lady commentator received a paper from a girl next to her, as she read the contents aloud.

"Wow..!! It was so fast..! Finally, we have decided the fated 16 people to fight in the sub matches..!! Let us congratulate, Ms. Zeal, Mr. Jake, Mr. Hob, Mr. Unknown Mask..?, Ms. Poly, Mr. Savaar, Ms. Yozo, Ms. Adriel, Ms. Lucille, Mr. Rory, Mr. Noe, Mr. Cyrus, Mr. Jax, Mr. Trace, Mr. Matteo, and Ms. Anaya for being selected to fight in the coming sub matches...!!!"

"Your opponents will be decided randomly at the time of match by each judges...! Now, till the next matches begin, we give you all a break for drinking, eating or recovering your strength...!! When the time of the match is near, we will notify everyone with a special way. Please always check the sky for further notice..!!"

Saying so, she concluded. The audience however didn't understand what they are talking about. But wanting to enjoy the festival a little, they all left for their enjoyment. The 16 participants also left to recover their strength. Adam and the others didn't left. As soon as everyone left, Arthur sat near his son and began to talk while the other two also joined them soon.

During their talk, he learned that, the Royal knight captain and Royal Magister was extremely excited to meet him. Captain seems to be jealous of his strength, as even though he is a knight captain, he was only at the level of Master knight.

Although he hid the fact that he's a Pseudo Emperor level Magister, the Royal magister seems to have taken a liking to him as from the academic side, she learned about his level of strength and talent as a an all element user.

Damon looked suspicious to the others, but since he's someone the king recommended, none had anything to say.

They waited for an hour before Adam raised his hand and aimed at the sky and threw a small fireball super fastly. As the fire reached the sky, it exploded and the explosion transformed into a beautiful firework showing a sentence saying, 'Sub Matches of Festival Tournament!!!' in green color.

A lot of people were startled by the show, but understanding why they did it, they all returned to see the sub matches eagerly.