And no matter how turbulent the strong currents hidden in the darkness are, the future city will still maintain the peace of the past... If anything, it's the constant flow of people from all corners of the Northern Realm as the date of the tournament approaches. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These visitors are not only the students of the various Abilities Academies, but also the spectators who have heard the news.

As in previous editions, this event always attracts a large number of visitors... This is true even in the knockout rounds that precede the main event.

Or rather, compared to the one-on-one main match, which is basically a super chaos elimination audition, which stimulates the hormones of onlookers and makes them excited.

Although he said that he didn't care much about the result, as the only one among Yu Sheng and the others who needed to participate in the knockout round to get a place in the main competition, the others could still see a little nervousness in the girlish phantom's expression.

Incidentally, on the day she signed up, she was tested to be nearly sixteen years old by a special machine - the same age as the rest of her life.

However, regardless of whether these contestants, including Ascalon, are really ready or not, the knockout round is still coming as scheduled, and most of the participants will be swept away from the weaker ones... Of course, this does not mean that you are strong enough to successfully stand in the last place and get a place in the main event.

Luck is also one of the indispensable elements... In the past, there were many examples of those who were already strong in the stages of fifteen to seventeen, but were besieged and eliminated in the knockout round before the main event.

So, overall, although he is confident in his own strength, he is still a little panicked about the brawl he is about to face.

"Take it easy... Your strength level is relatively high in this division, and your ability to adapt to that kind of chaos is also very good, so I personally think that you still have a great advantage over other contestants. ”

This is what a certain dead fisheye said before he entered the contestant's preparation area.

"It's a big deal, you're going to 'blur' from the beginning to the end of the knockout... Unless it's the kind of person whose strength is far stronger than you, or someone who has awakened some perverted ability, there should be only a handful of people in this region who can break your state, right? ”

Indeed, because of the 'awakening' of oneself... To be precise, it is the ability to be 'endowed' by one's own 'creator', and it should be very easy to pass this elimination tournament easily, but why do you always have some irrepressible panic about the battle you are about to face?

It's as if something is going to scare you so much in the next game...

"Whew... I hope I'm thinking too much. ”

Looking at the boys and girls around him who were all gearing up to show their strength in the next knockout round, Ascalon, who was standing alone in the corner at the moment, also shook his head, and after taking a deep breath, he threw his complicated thoughts aside.

"Anyway, now that it's been decided... Then I wouldn't simply be stuck here. ”

Thinking of the blonde boy with whom he had some extremely awkward feelings, Ascalon's delicate translucent blue face also swelled with a wave of annoyance.

"You can just wait for me in the main game..."

Just when she was thinking about how to abuse the rest of her life in the limelight... A familiar figure she had theoretically never seen before quickly passed past her, and was still looking around, as if looking for something.

"Wait a minute!"

"Is there something wrong?"

The red-haired girl who was stopped also turned her head a little confused, and looked at Ascalon with a look of doubt in her eyes.

...

Outside the player's concentration room, in the makeshift auditorium.

"The attention of this knockout match is really high... That's just the estimated number of spectators for the finals, right? ”

He had already arrived at the place of the knockout tournament with the girl-type phantom early, and after saying a lot of cheers to him at the end, he entered the audience and sat down according to the scheduled consecutive seats for the rest of his life, and sighed after looking around at the seats that could almost be called full.

"But the speed of building in the future city is also amazing... It took only one day to build such a magnificent building, which is like opening a hanging! ”

The venue for the knockout tournament was indeed 'improvised'... Until a day ago, the position where Yu Sheng and the others were now was still just a wasteland shrouded in the huge shadow of the floating city in the sky (the knockout tournament was not held in the future city, because there was no suitable venue for thousands of people to fight, so it was finally decided to temporarily build a temporary competition venue in the nearby wasteland, and all the spectators and contestants who had purchased tickets were picked up and returned by airships), and now such a place has been erected, which can even be called ' Well-equipped' mega arena.

And what shocked the blonde boy even more was... This 'temporary building', apart from the one they were currently in, stood three buildings that were almost identical in appearance.

"Hmm... After all, it was the first academy exchange conference to be held outside the United City in the past few hundred years, and in order to be in line with the identity of one of the masters of the Northern Realm, the future city would naturally not hesitate to show its 'strength' in this aspect. ”

Kaya, who was sitting on the side, also smiled when she heard this, and said, "Of course, this kind of 'strength' display is definitely reserved... Everyone knows why. ”

"That kind of thing has nothing to do with us~"

For the tall girl, I didn't care too much about it for the rest of my life... Compared to his mere equal-level ability, the secret battles between those behemoths in the Northern Realm are completely from another world.

Unless one side really tears its face and starts a war, for a small shrimp of this level for the rest of his life, any decision made by those bigwigs is as he himself said, and it has nothing to do with him... But is that really the case?

"That's right... The game is about to begin, so let's find out where Miss Ascalon is. ”

Kaya's expression became a little complicated after hearing the blonde boy's response... However, at this moment, the others who were paying attention to the large number of players who entered the arena from the twelve gates in turn according to the numbers they had drawn before, looking for the girl-type phantom, did not notice the tall girl's expression.

...

At the same time, directly above the arena, a figure with a black hooded cloak hidden from top to bottom was standing in the air, its gaze pointing at a certain place in the arena beneath its feet.

Strangely, despite the hooded cloaked man standing in such a conspicuous place in broad daylight, the large number of spectators and contestants in the arena did not seem to notice him.

"Hiccup~... Are you sure you don't want to go up and say hello? ”

With a fluctuation in the air, a young woman who looked already a little overdrunk and had a misty look appeared next to the hooded man.

"You misunderstood, I just wanted to see with my own eyes the power of 'war' in actual combat..."

"Hmm... Your personality is still so awkward..."

"I don't understand what you're saying at all."