258 The First Round

"Further information on the following stages will be revealed after you have successfully passed the 'Qualifiers'..."

The matches explanation and schedule were simply explained by the organizers before they left…

Just like we saw from our ground view platform, there were exactly 5 wide rings in the colosseum, which would supposedly host a match each with 30 minutes as the time frame for each one…

The whole battle show would last 10 hours per day, meaning that about 100 matches would be held per day, that also meant that the 'Qualifiers' would take about 5 days to conclude.

The method for choosing competitors was totally random and up to fate, as we were supposed to be informed of numbers that got matched by pure chance, it was quite chaotic and it mostly seemed like it heavily depended on luck and fate as it was a one time knockout match, but it was going to be swift at the very least…

I just had to stay still in my seat and only fight 2 matches for the next five days so it wasn't that bad after all…

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50 minutes later...

"Alright, listen up, the matches will be starting in ten minutes, the blank tags that you received at the time of registering will soon show your participant number which will decide your matches, so check them out and be ready for the time you will be called up at, the match list will also appear soon so that those who have no matches for the day can leave if they want to…"

'Eh…?'

Taking out my tag to see the number 333 inscribed on it, I finally recognized that it was once again another enchanted item that was treated very commonly…

'Weren't enchanted items somewhat rare and hard to obtain…?'

Having such a huge number of enchanted tags that had a somewhat complex function didn't make sense to me for some reason, was it that the rareness part was only true at the Light Domain yet not here? or was my actual knowledge flawed, old and possibly not up to date?

Such questions filled my mind for a few seconds before I quickly dismissed them as they were of no importance at the moment, if the abundance of enchanted items and other rare stuff was different here, I just had to take note of that so that my knowledge wouldn't have that flaw anymore…

No one seemed to be surprised about it either, so it was just about right to understand that it wasn't hard for such stuff to appear, especially at 'Battle City' which was obviously special due its circumstances and uses, in my own opinion, it could be considered the most advanced city that might pass as a city back in reality if we take out the special powers aspect…

Now all that was left was to wait…

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The list that came out was also simple just like the process of the tournament's explanations so far, contestant no.1 was matched with contestant no.2, no.3 was matched with no.4 and so on…

That meant that I wouldn't get on any ring before the fourth day, which also meant that I could just leave for now, but I decided to stay for a bit to watch the matches of the other participants, only to get a bit…

'Disappointing, nothing really to be careful about…'

The battles were quite generic, with the contestants being mostly Tier-3 weapon master, some were a bit stronger but not by much…

They somewhat reminded me of primitive fights that the Romans held in such colosseums as the special powers of the game world were hardly apparent…

Two was the number of hours that I could hold my boredom at as I left without much regrets…

Sure, judging from only a limited number of matches wasn't that helpful, but knowing my strength advantage when compared to the normal participants made it so that watching and observing people who might be my future opponents appear to be quite pointless, it seemed as if…

'I could only put some hopes on the 'Seeded Participants', I guess…'

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"It seems that a few strong fighters has appeared this year around…"

"Yeah, that guy simply used his earth elemental power to move his opponent off the stage with, he literally had no chance to react before he was disqualified…"

"That fire swordswoman also seemed to be quite the powerhouse herself, but her opponent was also too weak to force her to show her actual capability…"

'Hmmm…'

After spending my the first three days doing nothing before going to the colosseum once again in the fourth day in which my first ma should take place, it seemed that a few contestants have already started grabbing some attention…

It seemed like a rare pure elemental master showed up and amazed people with some moves that made him seem like a third stage practitioner but his true rank still seemed to be a mystery…

On the other hand, a not so rare combination that seemed to the fad around the domain, a sword user who is also a fire element practitioner shared the same attention…

Some other minor characters were mentioned around in the ground view platform that we were at, but these two seemed to be the most brilliant, but that still didn't matter much to me as I wouldn't be fighting them today anyway, but it wasn't a bad thing to take a note of it for now…

As for my match…

"No.665 versus No.666, ring three fight… start!"

It was one of the last three matches that would announce the end of the first round, being held exactly at 1 PM…

"Oh boy, didn't think I would have to wait that long to fight, but since this is kinda the last match… we gotta finish it off with a bang don't ya think?"

The guy who seemed to be in his twenties excitedly said as he suddenly dashed towards me… with his fists on fire...