*Loud cheers*
"Welcome everyone to the annual competition marking the fifty turn. The grand tournament."
*cheers*
"Today the elected representatives of Astora, Astarte Alsa and Alikh will be competing in order to prove their worth and hold their country's flag high in honor and in good sports."
*cheers*
"We will start with the magical track race, three participants of each country are to advance forward. The rules are simple the first to reach the finish line is the winner and will be awarded with 10 points 5 for the second and 2 for the third. Any place above that will yield no points. All type of magic and combat arts is allowed with the exception of teleportation magic or S class magic or any type of forbidden magic. "
*cheers*
"Participants MOVE FORWARD."
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(Asura Pov)
This is enormous. The stage is five times bigger than the school coliseum…it has a large central arena almost 400 meter by 100 with large screen on top and a stadium that is full to the brim and can easily hold more than 250 000 spectators it had several floors with booths on multiple parts of it designed for the VIP.
There were several exits more than 100 to flush the masses.
The stage was a normal dirt field but when the announcer finished his speech hills and obstacles were created even magmatic and ice islands were created with a water lake on the side.
A holographic road was created that passed through multiple zones of the course. It even went underground.
This must be the designed road. There are several lights on each side of it I think that it is there as a checkpoint that participants need to pass by to validate their course.
This would be a great chance for me to prove my worth as the Shunpo skill will be a great asset in this race…sadly that dam woman was against me participating I tried to ask Osfor to try and convince her but he was nowhere to be found. So she chose Zeles Shiki and the Mohawk guy to start.
I would have strongly objected if she picked anyone else as I do trust Shiki to be fast enough to score the first place so I had to stand down.
The other schools have chosen their members and are now standing on the start line.
Albion's members were wearing their newly designed tournament clothing that had the same emblem of Alsa's legendary knight the Everlasting might.
With white colored tracksuits with blue strips
Astarte's clothing had the same white color but with large emerald colored stripes from shoulder to boots.
Every one of the participants from Astarte had a weapon of sorts. But nothing too showy just some long swords and broad swords and one participant holding a spear.
The other participants remained in their booth so did the other from different school.
Alikh had people wearing red uniforms with black strips as for Astora they had a silver colored clothing with a big orange circle in the chest area.
None of the participants had weapons except the three from Astarte so I guess they are all magic users. How would the sword users fair against the others is something I will have to see.
The loud voice of the announcer run once more announcing the start of the race.
In a blink of the eye there was no one near the start line. Shiki was leading the race with his ever so accelerating speed. He moved like a bullet followed by Zeles that was blinking every moment from place to place. On their tail was one from Astora as he was using some kind of magical circle making him float and advance in extraordinary speed. The fourth place was shared by amazingly three of the Astarte weapon wielders as they were running in at an amazing pace. As for the rest they were struggling to keep up even with their abnormal skills and amazing speeds they still were unable to advance to the first places.
The first movements of hostilities came from the trio from Astarte. The one in the middle looked at both his allies and nodded making the one on his right slow down while the one on his left pick up his speed. He easily reached the guy using the floating Mahojin sending an arc slash toward him to disturb his balance but he still persisted.
The other guy's objective was to slowdown and hinder anyone that attempted to advance as he was constantly harassing anyone that was trying to bypass him. The one in the middle just kept his initial pace and advanced without worry.
While Shiki and Zeles were still advancing the rest were struggling and fighting among each other. This looked very promising for Albion as the first and second place might be reserved for us.
Until this happened. When Shiki reached the glacier area he was forced to slowdown as his speed would work against him in a low friction area. Zeles however seemed unhindered with this as he was still able to blink forward bypassing Shiki. The guy who was behind Shiki finally collapsed under the constant harass of the guy from Astarte. As his lost his focus and ended up receiving an attack to his flank that KOed him.
The sword wielder kept advancing this time changing focus to Shiki who was still slowing down.
Few participants surprisingly were eliminated by the Mohawk guy as he used the same tactic of the swordsmen and held back his speed only to eliminate whoever was behind him with hard hitting attacks. As he erected stone walls in the face of some of the competitors who could do nothing but crash in them.
Laughing maniacally he advanced forward.
He was using a surfboard made of stone to move on the ground. It was slow at first but the longer he was using it the faster he became…
Another participant from Astora was taken out by the swordsman that slowed down earlier making the total participants of Astora 0.
A total elimination of the first team of Astora was received with a mixed of booing and cheers from the audience.
Three from Alsa and three from Astarte and two remained from Alikh.
Shiki was almost out of the glacial area while Zeles already did leave it and was halfway through the magmatic zone.
The swordsman was on Shiki's tail. It was apparent that if Shiki was to leave the frozen grounds he will be back in the lead in no time so the guy tried his best in order to stop him where he was considered weakest.
Throwing several arc slashes and attacks were his way of hindering once more another competitor. But this time he was joint by his buddy that miraculously managed to close the distance when he was keeping a steady pace earlier.
The pressure was high on Shiki as he was obviously struggling to dodge and keep his pace.
Feeling the frustration Shiki unleashed a an explosive shockwave that sounded of thunder from within his body it staggered and sent one of his chasers flying leaving a crater behind him and finally leaving the glacial zone only to tremendously pickup his speed creating afterimages of him while constantly making explosive sounds each time he took a large stride.
Normally the 400 meter large platform would be only few seconds for the fast Shiki but it was magically handled to make it look ridiculously long.
Dissatisfied with his inability to cripple the advance of Shiki the guy with the spear was cursing along the way.
Behind him was a ferocious fight happening as the two guys the Mohawk guy and the broad sword wielder were at each other's troths amusingly anyone who ever got close to them and anyone who ever tried to attack them was instantly eliminated as they both focused their attacks at them. Making whoever came close either taking a longer road or giving up.
Zeles was truly surprised as he noticed the bullet speed Shiki bypass him even though he was almost at the end of the magmatic zone it became apparent that the interval in which he blinked started to become longer although it was problematic but it will not hinder his position.
Shiki on the other hand was able to break through the magmatic zone and waltz into the final zones.
The one that had a lake in it was easily traversed by his enormous speed as he was literally running on water. Getting out of it he was met with few caves and some underground tunnels which he easily finished in seconds due to his speed. Finally reaching the finish line while hearing the loudest of cheers that came from the audience this day.
About 2 minutes it was Zeles' turn to reach the finish line. Rewarded with another loud cheering he bowed deeply to the audience.
Finally in third place after 5 minutes of Zeles' arrival it was the spear wielder. Normally he should have taken a longer time getting there but he used a spear dive technique that boosted his advance making him hold his spear forward with both hand and increasing his speed enormously. As soon as he got out of the glacial zone that is.
When the first three reached the finishing point, the race ended with Alsa gaining 15 points and 2 points for Astora.
Right after Shiki was satisfied with the cheers he went back to the booth where the rest of the team was in including me.