Chapter 527: The Game Begins
The next morning, Charles was glad that he had chosen to live in the utility room.
Because there are girls in the girls' dormitory who find that their underwear drying outside is missing in the morning, and after some searching, they find that they were blown downstairs by the wind and then taken away by mice.
The devil knows why the rats took away their underwear, and someone guessed it was because they usually sprayed perfume on their clothes.
Anyway, someone had a peaceful breakfast.
After breakfast, Charles first went to Huntington's house to see how De Lauris was recovering.
Huntington went out to work early in the morning, and De Lauris was in much better spirits, and she rarely slept well without coughing all night.
However, her body is still a little inflamed, but fortunately, the lesion is gone, and I believe that she will be cured after continuing treatment for a period of time.
After confirming that De Lauris was okay, Charles came to the jousting arena to watch the jousting tournament that began today.
The competition is divided into two groups, the juvenile group under the age of 18 and the adult group above. Minors can participate in the ChΓ©ng RΓ©n group, not vice versa. The juvenile group starts today and the adult group starts tomorrow.
The qualifiers are also held in the city's jousting arena, which looks a bit like the Colosseum. The arena in the middle of the arena is about 80 meters long and 50 meters wide, and there are four round platforms with a diameter of 10 meters, which is enough for the juvenile competition.
Charles took a look, perhaps because the registration fee was not cheap, and there were basically no people who came to the game. Most of these players are over the age of fourteen, and basically have the level of junior swordsman qualifications, and many of them have reached the intermediate level. Even if there are twelve or thirteen-year-old players, they have trained hard to see that level.
This time, many of the students who came out to experience the training of the Bright Theological Seminary signed up for the competition, so Charles sat with them to watch the competition.
Charles didn't expect that it was two acquaintances who led the team, the teacher who led the team with the boys was the fourth of the four adventurer brothers who had dinner with Charles in Thanhausen and went down the underground maze together, and the girl was led by Sister Junia, who had also gone down the maze together.
What made Charles even more unexpected was that the two got married last year.
The two of them were also very surprised to meet Charles in Granada, neither of them expected that the masked child they met was already a famous figure at this time.
Acquaintances are easy to talk to, otherwise Mila wouldn't have been so easy to ask for leave from Junia yesterday.
It has to be said that Fanis and Junia still have a good eye, and they were able to predict the outcome not long after the start of the game.
Mira, on the other hand, is busy on the field, and those injured players will be treated in a timely and effective manner.
However, the juvenile group used wooden weapons, and the war temple priests who were the referees shouted to stop in time, and there were very few players who were seriously injured at the end of the day.
Charles rested for the day, and the next morning he arrived at the jousting arena when it was dark.
There are more than 300 players who need to compete for the top 32 in two days, and the schedule is very tight and the intensity is very high.
However, this is not a headache for Charles, he calculated, without gambling, he can only win back the registration fee after entering the top 32, and what others told him before that he can only play two or three rounds to get back to his own win.
And there are many veteran adventurers and people who know at a glance that they are traversers, and there are also players such as the Demon King, the commander of the Demon Praetorian Guard.
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β¬ββ¬γ('-'γ) Arrange well
In the player's rest area, Charles pulled the smiling Nicholas II into the corner and asked, "Uncle, why are you here, what if someone finds out?"
Nicholas II patted Charles on the shoulder, smiled and said, "We are on vacation this month, so we will travel together." β
Charles had a black line and didn't know what to say.
And Nicholas II continued to say to him: "You must enter the quarterfinals this time, there will be a surprise when the time comes." β
Meanwhile, Suvorov, the commander of the Praetorian Guard of the Rurik Kingdom, is chatting with a contestant who looks like a high school student.
Suvorov asked: "This little brother, why is your face a little swollen?"
Suzuki Gaofeng said a little depressed: "Don't say it, I hid on the mountain that day and tried to save people, but someone took the lead, and I not only didn't wait for the person to be rescued on the mountain, but was also stung by a wasp." β
Suvorov shook his head with a smile, he was not less stung when he was a young man fighting ambushes. He took out a bottle of green potion from his waist bag and handed it to him, saying, "You take this and apply it, and it will soon reduce the swelling." β
Suzuki took the glass bottle, pulled out the cork and smelled the fragrance of flowers, then poured a little potion on his hand and wiped it on his still swollen and aching face.
A chill came from his face, and the hot sensation disappeared without a trace.
He wanted to wipe a little more, but Suvorov stopped him.
Suvorov said: "If you apply too much at once, it will be wasted, you can take this medicine, you can apply it again at noon, and it will be cured in the afternoon." β
Suzuki stood up and bowed ninety degrees to Suvorov and said, "Thank you, sir." β
Suvorov pulled him to sit down with a smile and said, "Don't be so foreign, my ancestors also have Japanese, maybe they are still your relatives." β
"Really?" Suzuki was taken aback, "What's his name?"
At this time, the bell for the start of the game rang, and Suvorov stood up and said: "I will treat you to a drink after the game, you don't lose." β
Suzuki Gaofeng said proudly: "Don't underestimate me, old man, I learned kendo since I was a child, and at the age of ten, I had the status of a family school that was not allowed to be passed on. β
Suvorov smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "In that case, then I look forward to playing with you in the round of thirty-two." β
Due to the large number of matches in the senior category, 15 rings with a diameter of 10 meters were set up in the 80mΓ50m field.
The players are numbered to different rings and wait for the match, and the referees draw lots on the spot.
Each match lasts only ten minutes, and the first round of eliminations can be completed in one morning, the second round can be completed in the afternoon, and in the evening, the losers who lose during the day can play the repechage, and two wins will advance. After a day off, the round of 32 will be contested on the third day, the round of 32 on the fifth day, the round of 16 in the morning and the quarterfinals in the afternoon on the seventh day, and the semi-finals and finals on the ninth day.
Charles was lucky enough to be drawn out of the first game, and after this one he had plenty of time to rest into the afternoon.