After Chris left a few more people also left the venue, so the party became quite quiet. But it did not matter to Rein or Sophia as there were just as many people around them as it was before. But they also did not stay in the party for too long. After about 3 hours, they also returned back to their rooms..
Even though Sophia was confident in her strength she was still worried that she would make some kind of mistake in the main stage. For that reason Sophia wanted to have some practice before the start of the championship.
For that reason, even though she was very unwilling, Sophia decided to reduce some time from sex and used that extra time to practice.
She and Rein had many mock battles and they even went hunting in a nearby forest. Sophia even went ahead and destroyed the headquarters of a criminal organisation to practice her spying and assassination skills. Just like that days passed by quickly and it was already the time for the World Blessed Championship to begin.
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Just one day before the competition, the grouping for the UR grades was declared. More than one thousand UR grade powerhouses were divided into 64 teams. All the people who were in the same group had to fight each other in order to gather points.
Winning against someone rewarded the victor with two points and in case of a draw both of the fighters were given one point. A loser obviously got nothing. Not all the groups had the same number of participants but most of the groups had 16 people in it. The remaining few groups had 15 blessed.
This was the qualifying round. From each group four people with the highest amount of points would be able to advance to the main competition. This was also the round that eliminated the most competitors in this . Championship.
After checking the list, Rein found himself in the 51st group. On the other hand, Sophia was in the 7th group. Among the remaining two UR grade blessed from the Maltria nation, another one was participating. He was quite old and had participated in the world championship 5 times. But he had never managed to reach the second round.
The very first match was going to be between the previous champion Chris and a person named Howard who had managed to rank 23rd in the last championship. This was a high profile match and the audience was over the moon because of this.
Chris had a very simple fighting style. His symbol was that of an armour and he was able to cover himself in one. But that armour was not only useful for defense but also increased his physical abilities so that his strength was greater than before and his speed would also increase.
Not only that but as that armour was very hard, if he charged at someone or hit someone with a punch, that would deal a huge amount of damage.
So this armour was an extremely powerful ability that had helped with everything, be it defense, offence, speed or anything else. There was even a rumour that this ability even increased Chris' self healing power. But no one was sure about that as Chris had never been so badly injured in the championship where he needed to use that ability.
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But if that was true, then just breaking through his defence would not be enough.
Chris' opponent was quite powerful and created a large sand golem to fight him. But just as everyone had expected, Chris directly clashed with the golem, broke it in less than 10 exchanges and attacked the man controlling it. He did his best to create more smaller golems to stall Chris but this tactic only bought his a few extra minutes.
Even without breaking a sweat, Chris was able to destroy all his golems and finally when he managed to reach this man, Chris knocked him unconscious with just a single punch. That was how the opening match of the tournament came to an end with an overwhelming victory for the previous champion.
It looked like this time the champion was definitely going to be quite interesting.