Chapter 177 - The Tournament

The owner nodded, he didn't understand why these two men were asking him that but Alec continued with a smile : "After this tournament, all the humans are going to come here to buy your talisman papers.

So you should considerably increase your prices, especially the one of your green papers, you should put them at least at fifty thousand notes each.

I know you don't know us yet, but we're going to be your most important buyers, especially for your red and green papers, so you should trust us on this one and increase your prices."

The shop owner asked Alec suspicious : "What do you want in exchange for this information ?"

Alec answered him honestly : "We just wish to establish a good relationship with you as we would like to buy huge quantities of your talisman papers."

Liam asked him curiously : "What is your production of red, blue and green papers per month ?"

The owner saw the honesty in Alec's gaze, so he replied to Liam, hoping to really create a good relationship with these two humans : "It depends on how many trunks I get for each species of trees, the trunks of the red papers being the hardest to obtain and the trunks of green papers being the easy one.

Once I have the trunks through a technique that is passed down from generation to generation in my family, I can produce the talisman papers, one trunk can make two hundred talisman papers."

Liam raised his hand to interrupt him and he asked : "You said the trunks for the red papers were hard to get, why are they so hard to get, is it because they are in a dangerous zone or because they are rare ..."

The owner said : "It's because they are in a very dangerous area, these trees are protected by very powerful evil creatures.

The only way to get some of them is when groups of fighters decide to go there to train and make some money."

Liam raised his hand again and said : "Can I call my brother, I think he will like this information very much."

The owner nodded and Liam contacted Aiden who answered immediately, he said : "Aiden, would you like to go hunting some evil creatures ?"

Aiden said : "Not really, Basile just arrived so I want to spend time with him."

Aiden's response was so unexpected that Liam was speechless, Aiden added : "Where did you find evil creatures and what kind are they ?"

Liam ended up telling him still surprised by his rejection : "We are still with the owner of the talisman papers shop, and he just told us that the trees that could provide the red papers were protected by evil creatures, I don't think it's just a coincidence ?"

Aiden's smile widened but he said to his brother : "Come back here first, you have no idea how powerful these evil creatures are, so don't be recklessness.

We'll go there once the tournament is over and the threat has passed.

If this is really the demon god's personal red papers reserve, then we absolutely need to steal it."

Alec said : "Creating transdimensional portals must take a lot of energy even for her, she may also be using red papers for her men, so without this reserve of red papers we can weaken her."

Liam said to Aiden : "Okay, don't be worry we're heading back."

Liam cut off the communication and said to the owner : "We will definitely come back after the tournament to buy talisman papers, and you will tell us then where we can find these evil creatures."

The owner replied : "As you wish, I will be impatiently waiting for you to come back."

Just before leaving the shop Alec turned around and said to the owner : "Don't forget to raise your prices."

Liam and Alec returned to the hotel where they found everyone sharing a dinner.

Celia's "funeral" would take place the next morning, so they had decided to stay until the start of the tournament with Celia's family, after that they will leave directly for Eben to join the others and didn't know when they would be able to return.

After the morning of the next day, they had spent their time playing with the children all together in the hotel's water park, baking pastries, and telling stories.

The day of the tournament arrived and Celia took her brothers and children with her, it was a little hard on her parents, but Celia knew that her stepfather would take good care of her mother, and she had to promise her mother to call them often thanks to her magic stone like she called it.

Once in the world of the talisman papers, Celia teleported her children with her brothers inside the dimension and forbade them to leave until she told them that they were safe.

Her brothers understood the danger and promised to take care of her children.

Celia after putting them in safety, could now focus on this tournament and the uncoming battle, but before that they went to collect their money from the auction, they got two billion eight hundred million notes.

With this money they would be good for quite a while in this world.

They made their way to the castle gate and Anaya presented her badge to the guard, they enter and Celia walked to the bleachers with Alec while Anaya and Liam walked over to the other participants, as for Aiden, Caleb and Daniel, they were ready to fight, waiting in the shadows for the right moment.

The head instructor for this tournament explained the rules and they were quite simple : "A draw took place, you were thirty-two registered, so there will be two eliminatory rounds, then the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final.

Those qualified for the semi-finals will be automatically qualified to participate in the tournament against the elves, the fifth one will be chosen according to the quality of his matche among the quarter-finalists.

The winner of the tournament will be able to choose three items from the castle treasure.

To win the fight you have to expel your opponent from the combat ring or knock him out or make him giving up.

You can find the information about your fight on the notice board there, good luck everyone."

Anaya and Liam walked over to the notice board and Anaya's fight was in the combat ring number one, her opponent was a fighter of level eight with fire and wind elements.

Liam put his arm on Anaya's shoulders and accompanied her to her combat ring, when they arrived he reminded her : "Remember, killing is forbidden and Celia wants you to fight only with green papers."

Anaya looked at him and said with a beaming smile on her face : "Don't worry, considering the reward my wife promised me if I only used green papers for my fights, nothing will make me use another method."

Anaya left a stunned Liam and stepped into the combat ring, ready to give her opponent a good beating.