As the second round had a total of 256 participants, allowing everyone to fight each other was way too time consuming. But as everyone had to get a ranking, randomly putting people against each other was a bit unfair.
For that reason, the second round always had various different types of competition between competitors. Last year, the top 256 had to compete against each other in a battle royale. It was disadvantageous for powerful people as weaker UR grades were able to team up against each other. But still the end result turned out to be quite fair.
Just like last year among the 256 people, only 32 of them would be able to go to the third round. And the format of the second round this time was going to be a hunting competition.
Hunting completions had happened before and they were some of the most exciting events. But hosting a hunting competition was extremely hard. Mainly because someone needed to keep an eye on every participant to make sure that they did not cheat and at the same time there was also a need to keep the participants safe.
But another big problem associated with the hunting competition for UR gardes was the lack of suitable areas for a competition like this. It was possible to host the competition in an area filled with monsters but in that case the monsters there would be too weak.
So if the monsters were not strong enough to put up a fight against an UR grade, then it would just become a competition to see who was able to cut more grass in the shortest amount of time, which was not exciting at all. Read exclusive chapters at m v l e m p y r
But this time, the hosts of the competition had a perfect solution in mind.
This hunting was going to take place in a danger zone called the "Ashen Barrens". This was a desolate land with almost no vegetation but it was home to a large number of powerful monsters. As this area had a very good visibility, it was easy to keep an eye on everyone's progress through drones.
Even just 5 years ago, any gadgets taken to the Ashen Barrens would stop working so it was not possible to host this competition there. But a few years ago, one company had managed to create exceptional cameras and drones that were working even in the Barrens.
Even though Rein and Sophia were quite confident with themselves, they still did not want to take any risks. So both of them decided to go to the Barrens as soon as possible to scout out the area. Not many people lived in that area so not many humans bothered to go there to risk their lives without any reason. So all the available information about that area was superficial.
For that Rein and Sophia were planning to research that place. Any danger zone did not only have powerful monsters but many other natural traps which were deadly. So they were a bit worried about falling into such traps.
First, Rein and Sophia use their own plane to arrive in a city called Ciatel. This was a small city with only about 500 people living here. Then from Ciatel, they drove their supercar toward the barren.
This was not the usual supercar that Sophia and Rein used daily to go to the school. Instead it was a special model that was capable of operating in dangerous areas and even had a built in weapon system. Only such cars were able to carry a blessed through lands filled with monsters.
After driving for about 3 hours, finally Rein and Sophia were able to see a desolate land with black soil in front of them. They were still quite far away from it but they were still able to see it as this area was very empty.
There was no official landmark to indicate from where the danger zone started but when the soil started to become black in colour, it was better to consider that the danger zone had already stated.
For the Championship, the organisers had created a quite large temporary base just outside the area from where the soil started to become black. Rein and Sophia appeared in that area, parked their car there, booked a tent for themselves and then left the base to go deeper into the Ashen Barrens.
Their objectives were to check out the power of the monsters living here, see the terrain and try to find areas where more monsters would gather.
This second round was looking to be a very interesting event.