Hardrock City

A year before the tournament's determined date, the Alchemy God's people, the ones managing the tournament had released a set of rules for all the participants to follow.

There were about 25 different rules, some obvious ones, and some interesting ones.

The main ones that mattered to Alex were 3 different ones.

First, one could not get any aid from any outsider during any part of the competitions, which included their family, masters, and friends obviously, but they were allowed to rely on their bonded beasts.

Alex was surprised when he first read those rules since it was easy for someone to temporarily bond with Divine beasts for the period of the competition, but Silvermist had said that it was not possible.

If there were a Divine beast, then they would instead be the master in the bonded relationship, and by technicality alone, they would not count as they would be a master.