On December 2, 205 of the Guangming calendar, the new Atlético Royal began to resume the previous rules of the competition, this competition also has an unprecedented number of more than 7,000 participants, in order to ensure that the final will be held on January 1 next year, these participants are divided into several groups, respectively, in different venues for the elimination round, the final winner of each group will re-gather together to draw lots, and finally determine the final champion.

At the lottery ceremony, Her Majesty Catherine's words made almost all the men who participated in the competitive tournament become enthusiastic, and the fame of the Rose of the Imperial Capital of Faras slowly spread throughout the continent as she began to become the Grand Consul, and being able to stay with such an excellent woman for life is definitely something that countless men dream of.

Ryan is persuaded by Vivien to take the game seriously, and then he will win the eventual championship, and propose to Faras as the overlord of Cassano, as long as he secretly contacts Farras and Victor, then Catherine's inexplicable move becomes a plan tailored for Ryan and them.

Recovering his fighting spirit, Ryan soon issued a new order, and he put all the people under his command on vacation to prepare for the battle on their own, while those who did not participate went to the various competition venues to collect information. With these things arranged, Ryan is also going to start facing his own schedule.

The first game was a mercenary from Seabreeze City, and although the information collected by his subordinates was not very complete, Ryan still looked at it from beginning to end, but he didn't bother to remember the other party's name. Perhaps because of the uneven strength of the players in the knockout round, none of the previous games in Ryan lasted more than 5 minutes, and the two sides were separated from each other not long after they first met, so Ryan's first game was originally expected to be the morning of the next day, but it was scheduled to the afternoon of the first day because of the acceleration of the schedule.

When the gong sounded, the mercenary of Seabreeze City roared angrily, raised the hammer in his hand and rushed towards Ryan, who stood in place, yawned lazily, and then smashed a lightning ball into the opponent's chest when the hammer in the mercenary of Seabreeze City was still half a meter away from him.

The mercenary of Haicheng City rushed over very quickly, but he flew out even faster backwards, and the people watching the battle below the stage only heard a "ah" cry from above, and then there was a dull sound of a human body smashing on the ground under the stage, and the referee standing on the high platform outside the arena shouted: "Winner, Fabia of Cassano." ”

As Ryan walked slowly back to his box, out of a secluded passage on the other side of the venue, Faras, who was wearing a cloak covering his face, turned his head and said to Victor, who was also dressed up, "This is Fabia, the overlord of Cassano?"

Victor nodded, today they came to see Fabia after putting on makeup, the main reason is that Faraz has made up his mind to form an alliance with Cassano as quickly as possible, because in politics God needs an ally, and militarily the Royal Knights also need the plains of Cassano.

"What do you think of his magical strength?" Faras looked at Ryan who was sitting in the box in the distance and whispered: "According to the intelligence, this Fabia is only 25 or 6 years old, but his magical strength has reached the level of a senior magician or above, it is said that he once blessed his own 'war horn' in a battle of tens of thousands of people, I remember that our emperor needs at least 10 high-level magicians to reach this point, and he will not be able to rely on the power of those 10 magicians in the next 3 days." ”

Victor shook his head slowly and said, "In fact, he didn't show his true strength at all, and all the information we gathered didn't have him and another evenly matched master to confront him head-on, even if he was a mercenary against some sword and rose in Seawind City, he could only show a little bit of strength." Unless I'm going to fight him right now, ......"

"Then why did you say he came to the imperial capital in person? If you want to ally with us, you can send a messenger. Faras said in confusion: "I just can't figure this out, unless he intends to submit to our imperial capital, but with Cassano's current situation and Fabia's means, he can completely use balancing tactics and move between several forces, so that he will gain more benefits." ”

"Fani, Cassano is in a good location, but the population is too small. Victor said slowly: "Now Mochizuki City is trying to expand its power to the south, Seke City is desperately trying to consume the strength of our imperial capital with the Clay clan and even with the orcs, and Seke City also has to suppress the Sea Breeze City and Free Heaven in the south, and it can't be slowed down for the time being, as for the Free Paradise, they would rather monopolize the trade of Cassano with gold coins." ”

"So now it seems that Cassano can swim between several forces to his heart's content, but the vitality of the imperial capital is still slowly recovering, and Mochizuki City will eventually stabilize the rear, even if it is Seke City, as long as 100,000 troops are launched desperately to attack, Cassano will still suffer heavy losses. So this Mr. Fabia simply found himself an ally first. ”

"We should be glad that he chose the imperial capital first!" said Faras.

"You can't say it exactly, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that the north of the imperial capital is a powerful orc, as long as we don't drive the orcs out of the Southern Talon steppe for a day, it is impossible to wave our troops south, and whether it is Seke City or Mochizuki City, we can find an opportunity to annex Cassano. So, we need him, and he needs us, which in itself is a win-win situation and the most in line with each other's interests. I guess the only thing he's thinking about right now is Catherine or you Faras, right?"

"If only Catherine didn't fight for power......," said Faraz, with a slight sigh.

Victor interrupted Farath a little roughly: "Catherine also wants you to give up the power of your hand. ”

"Teacher!" Faraz shouted a little coquettishly, she couldn't control her voice well when her mood fluctuated, this shout was much louder, if someone was nearby to listen carefully, they would definitely be able to hear that the owner of this voice was the archon of the imperial capital, but at this time, everyone was in the playing field that was quite a wonderful game, and did not notice the entrance of the passage, so Faraz did not reveal his identity.

"There is no way to go back on the road of power, not to mention you and Catherine, until a few years later you have completely mastered the situation in the imperial capital, and after Luke wakes up, it is impossible for you to give up the power in your hands. Victor's words were a little cruel: "It's not a question of whether you want to or not, it's a question of whether you want to, but whether the interests of your side are affected." You relinquish power, you are still Luke's daughter, and what about your cronies? their place will soon be taken by Luke's cronies, how can their interests be guaranteed?"

"I ......"

"Fani, I said this a little cruelly, but you must remember that since you have embarked on this path, there is no way back, you can only go on. It's like the knockout tournament going on here, even if you have an absolute advantage in the game, but if you lose the game with the slightest negligence, you will be disqualified, and there will be no day to turn over. It doesn't matter if you lose the game, but on the road to power, what you lose is your life. ”

Victor's words made Faras silent, and Victor patted Farass on the shoulder and said, "Okay, don't think about these things, I should have told you a few years later, but I always have some bad premonitions in my heart recently......"

"Ah, how can this be?" Faras was startled, and was about to ask, when she saw Victor shake his finger slightly, then pointed to the field below and said, "Well, who do you think will win the match between a bard and a warrior?"

Faras looked into the middle of the field, and at this time Bard and the Gotha with the two-headed axe had already arrived at one end of the field, waiting for the referee to simply announce to them the rules of the game and some precautions.

Gotha roared angrily: "Annoying, you have to say it once a game, you are not tired!"

The referee of the game was speechless, he looked at Gotha in a sneer, and was very uncomfortable with this fierce-looking strong man, but he had no way to deal with the other party, as long as he quickly left the competition venue and returned to the high platform where he was standing. As the gong sounded, today's game of the most unequal strength began.

Even if Ryan defeated his opponent with just a wave of his hand before, everyone knows the huge advantage that a powerful magician has in the face of an ordinary warrior, but if a warrior attacks a magician who is caught off guard, it is not without a chance to turn the tables, but as a bard, in everyone's minds, it should be like a clown-like existence, and it is no problem to bring joy to everyone, but if you want to defeat a warrior with strong martial arts, almost no one believes it.

Especially seeing the huge gap between the ordinary Bard and the two-meter-tall Gotha, as well as the 80-kilogram double-headed tomahawk that Gotha was carrying on his shoulders, which had exceeded the weight of an adult man on the journey, everyone was even more determined in their thoughts: "Bard? Let's go rap." The battle has nothing to do with the bard!"

Bud looked at the arrogant Gotha with an arrogant face, and scolded a few words indignantly, probably cursing Gotha's parents, Bud knew that this game was related to his future, last night Ryan showed his strength, so that Bud was firm in his choice, for the book that had not yet started to write, Bud was determined to use all his strength to deal with the opponent, as for whether he could win, Bud didn't know, and he didn't have time to think about it, he stared at Gotha who was standing opposite, about 20 meters away from him.