The data collection plan had been a success.
Soon after we managed to escape from the lab, we split up, Ron and Liza went to take the data collection device to the Rings lab, while Libert and I returned to our rooms.
[October 23]
'They told me that to extract the data from the device it will take 10 to 15 days ... maybe ... I will finally be able to see the faces of my parents ...'
The day of the operation, however, brought new thoughts to my mind, 'why did I know the homeworld of the Slters?' 'Why did I see it as my home?' These were the questions I had in mind.
'Today ... I also have to make peace with Hel ... I hope she is not angry with me yet ...'
I then sent her a message with the bracelet, giving her an appointment at the gym at 3 pm.
She replied coldly with a simple "Ok".
'Well ... better than nothing ...'
'For now, I have 180PF ... I have to move up in the ranking as soon as possible, I have to get stronger ...'
There was too much gap between me and the other rings.
At around 12 I also received a message from Ri: "Come to my office after lunch".
'In fact, I haven't heard from her for a while ...'
I arrived at Ri's office, she was waiting for me behind her desk.
"Zeto ... hasn't been seen for a while ..." She told me with a smile.
'She seems happier than usual ...'
"Yeah ... what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Sit down first." She said.
Her behavior began to worry me a little.
"You've been invited to the Novice Towers Tournament!"
Not seeing me too excited she added, "There is a prize of 800,000 PFC up for grabs for the team that ranks first, and 100PF for each member of the winning team."
'800000PFC ?! If I remember correctly a team in the tower game is made up of 4 members… would that mean 200000PFC ?! '
"And when would that be?"
"Oh ... now I see you intrigued, huh?" She said amused.
"It starts on November 1st, in addition to you other 31 gladiators have been invited among the Tier Laurel, Magnolia, and Ailanthus ..."
"In the Tier Ailanthus ... a novice ?!"
"Yes ... and you should also know him already ... it's Hariri ..."
'Hariri ... I've heard him somewhere before ... right!'
"The one who won last event! ..."
"Yeah ... really a monster ... he will be the one you need to pay attention to the most ... especially its power Dominion ... in the next few days we will also have to study his powers more deeply ..."
"Ah, right ... and Hel? Was she invited too? "
"Yes ... in fact you should ask her to pair up ..."
She explained to me how team formation worked, first of all, pairs had to be formed, pairs could be formed by the will of the gladiators, and the remaining gladiators were "paired" randomly, then the couples joined randomly to form groups of four.
3 pm came, I said goodbye to Ri and went to the gym, where I had made an appointment with Hel.
I saw her in front of the entrance, she was dressed in black gym shorts and a purple gym tank top, with her hair tied up in two tails, which I hadn't seen since the survival event.
This wasn't the first time we worked out in the gym together, however, perhaps for the first time I noticed how good she looked dressed like this.
I approached her a little flushed with such thoughts.
"H-Hel?"
She turned to me, with a cold expression on her face, it was completely different from the amused expression she usually had on her face.
"Oh, Zeto ... you made me wait ..." She said.
'Fuck ... she is still mad at me ...'
"You know ... yesterday I followed you ... I saw you in a group with other people ... including that girl …" she said without changing her expression "...and after a while, you were as if you have disappeared into thin air ..."
'Shit ...'
"So you were really hiding something from me ..." she said.
"I ... I can't tell you what happened ..." I said, looking down.
"Tsk ... I figured it ... well ... let's go train." She replied as if she didn't care, which caused my heart to ache.
She turned, and headed for the gym, I grabbed her by the arm.
"Wait up!"
'AHH, why did I ...'
"There is one thing I would like to ask you ... you know ... the tournament of the Towers ... would you like to pair with me?" I asked, visibly embarrassed.
"Obviously you will pair with me, if you had tried to do it with someone else I would have killed you." She said bluntly and then walked into the gym.
This, for some reason, made me insanely happy.
I walked into the gym too, with a smile on my face.
[Towers Event:
The event consists of quarters, semifinals, and final, the event is single elimination.
The participation alone involves the obtaining of 10,000 PFC (per team), each past round involves the obtaining of 100,000 PFC (per team), the second place provides for the obtaining, by the team, of 400,000 PFC, while the first place predicts the winning of 800,000 PFC.
In addition, the gladiators of the teams will get 10 PF for participation, 15 PF for the quarter-finals, 25 PF for the semifinals, 50 PF for the second place and 100 PF for the 1st place.
Both PFs and PFCs won add up to each other.
All participants in the event of the Towers are novices, that is, people with less than 6 months of experience in the Arena.
The game of the Towers is one of the games that attract more spectators and more shares in the Slter television and streaming lines.
The "game of Towers" in particular consists of a lane with 3 towers to protect per team, the 2 teams, red and blue, are made up of 4 gladiators each, and the goal is to destroy all the opposing towers.
These towers periodically launch a laser beam against an opposing player who is within its range, such a beam causes 500 Hp per stroke, if one is skilled enough he can even avoid it; to destroy the towers, bombs are provided (1 every 30 seconds) in the team base, located behind the main tower, i.e. the third for distance from the center of the playing field, ten bombs are needed to knock down a tower (20 for the main ones ) and when you die you lose all the bombs in possession. At the base of the towers, there are 5 areas where bombs can be placed, a bomb after being placed will explode after 5 seconds and cannot be removed from there by the opposing team. If a bomb falls from a player's hands, that bomb can be picked up again, however, if left on the ground it will disappear after 10 seconds.
Then there are two special areas, in one of them, once a match, a legendary weapon is spawned, to take it you have to stay within 1 meter from it for 1 minute.
While in the other special zone it can randomly spawn a land dragon, if it is killed by a team, it will respawn as their ally; in addition, even weaker monsters randomly spawn on the battlefield, by killing them you can get bonus bombs, shields (Hp bonus) or Hp.]