Book 2: Chapter 37: The Opening Ceremony Part I

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Book 2: Chapter 37: The Opening Ceremony Part I

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Time passes by with the other two chatting and me playing a game on my terminal until the officials hosting the tournament finally corral us and give us instructions as to what were supposed to do. Which basically comes down to line up in a massive grid throughout the room where we will then march onto the field, with the students all situated based either at random or on whether or not they are participating in the primaries.

And after that hassle is done with, we march straight out onto a massive field made of pitch black stone where my ears are immediately assaulted by the roaring noise of the crowd beginning to cheer. A crowd made out of millions of people, making my eyes widen in shock. But I continue marching without stopping like some of the people I saw in other entrances to the field.

A loud and intense song starts to play throughout the stadium as we march. One that I instantly recognize as both the Terran Republics national anthem, and our march song against the demons.

We all slowly line up in a massive grid with an additional, smaller grid in front of the massive one for the Class I through III Primaries teams, and a large three layer pedestal in front of everyone, with me standing on the bottom layer of the pedestal at the very center, marking me as the Class I Solo Primary candidate for the current number one Guardians University and making me very uncomfortable with the attention it brings. Meanwhile the two layers behind us are for the Class II and III Solo Primary candidates respectively, with each layer having the feet of the students above us being around our shoulders as we all face the rest of the students in a large arc.

The music plays out for a bit longer until the song comes to a close, leading to a moment of silence as the majority of the people in the room give a salute in response to the ending like is taught at school. But I notice a large portion of the Guardians not doing it.

Not that the civilians seem to care, since its generally meant as a sign of support for the Guardians in the first place.

This is kind of what they get for having a Knight oversee every Interschool Tournament as a Knight Steward. Because out of the two Knights who are actually willing to attend, Black always somehow messes with the order of things by skipping long and boring speeches like this, whereas Purple just stays mute the entire time without saying a word.

People like it more when Black is the Steward though, since it adds more than a little amusement to the ceremony. Which I suspect is the only reason they continue having him be the Steward half the time when they could choose to go solely with Purple instead.

Very well, the Chairmans grandfatherly voice echoes throughout the stadium before he focuses on the audience once again, we shall dispense with the usual formalities and get straight to the point this year!

The Guardians go wild at that, briefly startling the Chairman for a second to my amusement.

Im very glad that the people setting up the magical reality can fix it so that loud noises like the roar of an audience dont actually hurt someones ears. Otherwise Id probably be on the ground right now in pain.

Right after we go over the usual rules and regulations of the tournament! the Chairman adds as if as an afterthought, cutting off a large portion of the cheers, but not all of them. Which makes sense since there are probably some people who dont know the rules.

I personally would like to be reminded of them, so Im fine with this myself.