The next day, the annual aerial competition began. Originally, since the eldest princess Xia inherited Dark Moon, the significance of this competition has become much duller, and it has gradually become a personal gambling match between the little princess Alice and the treasurer Joseph. However, today the arena is full of people, which is the result of Joseph's use of a little trick, intending to dampen the morale of Dark Moon in the public eye.
Aldass, who has not appeared in public for a long time, appeared in the VIP seat of Alice's side as a member of Chen Rui's family and friends, causing everyone to talk for a while, mostly praising the heroic deeds of poisoning the genius of the imperial capital with gas in the last master challenge. Although it has been a while, the dark elf master still feels hot on his face.
This time, the Chiyou Territory specially sent someone to show its importance, and the representative of the eldest princess was Old Gaos. As a lord, Xia naturally has her own status and dignity. Since the Chiyou lord Zhuoqi did not come in person, she did not need to be present. This indifferent attitude more or less shows that Xia is not optimistic about the outcome of this competition.
In fact, almost no one is optimistic about the human apprentice. Although the aerial competition is not about the strength of the individual but the ability to control the beast, the human's strength is too weak. Whether it can fly into the sky is still a problem, let alone fighting. Last time, the human apprentice won because of Master Aldass. Now he has no chance of winning if he faces it alone.
While people are sure that the human apprentice will lose, they are also wondering why His Highness Xia or His Highness Alice would allow such a weak guy to represent Dark Moon in the competition? Or did the two princesses have an arrangement?
"Every audience who comes to watch the competition can not only watch it for free, but also get a purple crystal coin as a reward? Joseph is really willing to spend money." Chen Rui said enviously, "It would be great if all his money could be brought here."
For him, money is spiritual energy, money is experience, and money is power.
The last sentence obviously resonated strongly with Alice, who nodded desperately. The two money-loving people who had already discussed how to divide the spoils after the event showed strong fighting spirit in their eyes.
Joseph saw the crowded arena and showed satisfaction. The demons originally advocated force, and now there was competition to watch and there were bargains to be made, so they naturally flocked to it. Today's result will definitely satisfy His Royal Highness the Regent who was far away in the imperial capital.
After the welcome speech and opening remarks, Alice walked to the center of the arena and spoke with the help of the magic loudspeaker.
"Today, it's a friendly competition between the Chiyou Territory and the Dark Moon Territory." Alice said a polite word, then put her hands on her waist, pointed at Joseph in the VIP seat with her delicate fingertips, and said loudly in a very Alice language: "Today, Treasurer Joseph represents his father's Chiyou Territory, and the new member of Dark Moon City, Master Aldass's apprentice Chen Rui, will represent our Dark Moon! We will defeat them completely! The game is still based on the previous three-game two-win system, but the choice of appearance will be slightly changed. In the first game, we will send one person first, and you can freely arrange the candidates; in the second game, you will go first, and in the third game, both sides will send out candidates at the same time, and no temporary changes can be made. Guys from Chiyou, do you dare to accept the challenge?" The audience at the home court was in high spirits and responded in unison: "Dare you?" Candidates? Joseph looked thoughtful, and then Alan came over and asked, "What should we do now? I don't want to play against Athena. Are you sure you want me to play against that Chen Rui? I want to kill him myself!"
"Don't worry, everything is under my control, that human is dead!" Joseph looked disdainful and replied, "If I'm right, they must want to play some tricks in the selection of players. Win two games first, and then that human won't have to play in the end. So we have to make sure we win at least one of the first two games, and you stay to fight that human in the end!"
"You still have an idea!" Alan nodded happily, his eyes still staring at Chen Rui viciously.
Joseph stood up amidst the waves of provocations and said, "Okay, let's follow Her Highness Alice's proposal and play a best-of-three format. I have only one condition, each player can only play once, and cannot play repeatedly."
Joseph's proposal was to prevent the opponent from letting the strongest Athena play the whole game alone. Alice agreed and shouted excitedly, "Then I declare that the aerial competition officially begins! First, please welcome the first competitor of the Dark Moon Territory, Athena Wells, the daughter of the first general of the empire, George Wells!"
Athena is a celebrity in Dark Moon City and the main force in the previous two competitions. The audience was excited and shouted her name loudly.
"Be careful." Although Athena had not spoken to him after yesterday's embarrassing incident, Chen Rui couldn't help but say it at this time.
Athena paused slightly, did not respond, and walked straight off the field. Athena's animal taming skills and strength are the strongest on Alice's side, and Joseph expected her to play in the first game.
Joseph gave a few instructions to a skinny demon servant beside him, who nodded and walked off the field.
"The first player in the Chiyou Territory is Leo!"
The central area of the arena is very large. The last Master Challenge used only a small area in the middle. Now the area has been completely cleared, enough for flying monsters to take off.
Both sides used horned winged beasts, soared into the air, and after flying to the height indicated by the magic ruler, the competition began. Although it was a hundred meters high, Chen Rui's current eyesight still made it very clear, and the same was true for many demons with extraordinary eyesight.
Yesterday, Athena showed Chen Rui only the basic skills of aerial beast control. Due to the limitations of conditions and time, fighting was only introduced in theory. Now that Chen Rui saw the real battle, he understood the danger and felt a thrilling feeling.
Without any auxiliary equipment, both sides controlled the horned winged beasts and began to swirl, collide, and bite fiercely in the air. If one was not careful, he would fall down.
Ordinary demon servants are generally proficient in a single magic, and a few gifted ones have the ability to control magic beasts. Leo is obviously one of these demon servants with the power to control beasts. However, Athena is even better. The horned beast is just like a part of her body. She can attack the demon servant's mount from all angles at will, and even launch incredible attacks when it flies by.
This superb beast control technique made the audience on the ground excited, and cheers came one after another.
Chen Rui realized that Athena's two consecutive victories were not only due to her father's reputation, but also mainly due to her own strength. If we only talk about beast control skills without considering her own strength, even Joseph may not be as good as her.
Just when Athena had the upper hand, the horned beast she was driving suddenly changed. The flying magic beast that had been brave became timid. No matter how Athena scolded it, it did not dare to attack again. After persisting for a while, it turned around and ran away. On the contrary, Leo's horse was like taking stimulants, becoming extremely fierce and chasing closely behind.
Leo's mount caught up and pecked and fought with Athena's horned beast frantically from behind. Athena's horned beast could only scream and flee, and even lost the courage to fight back. The cheers in the arena suddenly fell silent. No one expected that Athena, who was sure to win, would suddenly suffer such a defeat.
In the VIP seat, Old Gaos ignored the excitement of the envoy of Chiyou Territory, and his eyelids drooped even lower, only a trace of cold light passed through the gap.
Seeing that Athena's mount was shaky and could no longer support it, Athena suddenly shouted and suddenly turned on the transformation of the demon form. The red pupils flashed, and the whole body burned with flames. This flame fell on the horned beast under the seat, but it did not burn, but wrapped the horned beast. Leo's horned beast in the back was very afraid of the flame and did not dare to approach for a while.
Joseph below watched Leo and the horned beast fear the flames, his pupils shrank slightly: This is the suppression of rank! Could it be Athena...
When Athena's flames were withdrawn, the horned beast under her instantly regained its courage, turned around, and pounced on Leo. Leo's mount suddenly lost all its fighting spirit, and the situation was reversed. The passion below immediately recovered, and people shouted loudly.
Athena seemed to be furious, commanding the horned beast to start a violent counterattack. Leo's horned beast screamed and fell down. When Leo was about to reach the ground, he finally couldn't keep his balance and fell to the ground from four or five meters in the air. His weak body couldn't stand it, and his two leg bones were broken immediately, but fortunately he saved his life.
The victorious horned beast was circling in the air, and Athena's angry voice came: "Despicable guy, you actually used magic to cheat! If I hadn't used the devil's fire to remove the fear spell you cast, this shameless conspiracy would have succeeded!" "Not only the fear spell, he also cast the bloodthirsty spell on his own horned beast!" Old Gauss's hoarse voice resounded throughout the audience through the magic amplifier, "Now there are still residual magic fluctuations on the horned beast." Fear spells can make the target feel scared and run away, while bloodthirsty spells are magic that enhances one's own fighting spirit and combat effectiveness. The audience finally understood why Athena's horned beast was so abnormal just now. The crowd was excited for a while, and Alice was the first to jump up and shout: "Shameless! Despicable! Obscene!" Before she could shout a few times, she was pulled back to her seat by Chen Rui and Jia Ya. After much persuasion, the princess representing the royal family did not continue to lose her composure, and the audience had already started to curse. "Leo, you actually did whatever it took to win, and you've brought shame to our Alvin family!" Joseph's figure instantly appeared in front of the trembling demon servant, and his low and gloomy tone actually overwhelmed the cheers of the whole audience.
Before Leo could speak, Joseph's body glowed red, and he pinched the demon servant's head with his five fingers in the air, and the demon servant's head burst open.
When the audience saw Joseph personally execute the cheater and Dark Moon successfully won the first victory, they cheered again. Only some people, including Chen Rui, showed disdain: This is clearly a naked silencing, poor Leo, his death is unjust enough.
Joseph glanced at Athena who was slowly descending, and said: "Congratulations, Athena, it turns out that you have successfully promoted to a high-level demon. It seems that our great demon clan has produced another young genius."
High-level demon! Nineteen-year-old Athena has actually reached this level, so will she break the upper limit of the great demon in the future and become a demon king or a great demon king?
Alan was shocked and felt that the distance between him and Athena was getting farther and farther.