Chapter 47: The Contest Begins
Four days passed quickly.
Another morning, an ordinary but destined morning.
When the sun's brilliance has not yet fully risen above the horizon, the streets of the south gate of the imperial city are already crowded with people, all of them are rushing to such a grand event as the royal competition, after all, such a grand event only comes once in four years, but only those nobles can come to watch.
There are more than 200 colleges participating in the Royal Imperial Competition, but only a few of them are more famous, such as the Imperial Royal Academy, most of the colleges are symbolic to go through the motions, and there are also a few of them like Nanwu Academy that sell qualification certificates for outsiders to replace the competition, fortunately, not all the deans are as obscene, dirty and shameless as Anlip, although most of the colleges know that they are participating in the competition, they are basically "accompanying the prince to study" , but still sent the most potential students of their own students to participate in the competition, for them even if they can't get the ranking, it is good to come out and have a long experience.
Therefore, although each academy will only send three students to participate in the competition, but more than 100 colleges add up to six or seven hundred people, so the schedule of the Royal Imperial Contest is a best-of-five elimination system before the top 32 events, and after the top 32 competitions, the schedule begins to adopt the form of individual points system, the contestants get two points for each win, the loser gets zero points, and the draw adds one point each, and then the overall ranking is based on the total points of the three people who represent the college, and the top 16 colleges in the total points advance to the top eight, and so on, until the two heroes are determined to participate in the finals!
Of course, at the same time as the total points ranking of the top 16 colleges, there is also one of the most important lists will also be unveiled at the same time, that is, the total ranking of the individual scores, the gold content of this list is obviously more real and more reliable than the ranking list of the academy, after all, this is the most direct embodiment of personal cultivation, not to mention that after the finals, the top three on the list of people have heavy rewards, and the most sought-after thing is that as long as they can enter the top ten of the individual standings, then it is almost a sure thing for them to enter the imperial political arena and the top of the military after graduating from the academy, and at that time, they will be the objects of competition among the major forces, that kind of real benefit is something that many people dream of sharpening their heads, so the intensity of that kind of battle is naturally not comparable to the previous knockout rounds.
Imperial Royal Martial Arts Hall.
It was located outside the southern gate of the Imperial City, and its architectural style was similar to that of the current Colosseum. However, the scale of the Royal Martial Arts Hall is much grander. The martial arts hall has a large number of playing fields and rooms, and is usually used as an entertainment place for the royal family and nobles to watch the slaves be slaughtered, and only a few short days every four years become a special venue for the royal martial arts competition.
It was 9 a.m.
The ring-shaped auditorium was filled with nearly 60,000 spectators, most of whom were small nobles and their families, some of whom came purely to gamble, and some who wanted to meet their children.
Unlike the small nobles who sat in the audience and made loud noises, the luxurious boxes on the second floor were filled with some famous nobles, and they seemed very quiet at this time, after all, for them the game was not important at all, what mattered was who could win the game.
Soon, the Prime Minister Ront and Marshal Ron came together surrounded by a group of nobles.
"It's been a long time since I've seen you, hehe, your body is still the same tough. The Chancellor, who was on crutches, looked at Marshal Ron with a smile on his face.
Hearing these almost sarcastic words, Marshal Ron smiled gracefully and snorted coldly: "Prime Minister, hold your crutches, but don't fall." ”
The two sentences that sounded inappropriate actually had a strong * flavor, and the nobles behind the two old men also showed hostile glances at each other. If there is a little Mars now, I am afraid it will be a big war.
However, at this moment, Count Aonuo, who was not far away, also came over with a group of people.
"Yo, the two of you have such a good Yaxing!" Count Aonuo, who stepped forward, smiled slightly, and a fluttering sentence immediately made the tense confrontation between the two factions disappear in an instant, they didn't want to let the last fisherman benefit.
Prime Minister Rongte's face showed a kind smile: "Count Auno, hehe, you see, I am mentioning you to the marshal!" As he spoke, he motioned to the maid to open the door of the VIP box, "How about it, if you don't dislike me, an old man, let's come in and chat!"
As soon as he heard the Prime Minister say this, Marshal Ron immediately snorted coldly, and then said: "Whether it is the position of the Southern Governor or the Chief of the Judicial Gendarmerie, the affairs are very busy, and I think the Earl probably has no time to chat, right?" Speaking of this, his eyes fell on the Earl of Onno.
Suddenly, the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became extremely depressing, and three different coercive pressures suddenly swept around them, which was the momentum that only the real superiors could have.
In this atmosphere, if you change to ordinary people, you may have been scared to pee your pants.
At this time, Luce, the judicial assistant who was walking behind, walked up and said to Count Auno, "I'm sorry for the two lords, His Majesty the Emperor is summoning the Earl!"
Glancing at Luce with a grateful expression, Count Onno continued, "Let's talk first, I'll take my leave!" and with a polite salute, Count Onno took the lead in leaving.
"Hmph!" the two old men looked at each other again and snorted coldly at the same time, and then surrounded by the nobles, they each went upstairs and entered the box. Forty years of open and secret fighting have made it clear to them that there is absolutely no benefit in fighting hard, and recruiting talents is the key, which is why they will attend this royal competition.
At the corner of a red-carpeted hallway.
With a long sigh of relief, Count Aono came to his senses, "It was too dangerous just now!"
Luce on the side reminded in a low voice: "My lord, it's best not to associate with people from the two factions at the moment, accumulating strength is the most important thing!"
"I see, thanks to you just now!"
"What the adults say, this is what the little ones should do!"
At this time, the admission area.
This is the meeting place where the contestants will gather and enter in turn, and after saluting His Majesty the Emperor on the jousting platform, the lottery will begin.
At this time, all the academy contestants were basically there, but the "God of War" of Nanwu Academy was missing.
"Big brother, what should I do?" Wearing a black student-style school uniform, her sister Luo Hongxian was very anxious, after all, the first day of the competition was about to start.
"Don't worry, anyway, the previous game is a best-of-five elimination system, and it doesn't matter if he is alone!" Luo Tian looked around, only to find that many of the academy's contestants were looking at them with very unfriendly eyes, it seemed that with one less contestant, they instantly became the target of other academies vying to give priority to ravage, especially those contestants who didn't look like students, that attitude was more direct, and from time to time they also whistled mockingly at their Nanwu Academy, as if they were two lambs to the slaughter.
"Hmph, look at what, I want you to look good in a while!" Luo Tian immediately stretched out his middle finger at them, and returned with an angry face.
"Yo, boy, you're crazy, you'd better pray not to draw our academy, otherwise I'll definitely make you very comfortable in a while, brother, and I'll make sure you're so happy!" A young man who was angry saw Luo Tian's raised middle finger, and his eyes suddenly burst out with two rays of Yin Vulture essence, and the next second Yin and Yang were weird.
"Hmph, we'll see!" Luo Tian said without admitting defeat.
"Brother, you better be careful, I don't think that guy is a good person, beware of being yin!" Sister Luo Hong also glanced at the young man who was against Luo Tian at this time, and immediately reminded in a low voice.
"Don't worry, I'm measured!" Luo Tian was full of confidence, not to mention that with so many academies, they might not be able to draw Nanwu Academy, so he didn't take the other party's threat to heart at all.
"It's better not to be too confident, I might as well tell you in advance, many academy players usually use some despicable tricks when they compete, you better be careful!" Dean An Lipu interjected weakly and reminded him, after all, they also represent Nanwu Academy anyway, if the loss is too ugly, his face as the dean will be dull, right?
It's just that from Luo Tian's still indifferent smile, anyone can see that Luo Tian's kid didn't take their kind reminder seriously at all, and Dean Anlip could only shake his head in a slightly disappointed way and didn't say anything more!
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