Well, I'm sorry for you guys~!

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The monthly martial arts competition is not only held in the wind elf country, other elf countries also have monthly martial arts competitions, and it is not an exaggeration to call it an elf ceremony, if you want to become a lord, winning the championship through the competition is the fastest shortcut, but now the lords of each wind elf country are basically stable, and it is not so simple to replace them, unless it is because of the lord's personal reasons that the territory suffers a lot of losses, the probability of this kind of thing happening is not high.

Because it's a grand event, there are a lot of elf players participating, most of them are just to join in the fun, if you don't need to pay a certain amount of money to sign up, otherwise there will definitely be more players to sign up, even so, the number of players participating in the tournament has been high, although they are usually brushed down in the qualifiers.

Due to the large number of people, the qualifiers take multi-person melee, there are a total of 32 qualifiers that will not change, each match is evenly distributed according to the total number of people, and the 3 players who survive in each region will get to enter the next round of the game, and then have a one-on-one battle, there is no second chance, once you lose in the duel, you will be brushed down.

Magic and items are allowed in the match, and the condition for victory is to kill the enemy.

The venue of the game is located in the gladiatorial arena in the eastern area of Si Yiluban, which is very similar to the circular gladiatorial arena of ancient Rome, but it is also very different, it is also circular, more for the audience to be seated, there are a total of twelve bluestone paved rings in the field, in the center of the arena is a huge green tree, although the branches and foliage that grow and extend are not dense, but they can also cover the entire gladiatorial arena, but Rao is so, the sun can easily penetrate the branches and foliage and project in the field, as if the giant tree is just a phantom, But in reality, the giant tree is indeed an entity.

The role of the giant tree is to control the air, because the game involves air battles later, and the giant trees can provide shelter points for air battles, but also restrict the height at which they can rise into the air.

Listening to the rules that Yui said, Xiangkong generally understands that the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is probably the qualifiers, even if his HP value is higher than that of the elves because of the identity of the dragon clan, but this is a multi-person melee, and the number of people in each qualifier area is uncertain, if it is targeted, even if it is as strong as him, he will be eaten by a group of ants.

"Seems a bit of a hassle." Xiangkong stood in the hidden place of a building, looking at the spectators who were rushing to the gladiatorial arena one after another, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, with his physical characteristics, he could be regarded as standing out among a group of green-haired and green-eyed wind elves, and it was difficult not to be targeted.

The knockout round of multiplayer melee, even those top players who can enter the top 16 every month must not be careful, with the weak HP value of the elves, once they are set on fire, it is not surprising that they will be killed in seconds, usually they will join forces with two other strong players in the qualifiers, after all, there are three places in each qualifying area, but Xiangkong is a non-social creature, and there is only one person who knows Shuoye, and Shuoye no longer participates in the martial arts competition.

"As of yesterday, the number of registrations was 676, and on average, about 20 players will be allocated to each region." Yui brought him good news at the right time.

"Is this cheating?" Xiangkong retracted his smile and raised his eyebrows.

Yui put his index finger against his cheek, thought for a moment, and said with a smile: "Don't count." ”

"Ha Lu Ha." Xiangkong smiled heartily, "It's just 20 words... That's acceptable. ”

With his ability, it is no problem to survive the melee of more than 20 players, and even if there are powerful players in it, they will probably not fight against him.

Yui slipped into his pocket, and he followed the crowd, guided by Yui, through a door open for the fighters into the waiting room.

At this time, hundreds of people are standing or sitting in the huge room, these people are all participating in the competition, as soon as the time is up, the system will randomly assign them to the twelve rings in the arena for the elimination qualifiers.

Xiangkong didn't come too early or too late, there was still half an hour before the start of the game, but there were already many players gathered in the room, and his arrival attracted the attention of many players.

"Huh? Isn't that a new race that has been rumored about lately? ”

"I didn't expect that a new race of non-wind elves would be able to participate in the martial arts competition."

"So, he should also be qualified to run for lordship, right?"

"Ha Luha, even if he has it, how can he have the popularity of Sister Shuoye."

Many players saw Xiangkong and immediately began to whisper, this time about the new race is in an uproar, many players even went straight to the official operator's customer service to ask about it, and the answers they got were all coping, in general, there was no comment.

In fact, even the operation team under the Shenwu family is confused about the emergence of a new race, because the role of the operation team for ALO is more to maintain the daily status of the ALO host, in terms of authority, it is ALO's autonomous system that governs everything, and they can only check the situation through the log of the main system, and the results show that everything is normal, and when it comes to the next version update, naturally no more information will be revealed.

Among the competitors, there were a few people who reacted differently to Xiangkong than others.

"It's him!" Sigroot stared at Xiangkong, and that time in the dark vision of the remnant fire state after the destruction of the Lingjing Cave, it was Xiangkong who took his sword of great power.

Sigroot didn't say anything about this matter, and he was the only one who knew about it, although the Sword of Great Power was dropped, it was picked up by other players.

He knew that if he told the story, Shuo Ye might be able to take back the Sword of Great Power at a price he could afford through his personal status and charm, but it was definitely impossible for the Sword of Great Power to fall into his hands.

Subconsciously raising his thumb and putting it in his mouth to bite lightly, Sigroot's mind was spinning wildly, he was thinking about how to get the Sword of Great Power back.

In addition to Sigroot, Lifa also saw Xiangkong, her eyes suddenly lit up, she wanted to go to greet Xiangkong, but seeing Xiangkong walk to a remote corner and close her eyes to recuperate, coupled with Xiangkong's rejection of her friend's request and leaving that indifferent words a few days ago, she just raised her foot and stopped.

"Lifa, what's wrong?" Reagan noticed Lifa's strange appearance, followed her gaze to the corner of the room, and when he saw Xiangkong, his eyes opened slightly, and he shouted, "He also participated?!" ”

If it weren't for the loud talk in the room, his reaction and volume would definitely be the focus, and as for Xiangkong, Yui blocked his hearing, so he was happy to be quiet, and he didn't notice Lifa and them.

Lifa rolled her eyes speechlessly at Regan's behavior, and then said to the black-haired and green-eyed Kirito: "Brother, that person is what I said about Xiangkong." ”

Kirito was forcibly dragged by Lifa to participate in the tournament, but there was nothing reluctant.

When Xiangkong first came in, he also subconsciously paid attention to it a few times, but he didn't expect this person to be Xiangkong.

"Coincidentally, or..."Kirito quietly looked at Xiangkong with his eyes closed, judging by his appearance and figure, he couldn't find any similarities at all.

"I always felt that he should also be a player of SAO." Lifa said suddenly.

Kirito raised his eyebrows in surprise, looked at Lifa, and said, "What do you say?" ”

"Momentum, when we first met, his momentum when he fought was very similar to that of his brother and Asuna." Lifa blinked.

Kirito smiled bitterly when he heard this, it seems unreasonable to judge that this person is an SAO player just from such a mysterious thing, but if the other party is also a SAO player, it makes sense to take this name, after all, Xiangkong is a star player in Ain Grandtree, and it is reasonable to be worshipped.

"Whether it's an SAO player or not, you'll know if you've fought it." Kirito said softly, in this world without sword skills, as long as it is a SAO player, there will definitely be a residual habit of using sword skills in battle, such as him, although there is no auxiliary system, but the trajectory of some sword skills is still made, although the effect of applying it to actual combat is not large, but it is also unique.

In other words, if it is Asuna, even if there is no sword skill bonus, the speed of the sword is still as terrifying as ever.

At the thought of Asuna, the corners of Kirito's mouth twitched.

"I want to fight him too!" Lifa clenched her fists, showing a rare expression of war.

Before Kirito could say anything, Reagan tilted his head and smiled, "I'll eliminate him before that, I just hope he doesn't get eliminated in the qualifiers." ”

Lifa looked at him speechlessly, the first time he saw the strength of Xiangkong was a few months ago, and now he must be even more powerful, thinking of Regan's ability, he suddenly shook his head without a trace.

However, when it comes to qualifiers alone, there doesn't seem to be much pressure on Reagan to pass.

Half an hour passed quickly, and all the players who had signed up for the tournament had arrived, and a burst of white light poured into the room, and a huge cheer was heard in Xiangkong's ears before he could open his eyes!

The qualifiers officially began, and the contestants were warmly welcomed by the audience as soon as they were teleported to the ring.

A second before the teleportation began, Yui was able to unblock her hearing, as she had to retract into her own space when the match began.

Xiangkong glanced at the situation around him, the location was the southeast of the ring, and quickly swept over the wind elves scattered in the ring, a total of 23.

As he observed the players in the ring, the players who were in the ring with him also looked at him, with some obvious malice in their eyes.

What to expect?

The corners of Xiangkong's mouth curled, a little bitter, but he was not afraid, and he would not show mercy.

"If you want to die, come here!"

Pulling out the sword of great strength at his waist, Xiangkong thought silently.

The wind elves in the ring looked at each other, and then, except for a dozen or so people who were observing the others, the rest of the wind elves were chanting magic spells to Xiangkong very tacitly, these wind elves were relatively close to Xiangkong, and they were more decisive.

Seeing more than a dozen wind elves chanting incantations against him, Xiangkong no longer hesitated, spreading his wings and rushing towards the nearest wind elf.

The pitch-black wings fluttered, and while pushing out the airflow, the toes were slightly off the ground, and then fell again, and the whole person was as fast as an arrow from the string.

With the help of wings to achieve ultra-low-altitude semi-glide to achieve the purpose of acceleration, can this kind of dual-purpose thing be done?

The audience in the southeast suddenly stunned when they saw this scene.

The wind elf, who was picked by Xiangkong as the preferred target, opened his eyes in disbelief, withdrew his magic in a panic, pulled out the long sword on his waist and was about to slash forward, but was shocked to find that his vision kept rising, and then turned into black and white vision.

You're dead!

A sword, just a passing sword, separated the head of this unlucky guy, and it was an absolute instant kill.

It can cause that kind of decapitation, only if the attack power is too strong, strong enough to empty the HP with a sword, which will have the effect of decapitation, and at the same time, a group of wind blades will attack the sky irregularly.

Xiangkong smiled disdainfully, and easily dodged more than a dozen wind blades by moving left and right.

He didn't expect to be able to kill the enemy with one sword, it was he who overestimated the strength of the other party, not everyone who participated in the qualifiers was a master, and after killing the unlucky wind elf with a sword, he woke up a little, and he no longer had any worries.