Finally, everybody had found a team, and no one had missed the grand event, so the dummies weren't even needed. Alan appeared above everybody, and the whole stadium died down in noise as he began to speak again. "Hello everybody, glad to see nobody skipped and everybody has some teams; now how we will do this is just like a regular tournament where the losing team gets immediately eliminated. If your team is eliminated before the 4th round, you will not be attending my academy. I hope to get this across now so people don't complain later. Now, you might be wondering. How are we going to have 1,600 matches going at the same time? We will be using the fields that everybody can see in the stadium now. These fields have the same space magic that the stadium has been blessed with, so each field could fit all of you. But that would be a bit cramped ".
Alan pointed towards one of the screens behind him showing a field with steep snowy mountains with monsters roaming around. "Each field has their own separate sorts of monsters or if you wanna be fancy then you can call them demonic beasts but I prefer monsters. Anyway each team will have their own field for them to go into where they will fight another team. If your team leader is unconscious or dies then your whole team loses and yes killing is allowed in this tournament but it is pretty messy so keep it on a low please. More details will be explained later once you are inside the field. GO! ". All the teams dog tags started to glow, after the glow was gone the dog tags were embedded with a new design correlating to the field they were meant to go to.
Icy white along with being cold to the touch - Arctic hollow.
Thunder bolt down the middle along with shocking the person that it touches - Lighting canyon.
Leafs scattered all over the tag along with a grassy touch - Emerald vale.
Cracked with orange lines down the tag along with being hot to the touch - Monarchs Furnace.
Blue with sea creatures floating in the tag - Sunken Grave.
Light gray with the sound of wind breaking coming from the tag - Aether breeze.
Damian touched his tag then walked over to the corresponding one dreading going inside. 'Arctic hollow, this is going to fucking suck '. Damian walked in with his team closing behind.
When they walked into the field they were stunned by how big the field was now that they were inside "It's like another world inside here, What does this look like for the people in the stands though indeed we don't seem really small to them right? "Damian asked about how space manipulation works for the viewer's experience. Leon answered immediately, "The fields we saw are actually just models. Once you step foot into the field you actually get teleported into the actual field which is much much much further underground currently we are thousands of kilometres below the surface. I don't know how they make it though because of temperature, animals, monsters and all sorts of variables.While the people viewing can see us fight using the tablets given to them by the stadium for this event. The people outside aren't as lucky though because they only get to see what the stadium's primary camera is on either and add or a very intense fight. It's very, very complicated. ".
Damian looked at Leon and thought he was actually quite clever but he did ramble quite a bit. "So we are thousands of kilometres underground and there are cameras all around us which people in the stadium can use anytime and swap to any camera to view us. Wouldn't there be hundreds of thousands of cameras then? ".
Leon nodded along with his words "Yes, there are quite a few, but you can also view based on person. For example, all the A rankers have their own camera, which means they can generally focus on the high rankers which is usually where all the action is, but then there's dark horses and other stuff. There's only so much you can do for a massive event it needs some tuning ".
Damian thought his brain would explode with all this information and decided to focus on fighting.
[ Match ready to start 666 vs 102 ]
[ Both team leaders need to click ready at the bottom of this screen ]
[ Person will be considered eliminated if they are either killed or knocked unconscious ]
[ Tricks, traps, betrayal and the sorts are allowed be careful ]
[ Ready? ]
Damian hit ready and tried to navigate the digital screen to see if it would show him the enemy team's info but it wouldn't let him do anything else so he called for Alice and rested on her lap. Leon approached him and asked " Did you check our enemies info before clicking ready? ". Damian just gave him a weird look " You can check? "Leon now realised that his leader was only good in battle. Leon sat beside Alice and sighed " You can check the information by going to the battle tab on the left. ". Damian just yawned " It's fine ".
After 10 minutes the match finally started causing Damian's team to stop playing tic-tac-toe and focus on the match " Hey Alice think you could take them all? ". Alice thought about it then said " Maybe if I knew their ranks instead of my leader just clicking ready straight away ". Leon sat down, took out a little black box from his pocket, and flew it around while Damian looked at it strangely. Suddenly a pillar of ice was launched their way which was blocked by Maddies hammer.
"2 people situated 1 km north at the top of the second tallest mountain "Leon called out behind them. Damian sighed, wishing he could go back to Alice's thighs "You guys ruined my damn rest ". He rose up into the air with 2 flaming spears, then threw them with all his might. Moments later the whole mountain was blown up with pieces of ice falling everywhere including onto them "Maddie, Abigail make sure none of that hits Leon, me and Alice will be fine ".
After the ice was cleaned up nothing happened causing them to stay on high alert until they saw a screen.
[ Winner: 666 ]
[ Enemy team leader forfeited ]
Damian smiled then went back to Alice's thighs squeezing them a bit while smiling. "Hey Leon, what was that black box? ". Leon grabbed another one from his pocket and Damian saw it was a little drone with wings on the side "It's a drone I call them Sky Cubes, they also have a little camera that sends back information to me ".
Damian looked at them and thought about how hard they must be to make " You're very smart Leon. Good job. "Leon smiled and thanked him while Maddie told him that he would like them.
[ Match ready to start 666 vs 905 ]
[ Both team leaders need to click ready at the bottom of this screen ]
[ Person will be considered eliminated if they are either killed or knocked unconscious ]
[ Tricks, traps, betrayal and the sorts are allowed be careful ]
[ Ready? ]
Damian thought there would be something between the matches but they seem to be rapid fire for now. He followed Leon's advice and went to the battle tab on the left.
[ Lucia Vermin - B-rank ]
[ Darian Steele - B-rank ]
[ Loira Hayes - B-rank ]
[ Kieran Frost - C-rank ]
[ Quinn Hughes - C-rank ]
Damian checked all of their ranks then showed his team "Someone come verse me in Tic-Tac-Toe". "What about the match? Leon asked but still sat down to play. "Alice, do you think you can beat them? ".
Alice pouted while getting ready to run "I'm not weak ".
[ Other team has hit ready ]
"Okay I'll be starting soon so do your best ". After Damian said that Alice decided to put on her gauntlets if he wanted her best. Damian hit yes and with that the match started causing Alice to dash away moving at full speed. The rest of the team could hear crashing in the distance and prayed for whoever is on the opposing end. After Damian had lost 10 matches in a row of tic-tac-toe, he decided to go lay down and rest. 'I hate this fucking ice, it's so cold '.
[ Winner: 666 ]
[ Enemy team eliminated ]
Alice came back shortly after with her gauntlets dripping blood from the knuckles. Maddie took them from her and started to clean the blood off of them. Alice sat next to Damian who was happy he pillow was back so he gave her some more head pats. 'I wonder what Isabella is doing right now?, I've still got to think of a way to get her into the academy along with me and Alice '.
4 more matches had passed with Alice doing most of the work but having to call upon Damian once. "It's already 4pm "Leon was looking at his watch and tinkering at it from time to time.
The whole team was suddenly teleported out of the ice field and appeared in the stadium once more. They looked around and saw that the field models had disappeared with most of the contestants. There were now 50 teams left, so 250 people.
"Congrats to everybody here; you have all made it into my academy, "Alan stated while still in the air while the whole stadium started to clap for them. Some even threw in flowers or trinkets onto the stage.
"People that made it past the 3rd round will undergo another test, and that will decide if they get into the academy or not, but that doesn't concern you guys, so who cares. Now, as we are down to our last 50 teams, we are going to mix things up. We will now be doing team battles in the stadium arena; there will be no fields or anything, just a normal arena. There will be a protective dome around the outside, so you don't have to worry about anything happening. These fights will happen tomorrow, so every team, please be here at 11:00 am tomorrow, or your team will be disqualified, but you will still be a student. " Alan could see that somebody had their hand up and pointed at them. " Yes? ".
Damian asked Alan, " Why should we fight for higher positions? Do we get any bonuses? ". Alan looked at the kid and thought he was making a joke but decided to entertain it.
" Of course, you can drop out from the test now and still become a student, but there is a prize for the top 5 students. 5th place will get $500,000, A small manor in the academy, access to the library after hours and access to the training field after hours as well. Same as 4th, but they get an extra $500,000. 3rd place gets all of that plus a skill book from me. 2nd place gets the same but a bigger house along with an extra $1,000,000, and 1st place gets $10,000,000, A mansion, access to the library and research facility after hours, 2 skill books from me, access to our training rooms and fields, permission to bring somebody into the academy test free and becomes the 1st years year leader. Which will be explained later in class. Make sure to come tomorrow, goodbye everybody. "Alan disappeared, this time leaving behind large snowflakes that sprinkled the area, making it look quite beautiful.